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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

Summary

This chapter provided hands-on exposure to creating an analytical model in SAP Analytics Cloud, which serves as the basis for all your analytical needs.

Here is the workflow to create a new analytical model from a file:

  1. Import a source file.
  2. Set name, description, and other parameters for the model.
  3. In the initial data view, choose the dimension types for the dimensions in your new model.
  4. Specify attributes for the dimensions.
  5. Cleanse your data and fix any mapping or data quality problems.
  6. If needed, create a location dimension to visualize the data in geo maps.
  7. Delete the columns that you do not plan to use in your stories.
  8. Create hierarchical relationships between columns.
  9. Start the automatic creation of the model.

In the next chapter, you will go through the second type of model, that is, planning, which has categories for budgets, plans, and forecasts. It also comes...

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