Designing Dashboards with SAP Analytics Cloud

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4932-2060-1
Verlag: Rheinwerk Publishing, Inc.

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 261 mm, Gewicht: 878 g

Reihe: SAP PRESS: englisch

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 HR dashboards using SAP SuccessFactors 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!

Highlights include:

1) Dashboard design
2) Live data connections
3) Acquired data dashboards
4) Planning dashboards
5) Responsive mobile dashboards
6) SAP SuccessFactors dashboards
7) Qualtrics dashboards
8) R visualizations
9) Analytics designer
10) SAP Digital Boardroom

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bertram, Erik

Charlton, James

Hollender, Nina

Holzapfel, Melanie

Licht, Nico

Paduraru, Carmen

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Wirtschaftsinformatik, SAP, IT-Management
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Angewandte Informatik Wirtschaftsinformatik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Business Application Unternehmenssoftware SAP

Inhaltsverzeichnis

. Acknowledgments. 13

. Preface. 15

. Target Audience. 15

. How to Read This Book. 15

. How This Book Is Organized. 16

. Conclusion. 17

1. Introduction. 19

1.1. What Is a Dashboard?. 19

1.2. What a Dashboard Needs to Be Successful. 24

1.3. Ten Golden Rules for Business Dashboard Design. 28

1.4. Benefits of a Dashboard. 34

1.5. Key Roles Involved in Designing Dashboards. 36

1.6. Summary. 39

2. Implementing Successful Dashboards. 41

2.1. Managing Change for Dashboard Implementation. 41

2.2. User-Centered Design Methods. 48

2.3. Enabling and Upskilling. 60

2.4. Measuring the Success of Dashboards. 67

2.5. Summary. 77

3. Dashboards Using Acquired Data. 79

3.1. Scenario. 81

3.2. Data Structure. 88

3.3. Dashboard Features. 92

3.4. Creating the Dashboard. 94

3.5. Summary. 116

4. Responsive Mobile Dashboards. 119

4.1. Scenario. 119

4.2. Data Structure. 119

4.3. Dashboard Features. 120

4.4. Building the Dashboard. 131

4.5. Summary. 145

5. Dashboards Based on Live Data Connections. 147

5.1. Scenario. 147

5.2. Data Structure. 154

5.3. Dashboard Features. 159

5.4. Building the Dashboard. 161

5.5. Summary. 187

6. Dashboards for Planners and Controllers. 189

6.1. Scenario. 190

6.2. Data Structure. 194

6.3. Dashboard Features. 196

6.4. Creating the Dashboard. 208

6.5. Summary. 215

7. Application-Based Dashboards with the Analytics Designer. 217

7.1. Scenario. 218

7.2. Data Structure. 221

7.3. Dashboard Features. 224

7.4. Creating the Dashboard. 226

7.5. Summary. 237

8. Dashboards Based on SAP S/4HANA Cloud Data. 239

8.1. Scenario. 240

8.2. Data Structure. 241

8.3. Dashboard Features. 242

8.4. Building the Dashboard. 244

8.5. Summary. 251

9. Dashboards Using Self-Scripted R Visualizations. 253

9.1. Scenario. 254

9.2. Data Structure. 255

9.3. Dashboard Features. 255

9.4. Creating the Dashboard. 258

9.5. Summary. 268

10. Dashboards in SAP Digital Boardroom. 271

10.1. Scenario. 271

10.2. Data Structure. 273

10.3. Presentation Features. 273

10.4. Creating the Presentation. 274

10.5. Summary. 298

11. Monitoring Dashboards Using Qualtrics and Usage Tracking Data. 299

11.1. Scenario. 299

11.2. Data Structure. 301

11.3. Dashboard Features. 305

11.4. Creating the Dashboard. 306

11.5. Summary. 324

. Appendices. 325

A. Style Guide. 327

B. Further Reading. 331

C. The Authors. 337

. Index. 339

Über Autor(innen)

Paduraru, Carmen
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.

Hollender, Nina
Nina Hollender is an experienced user researcher in the HANA & 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 from the different users of SAP’s products. Before joining SAP, Nina conducted research on information processing and visualization and holds a PhD in psychology.

Charlton, James
James Charlton has clocked up 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, short stories, playing blues piano, or fixing up something.

Bertram, Erik
Erik Bertram is a software developer who currently leads the Global Design Operations and Services team in the HANA and Analytics organization at SAP. He is responsible for all kinds of customer engagements and operational activities. Before joining SAP in 2016, Erik was working as a postdoctoral researcher at Heidelberg University. He holds a PhD in theoretical astrophysics.

Licht, Nico
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 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.

Holzapfel, Melanie
Melanie Holzapfel is a data scientist in the HANA & Analytics organization at SAP. She joined SAP in 2019 after finishing her physics studies at Heidelberg University. At SAP, she is responsible for analyzing customer feedback and building dashboards with suitable data visualization graphics.