SAP Analytics Cloud for SAP Practitioners: Live vs Import Models, Stories, Planning and Testing Reports

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• Give every report a home: embedded analytics (real time, one system), SAC (cross-source, planning, board), Datasphere (big models).
• Live: data stays in source, SSO applies source roles, limited modeling, no plan entry on S/4HANA queries.
• Import: copy via jobs (Cloud Connector for Private Edition), full modeling and planning, design SAC data access controls.
• Model: measures, dimensions, hierarchies, version and date (planning), currency, data access; ratios from aggregated parts.
• Story: one question → headline, breakdown, drivers, exceptions; timestamp and definitions on every page.
• Planning: private edits → publish; data actions (copy, allocate, formula); multi actions; data locking.
• Excel add-in: report and plan on SAC models; live Datasphere, S/4HANA and BW; same versions and rights.
• Test: closed period, reference query, totals by dimension, known cases (90001877: 12,000.00 / 7,500.00 / 4,500.00).
• Locate differences: story vs model, model vs source, then live (query, user) or import (job, mapping, rejects).
• Name the test user; test restricted access in stories and Excel; rerun checks after every SAC release.