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Learning SAP Analytics Cloud

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Learning SAP Analytics Cloud

Overview of this book

The book starts with the basics of SAP Analytics Cloud (formerly known as SAP BusinessObjects Cloud) and exposes almost every significant feature a beginner needs to master. Packed with illustrations and short, essential, to-the-point descriptions, the book provides a unique learning experience. Your journey of exploration starts with a basic introduction to the SAP Analytics Cloud platform. You will then learn about different segments of the product, such as Models, Stories, Digital Boardroom, and so on. Then, you are introduced to the product's interface: the Home screen, the main menu, and more. Then comes the hands-on aspect of the book, which starts with model creation. Next, you learn how to utilize a model to prepare different types of stories(reports) with the help of charts, tables, Geo Maps, and more. In the final chapters of this book, you will learn about Digital Boardroom, Collaboration, and Administration.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Enabling data exploration

While presenting a story tile in the Digital Boardroom, you sometimes need to change measures, dimensions, and chart types to analyze the data from a different perspective. For this, you have to enable data exploration on the desired story object. So, when you are presenting the story in the Digital Boardroom, you can open the chart in Explorer mode to make the alterations. Here's the step to enable data exploration:

  1. With a chart tile selected in a story page, click on the Styling tab in the Designer panel, and then select Open in Explorer in the Widget section.

After configuring a chart in your story to act as a widget, you see an additional menu (A) on the chart when you are working in boardroom mode. When you click on this menu, you see the Open in Explorer option (B). Clicking on this option opens the Widget in Explorer, where the participants...