Designing Dashboards with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAP PRESS)
Author: Erik Bertram (Author), James Charlton (Author), Nina Hollender (Author), Melanie Holzapfel (Author), Nico Licht (Author), Carmen Paduraru (Author)
Publisher finelybook 出版社: SAP Press
Edition 版次: New
Publication Date 出版日期: 2021-07-23
Language 语言: English
Print Length 页数: 344 pages
ISBN-10: 1493220608
ISBN-13: 9781493220601
Book Description
SAP Analytics Cloud is overflowing with visualization options. Charts, tables, drilldowns, geomaps―if you can dream it, you can design and build it. Learn how to create a dashboard for any use case, from acquired data dashboards and responsive mobile dashboards to procurement dashboards using SAP S/4HANA data. Follow step-by-step instructions to structure your data, choose the relevant features, and then implement them. Contains custom-designed dashboards for each chapter!
- Learn to design and develop interactive dashboards with SAP Analytics Cloud
- Build dashboards with acquired data, live SAP HANA data, SAP SuccessFactors data, and more
- Use R scripts and the analytics designer to create complex dashboards
Dashboard Design
Implement user-centric design for your dashboards using prototyping and continuous improvement principles. Understand what makes a dashboard successful and how to measure that success.
Dashboard Design
Learn about the types of data that must be incorporated into a dashboard and how to select the necessary SAP Analytics Cloud features. Then develop the dashboard with step-by-step instructions.
Custom Dashboards
Walk through ten custom-designed dashboards created specifically for this book. Each one is based on common SAP Analytics Cloud use cases and target audiences.
- Design theory
- Live data connections
- Acquired data dashboards
- Planning dashboards
- Responsive mobile dashboards
- SAP S/4HANA dashboards
- R visualizations
- Qualtrics dashboards
- Analytics designer
About the Author
Erik Bertram is a software developer who leads the Global Design Operations and Services team in the SAP HANA and Analytics organization at SAP. He is responsible for all kinds of customer engagements and operational activities. Before joining SAP in 2016, Erik worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Heidelberg University. He holds a PhD in theoretical astrophysics.
James Charlton has clocked in a quarter of a century in user assistance, and has spent a lot of that time with SAP in the data modeling, business intelligence, and predictive analytics fields. When he isn’t writing technical content, you’ll find him scribbling poetry and short stories, playing blues piano, or fixing up something.
Nina Hollender is an experienced user researcher in the SAP HANA and Analytics organization at SAP. She joined SAP in 2011 and conducted various user research projects in the analytics area, from self-service BI to advanced analytics. She is passionate about learning fromthe different users of SAP’s products. Before joining SAP, Nina conducted research on information processing and visualization and holds a PhD in psychology.
Melanie Holzapfel is a data scientist in the SAP HANA and Analytics organization at SAP. She joined SAP in 2019 after completing her physics studies at Heidelberg University. At SAP, she is responsible for analyzing customer feedback and building dashboards with suitable data visualization graphics.
Nico Licht is an experienced designer (interaction design, design thinking, media production) with more than 20 years of design experience, 10 years of software development experience, and 5 years of cloud software development experience in the fields of data management, analytics, and planning. He leads a global team of domain experts (user experience, user assistance and design services) and holds an audio-visual media engineering degree from Stuttgart Media University.
Carmen Paduraru joined SAP in 2015 working on core database administration topics and engaging with users to understand their tool landscape, workflows, use cases, and ultimately their overall experience with the SAP HANA tools and SAP Analytics Cloud. She strongly believes that a research and design-led development is the best way to achieve an optimal UX. Her background is in experimental psycholinguistics, which is part of the field of cognitive science. Before joining SAP, she worked on quantitative research projects designing studies, collecting data, analyzing, and visualizing it.
