Academy · Data & Analytics · 200 Practitioner
SAP Analytics Cloud for SAP Practitioners: Live vs Import Models, Stories, Planning and Testing Reports
A practical SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) course for people who come from SAP S/4HANA rather than BI: where SAC sits next to embedded analytics, SAP Datasphere and Business Data Cloud; when to use a live or an import connection; how to design a model with dimensions, measures and hierarchies; how to build stories that answer a business question; how planning models, versions, data actions, multi actions and the Excel add-in work; and how to test a dashboard so its numbers match the source system. Built around Contoso Motor Co.'s margin reporting and 2027 sales plan.
- 56 minutes
- 6 lessons + quiz
- Data & Analytics Specialist, Key User, Finance Practitioner, Tester / Test Analyst
What you’ll be able to do
- Choose between live and import connections
- Design a model with dimensions, measures and hierarchies
- Build stories that answer a business question
- Explain SAC planning models, versions, data actions and the Excel add-in
- Test dashboard numbers against SAP S/4HANA sources
Sources and further reading
- Identifying the Differences Between Model Types · SAP Learning
- Designing and Creating Dimensions (Performing Manual Planning with SAP Analytics Cloud) · SAP Learning
- Exploring Key Functionality and Data Sources (SAP Analytics Cloud add-in for Microsoft Excel) · SAP Learning
- Live access to SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud and SAP BW in SAP Analytics Cloud, add-in for Microsoft Office · SAP Community (blog by SAP)
- SAP Analytics Cloud Data Connectivity · SAP Community
- Overview of the new model in SAP Analytics Cloud · SAP Community (blog by SAP)
- Seamless planning with SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Datasphere · IBsolution
- SAP data and analytics 2026 · BARC