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1 Feature Scope Description for SAP Analytics Cloud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

2 Capabilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.1 Stories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Charts, Tables, and Maps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Story and Page Level Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Value Driver Trees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Additional Features for Stories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Additional Features for Stories (Optimized Story Experience). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Scripting Features (Optimized Story Experience). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.2 Analytic Applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Application Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Scripting Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.3 Data Analyzer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
2.4 Models. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
Preparing Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
2.5 Formulas and Calculations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Formulas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Calculations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
2.6 Planning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
Allocations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2.7 Compass. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
2.8 Calendar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
2.9 Multi Actions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
2.10 Datasets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.11 Data Actions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
2.12 AI for Planning & Analytics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
2.13 Smart Predict. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
2.14 SAP Digital Boardroom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
2.15 Mobile App. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
2.16 Analytics Hub. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
2.17 Translation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
2.18 Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
2.19 Content Network. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
2.20 Connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
2.21 Administration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
2.22 Additional Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

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4 Product Availability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

5 Browser Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

6 Service Level Agreement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

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1 Feature Scope Description for SAP
Analytics Cloud

The feature scope description provides a high-level list of the features that are available with SAP Analytics
Cloud.

SAP Analytics Cloud is an all-in-one cloud product offered as software as a service (SaaS) for business
intelligence (BI), planning, and predictive analytics. Built natively on SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP
BTP), it provides a unified and secure public cloud experience to maximize data-driven decision making.

 Note

This document defines the functional scope of SAP Analytics Cloud. The availability of some of the features
in this document may depend on your license agreement with SAP and the cloud platform that you are
using, which SAP offers as either SAP BTP, Neo environment, or SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry environment.
If your SAP Analytics Cloud system is hosted in a data center located within China, some features that
depend on data or services outside China may not be available. To illustrate integration with other SAP
offerings, the product documentation on the SAP Help Portal might include references to features that
aren’t included with SAP Analytics Cloud.

Features that are not included in this feature scope description might require a separate license.

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The following description of features is organized by the major functionalities of SAP Analytics Cloud.

• Stories [page 5]
• Analytic Applications [page 12]
• Data Analyzer [page 15]
• Models [page 16]
• Formulas and Calculations [page 19]
• Planning [page 21]
• Allocations [page 22]
• Value Driver Trees [page 8]
• AI for Planning & Analytics [page 28]
• Smart Predict [page 29]
• SAP Digital Boardroom [page 30]
• Mobile App [page 31]
• Analytics Hub [page 32]
• Translation [page 33]
• Calendar [page 24]
• Security [page 34]
• Content Network [page 35]
• Connections [page 36]
• Administration [page 37]
• Additional Features [page 37]

2.1 Stories

A story is a presentation-style document that uses charts, visualizations, text, and images to describe data.

The following sections highlight the most prominent story features available in SAP Analytics Cloud.

The optimized story experience includes the optimized view mode and the optimized design experience. It
combines elements from SAP Analytics Cloud stories and analytic applications.

• Charts, Tables, and Maps [page 6]

• Story and Page Level Features [page 7]
• Value Driver Trees [page 8]
• Additional Features for Stories [page 8]
• Additional Features for Stories (Optimized Story Experience) [page 10]
• Scripting Features (Optimized Story Experience) [page 11]

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2.1.1 Charts, Tables, and Maps

Here is an overview of core features related to charts, tables, and maps in Stories:

Feature Description

Responsive Pages Lets you create responsive lanes to section page content
into groups so that you can easily access your stories on
your mobile device. By default, a responsive page starts with
two lanes.

Canvas Pages Lets you explore and present your data in a flexible space.
You can add charts, tables, visualizations, text, images, and
other objects to canvas pages in your story.

Grid Pages Lets you create and work with formulas on a sheet, either
with a table that has been generated from existing data or
without a table.

Grid pages are only available in the classic design experi-

ence, not in the optimized design experience.

Geo Map Lets you add layers showing location-based data, geographic
features, and points of interest in a geo enriched model for a
geospatial analysis.

You can add the following layers to your geo map:

• Bubble layer
• Point of interest layer
• Heat Map layer
• Choropleth layer
• Feature layer
• Flow layer

Objects Lets you display content in your stories. You can add objects
such as clocks, RSS feeds, and embedded web pages to
display external content in your stories.

Dynamic Text Lets you see the changes that happen when you interact
with your data.

Charts Lets you present data in a graphical way.

You can create or display charts such as the following:

• Bar or Line charts

• Pie charts
• Waterfall charts
• Time series charts

You can add variances to charts, drill down on data, and so

on.

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Tables Lets you view and analyze data and work with planning mod-
els.

Table options include the following:

• Budgeting table
• Forecasting table

Story-Defined Thresholds Lets you compare measures to a fixed range or to other

measures. Thresholds provide visual cues for your informa-
tion, so that you can quickly see what areas are doing well,
and what areas may need improvements. You can display
a threshold legend when a threshold has been applied to a
chart.

Background Images Lets you select images to use as a background for respon-
sive pages and lanes.

2.1.2 Story and Page Level Features

Here is an overview of core features at the story and page level in Stories:

Feature Description

Story and Page Filters Lets you narrow the scope of your analysis. Filters are ena-
bled after you have added at least one chart to your story.
You can convert between story and page filters.

Bookmarking Story Views Lets you save different states of a story. You can even create
global bookmarks so that anyone who can view the story can
also see the different views.

Optimized View Mode Lets you see an improvement in your dashboard perform-
ance (in some scenarios).

Optimized Design Experience Provides a better story design experience with the introduc-
tion of several usability improvements. Story designers will
have the ability to create new stories in the Optimized Design
Experience or convert existing stories.

Story Templates Lets you build a story when you are struggling with where to
start. You can choose from a variety of story layouts depend-
ing on the story you want to create.

View Time Toolbar Lets you easily navigate to the most commonly used func-
tions for faster access. You can also navigate to all other
available functions that are logically grouped together.

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2.1.3 Value Driver Trees

Value driver trees are an analysis process tool that helps with planning scenarios, such as budgeting and
forecasting in planning models.

Here is an overview of value driver trees features available in SAP Analytics Cloud:

Feature Description

Adding and Linking Nodes Lets you add nodes with different measures, filters, and cal-
culations, and create hierarchical links between them.

Auto-creating Value Driver Trees Lets you automatically add nodes to a value driver tree
based on the account structure of your model.

Entering Data Lets you change node values using a keypad to simulate
changes in driver values.

Collapsing and Expanding Nodes Lets you hide or expand node descendants to simplify the
value driver tree.

