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Learning SAP Analytics Cloud

You're reading from   Learning SAP Analytics Cloud Collaborate, predict and solve business intelligence problems with cloud computing

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788290883
Length 420 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Riaz Ahmed Riaz Ahmed
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Preface 1. Getting Started with SAP Analytics Cloud FREE CHAPTER 2. Models in SAP Analytics Cloud 3. Planning model 4. Creating Stories Using Charts 5. Extending Stories with KPI, Filters, and Other Handy Objects 6. Analyzing Data Using Geomaps and Other Objects 7. Working with Tables and Grids 8. Collaboration 9. Digital Boardroom 10. System Administration

Planning and analytical models

In SAP Analytics Cloud, you can create planning and analytical models. A planning model is a full-featured model, which comes with preconfigured time and categories dimensions for actual, budget, planning, forecast, and rolling forecast. A planning model also supports multicurrency and offers security at the level of both model and dimension to restrict access to specific values in the report to named individuals. It also comes with auditing features for traceability. The users who have planning privileges can create their own versions of model data, use allocation features, add new data to the model, and copy and paste data into the model.

In contrast, analytical models are simpler and more flexible general-purpose BI models. Analytical models are not preconfigured with categories for budget and forecast data.

In addition to these two models, you...

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