Week 4: Building Custom Planning Applications

Unit 1: SAP Analytics Cloud, Add-In for

Microsoft Office
SAP Analytics Cloud, add-in for Microsoft Office
Microsoft Excel interface without standalone spreadsheets

Is the best of both worlds possible?

Spreadsheet interfaces still remains the 32% of organizations report that one of the
most popular FP&A tool, on average being biggest issues they face with data is that
used 72% of the time there is no single source of truth

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Introducing SAP Analytics Cloud, add-in for Microsoft Office

Business Analyst Financial Controller Planner

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SAP Analytics Cloud, add-in for Microsoft Office
Introducing SAP Analytics Cloud, add-in for Microsoft Office

▪ DEDICATED TO SAP ANALYTICS CLOUD

Analyze, share, or plan against SAC models
▪ WORK ANYWHERE
Office 365 online or desktop on any device: at
work, home, on the road
▪ AVAILABLE THROUGH MICROSOFT STORE
Allows access to SAC data in Microsoft Excel
with no installation, no maintenance pain

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Positioning various SAC frontends for planning and analysis

Ad hoc/standalone versus organized and multi-user processes

SAP Analytics Cloud,

Ad hoc analysis and planning
One or few users involved add-in for Microsoft Office
Office integration is key for many power users

Executing the planning process

SAP Analytics Cloud Story
Multiple users entering & collaborating in
the planning process LoB & Corporate owned solution

Guided planning solution SAP Analytics Cloud, analytics designer

When specific use cases require a high Highly customizable for end-user guidance
degree of customization Implementation effort

About SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office (also known as AO)

continues to be an important add-in for multiple data sources like SAP BW, BPC, S/4HANA, Group Reporting. It is designed
for financial analysts who require advanced capabilities in Excel. It can also be used with SAP Analytics Cloud. However,
most enhancements for an add-in connecting to SAP Analytics Cloud will be delivered on SAC, add-in for MS Office.
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SAP Analytics Cloud, add-in for Microsoft Office
Introducing SAP Analytics Cloud, add-in for Microsoft Office

Enrich SAP Analytics Cloud with the user experience of Microsoft Office 365

▪ CONNECT
Engage with colleagues on plans with
any laptop at work, home, on the road

▪ PLAN
Plan, analyze, and simulate with the
familiar Microsoft Office 365 user
experience

▪ EXPLORE
Use built-in formulas and generate ad
hoc reports

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Plan

Plan with a familiar user experience

▪ Retrieve SAP Analytics Cloud versions
▪ Plan data to SAP Analytics Cloud models with a
familiar user experience in real time
▪ Publish/revert data for public versions
▪ Support mass data entry mode

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Explore

Analyze using pivot table experience

▪ Use built-in formulas and generate ad hoc reports​
▪ Leverage data from your business hierarchies​
▪ Rank, sort data, create your “Top 10”…

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Engage

Collaborate with colleagues at work, at home, and on the road

▪ Use Microsoft Office 365 online or desktop version
▪ Collaborate with colleagues on deeper analysis
▪ Available through Microsoft Store for local or central deployment

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Prerequisites

If you want to use SAP Analytics Cloud, add-in

for Microsoft Office, you would need to meet the
following prerequisites:
▪ Have an SAP Analytics Cloud tenant
▪ SAP Analytics Cloud deployment on Cloud Foundry
▪ Have an MS Office 365 license
▪ Access to Microsoft Office store or if you need to
centrally deploy the add-in: Exchange online
▪ Have data-acquired in SAP Analytics Cloud models
▪ Operating systems specifics:
− Windows environment: Excel online and Desktop
Mac environment: Excel online, Desktop app
− Supported browsers: Chrome, Safari, Edge

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Demo

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Key links for more information for customers and partners

SAP Analytics Cloud, add in for MS Office – Community page & blogs & FAQ – Click HERE

SAP Analytics Cloud, add in for MS Office – Road map – Click HERE

SAP Analytics Cloud, add in for MS Office – See it in action! – Click HERE

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materially from expectations. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, and they
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Week 4: Building Custom Planning Applications
Unit 2: Analytics designer for planning applications
Analytics designer for planning applications
Analytics designer overview

One analytics platform Agile development Delighting your users

Develop analytic applications Start from existing content, templates*, Guide the users and adjust the
that bring together BI, planning, or user stories and customize, widgets behavior based on their
and predictive capabilities integrate, and extend expectations

Customize

Integrate/Embed

Extend

Reuse*

Content Network

Mobile Ready

Developer handbook: https://www.sapanalytics.cloud/analytics-designer-handbook/

API reference documentation: https://help.sap.com/doc/958d4c11261f42e992e8d01a4c0dde25/latest/en-US/index.html * Planned for the future releases
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Typical use cases

Analytics designer can help to build scalable, user-

friendly and custom-tailored/guided planning
applications and reduce the complexity for the end
user:
▪ Combine convenient story features with comprehensive
scripting capabilities
▪ Create form-based planning applications e.g. in the area
of investment, workforce, and project planning
▪ Guide your planners through self-explaining applications,
implementing rules and validations aligned with modern
UI standard
▪ Integration of calendar task management into planning
applications
▪ Triggering data actions based on events
▪ Enable responsive planning applications on mobile
devices

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Further benefits

Advanced dashboarding capabilities:

▪ Theming/CSS support for customized and attractive user
interface
▪ Advanced responsive layout
▪ Alerting and Data Change Insight capability
▪ Hyperlink support for image and shape widgets
▪ Fully flexible navigation to other artifacts and transfer of
parameters
▪ Integration with mobile iOS app

Flexible embedding and extension

▪ Seamless embedding with third party applications
▪ Extending applications via custom widget SDK

Capabilities for closed-loop scenarios

▪ OData calls to call into transactional system
▪ Programmatic access to OData

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Basic planning concept

Re-use the planning features of the SAP Analytics Cloud story

▪ Planning data models
▪ Allocations
▪ Data action triggers
▪ Value driver trees

Planning features triggered

through the toolbar icons or via
scripting (for most of them)

Planning supported models:

▪ Acquired planning model
▪ BPC live planning model
▪ BPC write back planning model
▪ Universal model

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Planning at application runtime

▪ Planning features triggered through the toolbar

▪ Data entry
▪ Private versions
▪ Members on the fly
▪ Allocations
▪ Value driver tree
▪ Data locking
▪ Calendar and task management
▪ Data actions
▪ BPC planning sequence

Most of the planning features can also be triggered

through scripting
▪ Minimize number of clicks
▪ Personalize UI
▪ Cover customer-specific workflow and scenarios

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Planning at application design time

▪ Define scripts, add widgets and technical components at design

time for planning features
▪ Access planning features mainly from the table: Table.getPlanning()
▪ Enable Planning in Table widget properties or via
Table.getPlanning().setEnable(true)
▪ Technical components:
– Update members in planning model
– Calendar integration
– Data actions
▪ The planning APIs cover:
– Table actions (version management, data locking, data entry…)
– Planning model actions (add, update, remove model member)
– Calendar task actions (submit, accept, reject task …) and info
(getStatus …)
– Data actions (execute and pass parameters)

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Triggering data actions vis script API

▪ End user can now trigger data actions and pass parameters
via any analytics designer UI widget (e.g. a button, a shape,
table etc.)
– Multiple data actions can be triggered together
– Data refresh can be triggered for one time after multiple
data actions are executed
▪ Application designer needs to configure the Data Action
technical object and set parameter values at application
design time.
▪ Script APIs are provided to the data action

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Calendar task integrations

▪ Enable application consumers to create, activate, submit,

or reject calendar tasks or read calendar task information
within analytic applications without the need to switch to
the calendar view
▪ Calendar task toolbar can be set to visible at application
runtime Create tasks within analytic application
▪ Get calendar task information by task ID
– Name
– Start date
– End date
– Status
– Due date
– Description
– Type Review tasks within analytic application

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Demo

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The information contained herein may be changed without prior notice. Some software products marketed by SAP SE and its
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These materials are provided by SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company for informational purposes only, without representation or
warranty of any kind, and SAP or its affiliated companies shall not be liable for errors or omissions with respect to the materials.
The only warranties for SAP or SAP affiliate company products and services are those that are set forth in the express warranty
statements accompanying such products and services, if any. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional
warranty.
In particular, SAP SE or its affiliated companies have no obligation to pursue any course of business outlined in this document or
any related presentation, or to develop or release any functionality mentioned therein. This document, or any related presentation,
and SAP SE’s or its affiliated companies’ strategy and possible future developments, products, and/or platforms, directions, and
functionality are all subject to change and may be changed by SAP SE or its affiliated companies at any time for any reason
without notice. The information in this document is not a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to deliver any material, code, or
functionality. All forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
materially from expectations. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, and they
should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.
SAP and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered
trademarks of SAP SE (or an SAP affiliate company) in Germany and other countries. All other product and service names
mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.
See www.sap.com/trademark for additional trademark information and notices.
Week 4: Building Custom Planning Applications
Unit 3: Analytics designer – demo
Analytics designer – demo
Demos

1. Portfolio Management
− Creating investment cases with approval workflow
2. Ad Hoc Budget Request
− A budget request application with tailored design

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1. Portfolio Management Application

Highlights:
1. Allow managers to make FTE requests
on-the-fly
2. Provide the portfolio management office
with an overview of all requests made,
including all corresponding details
3. Approval workflow
4. Slice & dice capabilities

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2. Ad Hoc Budget Request

Highlights:
1. Tailored design
2. Integration of online components
3. Allow A&R managers to make budget requests
on-the-fly
4. Linked analysis
(using setDimensionFilter())

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Last but not least…

Golden rules for app building:

1. Have fun.
2. Remember: form and function can come together.
3. Your app is your playground. Think big.

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These materials are provided by SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company for informational purposes only, without representation or
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The only warranties for SAP or SAP affiliate company products and services are those that are set forth in the express warranty
statements accompanying such products and services, if any. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional
warranty.
In particular, SAP SE or its affiliated companies have no obligation to pursue any course of business outlined in this document or
any related presentation, or to develop or release any functionality mentioned therein. This document, or any related presentation,
and SAP SE’s or its affiliated companies’ strategy and possible future developments, products, and/or platforms, directions, and
functionality are all subject to change and may be changed by SAP SE or its affiliated companies at any time for any reason
without notice. The information in this document is not a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to deliver any material, code, or
functionality. All forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
materially from expectations. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, and they
should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.
SAP and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered
trademarks of SAP SE (or an SAP affiliate company) in Germany and other countries. All other product and service names
mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.
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Week 4: Building Custom Planning Applications
Unit 4: How to Create a Planning Application
End-to-End
How to create a planning application end-to-end
Content

1. Find out persona & workflow

2. Map out workflow & process
3. Frontend structure
4. Start with the UI, then reverse engineer
5. Constellation (story/app)
6. Floorplan / Interaction / Layout
7. Planning process/enhancements
8. Collaboration – building apps together

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1. Talk, talk, talk: find out persona & workflow

Is it like this? Or more like this?

1 app
1 app, but 2
different views
1 app, but 2
different views

1 app 1 app

Workflow
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How to create a planning application end-to-end
1. Talk, talk, talk: find out persona & workflow

Note:
▪ Thorough research here will also
help your landing page.
▪ Here is where the planning process
will morph from the enterprise
perspective to the accountability
perspective – an essential step.

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How to create a planning application end-to-end
2. Map out workflow & process

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How to create a planning application end-to-end
3. Frontend structure

Figure out:
▪ Navigation concept
▪ Floorplan
▪ App communication concept
(pass parameters? naming
convention?)

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4. Start with the UI, then reverse engineer

Figure out:
▪ Measures, aggregation, model structure
▪ Data action logic
▪ App logic
▪ Version concept

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5. Constellation (story/app)

Think about if/how you want to mix story + app, for example:

Example 1 Example 2

Story App

App App Story Story Story

(Simulation) (Alert)
(Report) (Report) (Report)

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6. Floorplan
Controls for optional workflow

Orientation & instruction

(collapsible)

Controls for current workflow

(collapsible)

Main working area

(collapsible)

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How to create a planning application end-to-end
6. Interaction

Information on Demand Input UI User Help

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How to create a planning application end-to-end
6. Layout

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How to create a planning application end-to-end
7. Planning process/enhancements

Think about …

Integrating ad hoc process with calendar process, e.g. Proactive notification, e.g.
▪ App reacts to status in calendar, or ▪ Notify when variances cross a certain threshold
▪ App reacts to task role of current user ▪ Experiment, experiment, experiment …

(Blog) (Blog)

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8. Collaboration – building apps together

Think about …

CSS Naming Convention Data Action List

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In particular, SAP SE or its affiliated companies have no obligation to pursue any course of business outlined in this document or
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and SAP SE’s or its affiliated companies’ strategy and possible future developments, products, and/or platforms, directions, and
functionality are all subject to change and may be changed by SAP SE or its affiliated companies at any time for any reason
without notice. The information in this document is not a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to deliver any material, code, or
functionality. All forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
materially from expectations. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, and they
should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.
SAP and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered
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mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.
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Week 4: Building Custom Planning Applications
Unit 5: Performance analysis
Performance analysis
System content for performance analysis

▪ SAP Analytics Cloud collects different performance metrics

▪ Metrics are exposed via system content for analysis
▪ Built-in data models with performance data:
– PLANNING_DATA_ACTIONS (Data Action Performance Statistics
and Analysis)
– SAC_STATISTICS_MDS_QUERY_PERF (Backend Application
Performance)
– SAC_USER_FRIENDLY_PERF_ACTION
(Basic End-to-End Application Performance)
– SAC_PERFORMANCE_E2E
(End-to-End Application Performance)

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Performance analysis tool

▪ The performance analysis tool is an analytical application which allows easy analysis of the metrics provided
by SAC_PERFORMANCE_E2E
▪ Metrics are exposed via system content for analysis SAC_PERFORMANCE_E2E (End-to-End Application
Performance)
▪ The performance analysis tool helps to analyze a single story or analytic application run

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Performance analysis
Performance metrics

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Performance analysis
Data Action Performance Statistics and Analysis

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Performance analysis
Demo

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Performance analysis
Performance Analysis Tool

▪ The Performance Analysis Tool is an analytical

application which allows easy analysis of the
metrics provided by SAC_PERFORMANCE_E2E

▪ Metrics are exposed via system content for

analysis SAC_PERFORMANCE_E2E (End-to-
End Application Performance)

▪ The Performance Analysis Tool helps to analyze

a single story or analytic application run

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Performance analysis
Performance Metrics

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These materials are provided by SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company for informational purposes only, without representation or
warranty of any kind, and SAP or its affiliated companies shall not be liable for errors or omissions with respect to the materials.
The only warranties for SAP or SAP affiliate company products and services are those that are set forth in the express warranty
statements accompanying such products and services, if any. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional
warranty.
In particular, SAP SE or its affiliated companies have no obligation to pursue any course of business outlined in this document or
any related presentation, or to develop or release any functionality mentioned therein. This document, or any related presentation,
and SAP SE’s or its affiliated companies’ strategy and possible future developments, products, and/or platforms, directions, and
functionality are all subject to change and may be changed by SAP SE or its affiliated companies at any time for any reason
without notice. The information in this document is not a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to deliver any material, code, or
functionality. All forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
materially from expectations. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, and they
should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.
SAP and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered
trademarks of SAP SE (or an SAP affiliate company) in Germany and other countries. All other product and service names
mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.
See www.sap.com/trademark for additional trademark information and notices.
Week 4: Building Custom Planning Applications
Unit 6: How to Stay Up-to-Date
How to stay up-to-date
SAP Help Portal

▪ Much detailed product

information
– Product documentation
– Getting started
– Video tutorials
– Release notes

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How to stay up-to-date
SAP Analytics Cloud Community

▪ Rich source of information by

and for experts
– Expert pages
– Question & answers
– Blogs

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How to stay up-to-date
Blogs

▪ Many blogs on all aspects of

SAP Analytics Cloud
▪ Check for SAP Analytics Cloud
for Planning tag

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These materials are provided by SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company for informational purposes only, without representation or
warranty of any kind, and SAP or its affiliated companies shall not be liable for errors or omissions with respect to the materials.
The only warranties for SAP or SAP affiliate company products and services are those that are set forth in the express warranty
statements accompanying such products and services, if any. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional
warranty.
In particular, SAP SE or its affiliated companies have no obligation to pursue any course of business outlined in this document or
any related presentation, or to develop or release any functionality mentioned therein. This document, or any related presentation,
and SAP SE’s or its affiliated companies’ strategy and possible future developments, products, and/or platforms, directions, and
functionality are all subject to change and may be changed by SAP SE or its affiliated companies at any time for any reason
without notice. The information in this document is not a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to deliver any material, code, or
functionality. All forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
materially from expectations. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, and they
should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.
SAP and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered
trademarks of SAP SE (or an SAP affiliate company) in Germany and other countries. All other product and service names
mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.
See www.sap.com/trademark for additional trademark information and notices.