2.1.4 Additional Features for Stories

Here is an overview of additional features available in Stories:

Story Features

Feature Description

Scheduling Publication Lets you schedule and deliver a PDF copy of a story using
e-mail. PowerPoint presentation (.pptx format) is now sup-
ported as a file type while scheduling a story.

Linking Story Variables Lets you set a variable value once and propagate the value to
other variables from multiple models.

Linked Analysis Lets you apply a filter on multiple visualizations by selecting

data points in a visualization.

Data Action Starters Lets you run data actions in stories. You can use a data ac-
tion to model sequences of copy-and-paste operations and
scripted calculations.

Value Driver Trees Lets you visualize the relationship between drivers and KPIs
by adding model data and calculations to nodes and then
linking them in a directed graph.

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Link Dimensions across Multiple Models Lets you join a primary data source with secondary data
sources that contain common linked dimensions.

Linked dimensions let you create filters that simultaneously

update all charts that include linked data. Filters on linked di-
mensions can be used at the story, page, and linked analysis
level.

R Visualization Lets you add R visualizations to a story when you use R with
SAP Analytics Cloud.

Input Controls Lets you add flexibility to your story pages by enabling the
story consumer to apply filters, set calculation parameter, or
select dimension, measures, or cross calculations to be used
in one or multiple visualizations on a story page.

Comment and Collaborate Lets you add comments, discuss with other users, and share
stories. Comments can also be added to tables and charts.

Features Integration Capability Lets you integrate other features from SAP Analytics Cloud
to enhance your stories.

You can link or add the following features to your stories:

• Data Actions
• Time Series Forecast

Export Options Lets you save your story as a PDF or as a template. You can
also export your story to Google Slides or Microsoft Power-
Point.

Custom Web Fonts Lets you use custom web fonts anywhere fonts are configu-
rable.

Custom Current Date Lets you create restricted measures with dynamic time
range filters based on a custom current date.

Font Resize in Device Preview Lets you change the font scaling of an entire story for each
individual device size.

Calendar Integration Lets you access your calendar when you’re reviewing a story
that’s part of a calendar task.

Customized URLs Lets you customize your URL when sharing content.

Custom Hierarchies or Groups Lets you define custom hierarchies on BW dimensions, al-
lowing you to organize members of different dimension
groups. You can use these hierarchies in charts, tables, input
controls and filters.

Custom Sort for Dimension Members Lets you custom sort dimension members in tables, visuali-
zations and Explorer.

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Chart Features

Feature Description

Recommended Comparisons Lets you see recommendations for comparing versions or

time periods as you are creating your chart. When the cur-
rent period is selected in your chart, you can also create
recommended comparisons based on dynamic time filters.

Linked Analysis Lets you apply a filter on multiple visualizations by selecting

data points in a visualization.

Linked Analysis Drilling Lets you change the hierarchy of multiple charts through
Linked Analysis, as long as the charts are on the same hier-
archy and level as the driver chart.

Unrestricted Drilling Lets you drill to any level in the hierarchy, no matter what the
filter or date granularity is set to. This option is only available
for date range filters in charts and tables.

Multi-Dimensional Sorting Lets you sort charts by two or more dimensions either alpha-
betically or in a custom configuration with semantic mean-
ing.

2.1.5 Additional Features for Stories (Optimized Story

Experience)

Here is an overview of additional features that are available in stories in the optimized story experience:

Feature Description

Additional Widgets Lets you use a wide range of components for the following
functions:

• Filters and controls (for example, filter line, dropdown,

and button)
• Layout (for example, tab strip, page book, and panel)
• Text input (for example, input field and text area)

Composites Lets you create and use a combination of widgets with pre-
configured data, scripting elements and custom logic, and
reuse in stories for various purposes.

Custom Widgets Lets you build and use your own widgets in addition to
the predefined set of widgets delivered with SAP Analytics
Cloud.

Custom Add-Ons Lets you build and use your own widget add-ons in addition
to the predefined set of widget add-ons delivered with SAP
Analytics Cloud.

Assets Panel Lets you drag and drop available built-in widgets, custom
widgets and composites to story pages to build your story.

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Outline Panel Lets you view and manage the structure of your story, in-
cluding its pages, widgets and scripting elements.

Copy and paste Lets you copy and paste widgets, scripting elements and pa-
ges across optimized stories or in the same optimized story
at design time, either in the same browser tab or across
browser tabs. Copy and paste items between composites
and optimized stories is also supported.

Linked Widgets Diagram Lets you have a graphic view of and modify the relationships
among the widgets in your story.

Theme Lets you define the style of the story in an efficient and
reusable way.

CSS Class Lets you define multiple CSS class styles either as global
default or per widget.

Data Change Insights Lets you keep notified of significant data changes of specific
charts on a regular basis.

Performance Insights Lets you analyze and optimize the story performance with
loading sequence and time of different processes during
story loading, story statistics, and recommendations availa-
ble.

Video Data Story Lets you create customized short videos based on selected
widgets in your story.

2.1.6 Scripting Features (Optimized Story Experience)

Here’s an overview of the core features for scripting in Optimized Story Experience:

Feature Description

Scripting API Lets you design highly customized, interactive stories by us-
ing API scripts.

Script Editor Lets you write scripts for each widget and thus create inter-
active and highly custom-defined stories.

Scripting Support Lets you create stories more efficiently using entities such
as:

• Script objects
• Global variables
• Automated refactoring
• Pattern-based functions

Timer Lets you define a timer in your script to delay initiating a

script call. Multiple timers can coexist, but each timer works
independently from others.

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OData Lets you create an OData service, define the endpoint URL,
and perform a transactional action at the backend by using
scripts.

Text Pool Lets you translate the texts in the scripts.

Embedding Business Applications Lets you leverage the post message APIs to enable message
communication between host and embedded web pages
when you embed an story in a host HTML page or embed
a web page in a story through the web page widget.

Reference List Lets you quickly check out where and how an element (such
as a widget), script variable, or a popup function is used.

Error Panel Lets you view all the errors and warnings in the story and
quickly locate the errors in your scripts.

Debug Mode Lets you set automatic breakpoints to pause a script while
it’s running, thus helping you find errors in your scripts.

2.2 Analytic Applications

With SAP Analytics Cloud, analytics designer, you can create analytic applications for data analysis and data
planning. In analytic applications, you can configure the behavior of the UI elements with a set of specific script
API events and specify which actions should take place when events are initiated.

The following sections highlight the core Analytic Application features available in SAP Analytics Cloud.

