SAP Analytics Cloud Basics for Beginners with Hands-On

Name: SAP Analytics Cloud Basics for Beginners with Hands-On
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Best course to learn and work in basic concepts of SAP Analytics Cloud

Created byVishal Saxena

Last updated 2/2024

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What you'll learn

You will be creating your own tenant and learning various aspects of SAP SAC.
You will be learning introduction on SAC, it's uses, features of SAC, register for free trial account Cloud.
You will also learn about various BI features in SAC like: Geo Maps, Dynamic Charts, Filters, Tables, Styling, Template, Bookmarks, Heatmaps, Public Model
Data Wrangling, Hierarchy Types, Import / Export / Scheduling jobs, Waterfall / Stackbar charts, Dynamic Text, Updating Source Data.
You will also be learning Advanced SAC BI concepts like: Point of Interest, Geo Maps, Variance, Conditional Formatting, Thresholds, Bullet Charts
Styling Tables / Thresholds, Linked Model, Calculated Column, In-Cell Charts, Trellis, Chart Scaling.
You will also be learning SAC Machine Learning Features like: Search to Insight, Smart Discovery, Smart Insights, Time Series Forecasting, R Visualization
Smart Grouping, Smart Transformation, Enable Explorer, Device Preview, Collaboration, Exception Aggregation, Trellis, Chart Scaling.
SAC Planning ,Financial Planning Jargons ,Planning Specifications, Business Scenarios, Maintain Currency Conversion Rates, Create Planning Model,
Planning Hierarchy, Account Hierarchies, Currency rates with planning, Account Dimensions, Creating Simple Financial Statement table

Course content

8 sections • 30 lectures • 14h 43m total length

Introduction to SAP Analytics cloud28:17
Explore SAP Analytics Cloud, a SaaS platform to discover, visualize, plan, and predict from multiple data sources for fast, confident management decisions. Learn cloud vs on-premise and data center basics.
What is SAC, How to use it?23:01
Learn what SAP Analytics Cloud is and how to use it as a SaaS on the SAP cloud platform, with key capabilities like planning and predictive forecasting.

SAC BI First Demo48:18
In this demo, you will be seeing how to create a basic model in SAC, we'll start with creating our story. In the resources section of this lecture you'll find the sales data (which I have used in preparing data model so that you can prepare your own model in your SAC trial system) and also the installation guide (in which I have illustrated step by step procedure to get your free SAC trial account with which you'll be able to practice the demos I have shown in this course).
SAC BI Adding more features50:36
SAC BI More formatting options + Filters46:09
SAC BI Geo Maps, Dynamic Charts, etc23:01
SAC BI - Template, Bookmarks, Heatmaps, Filters (Dynamic / Static)36:57
Learn to design reusable templates and bookmarks in SAP Analytics Cloud, build heat maps and apply dynamic and static filters, including date range and page filters for interactive stories.
SAC BI - Tables, R Language and Styling28:03
SAC – Public Model, Data Wrangling, Reusing the public model, Hierarchy types35:35
SAC – Import Export jobs, scheduling jobs22:58
learn to configure sac import and export jobs, scheduling, and data refresh for public models from google drive, and apply import settings, mapping, and transformations.
Waterfall / Stack Bar Charts, Measure Based Dimension, Dynamic text, Hypertext36:56
SAC – Edit Model, Hierarchies, Create Multiple Stories, Update Source Data30:52

SAC - Point of Interest on Geo maps37:25
Learn to add point of interest layers to SAC geo maps using shape files, existing models, and CSV or Excel data to mark and drill into locations.
SAC – Create new public model from file, story, variance, Conditional Formatting48:31
SAC – Model Level Thresholds, Conditional Thresholds, Bullet Charts, Table Style26:48
SAC – Styling Thresholds, Linked Model, Calculated Column, In-cell Chart34:16
Learn to style thresholds in SAP Analytics Cloud, build linked models with calculated columns, and create in-cell charts for comparing target value and order value.

