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by Hau Ngo on April 26, 2021

The Trouble with SAP Data Warehouse + Analytics Cloud

The integration between SAP Data Warehouse Cloud and Analytics Cloud is a funny thing (tl;dr: it’s a feature)

Having been an early adopter of SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) in 2017 and having guided many clients through their initial dashboard projects, I thought I knew the ins and outs of the various integration issues.

For example, a customer can expect certain functionalities of SAC to be available when paired with a HANA data warehouse live-data connection and a subset of features are available when paired with a Business Warehouse (BW) or S4HANA (S4) source system.

Regardless of the source system, the process is the same for a Live Data Connection. That’s not the case with Data Warehouse Cloud (DWC).

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by Hau Ngo on March 2, 2021

Dashboards vs Applications

What’s the difference between dashboards and applications in SAP Analytics Cloud? Here’s my 2-cents.

Hello everyone. This is Hau from Summerlin Analytics.

Recently, I gave a workshop on building custom applications with SAP Analytics Cloud.

For those who are familiar with the drag-and-drop nature of building dashboards with Analytics Cloud, then you know it has a very simple interface that allows you quickly to put together a series of charts for your business.

But what about custom applications in Analytics Cloud? What do they look like (from a developer or a business users’ perspective) and when would you want to dip your toes into that area?

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by Hau Ngo on January 4, 2021

How A Global Organizational Consulting Firm Won Business Adoption with SAP Analytics Cloud

Using an upside-down approach, a small team at a global organizational consulting firm overhauled their reporting systems and delivered interactive dashboards to industry leaders along and over 5500 users world-wide.

Challenge

The analytics project began out of frustration from their business community.

Executives used one system to see an overview of their business while Account Managers used an altogether different system to get granular information about their customers and opportunities.

Depending on the level of detail, users had to to log into two different systems.

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by Hau Ngo on June 15, 2020

Flatten Your Dashboard

Do you have too many tabs in your dashboard? Are you looking for a way to slim down your story?

If your dashboard is suffering from too many tabs, then here’s a super simple way to slim that number down. Not only will this reduce the amount of charts tiles and other things that you have to maintain, it will also make your users happier because they only need 1 tab instead of 5 (for example).

This approach works best for pages where the layout is relatively the same and the main difference is the measure that would like to display.

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by Hau Ngo on October 30, 2019

SAP Analytics Cloud – Performance Improvement Update

What do you do when your dashboard is slow to load, your users complain about performance, and you’re driving yourself crazy balancing the requirements and more tiles than you can count?

Let me show you 2 features in Release 2019.16 that could help.

If you’re working with Analytics (Application) Designer in SAP Analytics Cloud, then you know that it’s a very powerful dashboard creation tool. But if you’re not careful, then all of those widgets will slow your application down to a crawl.

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by Hau Ngo on September 25, 2019

Better dashboards in SAP Analytics Cloud | Designer

If your company is using SAP Analytics Cloud, then your users will quickly ask for more.

The most frequent request I’ve been asked is for more functionality like a summary to detail drill-through or more tiles and widgets that can possibly fit on a laptop screen.

But how are you going to cram in additional charts and information all the while making sure that your dashboard still runs at an acceptable pace?

Here’s a very quick and easy solution for managing the additional tiles in your dashboard (2 mins).

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