• Application Features [page 12]

• Scripting Features [page 14]

2.2.1 Application Features

Here’s an overview of the core features at application level:

Feature Description

Create Analytic Applications Lets you build a data-driven analytic application. You can vis-
ualize your data, pick a model, add widgets and add custom
logic to your analytic application.

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Widgets Lets you use a wide range of components for the following
functions:

• Data visualization (table, chart, geo map and R visuali-

zation)
• Data planning (BPC planning sequence starter, data ac-
tion starter and multi action starter)
• Filtering (filter line, input control, dropdown and button,
for example)
• Layout (tab strip, page book and flow layout panel, for
example)
• Text area (automatic text wrapping and line break)

Custom Widgets Lets you build and use your own widgets in addition to
the predefined set of widgets delivered with SAP Analytics
Cloud, analytics designer.

Linked Widgets Diagram Lets you have a graphic view of and modify the relationships
among the widgets in your analytic application.

Bookmark Lets you capture and save the current state of an analytic
application.

Theme Lets you define the style of the application in an efficient and
reusable way.

Planning Applications Lets you create and use planning applications that support
both manual and automated data entry and changes to data.

Smart Capabilities Lets you explore your data via a variety of smart capabilities
including:

• Data Change Insights

• Smart Insights
• Smart Discovery
• Search to Insight
• Smart Grouping

Managing Analytic Applications Lets you create a new analytic application from the applica-
tions page. You can modify, copy, translate and share your
applications.

Export Options Lets you export the visible components of your applications
to PDF. R visualizations are disabled during export.

Scheduling Publication Lets you schedule analytic applications and distribute PDFs
to SAP Analytics Cloud users or non-SAP Analytics Cloud
users at application runtime or from the file repository.

Integration with SAP Datasphere Lets you build analytic applications by leveraging SAP
Analytics Cloud, analytics designer within SAP Datasphere
spaces.

Mobile Browser Support Lets you view your analytic applications in embed mode
directly in web browser. Currently only Safari on iPads is
supported.

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Mobile App Support Lets you view your analytic applications in SAP Analytics
Cloud iOS or Android mobile app.

Copy and Paste Between Story and Analytic Application Lets you copy the widgets from a story to an analytic appli-
cation, or application to application at design time within the
same web browser page or across different web browser pa-
ges. Thus, you can enhance stories with analytic application
capabilities by copying widgets and add scripting, events or
other capabilities to cover your business scenarios.

CSS Class Lets you define multiple CSS class styles either as global
default or per widget.

View Time Toolbar Lets you easily navigate to analytic application viewer spe-
cific actions and also to planning viewer specific ones such
as publishing data, allocation, and version management for
faster access.

2.2.2 Scripting Features

Here’s an overview of the core features for scripting:

Feature Description

Scripting API Lets you design highly customized, interactive applications

by using analytics designer API scripts.

Script Editor Lets you write scripts for each widget and thus create inter-
active and highly custom-defined analytic applications.

Scripting Support Lets you create analytic applications more efficiently using
application entities such as:

• Script objects
• Global variables
• Automated refactoring
• Pattern-based Functions

Timer Lets you define a timer in your script to delay initiating a

script call. Multiple timers can coexist, but each timer works
independently from others.

OData Lets you create an OData service, define the endpoint URL,
and perform a transactional action at the backend by using
scripts.

Embedding Business Applications Lets you leverage the post message APIs to enable message
communication between host and embedded Web pages
when you embed an analytic application in a host HTML
page or embed a Web page in an analytic application through
the Web page widget.

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Reference List Lets you quickly check out where and how an element (such
as a widget), script variable, or a pop-up function is used.

Error Panel Lets you view all the errors and warnings in the application
and quickly locate the errors in your scripts.

Debug Mode Lets you set automatic breakpoints to pause a script while
it’s running, thus helping you find errors in your scripts.

Scripting for Search to Insight Lets you use scripting API to build your own Search to In-
sight UI by integrating Search to Insight with another appli-
cation.

2.3 Data Analyzer

In SAP Analytcs Cloud you can start ad-hoc analyses with data analyzer - a predefined ready-to-run service for
multidimensional, pivot styled ad-hoc analysis for SAP BW Live queries, SAP HANA Live views, SAP Datasphere
models and SAP Analytics Cloud models. SAP BW queries and SAP HANA views can be accessed directly and
no additional model needs to be created. The data can also be displayed in charts.

Here's an overview of core data analyzer features

Feature Description

Table Lets you explore and analyze your data in a pivot styled grid.

Chart Lets you visualize your data in different chart types such as
bar, column and pie charts.

Toolbar Lets you easily navigate to data analyzer actions like export
and variable prompts.

Filter and Variables Lets you narrow the view on your data according to your
filter and variable prompts selections.

Insights Lets you save your explored data as an insight and reuse
your insight in data analyzer. An insight represents the saved
presentation, filter and navigation state of the table or chart.

Share and Export Lets you share insights, schedule insights, create shortcut
links and print your data as Microsoft Excel file, PDF file or
CSV file.

URL API Support Lets you launch data analyzer by parametrizing the URL.

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2.4 Models

In SAP Analytics Cloud, a model is a representation of large amounts of business data from source systems. It
defines measures and dimensions that are used to build visualizations, filters, and calculations in stories.

Features in the modeler include:

Feature Description

Account Model Configuration Lets you create a blank account model or a model based
imported data, which has a single default measure and an
account dimension. It also allows:

• Importing data from SAP BPC

• Creating allocation steps and processes
• Creating value driver trees

Other Model Configurations Let you create a blank model with one or more measures and
an optional account dimension. It also allows:

• Calculated measures and currency conversion meas-

ures in the model
• Choosing to prioritize account or measure settings, and
setting calculation priority
• Planning across multiple currency conversions
• Currency conversion steps in data actions
• Creating allocation steps and processes
• Creating value driver trees

Live Models Lets you create a model based on data from a remote
source, such as from SAP HANA, SAP S/4 HANA, BW, IBP,
SCT and SAP Universe.

Hierarchies Lets you structure your data. When you display data in sto-
ries in a table, the nodes of the hierarchy can be expanded or
collapsed.

Two types of hierarchy are available:

• Level-based hierarchies
• Parent-child hierarchies

Model Security Lets you restrict the model access only to the owner and
other user roles that are explicitly granted access by the
administrator. Models with Currency conversion, Global Di-
mensions, private versions, value driver tree and allocations
cannot be rebuild.

Dimension Security Lets you restrict access to individual values in the model to
specific users.

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Version Security Lets you restrict, read, write, and delete access to public
versions, and to prevent other users or teams from changing
them.

Points of Interest Lets you visualize additional geographic details such as

power stations, schools, businesses, or districts in your geo
maps.

Point of interest data can be added from:

• Esri Shapefiles
• Models
• CSV or Excel files

Currency Conversion Measures Lets you take source data from one or more currencies and
convert it into one or more target currencies, using rates
from a currency rate table.

Unit Conversion Measures Lets you take source unit data from the Standard Unit Table
and convert it into one or more target units.

Rebuilding a Model Lets you modify models created from acquired data if you
need to fix issues such as missing dimensions or measures.
This option lets you revert the model to the state based on
the first set of acquired data.

Enabling a Model for Translation Lets you translate model metadata, both for live data models
and import data models. Any changes made to the model
will be sent for translation every time the model is saved.

Import and Export Options Lets you schedule data import and export on a recurring
basis. Your model and its data can be exported to text file
format, SAP BPC, SAP IBP, SAP S/4HANA, and BW/4HANA
using OData Services.

Viewing Mapping and Transform History Lets you view data mapping and transform history after
you've imported data into a model or dimension.

Deleting Private Versions Lets you delete all private versions of a specific model.

Recommended Planning Area Lets you limit the data size of a planning model and work
with a small subset of data to enhance planning model per-
formance.

Structure and Data Foundation Views The Structure view shows you the star schema diagram rep-
resenting your model, which helps you to visualize how your
fact data, attributes, and properties all relate to each other.
The Data Foundation view shows you the fact table behind
your data.

• Preparing Data [page 18]

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2.4.1 Preparing Data

This feature lets you clean and transform your raw data before it’s used in charts and tables.

There are many features you can use to prepare your data with SAP Analytics Cloud:

Feature Description

Combine Data Lets you combine data from another source with your ac-
quired data by using up to three matching columns to join
the two sets of data.

Location Dimensions Lets you geo-enrich your data either by specifying location
by region or location by coordinates, so your data can be
displayed in geo maps

Unpivot Transform Lets you transpose columns into rows when preparing data.
The new table format can then be used to either import data
or create a new model.

Smart Transformations Lets you see a list of suggested transformations to apply to a

column such as replacing the value in a cell with a suggested
value.

Available transformations you can apply:

• Delete Rows
• Trim Whitespace
• Duplicate Column
• Delete Column
• Concatenate
• Split
• Extract
• Change
• Replace

Calculated Columns Lets you add new measures and dimensions to the table
using formulas and calculations.

Dimension Attributes Lets you create charts, filters, calculations, input controls,
linked analyses, and tables.

Available attributes are:

• Description
• Property
• Parent-Child Hierarchy (Parent)
• Currency

Details Panel Lets you see data-quality issues that need to be resolved in
your dataset before the data can be fully imported or the
model can be created.

Remove Duplicate Rows Lets you remove duplicate rows in a dataset.

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2.5 Formulas and Calculations

In SAP Analytics Cloud, you can create formulas to perform calculations on values and members of the
account dimensions. You can also use predefined formulas, functions, conditions, and operators to build up a
formula in Modeler.

The following sections highlight the core Formulas and Calculations features available in SAP Analytics Cloud.

• Formulas [page 19]

• Calculations [page 20]

2.5.1 Formulas

Formulas let you add new columns or measures to your dataset.

The following features are supported:

Feature Description

Functions Lets you build up a calculated dimension while preparing

data.

Available groups of functions include:

• Date and Time Functions

• Mathematical Operators
• Conditional Operators
• Business Functions
• Lookup and Reference Functions
• Logical Function
• Inverse Functions
• Mathematical Functions
• Conversion Functions

Conditional Formulas Lets you perform calculations based on a certain condition.

Conditional formulas include if then statements, and condi-
tions such as greater or less than.

Exception Aggregation Lets you perform aggregation after calculations are done. By
default, when formulas include aggregated quantities, aggre-
gation is performed before the formula calculations.

Variables Lets you define values that you want to be able to adjust
when you are planning and analyzing data in your models.
In tables and stories, variable values are calculated and dis-
played.

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2.5.2 Calculations

Calculations use formulas to create new measures based on your business data.

The following calculation types are supported:

Feature Description

Calculated Measures Lets you perform mathematical and Boolean operations on

your data.

Restricted Measures Lets you use only selected values in a measure. You can also
select dimensions that you want to hold constant or fixed.
Restricted measures can be useful for comparing one value
to a set of others in the same chart or table.

Calculated Dimensions Lets you concatenate dimensions together, group dimen-

sions, and so on. You can choose to combine existing dimen-
sions to create your own dimensions.

Converting Strings to Numbers or Vice Versa Lets you convert a string value to a numeric value or vice
versa, and use the new values in calculated dimensions or
measures.

There are two functions that you can use to convert values
from one type to another in calculated measures or calcu-
lated dimensions:

• ToNumber Function
• ToText Function

Measure-Based Dimensions Lets you create a calculated dimension based on measure

values or thresholds.

Difference From Lets you find the difference in an account's value between
two different dates or time periods.

Date Difference Lets you create a calculation that shows the time interval
between two dates.

Currency Conversions Lets you add a new currency conversion to the Cross Cal-
culations dimension. This feature is supported by planning
models with currency conversion enabled.

Aggregation Lets you calculate different types of values such as average,

sum, min, and max. Once the new calculation is created, you
can use the measure.

Forecast Calculations Lets you look back at actual data for time periods before
a cut-over data and look ahead to forecast data for subse-
quent time periods.

Planning models support the following forecast calculations:

• Forecast
• Rolling Forecast

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2.6 Planning

SAP Analytics Cloud has many planning tools for collaboratively creating and updating model data to carry out
planning tasks. At its simplest, planning involves typing values directly into table cells in planning models.

Here is an overview of core planning features available in SAP Analytics Cloud:

Feature Description

Version Management Lets you maintain multiple categories and versions of the
data and work with them side-by-side.

Data Entry Lets you enter data and adjust multiple cells more quickly
and effectively using features such as copy and paste, value
locks, and mass data entry.

Structured Allocations Lets you establish a reusable process for allocating values in
one dimension across members of other dimensions.

Currency Conversion Lets you display data in multiple currencies side-by-side,

apply different conversion rates, or simulate how different
exchange rate predictions might impact your data.

Data Actions Lets you initiate sequences of copy and paste actions, allo-
cation steps, embedded data actions, currency conversion
steps, and advanced formula calculations created using a
script or visual editor.

Multi Actions Lets you link together a sequence of data actions, predictive
steps, and version management steps and run the sequence
using a multi action starter in a story or analytic application.

Compass Lets you simulate the impact of driver assumptions on the

results of uncertain business events using Monte Carlo sim-
ulation.

