Anatomy of SAP Analytics Cloud

Models are the basis for all of your analysis in SAP Analytics Cloud. You can create planning and analytics models based on the cloud or on-premise data sources. Besides creating a simple analytics model, business analysts and finance professionals can quickly and easily build connected planning models to analyze data and then collaborate with each other to attain better business performance. After creating these models, you can share it with other users in your organization. Before sharing, you can set up model access privileges for users according to their level of authorization and can also enable data auditing. With the help of SAP Analytics Cloud's analytical capabilities, users can discover hidden traits in the data and can predict likely outcomes. It equips them with the ability to uncover potential risks and hidden opportunities.

Once you have created a model and set up appropriate security for it, you can create stories in which the underlying model data can be explored and visualized with the help of different types of charts, geo maps, and tables. There is a wide range of charts you can add to your story pages to address different scenarios. The intelligent charting feature of SAP Analytics Cloud proposes the ideal chart type based on data relationships. On your story pages, you can link dimensions to present data from multiple sources. Adding reference lines and thresholds, applying filters, and drilling down into data can be done on the fly. The ability to interactively drag and drop page objects is the most useful feature of this application.

The collaboration, alert, and notification features of SAP Analytics Cloud keep business users in touch with each other while executing their tasks.

In the past, board meetings were held in which the participants used to deliver their reports through their laptops and a bunch of papers. With different versions of reality, it was very difficult for decision makers to arrive at a good decision. With the advent of the SAP digital boardroom, board meetings have been revolutionized. It is a next-generation presentation platform, which helps you visualize your data and plan ahead in a real-time environment. It runs on multiple screens simultaneously, displaying information from different sources. Due to this capability, more people can work together using a single dataset that consequently creates one version of reality to make the best decision.

With the help of the administration and security features of the application, you can create users and set up teams, create new roles with different system access privileges and assign them to users, monitor the application usage, and use export and import utilities to deploy application content.

The following figure depicts the anatomy of SAP Analytics Cloud: