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Introduce yourself to the basics of SAP Analytics Cloud. Find your way around the product and personalize your experience the way you want it. Guidelines for viewing SAP Analytics Cloud stories or boardroom presentations, as well as information on creating bookmarks for story views or analytic applications. Learn how to share your analytics with others, export data, and collaborate with colleagues across your organization. Connect your on-premise and cloud data sources to SAP Analytics Cloud. Learn how to prepare, enhance, and optimize your data using SAP Analytics Cloud with advanced data wrangling and data preparation workflows for both datasets and models. Discover how to use SAP Analytics Cloud, analytics designer for analytic application design and create highly customized analytic and planning applications. An SAP Analytics Cloud story is a presentation-style document that uses charts, visualizations, text, images, and pictograms to describe data. The SAP Analytics Cloud Digital Boardroom is a place to design a real-time, interactive boardroom presentation. Augmented Analytics comprises a set of SAP Analytics Cloud features that enhance the analytics process using machine learning. Learn about business planning and how SAP Analytics Cloud helps you to carry out your plans by bringing a broad range of planning features together with analytics, predictive, and collaboration capabilities. Use the SAP Analytics Cloud calendar to organize your workflows with calendar events: You can create different types of tasks and assign people to work on them and others to review the work. You can use processes to manage multiple events. Learn how to start ad-hoc analyses in SAP Analytics Cloud based on Live SAP BW queries, Live SAP HANA views, SAP Analytics Cloud models and SAP Datasphere models and save your drill-down data state and ad-hoc analysis as insight. Use the Microsoft Office add-ins to analyze your SAP Analytics Cloud data with Microsoft Excel. You can deepen your analysis and add data for planning and save it back to the cloud. During your analysis, you can update your table with actual data from SAP Analytics Cloud at any time. SAP Analytics Cloud URL API  Link to another SAP-owned site. SAP Analytics Cloud REST API  Link to another SAP-owned site. SAP Analytics Cloud Custom Widget Developer Guide  Link to another SAP-owned site. SAP Analytics Cloud Analytics Designer API Reference Guide  Link to another SAP-owned site. SAP Analytics Cloud Advanced Formulas Reference Guide  Link to another SAP-owned site. SAP Analytics Cloud iOS SDK Developer Guide  Link to another SAP-owned site. As an administrator, understand system requirements and learn how to configure and monitor your SAP Analytics Cloud tenant. Learn how to set up authentication for your users, and how to securely manage access to SAP Analytics Cloud using licenses, roles, and teams. Manage the lifecycle of your SAP Analytics Cloud content across multiple tenants. Translate your content to new languages and configure sharing and collaboration options. As an application designer or story developer, you can add scripts to your analytic applications or stories to implement your custom logic and offer viewers more interactions with them. SAP Analytics Cloud Optimized Story Experience API Reference Guide  Link to another SAP-owned site.

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Learn how to share your analytics with others, export data, and collaborate with colleagues across your organization. Guidelines for viewing SAP Analytics Cloud stories or boardroom presentations, as well as information on creating bookmarks for story views or analytic applications. Introduce yourself to the basics of SAP Analytics Cloud. Find your way around the product and personalize your experience the way you want it. Connect your on-premise and cloud data sources to SAP Analytics Cloud. Learn how to prepare, enhance, and optimize your data using SAP Analytics Cloud with advanced data wrangling and data preparation workflows for both datasets and models. Discover how to use SAP Analytics Cloud, analytics designer for analytic application design and create highly customized analytic and planning applications. An SAP Analytics Cloud story is a presentation-style document that uses charts, visualizations, text, images, and pictograms to describe data. The SAP Analytics Cloud Digital Boardroom is a place to design a real-time, interactive boardroom presentation. Augmented Analytics comprises a set of SAP Analytics Cloud features that enhance the analytics process using machine learning. Learn about business planning and how SAP Analytics Cloud helps you to carry out your plans by bringing a broad range of planning features together with analytics, predictive, and collaboration capabilities. Use the SAP Analytics Cloud calendar to organize your workflows with calendar events: You can create different types of tasks and assign people to work on them and others to review the work. You can use processes to manage multiple events. Learn how to start ad-hoc analyses in SAP Analytics Cloud based on Live SAP BW queries, Live SAP HANA views, SAP Analytics Cloud models and SAP Datasphere models and save your drill-down data state and ad-hoc analysis as insight. Use the Microsoft Office add-ins to analyze your SAP Analytics Cloud data with Microsoft Excel. You can deepen your analysis and add data for planning and save it back to the cloud. During your analysis, you can update your table with actual data from SAP Analytics Cloud at any time. SAP Analytics Cloud URL API  Link to another SAP-owned site. SAP Analytics Cloud REST API  Link to another SAP-owned site. SAP Analytics Cloud Custom Widget Developer Guide  Link to another SAP-owned site. SAP Analytics Cloud Analytics Designer API Reference Guide  Link to another SAP-owned site. SAP Analytics Cloud Advanced Formulas Reference Guide  Link to another SAP-owned site. SAP Analytics Cloud iOS SDK Developer Guide  Link to another SAP-owned site. As an administrator, understand system requirements and learn how to configure and monitor your SAP Analytics Cloud tenant. Learn how to set up authentication for your users, and how to securely manage access to SAP Analytics Cloud using licenses, roles, and teams. Manage the lifecycle of your SAP Analytics Cloud content across multiple tenants. Translate your content to new languages and configure sharing and collaboration options. As an application designer or story developer, you can add scripts to your analytic applications or stories to implement your custom logic and offer viewers more interactions with them. SAP Analytics Cloud Optimized Story Experience API Reference Guide  Link to another SAP-owned site.

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