SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) Story Design Options and Use Cases:
In SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), stories are built using different page layout options, each suited to specific reporting and analysis needs. It's important to understand these layouts and how they align with your requirements.
Page Layout Options (Primarily within the Optimized Design Experience):
- Canvas Pages:
- Best for: Highly formatted, pixel-perfect dashboards and reports.
- Features:
- Fixed layout: Elements stay in place regardless of screen size.
- Supports precise placement of tables, charts, and images.
- Suitable for financial reports, boardroom presentations, and KPI dashboards where layout control is paramount.
- May be less inherently interactive compared to responsive pages.
- Responsive Pages:
- Best for: Dynamic and adaptable dashboards that adjust to different screen sizes (desktop, tablet, mobile).
- Features:
- Auto-resizing layout based on device resolution.
- Ideal for self-service BI and dashboards used across multiple devices.
- Supports interactive filters, linked analysis, and drill-downs.
- Suitable for operational dashboards and executive dashboards needing multi device support.
- Grid (Table) Pages:
- Best for: Tabular reports and detailed financial analysis.
- Features:
- Focuses on structured grid layouts for data-centric reporting.
- Provides pivoting, hierarchies, and sorting in a tabular format.
- Ideal for financial planning, consolidation reports, and ad hoc analysis.
- Works well with SAC Planning models for data entry and variance analysis.
- Note: This is more a feature of classic stories, but tabular data is of course still very important in optimized design.
Additional SAC Capabilities and Use Cases:
- Smart Insights & Explorer:
- Best for: Self-service analysis with AI-driven insights.
- Features:
- Uses Smart Insights to automatically detect trends and key drivers.
- Provides interactive drill-downs and on-the-fly data exploration.
- Best suited for ad hoc analysis, quick insights, and data discovery.
- SAC for Planning Stories:
- Specialized stories that utilize any of the layout options, but utilize planning models, and input tables to allow for planning functionality.
Which Layout/Capability is Best for You?
- Operational Dashboards → Responsive Pages
- Financial Reports → Grid (Table) Pages or Canvas Pages
- Executive Reports → Canvas Pages or Responsive Pages
- Self-Service Analysis → Smart Insights & Explorer
- Planning reports -> any page type, but with planning models.
Key Improvements:
- Clearly distinguishes between page layout options and broader SAC capabilities.
- Emphasizes the move towards the Optimized Design Experience.
- Corrected the "Mixed stories" area, as that is not a specific story type, but a story that can utilize many page types.
- Reinforces that planning stories utilize planning models, and can use any page type.
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