Story and Data Analyzer

Stories and Data Analyzer help your data come to life so you can make data-driven decisions. Find helpful information and resources such as best practices, videos, learning assets, and more on this page.

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Story

Stories are at the center of the SAP Analytics Cloud experience. They are dashboards that allow you to tell the story of your data in visualizations and tables for you and other users to explore.

In recent years, significant investments have been made to improve the experience and performance of Stories, resulting in the Optimized Story Experience. This enhanced experience is faster, more comprehensive, and represents the strategic direction for SAP Analytics Cloud Stories, receiving all future enhancements. So make sure to build your Stories using the optimized experience from now on.

There are many ways to build dashboards. Here are a few best practices to get you started on dashboard design:

To enable faster content creation, you can create templates, themes, and composites. Templates are entire Story layouts that only need to be filled with content. Composites are reusable modules that can be assembled to create a Story, and a theme contains the corporate design you would like to apply to your stories. Here are some resources to get you started:

The Story offers a lot of functionality. You can build charts, geomaps, and tables, and create an interactive dashboard by linking dimensions and filtering your data on the fly. Blending dimensions allows you to connect multiple data sets, making your analysis even more powerful. Calculations enable you to derive additional measures and dimensions to get the insights you need.

You can collaborate with your colleagues directly in SAP Analytics Cloud via chat or by using the comment functionality. If needed, you can also schedule a story to be sent to a colleague via email, personalized to their authorizations.

Our community members have produced lots of content on these topics, so make sure to check out all of the blogs and dive deeper into these subjects.

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Story Scripting

The Story also provides options to extend the no-code functionality with scripting and other advanced features, known as analytics design. Previously separate from the Story, this functionality has been integrated into the Story as part of the Optimized Story Experience for a more seamless user experience. You can now build advanced analytics and custom behavior using a rich script library within a Story. Additionally, if you need to enhance the styling further, you can work with CSS.

You can also bring in custom widgets and custom chart add-ons built externally and use R to create visualizations within the story.

Here are a few resources to get you started.

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R-Visualizations

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Data Analyzer

Data Analyzer is the standalone exploration experience for ad-hoc analysis with support of all key data sources and different personas.

  • Standalone with easy access from the side navigation bar
  • Save Insights, share and publish
  • Contextual exploration
  • Explore data, visually or within a table

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