Glossary

A special dimension that can include the definition of accounts like operating income and employee expenses, and drivers like units sold and headcount.

It's often included in finance models, or any model that has data from multiple accounts in balance sheet, profit and loss, or cash flow statements.

The account dimension can also store calculations and set the aggregation type and units for measure values.

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The account dimension stores calculations and sets the aggregation type and units for the measure values.

A data category that contains actual values.

There can be only one public actuals version.

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A traditional boardroom meeting structure.

Use a Digital Boardroom agenda for meetings with a timed schedule, where items are presented in a linear order (possibly by different people).

An item in a Digital Boardroom agenda containing one or more topics and story pages associated with it.

Agenda items allow you to organize a boardroom presentation for different presenters.

A grouping of a set of numbers into one number that represents the whole set.

For example, "sum" is a common aggregation.

A structured planning operation that takes data from source dimensions and splits it among the members of target dimensions based on a driver value.

Allocation processes are often used to allocate indirect costs in a budget, or to take a value that was planned at a high level and control how it’s broken down to leaf members.

A type of allocation that assigns values from source dimensions to target dimensions based on driver values.

You can create complex allocation processes with multiple steps, for example, allocating values from an Account dimension to an Organization dimension, and then from the Organization dimension to a Product dimension.

A document that can contain visualizations such as tables, charts, and filters to allow navigation and analysis of data.

You can personalize the visualizations and interaction behaviors of the UI elements according to user requirements. Analytic applications are created and consumed in SAP Analytics Cloud.

Capability in SAP Analytics Cloud that lets you create applications for data analysis and data planning.

Application designers can configure the behavior of the UI elements in an analytic application with a set of specific script API events, and specify which actions should take place when events are triggered. This flexibility allows application designers to create a variety of analytic applications, ranging from simple static dashboards to highly customized applications with numerous options to browse and navigate data.

An analytic model works with a wide range of source data, and can be used with live data connections.

A person who works on events in the calendar.

Assignees can edit attached work files, add additional information and change the progress of an event.

Characteristics of a dimension member, such as ID or owner.

Attributes can be displayed in grids.

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An image marker on a chart or geo map based on a value of a measure.

Bubbles provide two visual cues to help users analyze data displayed on a map: size and color.

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A map layer containing shaded geographical hierarchies.

To add data from a model to a choropleth layer, the model must contain at least one location dimension.

Instant messaging tool that allows colleagues to discuss business content, share information, and create tasks in real-time chat.

Collaboration makes it easy to make decisions based on the linked business content.

In the collaboration tools, text added by a participant of a discussion or a thread.

The text is posted in real time in the discussion or thread.

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A person who creates events in the calendar.

Creators can edit all settings of an event. They create work files for people (assignees or reviewers) working on these events, set reminders, and reopen the events if necessary.

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A function to convert financial values from one currency to another using an exchange rate, to enable analysis or planning across different currencies.

Currency conversion is applied to model data by assigning currencies to the data stored in a model, and then calculating new measures in different currencies.

In a planning model that has currency conversion enabled, a currency conversion table defines exchange rates for all currencies that are in use.

One currency conversion table can be applied to multiple models. The currency conversion is calculated as a source currency multiplied by an exchange rate to determine the equivalent value in a target currency. Currency tables can also include multiple rates for each conversion that apply to different dates, categories, and rate versions.

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A modern, exploratory, corporate steering presentation.

Use a Digital Boardroom dashboard to allow the presenter to decide where to go next, without a predefined path to follow.

A tool that allows users to create a sequence of copy-paste operations and scripted calculations in order to carry out planning and simple consolidation functions.

Data actions are applied to model data from within a story using a data action trigger.

A debugging tool for data actions that is used to execute a data action and check its intermediate results at tracepoints and data changes between tracepoints.

Such an execution doesn't pause at these tracepoints.

A predefined application for multidimensional, pivot styled ad-hoc analysis for SAP BW Live queries, SAP HANA Live views, SAP Datasphere models and SAP Analytics Cloud models.

It contains a table, a filter area, a menu bar and a builder panel with navigation capabilities. This way the user can easily navigate and analyze the data.

With data analyzer you can save your explored data as an insight.