Value Driver Trees Lets you visualize the relationship between drivers and KPIs
by adding model data and calculations to nodes and then
linking them in a directed graph.

Input Tasks Lets you assign a story page with a private version to users
who are responsible for a dimension member, such as a
department, region, or product line.

Input Mode in BPC Embedded Lets you switch between input mode and view mode when
you work with tables in BPC Embedded.

Renaming Account and Measures Lets you rename the Account and Measure dimensions di-
rectly in the Builder Panel.

Validation Rules Lets you create rules that define allowed member combina-
tions across different dimensions to restrict planned data
entry.

Data Locking Lets you set up locks on the model data, which prevents the
locked values from being changed by data entry and other
planning operations in stories.

Planning Panel Lets you enter distribute a value to multiple cells in a table,
or redistribute the values of a group of cells.

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Recommended Planning Area Lets you use a subset of data to create private versions
or edit public versions, based on data locking, data access
control, or both.

Predictive Planning Scenarios Lets you use a planning model as a data source for a predic-
tive time series forecast, and write the forecast data back to
your planning model.

Predictive Forecasts in Tables Lets you forecast values based on a cell in a table, and op-
tionally add the forecast values to your table.

2.6.1 Allocations

In SAP Analytics Cloud, you can carry out operations and create allocation processes for tables in planning
models.

Here is an overview of core allocation features available in SAP Analytics Cloud:

Feature Description

Allocation Process Lets you determine how values from one source dimension
is distributed among members of target dimensions. Alloca-
tion Process can consist of a single step, or a sequence of
steps.

Allocation Steps Lets you distribute values from a source dimension to one or
more target dimensions. Allocation Steps can be added to a
data action and can be combined with other step types in a
data action.

Allocation Rules Lets you specify what values in source dimension members
are to be allocated to target dimension members. Allocation
rules govern allocation steps.

Roles and Permissions Lets you set permissions for allocations that are bound to
roles. The permissions apply to all allocation steps. Users
have different permissions for allocation steps and allocation
processes.

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2.7 Compass

In SAP Analytics Cloud, you can use compass to estimate the possible outcomes of uncertain business events
using Monte Carlo simulation.

Here is an overview of core compass features available in SAP Analytics Cloud:

Feature Description

Simulations Lets you define a specific business question that you want to
answer through Monte Carlo simulations.

A simulation can include multiple private and public scenar-

ios. It can be saved as a file repository artifact and shared
with others.

Private Scenarios Lets you define an experiment that answers a business

question by simulating the impact of driver assumptions on
the target values.

Private scenarios are accessible only to their creators.

Drivers Lets you set filters, value configuration, and probability dis-
tribution types on drivers.

Restricted Drivers Lets you add restricted drivers from a base driver, and set
their specific filters, value configuration, and probability dis-
tribution types.

Running Private Scenarios Lets you run private scenarios in different precision modes
and get simulation results visualized by a graph for each run.

Analyzing Simulation Results Lets you analyze the probability distribution of the simulated
outcomes by moving the slider, defining case settings, and
adding comparison scenarios.

Public Scenarios Lets you publish private scenarios to create public scenarios,
making them available to users with access to the simula-
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2.8 Calendar

In SAP Analytics Cloud, you can organize your workflows with calendar events: View, create and manage your
processes and tasks in your calendar.

Here’s an overview of the core features in the calendar:

Feature Description

List Workspace Lets you see your calendar events in a customizable table
with a Gantt chart next to it that you can push to the side or
hide.

You can change the list workspace to show the following time
ranges: Day, Week, Month, or Year.

Calendar Workspace Lets you see your calendar events in a standard calendar
layout (Day, Week, Month).

Tasks Lets you work with different types of tasks:

• Composite tasks
• General tasks
• Review tasks
• Data locking tasks
• Data action tasks
• Multi action tasks
• Input tasks

Composite Tasks Lets you create tasks that are useful to monitor progress on
a project. You can create tasks for yourself or assign them to
others. If needed, you can add reviewers to check the work
of the assignees.

General Tasks Lets you task one or more assignees with work you want to
organize in the calendar.

Review Tasks Lets you have one or more assigned reviewers to approve or
reject a result.

Data Locking Tasks Lets you keep track of planning processes, and make sure
that model data is locked at the right time. The data locks
can be set manually by the assignees of the task who have
the appropriate permissions to lock a specific data slice of
the model, or automatically – either using the data locking
permissions of the task owner, or an assignee agrees to set
the data locks automatically with their permissions.

Data Action Tasks Lets you define the start time or schedule a recurrence for
data actions to run automatically.

Multi Action Tasks Lets you define the start time or schedule a recurrence for
multi actions to run automatically.

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Processes Lets you see a high-level view of how much work is com-
pleted and how much still needs to be done. A process is an
aggregation of all the events that it contains, these can be
tasks or other processes.

Templates Lets you reuse your calendar processes. You can save them
as calendar templates in the file repository and share them
with other planning process modelers. You can use the tem-
plates to create new processes with the predefined event
structure of a template, or you can use templates to define
the generated event types of leaf members in the calendar
wizard.

Standard calendar templates let you quickly create proc-

esses based on their predefined event structures. A calendar
template viewer lets you view the template structure.

Convert Tasks or Processes Lets you adapt your calendar events to your changing needs
while modelling your workflows. You can break down a task
into separate events, or enhance a task with additional
steps. To simplify your workflow, you can convert a process
to a task.

Flexible Start Conditions Calendar events can start at a specific date and time, at
the same start date as their parent process, or when one or
more other calendar events meet a certain status.

Recurrence Calendar tasks that start at a specific date and time can be
set as a series that recurs after a certain number of minutes,
hours, days, weeks, or months. If a series takes place during
a daylight saving time change, it is adjusted accordingly and
takes place one hour earlier or later.

Start and End Dates In addition to the planned start and end dates of calendar
events, you can view the actual dates of the events and see
when an event was started and ended.

Generate Tasks and Processes with Calendar Wizard Lets you quickly generate tasks and processes from an or-
ganizational dimension in the calendar.

Edit Multiple Calendar Events You can select multiple events in the list workspace to re-
move, copy, export, or edit them. A wizard for editing several
events at once guides you through the different options.

Filters Lets you highlight specific calendar events. Filters are ap-
plied in the workspace you’re currently working in. For exam-
ple, if you filter your events in the calendar workspace, the
filter settings won’t affect the list workspace.

Context Lets you add a model and some filters to your task or proc-
ess. When accessing stories or analytic applications from a
calendar task, the same filters will be applied to the story or
the analytic application.

