CDS views are availability in SAP AO a brief

In SAP Analytics Cloud (AO), you primarily work with consumption views. These are the CDS views specifically designed for analytical reporting and consumption by end-users in AO.

Here's why consumption views are crucial in AO:

• Optimized for Analytics: Consumption views often have annotations like @Analytics.dataCategory that define their structure (cube, dimension) and behavior in analytical tools.
• Data Access: They act as the primary interface for AO to access data from your SAP systems (like S/4HANA or BW).
• Business-Oriented: Consumption views represent business-relevant data, making it easier for users to understand and analyze information.
• Security: They incorporate access control, ensuring that users only see data they are authorized to view.

While you mainly interact with consumption views in AO, it's important to remember that they are often built upon other types of CDS views:

• Basic Views: These underlying views provide the initial data extraction from tables.
• Composite Views: These combine data from multiple basic views to create more complex datasets.

AO usually hides the complexity of these underlying views, presenting you with a simplified and business-ready consumption view.

Key takeaway: When working with data in SAP Analytics Cloud, you'll primarily be selecting and exploring consumption views that have been created and exposed for analytical purposes.