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A calendar task that lets you define which data slice of your planning model shall be locked or unlocked, and when.

Data locking tasks can be scheduled to run automatically at a specified start date or start condition using your data locking permissions or those of someone else who agrees to do so. Data locking tasks can also be assigned to a data locking owner who submits the task manually during a certain timeframe.

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A row of data in the data container.

You can change both the value of a data point and various customizing attributes that determine how it appears in a chart such as its color.

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A real-time, interactive boardroom presentation.

Create traditional boardroom meeting agendas, or exploratory, corporate steering dashboards.

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For example, values could be disaggregated to the unassigned member (#) or to one or more members based on the current filters and the aggregation type.

A collection of posts that can be linked to specific business content, for example, a story.

In addition, a discussion thread can comprise notifications, tasks, and links to business content.

A grouping of a set of numbers into one number that represents the whole set.

An exception aggregation differs from a standard aggregation in that the exception aggregation is only applied along one or more specific dimensions. It offers more options for non-cumulative values. For example, "First value" is a common exception aggregation.

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To add geographical semantics to data.

Before you perform geospatial analysis in stories, you must first import coordinate data or area data, and enrich it in the Modeler. This process creates a new column in the data view with an enriched format of latitude and longitude coordinates or state and county names.

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Two types of hierarchy are available: level-based hierarchies, and parent-child hierarchies.

A common example of a level-based hierarchy is a Location dimension, with hierarchical levels such as Country, State, and City. A parent-child hierarchy organizes the members of a dimension into a set of parent-child relationships. You can define multiple hierarchies for generic dimensions and organization dimensions so that the data can be grouped in multiple different ways in a story.

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A connection to a data source or application, which allows data to be imported (copied) to and saved in SAP Analytics Cloud.

Changes made to the data in the source system don't affect the imported data until and unless the data is imported again either manually or as a scheduled job. See also “live data connection”.

Used for “Information Access”. It is usually used when referring to live data connections or features that use live data connections.

When used for SAP BW data connections, it is sometimes written as “Persisted InA”, referring to persistent data or persistent information.

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A page used to request and collect data from other users.

Typical examples include collecting data for budgeting or planning.

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Inverse formulas specify how a formula will be reversed if data is entered on the formula in a story.

One or more inverse functions can be added at the end of a formula.

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A type of success measurement.

Certain threshold values are defined for measures, respectively, members of the Accounts dimension such as Net Revenue in a Profit and Loss model.

The range or extent of values to check for a KPI visualization or threshold.

A dimension member that does not have any child members.

For example, for a Date dimension that is maintained with monthly granularity, January 2018 is a leaf member. In a planning model, all data is stored in leaf members.

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A connection to a data source or application, where the data is "live". The data is not imported (copied) to or saved in SAP Analytics Cloud.

When changes are made to the data in the source system, the changes are immediately reflected in SAP Analytics Cloud. See also “import data connection”.

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A data object that represents numerical and quantitative data that you want to compare, aggregate, or use for calculations.

Common examples of measures include amounts of money, numbers of units, and headcount. In some cases, financial accounts like sales revenue are represented as measures too.

Some quantitative data like age or product ratings can be modeled as a measure or as a dimension or property, depending on your use case.

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Elements that make up a dimension.

Records in a model are assigned to a member for each dimension, allowing the data to be aggregated and analyzed. Members are organized into hierarchies for each dimension, or into a flat list (for example, in the Version dimension).

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A representation of an organization’s data, broken into dimensions and measures, that lets you clean, customize, and control data.

It's an essential piece for data exploration, and provides a framework for data visualization in stories and analytic applications. It’s also required for business planning.

A model can store and display data that has been acquired by an import connection, or it can show data from a live connection to a source system.

There are two type of models: account models, and models with measures.Models can be for analytics only, or they can support planning as well. Analytic models work with a broader range of source data, and can be used with live data connections. Planning models have more structure for tasks like forecasting and budgeting. They’re always based on import data connections, except for those that use live data connections to SAP BPC embedded.

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Also known as a model with measures, the new model type exposes measures as single entities and lets you add and configure multiple measures with aggregation and units to fit your data.

Since you can also choose whether to include an account dimension compared to an account model, the new model has more flexibility in its configuration, and it also offers additional calculation and currency conversion features.