Work Files Lets you add stories, analytic applications, Add-in work-
books, or URLs to your tasks and processes.

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Scheduled Publications Lets you view the scheduled publications you created for
distributing PDF copies of a story or an analytic application
using e-mail. Publications can be created in stories and ana-
lytic applications, or from the file repository. In the calendar
you can only view them.

Managing Input Tasks Lets you keep track of your input tasks, view and modify
some aspects of the tasks in the calendar. Input Tasks can
only be created in stories.

Calendar Highlights Lets you show your calendar highlights on the home screen
and quickly see which tasks are overdue and coming due.

Exporting Calendar Tasks Lets you export calendar tasks as ICS files that can be used
in many calendar programs.

Integration with Microsoft Tools Lets you view processes and calendar tasks in Microsoft
Outlook and Microsoft Teams.

API for External Access to Calendar Events Lets you access and interact with your calendar events from
external applications.

Keyboard Command List Lets you work quickly and efficiently in the calendar.

Working with Stories and Analytic Applications Linked to Lets you access stories or analytic applications attached as
Calendar Tasks work files to a task from the calendar or the email notifica-
tions you receive as an assignee or reviewer. A task menu
bar in the story or the analytic application lets assignees
submit their work and reviewers approve it directly in the
story or analytic application.

Notifications Assignees, reviewers, additional owners, and viewers of

calendar events receive emails and notifications in SAP
Analytics Cloud initiated by user actions or time-related set-
tings. Administrators can configure the default settings.

Calendar Admin Mode Calendar admins can view and edit all calendar events of
your tenant in the calendar admin mode. The calendar ad-
mins can modify the events like the event owners, and act as
assignees and reviewers to process pending events during
their absence, for example.

2.9 Multi Actions

In SAP Analytics Cloud, you can use multi actions to orchestrate a set of operations across multiple planning
models.

Here is an overview of core multi action features available in SAP Analytics Cloud:

Feature Description

Data Action Step Runs a data action with parameter values that you specify in
the step.

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Version Management Step Publishes a version from the model that you specify.

Predictive Step Runs a time series forecast predictive scenario to answer

business questions using a predictive model.

Data Import Step Runs using data imported from other sources.

API Step Integrates on-premise and cloud-based external applica-

tions using an HTTP Application Programming Interface
(API).

Data Locking Step Allows data locks to be set directly from the multi action
starter.

2.10 Datasets

A dataset is a simple collection of data, usually presented in a table. You can use a dataset as the basis for your
story, and as a data source for Smart Predict. Datasets complement models. Datasets are more suitable for
ad-hoc analysis, while models are more suitable for governed-data use cases.

Feature Description

Toggle Between Story and Data Views Lets you immediately consume imported data and any con-
sequent data modifications to charts and other visualiza-
tions in your stories

Dataset Overview Panel Lets you view all the dimensions and measures included in
the imported dataset. You can also use this panel to make
quick changes to your data structures.

2.11 Data Actions

In SAP Analytics Cloud, you can use data actions to make structured changes to model data by copying data,
running allocation steps, and executing scripted calculations.

Here is an overview of core data action features available in SAP Analytics Cloud:

Feature Description

Copy Steps Lets you copy values from one part of a model to another
based on a set of filters, aggregation settings, and copy
rules.

Cross-Model Copy Steps Lets you copy data from one model to another based on
a set of filters and automatic or manual mapping between
dimension members.

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Allocation Step Lets you run an allocation step as part of your data action.

Embedded Data Action Step Lets you run another data action as a step in your data
action.

Conversion Step Lets you copy data while applying currency conversion in a
model with measures.

Advanced Formulas Step Lets you create a script of transformations and calculations
to apply to the model data. You can use either a script editor
or a visual designer.

Parameters Lets you replace members, measures, or numeric values in

your data action. There are two types:

• Fixed parameters let you quickly change a value that

appears in multiple places.
• Dynamic parameters let you set a value when running
the data action or when setting it up to run.

Data Action Starter Lets you run the data action from a story, and optionally
publish the target version.

Automatic Data Action Tasks Lets you define the start time or schedule a recurrence for
data actions to run automatically.

Data Action Script Object Lets you run a data action using scripts in an analytic appli-
cation, and set and read parameter values.

Data Action Tracing Lets you execute a data action and check its intermediate
results at manually specified locations (called "tracepoints")
and data changes between tracepoints.

2.12 AI for Planning & Analytics

SAP Analytics Cloud offers many AI features for improving business decisions and analysis workflow.

The following AI features are supported by SAP Analytics Cloud:

Feature Description

Just Ask Lets you search your data using business terms you are fa-
miliar with, and display answers as simple charts and tables.

Smart Discovery Lets you see hidden patterns in your data and automatically
generates pages of visualizations.

Smart Insights Lets you see more information about data in a chart, a par-
ticular data point, or a variance in your visualization.

Smart Grouping Lets you analyze and group data points based on similar
properties in bubble and scatterplot charts.

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Search to Insight Lets you type simple English phrases to find key insights in
your data.

2.13 Smart Predict

Smart Predict uses SAP machine learning algorithms to explore relationships in your dataset and build a
formula – a Predictive Scenario – to predict future events or trends. Currently, three types of predictive
scenarios are available in Smart Predict: Classification, Regression, and Times Series Predictive Scenarios.

Smart Predict provides many tools, such as the following, to help you analyze and understand your results:

Feature Description

Variable Contributions Report Lets you see the influence of different categories of a varia-
ble on the target variable. This is applicable to classification
and regression models.

Confusion Matrix Lets you assess the model performance in detail, using
standard metrics such as specificity. This feature is applica-
ble to classification models.

Profit Simulation Lets you estimate the expected profit, based on costs and
profits associated with the predicted positive and actual
positive targets. This feature is applicable to classification
models.

Performance Curves Lets you compare your model to a random model and a
hypothetical perfect model using performance curves such
as:

• The Detected Target Curve

• The Lift Curve
• The Sensitivity Curve (ROC)
• The Lorenz Curves
• The Density Curves

This feature is applicable to classification models.

Predicted vs. Actual Chart Lets you see the prediction accuracy of your model using a
graph and displays the actual target value as a function of
predicted target values. This feature is applicable to regres-
sion models.

Forecast vs. Actual Graph Lets you visualize the predicted values (forecast) and actual
values (signal) for the input dataset to see how accurate
your model is, what the outliers are, and the zone of possible
errors. This feature is applicable to time series forecasting
models.

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Lagged Predictors Contribution Lets you identify whether the signal is influenced by the
recent past or far past in the case of an autoregressive com-
ponent. This feature is applicable to time series forecasting
models.

