Application Development with SAP Analytics Cloud

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

List of contents

... Introduction ... 13

... 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

About the author

Jan Lang is a leading expert for data management and reporting at FC Bayern Munich. He has been working with SAP Analytics Cloud since 2017. He started his career at FC Bayern Munich as the main contact person for the implementation of SAP Analytics Cloud. After interim positions as a team leader in the area of low-code development of SAP Fiori apps in the SAP and non-SAP environment at a consulting company and as a consultant in data and technology (BI) at MHP, he returned to FC Bayern Munich in 2021, where he is responsible for reporting with various SAP technologies in the IT and tech department. He supports customers of the FC Bayern digital and media labs with SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Datasphere.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Josef Hampp, Jan Lang
• Publisher: Rheinwerk Verlag
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.04.2025
• EAN: 9781493226405
• ISBN: 978-1-4932-2640-5
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: SAP PRESS Englisch
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Data communication, networks; optimieren, application development, Analytics Designer, SAP Analytics Cloud