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• An alert, warning, or error message raised by the application to indicate the current state of an object.
• Information about an action taken on a collaboration process, task, or event.

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A type of dimension that represents the organizational structure that applies to a model's accounts or measures.

This dimension can be used to represent different geographical locations such as offices or sales areas. For models with currency conversion enabled, you may want to specify currencies for the members of an organization dimension.

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A person who has the same rights as the creator of a calendar event.

The only difference between a creator and an owner is that the owner of an event does not create the event initially.

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Authorization provided to a user so that they can perform a certain task or access a specific resource in the system. For example, a user who wants to publish content to the Catalog would need the Execute permission for Publish Content. A user who wants to change the contents of a model would need the Update permission for that model.

Permissions, sometimes called privileges or rights, include Create, Read, Update, Delete, Execute, Maintain, Share, and Manage.

A subset of model data that corresponds to a version’s data used for all planning actions.

You can filter the planning area when editing a public version, or copying to a private version. To optimize resource consumption and avoid processing unnecessary data, the model owner can define a recommended planning area.

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A calendar event to structure your workflow.

A process lets you manage your tasks in one parent event. The child events can be tasks or even other processes with their child events.

In a planning model that uses currency conversion, a rate version is a set of currency exchange rates applied to one or more specific versions in a story.

Therefore, rate versions can be used to quickly simulate an exchange rate scenario.

A subset of data used to limit the size of a planning model and enhance planning model performance.

The recommended planning area is based on data access control and model privacy, data locks, or both.

Records are the granular values that make up model data. Imported to a model or created by data entry on a planning model, records are assigned to a leaf member for each dimension.

For example, a record could represent a single purchase or sale, including the value, date, location, and so on. When you add the model data to a story, records are aggregated along each dimension to allow data analysis.

Records are sometimes known as facts, too.

Notification that will be sent to all assignees or reviewers who have not completed a calendar event by the due date.

Reminders can also be sent at a specified time, before the start date or the due date of an event, for example.

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A measure that is restricted so that it excludes data from selected members of one or more dimensions.

In a chart, restricted measures are added as measures, or as members of the account dimension. In a table, you can create a restricted measure based on measures or the cross calculations dimension, or on a member of the account dimension (also known as a restricted account). The available options depend on the model type and configuration.

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Series of statements which are created by application designers or story developers in optimized story experience in the script editor.

By adding a script to a widget, you can influence the behavior of this widget and thus enable user interaction, also referred to as events, at run time. A script typically consists of several statements.

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A programmatic instruction within a script.

The execution of a statement is typically triggered by user interaction with the widget.

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A table is a representation of data in a two-dimensional tabular view, which is typically related to a source model (although basic tables independent of any model are also possible).

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A calendar event that supports you to organize your workflows.

A value or value range that provides visual cues to let you know what areas are doing well and what areas may need improvements.

Multiple thresholds can be assigned labels such as OK, Warning, and Critical.

A container for one or more story pages in a Digital Boardroom presentation.

The hierarchy of topics in a presentation determines its sequence and flow.

A tuple filter is a complex filter that is a combination of other filters.

For example, a tuple filter can be used to exclude historical forecast data while at the same time include forecast data for a selected time period.

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An unassigned member is automatically created for all generic and organization dimensions in a planning model.

It is always a leaf member in a dimension hierarchy. The unassigned member, which has a hash symbol (#) as its ID, is necessary for planning operations such as structured allocation and automatic spreading. When you enter data in an unbooked cell, it is generally added to the unassigned member for dimensions that are not on a table axis.

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Unbooked cells (unbooked data) are displayed in a table for sets of dimension members that do not yet have a value.

Unbooked cells display a dash character (-). A cell with a value of zero is considered a booked cell.

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A directed graph made up of nodes showing data from different accounts or cross calculations, with optional filters for each node.

By linking nodes together, you can show driver or aggregation relationships between the nodes. Like tables, value driver trees also support data entry for planning models.

For example, you can use a value driver tree to simulate how changes to driver accounts such as head count and average contract value will affect top line metrics such as gross revenue.

• Public versions require data access privileges to view and modify the data.
• Private versions are only visible to the one who created them.
• Shared versions are private versions that have been shared with others.