Multi-Column Segmentation Lets you create forecasts for segments that combine values
from multiple columns. This feature is applicable to time
series forecasting models.

2.14 SAP Digital Boardroom

SAP Digital Boardroom is an interactive and real-time presentation tool.

The following features are supported by SAP Digital Boardroom:

Feature Description

Agenda Lets you present items in a linear order that is useful for
meetings with a timed schedule. You can create agenda
items, and then add and combine pages from any story into
your topics.

Dashboard Lets you present without a predefined path to follow. You can
create freeform topics to match your business organization,
and then add and combine pages from any story.

Value Driver Trees Lets you enhance your presentation. Link Value Driver Trees
to your Digital Boardroom to explore alternative courses of
action and compare the impact of potential decisions.

Mobile App Lets you access Digital Boardroom anywhere and anytime
with the Analytics Cloud mobile app.

Multi-Screens and Touch Screen Lets you use the Digital Boardroom on a three-screen dis-
play with touch capabilities.

Prompts for All Pages Lets you change prompts for all pages instead of page by
page.

Action Bar Combined with Header or Footer Lets you combine the Action Bar with the header or footer.

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2.15 Mobile App

With the SAP Analytics Cloud mobile app, you have access to your analytics anywhere and anytime. Use the
mobile app to connect to your SAP Analytics Cloud solution while on-the-go.

iOS Features

Feature Description

Single Sign-On Lets you access your analytics anywhere and anytime. Simi-
lar to the web version, users can log in via Single Sign-On.

Stories On Mobile Lets you view and interact with Stories on your mobile iOS
device. You can use gestures to view and modify chart values
in your stories.

Digital Boardroom on Mobile Lets you view and interact with Digital Boardroom presenta-
tions on your mobile iOS device. You can use swipe gestures
to navigate between story pages.

Annotations Lets you add drawing or text to a Story or Digital Boardroom.

When you’re done, you can share it with your colleagues.

Share and Collaborate Lets you share and collaborate with colleagues from your
mobile iOS device. You can share story and Digital Board-
room links, and participate in discussions with colleagues.

Receive and Manage Notifications Lets you receive, review, and manage notifications from SAP
Analytics Cloud on your mobile iOS device. You can open
shared stories and invited discussions directly from your
notifications.

Mobile Application Management Lets you, as an administrator, to provision and control ac-
cess to mobile applications on devices used in your organi-
zation. You can also pre-configure settings for mobile busi-
ness users.

SAP Analytics Cloud iOS SDK Lets you, as a developer, build your own version of the mo-
bile app to distribute internally within your organization.

Search to Insight on Mobile Lets you query your acquired models using Search to Insight
and share your findings with other users on your mobile iOS
device.

HANA Variables Lets you use HANA input parameters and variables within
SAP Analytics Cloud on your mobile iOS device.

Story Metadata Lets you view translate user-defined story metadata based
on acquired data connections.

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Feature Description

Stories On Mobile Lets you view and interact with Stories on your mobile An-
droid device.

2.16 Analytics Hub

SAP Analytics Hub offers IT administrators and content authors a simple way to manage enterprise-wide
access to all analytics scattered across multiple applications and platforms.

The following features are supported by Analytics Hub:

Feature Description

Viewing Assets Lets you access a catalog of assets that are displayed as
tiles.

Creating, Editing, and Validating Lets you create, edit or validate the content of assets if you
have appropriate user privileges.

Managing the Structure and Design Lets you define the layout and structure of assets and visual
look-and-feel of your hub. This feature is enabled for users
with an administrator profile.

Consulting Usage Statistics Lets you consult usage statistics of your hub. This feature is
enabled for users with an administrator profile. Usage statis-
tics include the following:

• Unique Users
• Unique Asset Views
• Total Asset Views
• Top 5 Assets

Downloading SAP Analytics Hub Data Lets you download your organization’s data from your hub.
This feature is enabled for users with an administrator pro-
file.

Uploading Elements Lets you upload elements to your hub. This feature is ena-
bled for users with an administrator profile. These elements
include:

• Asset Structure
• Branding

Mobile Lets you access SAP Analytics Hub anywhere and anytime.

Managing Users Lets you manage your user roles. User management is done
within SAP Analytics Cloud.

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Translating Content Lets you translate hub asset content and structure to over
30 languages with the SAP Analytics Cloud translation serv-
ice.

2.17 Translation

SAP Analytics Cloud offers multilingual content support that enables the translation of user defined fields in a
given story by allowing you to upload and download the translated text in XLIFF format.

The following Translation features are supported by SAP Analytics Cloud:

Feature Description

Multilingual Content Support Lets you provide support for translation of user defined
fields in a given story in different languages.

Enabling a Story Lets you enable a story for translation by turning on the
Mark for translation toggle button.

Enabling a Model Lets you translate model metadata, both for live data models
and import data models. Whenever you make a change or
add text in a model, make sure to manually update the trans-
lation to keep your translated content up to date.

Translator Role With appropriate translator and admin rights, you can cre-
ate, read, and delete the translated text for a given story.

Translation Dashboard Lets the user with appropriate rights (translator role or ad-
min role) create, read, and delete translations for a given
story.

You can view the following status for a given story in the
translation dashboard:

• Translated
• Not Translated
• Partially Translated

Data Access Language Lets you select a language that would become the source
language of a story as the story is being sent for translation.

Import/Export Option Lets you upload and download the translated and the trans-
latable content identified within a story in XLIFF format. At
a given time, you can import multiple XLIFF files per story.
This option is not available for Outstanding (partially trans-
lated) strings.

All Strings Lets you download all the translatable strings for a given
story.

Outstanding Strings Lets you download the modified strings from the previous
translation or the partially translated stories.

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Feature Description

Editing Translated Text Lets you add, review, or delete the translated text in a story.
You can perform the following tasks:

• Select your preferred language

• Filter the text based on the criteria such as Translated,
Not Translated, HTML, or Text
• Add, review, or delete the translated text
• Remove all the translated text for a language

2.18 Security

SAP Analytics Cloud has built-in settings that system administrators can use to secure models and limit data
access within your organization and the SAP Analytics Cloud system.

SAP Analytics Cloud has its own security concepts based on the SAP Cloud Platform, offering the following
capabilities:

Feature Description

User Management Lets you create and modify users, as well as import and ex-
port them. Groups of users known as teams can be created.
Such groups are useful when sharing stories or files in the
system.

SSO & Authentication Lets users have secure access to applications and business
information across all systems with just one password.

Role Management Lets you select the permissions included in a particular role
as well as create and edit custom roles.

