Discover the capabilities and features of SAP Analytics Cloud to draw actionable insights from a variety of data, as well as the functionality that enables you to meet typical business challenges. With this book, you will work with SAC and enable key decision makers within your enterprise to deliver crucial business decisions driven by data and key performance indicators. Along the way you'll see how SAP has built a strong repertoire of analytics products and how SAC helps you analyze data to derive better business solutions. This book begins by covering the current trends in analytics and how SAP is re-shaping its solutions. Next, you will learn to analyze a typical business scenario and map expectations to the analytics solution including delivery via a single platform. Further, you will see how SAC as a solution meets each of the user expectations, starting with creation of a platform for sourcing data from multiple sources, enabling self-service for a spectrum of business roles, across time zones and devices. There's a chapter on advanced capabilities of predictive analytics and custom analytical applications. Later there are chapters explaining the security aspects and their technical features before concluding with a chapter on SAP's roadmap for SAC. Empower Decision Makers with SAP Analytics Cloud takes a unique approach of facilitating learning SAP Analytics Cloud by resolving the typical business challenges of an enterprise. These business expectations are mapped to specific features and capabilities of SAC, while covering its technical architecture block by block. What You Will Learn Work with the features and capabilities of SAP Analytics Cloud Analyze the requirements of a modern decision-support system Use the features of SAC that make it a single platform for decision support in a modern enterprise. See how SAC provides a secure and scalable platform hosted on the cloud Who This Book Is For Enterprise architects, SAP BI analytic solution architects, and developers.

"A Quick Guide to SAP BW Performance Tuning" is a resource designed for the SAP-BW professional community, including solution architects, developers, system administrators, project managers and consultants. This book is the result of many years of knowledge and experience gained by the authors in managing SAP-BW systems, and a response to the multiple queries initiated by participants in their SAP-BW training sessions. The information is presented in a simple and clear format, making it accessible to a broad audience. The book opens with a chapter focusing on tools which assist in identifying possible performance bottlenecks, and how to go about implementing them. A chapter on BW Statistics is included to help users appreciate the value of this excellent component within SAP-BW, and leverage it for enhanced performance. Each aspect of performance, from Extraction to Reporting, is covered in detail in subsequent chapters. Furthermore, the book covers technical aspects relevant to system behavior, such as indexes and SQL statements, providing a context or further evaluation of performance. Clear examples and diagrammatics simplify these technical topics. This book is the definitive resource guide in SAP-BW performance tuning which no professional can afford to be without.