Application Development with SAP Analytics Cloud
Description
Ready to make the most of your SAP Analytics Cloud applications? Learn to develop, deploy, and monitor custom analytical applications with this practical scripting guide! Follow step-by-step instructions and programming examples for each stage of development. Customize your dashboards and applications with widgets and APIs, and then adapt them to the needs of your users, whether you're developing planning or business intelligence applications. This is your complete handbook to scripting in SAP Analytics Cloud!
Highlights include:
1) Architecture
2) Data modeling and connectivity
3) Development environment
4) Scripts and wizards
5) BI applications
6) Planning applications
7) Dashboards
8) Predictive analytics
9) Standard and custom widgets
10) APIs
11) Stories
12) JavaScript
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Content
... Structure of This Book ... 13
... Acknowledgments ... 15
1 ... Introduction to Scripting ... 17
1.1 ... What Is Analytics? ... 17
1.2 ... Analytical Software ... 19
1.3 ... Positioning Dashboards with Scripting within SAP's Analytics Strategy ... 23
1.4 ... Summary ... 26
2 ... Basics of SAP Analytics Cloud ... 27
2.1 ... Architecture of the System Landscape ... 27
2.2 ... Menu Navigation and Important Functions ... 29
2.3 ... Data Integration ... 32
2.4 ... Data Modeling ... 35
2.5 ... History of Scripting in SAP Analytics Cloud ... 36
2.6 ... Difference between Stories and Advanced Mode ... 37
2.7 ... Development Environment ... 38
2.8 ... Authorization for Scripting with SAP Analytics Cloud ... 47
2.9 ... Conversion of a Classic Story or Analytic Application ... 53
2.10 ... Summary ... 56
3 ... Development of Business Intelligence Applications ... 57
3.1 ... Widgets ... 57
3.2 ... Application Programming Interfaces ... 69
3.3 ... Developing a Story with Scripting for Reporting ... 86
3.4 ... Integration of Predictive Analytics Functions ... 110
3.5 ... Best Practices ... 114
3.6 ... Summary ... 116
4 ... Development of Planning Applications ... 117
4.1 ... Widgets ... 117
4.2 ... Application Programming Interfaces ... 128
4.3 ... Data Connection for Writing Back Data ... 150
4.4 ... Developing a Story with Scripting for Planning ... 155
4.5 ... Best Practices ... 178
4.6 ... Summary ... 182
5 ... Custom Widgets ... 183
5.1 ... What Are Custom Widgets? ... 183
5.2 ... Setup of Custom Widgets ... 188
5.3 ... Creating, Uploading, and Removing a Custom Widget ... 209
5.4 ... An Example of a Custom Widget: The Colored Box ... 215
5.5 ... Custom Widgets on Mobile Devices ... 236
5.6 ... Exporting Custom Widgets ... 239
5.7 ... Best Practices ... 240
5.8 ... Summary ... 240
6 ... Provision and Operation Stories with Scripting ... 241
6.1 ... Sharing Stories within SAP Analytics Cloud ... 241
6.2 ... Embedding Stories in Websites ... 252
6.3 ... Performance Monitoring ... 254
6.4 ... Best Practices for Performance ... 264
6.5 ... Summary ... 266
7 ... Outlook ... 267
7.1 ... Roadmap ... 267
7.2 ... Joule ... 269
7.3 ... Summary ... 270
... Important Literature ... 271
2 ... The Authors ... 273
... Index ... 275