SAC – Smart features Search to Insight, Smart Discovery42:22
Explore SAP analytics cloud basics for beginners with hands-on practice using search to insights and smart discovery, powered by built-in machine learning for augmented analytics and visuals.
SAC - Smart Insights, Time Series Forecasting28:50
SAC – R Visualization8:01
Integrate the R language into SAP Analytics Cloud stories with the R server to run R scripts on a data model and identify customers by units sold and order value.
SAC – Smart Grouping, Smart Transformation23:41

SAC – Trellis, Chart Scaling26:21
Explore SAP Analytics Cloud trellis to display salary distribution by region in dynamic multi-chart donut charts and learn chart scaling to align axes for cross-chart comparison.
SAC – Enable Explorer, Device Preview, Collaboration, Exception Aggregation39:43
Explore sac features like enable explorer, device preview, collaboration, and exception aggregation to customize charts, test views on devices, and collaborate with teams.

SAC - Planning12:23
Learn planning as a fundamental management function in SAP Analytics Cloud, detailing steps like modeling, what-if, allocation, predictive forecast, value driver tree, and collaboration.
SAC - Planning Jargons13:05
Explore planning jargons for financials in SAP Analytics Cloud, focusing on net sales, cost of goods sold, gross profit, and operating expenses. Understand revenue terms and ratios used in planning.
SAC - Planning Specifications, Business Scenarios20:13
Explore planning specifications and business scenarios in SAP Analytics Cloud basics, covering planning data versions, time dimension, entity and account hierarchies, and currency conversion.
SAC – Maintain Currency Conversion Rates, Create Planning Model20:31
SAC – Planning Hierarchy, Account Hierarchies, currency rates with planning, etc23:26
SAC – Account Dimensions, Creating Simple Financial Statement table20:08

Requirements

It's good if you have prior knowledge in SAP BI, although I have tried to explain the concept for beginners so that even if you don't have knowledge in BI, you should be able to understand the course.
Having basic knowledge in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning is good. You need not have knowledge in R, Python Programming, algorithms... I have tried to keep it as simple as possible.

Description

This course has been made for beginners in SAP SAC, it'll help them to understand SAP SAC and work in real time.

In this course I'll be teaching you basics of SAP Analytics Cloud. First we'll be creating our own tenant on SAP Cloud and then I'll be covering most of the basic concepts of SAC. Topics which will be covered in this course are:

You will be learning introduction on SAC, it's uses, features of SAC, register for free trial account Cloud.
You will also learn about various BI features in SAC like: Geo Maps, Dynamic Charts, Filters, Tables, Styling, Template, Bookmarks, Heatmaps, Public Model, Data Wrangling, Hierarchy Types, Import / Export / Scheduling jobs, Waterfall / Stackbar charts, Dynamic Text, Updating Source Data.
You will also be learning Advanced SAC BI concepts like: Point of Interest, Geo Maps, Variance, Conditional Formatting, Thresholds, Bullet Charts, Styling Tables / Thresholds, Linked Model, Calculated Column, In-Cell Charts, Trellis, Chart Scaling.
You will also be learning SAC Machine Learning Features like: Search to Insight, Smart Discovery, Smart Insights, Time Series Forecasting, R Visualization, Smart Grouping, Smart Transformation, Enable Explorer, Device Preview, Collaboration, Exception Aggregation, Trellis, Chart Scaling.
You'll also be learning SAC Planning ,Financial Planning Jargons ,Planning Specifications, Sample Business Scenarios, Maintain Currency Conversion Rates, Create Planning Model, Planning Hierarchy, Account Hierarchies, currency rates with planning, Account Dimensions, Creating Simple Financial Statement table.

I have tried to explain all the concepts using simple examples which can be extended to match your business case in real time. All the concepts have been explained using simple examples so that even beginners can understand them.

In the resources section of lectures you'll find the dataset for building model, R code which I have used in the practical demos which I have shown in SAC.

Who this course is for:

This course is very useful for those of you who are starting with SAP and want to grow career in SAC
This course will act like a bridge between existing SAP BI, BO consultants who want to grow in their career in SAC and want to shift to SAC. As SAP on cloud will be the future of SAP, SAP is trying to slowly it's products from in premise to cloud
This course will be useful for existing SAP consultants who want to learn how to use machine learning concepts in SAC.

SAP Analytics Cloud Basics for Beginners with Hands-On

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Course content

Introduction2 lectures • 51min

SAC BI Features1 lecture • 39min

Register your free SAC trial account1 lecture • 8min

SAC BI10 lectures • 5hr 59min

Advance SAC BI Concepts and POI4 lectures • 2hr 27min

SAC Machine Learning Features4 lectures • 1hr 43min

SAC - More Features2 lectures • 1hr 6min

SAC - Planning (New Lectures)6 lectures • 1hr 50min

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