Presentation

The ultimate purpose of creating a story is to present it to the concerned authorities--the higher management of an organization. SAP Analytics Cloud comes with a next-generation presentation tool called Digital Boardroom, which is changing the landscape of traditional board meetings.

SAP Digital Boardroom is a visualization and presentation platform that enormously assists in the decision-making process. It transforms executive meetings by replacing static and stale presentations with interactive discussions based on live data, which allows them to make fact-based decisions to drive their business. Here are the main benefits of the SAP Digital Boardroom:

• Collaborate with others in remote locations and on other devices in an interactive meeting room
• Answer ad hoc questions on the fly
• Visualize, recognize, experiment, and decide by jumping on and off script at any point
• Find answers to the questions that matter to you by exploring directly on live data and focusing on relevant aspects by drilling into details
• Discover opportunities or reveal hidden threats
• Simulate various decisions and project the results
• Weigh and share the pros and cons of your findings

The Digital Boardroom is interactive, so you can retrieve real-time data, make changes to the schedule, and even run through what-if scenarios. It presents a live picture of your organization across three interlinked touch screens to make faster, better executive decisions.

There are two aspects of Digital Boardroom with which you can share existing stories with executives and decision-makers to reveal business performance. First, you have to design your agenda for your boardroom presentation by adding meeting information, agenda items, and linking stories as pages in a navigation structure. Once you have created a digital boardroom agenda, you can schedule a meeting to discuss the agenda. In the Digital Boardroom interface, you can organize a meeting in which members can interact with live data during a boardroom presentation. In Chapter 9, Digital Boardroom, is dedicated to exposing this fascinating feature of SAP Analytics Cloud.