Data Access Control Lets you manage access to data by setting read and write
permissions for individual members.

File Permission Lets you manage access to files shared with other users.

Audit Logs Lets you keep record of security-related information such as

changes to user master records or successful logins.

Content Deployment Lets you create and manage exports and imports of content.

System Monitoring Lets you see an overview of the current status of the system
including the basic system information, system usage by
memory and user, as well as log files.

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2.19 Content Network

Using the Content Network, you can import, export, and share packages of content from within SAP Analytics
Cloud. This way, you don’t have to download and upload files to move content across systems, and you can also
access helpful public content.

The Content Network provides several tools and resources to help you import, export, and manage content:

Feature Description

Public Content Lets you access a variety of content created by SAP and its
partners.

This includes:

• Sample content to help your users get started.

• Content for specific industries and lines of business, to
help you set up and enhance your business scenarios.

Private Content Lets you package your own content and export it to the
Content Network. Private content makes it easier to transfer
content between systems.

Import Workflow Lets you import public or private content from the Content
Network to your SAP Analytics Cloud system.

Scheduling Lets you get a notification when there’s a new version of con-
tent that you’ve imported, or lets you automatically import
the new version.

Overwrite Options Lets you check your system to see if you have already im-
ported any of the content in a package. If so, you can choose
whether to overwrite it.

Sharing Settings Lets you specify which systems have access to your content
when you export it.

Set any of the following rights for sharing destinations:

• View
• Import
• Edit
• Delete

Buy and Import Content Lets you buy content from the SAP App Centre and directly
import it into SAP Analytics Cloud.

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2.20 Connections

SAP Analytics Cloud supports connections to a wide range of data source systems.

The following connection types are available in SAP Analytics Cloud:

Feature Description

Live Data Connections Lets you work with data that cannot be moved into the cloud
for security or privacy reasons, or data that already exists on
a different cloud system.

Live Data Connections:

• Are available for cloud and on-premise data sources

• Do not replicate your data in SAP Analytics Cloud
• Use existing data models for analysis
• Update your data visualizations and stories with new
data in real-time

Import Data Connections Lets you work with data imported from other source sys-
tems.

Import Data Connections:

• Are available for cloud and on-premise data sources

• Replicate data within SAP Analytics Cloud
• Create new data models through the Modeler
• Update your data visualizations and stories when re-
freshed

Common used data sources for live data connections:

• SAP HANA
• SAP HANA Cloud
• SAP S/4 HANA
• SAP BW
• SAP BPC Embedded
• SAP Universes
• SAP Datasphere

Common used data sources for import data connections:

• Google BigQuery
• Google Drive
• OData Services
• Salesforce
• SQL

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2.21 Administration

Use the System Administration feature to set general parameters for the application and to set up connectivity
to external systems that interface with SAP Analytics Cloud.

Here’s an overview of core features for administration:

Feature Description

System Configuration Lets you configure miscellaneous settings.

Data Source Configuration Lets you manage information needed to connect to remote
systems.

Security Lets you configure the authentication method used by SAP

Analytics Cloud.

R Configuration Lets you configure connection settings to an external R envi-

ronment.

App Integration Lets you manage third-party application access by using

OAuth clients and trusted identity providers.

Notifications Lets you choose the users you want to deliver system event
notifications to.

Appearance Lets you customize the default homepage logo and back-
ground color for all users.

Catalog Lets you and members of your organization view published

content in one central location.

2.22 Additional Features

SAP Analytics Cloud offers additional features to improve your workflow and support your analysis, and
decision process.

The following are additional features available in SAP Analytics Cloud:

Feature Description

Collaboration Lets you optimize group decision-making processes.

Files Lets you upload, share, and manage files from your com-
puter, such as Microsoft Office files, text files, and PDF files.

Catalog Lets you view Stories, Analytic Applications, Digital Board-

rooms and other content in one centralized location within
SAP Analytics Cloud. The catalog simplifies access to con-
tent through a guided discovery and consumption experi-
ence.

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3 Platform Security

SAP Analytics Cloud is a public software-as-a-service offering that provides secure cloud-based access to
applications and data. It follows strict security standards and lets you integrate security features in cloud
applications and services running on the SAP Analytics Cloud platform.

For more information, please visit the SAP Cloud Trust Center:https://www.sap.com/about/trust-
center.html .

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4 Product Availability

SAP Analytics Cloud offers plans based on three licenses: Business Intelligence, Planning, and
Custom. Depending on the type of license purchased, you would have access to some or all of the following
features:

• Business Intelligence functionality

• Smart Assist functionality, powered by SAP Predictive technology
• Planning functionality
• SAP Digital Boardroom
• SAP Analytics Hub
• Basic data source connectivity (Excel, CSV, and Google Sheets)
• Enterprise-level data source connectivity (SAP HANA, SQL, OData Services, and more)
• Team collaboration features
• 24/7 SAP Support and Service Level Agreement

An up to 90-day free trial is also available, with capabiltiies to connect your data sources, model your data,
create visualizations, add augmented analytics, and try predictive planning. Full details about plans and pricing
are available here: https://www.sapanalytics.cloud/plans-pricing/

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5 Browser Support

 Note

SAP Analytics Cloud only supports a browser zoom (scale) level of 100% for designing or viewing
stories.The Manage Analytics Stories app only supports a browser zoom (scale) level of 100% for designing
or viewing stories.

While you shouldn't change the browser scale, you can change the scale for your display settings: on
Windows 10 devices look for Display Settings and then Scale and layout, and on Mac devices look
for Display and then Scaled preferences.

Client Software Version Additional Information

Desktop browser Google Chrome, latest version (see Ad- Google releases continuous updates to
ditional Information) their Chrome browser. We make every
effort to fully test and support the latest
versions as they are released. However,
if defects are introduced with OEM-spe-
cific browser software, we cannot guar-
antee fixes in all cases.

For additional system requirements,

see your web browser documentation.

New Microsoft Edge, latest version (see Microsoft has available for download
Additional Information) continuous updates to their new Edge
browser. We make every effort to fully
(Microsoft Edge browsers based on the
test and support the latest versions as
Chromium engine)
they are released.

 Note

Mobile browsers such as Google Chrome for iOS and Android, and Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android, are
not supported. Please use the SAP Analytics Cloud mobile app.

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6 Service Level Agreement

For more information, see Service Level Agreement for SAP Cloud Services .

This agreement document for cloud service offerings from SAP forms the basis of your contractual relationship
with SAP when referenced in specific order forms. This document contains a specific section about SAP
Analytics Cloud covering uptime, credits, update windows, and other information.

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