Glossary

A special dimension that encapsulates the definition of accounts and drivers. The account is the main focus of a planning-type model.

A member of the Accounts dimension; an account is a measure, such as revenue or headcount (preferred term: member).

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A data category that contains actual values.

There can be only one public actuals version.

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A traditional boardroom meeting structure.

Use a Digital Boardroom agenda for meetings with a timed schedule, where items are presented in a linear order (possibly by different people).

An item in a Digital Boardroom agenda containing one or more topics and story pages associated with it.

Agenda items allow you to organize a boardroom presentation for different presenters.

A grouping of a set of numbers into one number that represents the whole set.

For example, "sum" is a common aggregation.

Allocation is the process of splitting values derived from source data into multiple values and storing the values in target data.

For example, allocation can be used to assign indirect costs such as IT support cost to different departments, projects, and regions. It includes structured allocation processes as well as ad hoc operations such as spreading and distribution.

A type of allocation that assigns values from source dimensions to target dimensions based on driver values.

You can create complex allocation processes with multiple steps, for example, allocating values from an Account dimension to an Organization dimension, and then from the Organization dimension to a Product dimension.

A document that can contain visualizations such as tables, charts, and filters to allow navigation and analysis of data.

You can personalize the visualizations and interaction behaviors of the UI elements according to user requirements. Analytic applications are created and consumed in SAP Analytics Cloud.

Capability in SAP Analytics Cloud that lets you create applications for data analysis and data planning.

Application designers can configure the behavior of the UI elements in an analytic application with a set of specific script API events, and specify which actions should take place when events are triggered. This flexibility allows application designers to create a variety of analytic applications, ranging from simple static dashboards to highly customized applications with numerous options to browse and navigate data.

A person who works on events in the calendar.

Assignees can edit attached work files, add additional information and change the progress of an event.

Characteristics of a dimension member, such as ID or owner.

Attributes can be displayed in grids.

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An image marker on a chart or geo map based on a value of a measure.

Bubbles provide two visual cues to help users analyze data displayed on a map: size and color.

A map layer containing shaded geographical hierarchies.

To add data from a model to a choropleth layer, the model must contain at least one location dimension.

Instant messaging tool that allows colleagues to discuss business content, share information, and create tasks in real-time chat.

Collaboration makes it easy to make decisions based on the linked business content.

In the collaboration tools, text added by a participant of a discussion or a thread.

The text is posted in real time in the discussion or thread.

A person who creates events in the calendar.

Creators can edit all settings of an event. They create work files for people (assignees) working on these events, set reminders and close the events when they are done.

In a planning model that has currency conversion enabled, a currency conversion table defines exchange rates for all currencies that are in use.

One currency conversion table can be applied to multiple models. The currency conversion is calculated as a source currency multiplied by an exchange rate to determine the equivalent value in a target currency. Currency tables can also include multiple rates for each conversion that apply to different dates, categories, and rate versions.

A modern, exploratory, corporate steering presentation.

Use a Digital Boardroom dashboard to allow the presenter to decide where to go next, without a predefined path to follow.

A tool that allows users to create a sequence of copy-paste operations and scripted calculations in order to carry out planning and simple consolidation functions.

Data actions are applied to model data from within a story using a data action trigger.

A predefined ready-to-run service for SAP BW queries.

The data analyzer can be opened from within an analytic application that uses the script function "openDataAnaylzer" or via URL parametrization.

It contains a table, a filter area, a menu bar and a builder panel with navigation capabilities. This way the user can easily navigate and analyze the data.

A calendar task that lets you define which assignees shall lock or unlock which data slice of your planning model, and when.

Data locking tasks help you keep track of planning processes, and make sure that model data is locked at the right time.

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A row of data in the data container.

You can change both the value of a data point and various customizing attributes that determine how it appears in a chart such as its color.

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A real-time, interactive boardroom presentation.

Create traditional boardroom meeting agendas, or exploratory, corporate steering dashboards.

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A collection of posts that can be linked to specific business content, for example, a story.

In addition, a discussion thread can comprise notifications, tasks, and links to business content.

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A grouping of a set of numbers into one number that represents the whole set.

An exception aggregation differs from a standard aggregation in that the exception aggregation focuses on non-cumulative values. For example, "First value" is a common exception aggregation.

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To add geographical semantics to data.

Before you perform geospatial analysis in stories, you must first import coordinate data or area data, and enrich it in the Modeler. This process creates a new column in the data view with an enriched format of latitude and longitude coordinates or state and county names.

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Two types of hierarchy are available: level-based hierarchies, and parent-child hierarchies.

A common example of a level-based hierarchy is a Location dimension, with hierarchical levels such as Country, State, and City. A parent-child hierarchy organizes the members of a dimension into a set of parent-child relationships. You can define multiple hierarchies for generic dimensions and organization dimensions so that the data can be grouped in multiple different ways in a story.

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A connection to a data source or application, which allows data to be imported (copied) to and saved in SAP Analytics Cloud.

Changes made to the data in the source system don't affect the imported data until and unless the data is imported again either manually or as a scheduled job. See also “live data connection”.

A page used to request and collect data from other users.

Typical examples include collecting data for budgeting or planning.

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Inverse formulas specify how a formula will be reversed if data is entered on the formula in a story.

One or more inverse functions can be added at the end of a formula.

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A type of success measurement.

Certain threshold values are defined for measures, respectively, members of the Accounts dimension such as Net Revenue in a Profit and Loss model.

The range or extent of values to check for a KPI visualization or threshold.

A dimension member that does not have any child members.

For example, for a Date dimension that is maintained with monthly granularity, January 2018 is a leaf member. In a planning model, all data is stored in leaf members.

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A connection to a data source or application, where the data is "live". The data is not imported (copied) to or saved in SAP Analytics Cloud.

When changes are made to the data in the source system, the changes are immediately reflected in SAP Analytics Cloud. See also “import data connection”.

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Elements that make up a dimension.

Records in a model are assigned to a member for each dimension, allowing the data to be aggregated and analyzed. Members are organized into hierarchies for each dimension, or into a flat list (for example, in the Version dimension).

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A model is a representation of the business data of an organization, organized into dimensions and measures.

Models provide the basis for planning and analysis in stories. There are two types of models: Planning models, which allow you to write data to the model, and Analytic models. Also, there are two types of data connections for models: import data connections and live data connections. Live data models, which are based on live data connections, can be only Analytic models.

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• An alert, warning, or error message raised by the application to indicate the current state of an object.
• Information about an action taken on a collaboration process, task, or event.

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A type of dimension that represents the organizational structure that applies to a model's accounts.

This dimension can be used to represent different geographical locations such as offices or sales areas. For planning models with currency conversion enabled, you can specify a currency for the members of an organization dimension.

A person who has the same rights as the creator of a calendar event.

The only difference between a creator and an owner is that the owner of an event does not create the event initially.

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A calendar event to structure your workflow.

A process lets you manage your tasks in one parent event. The child events can be tasks or even other processes with their child events.

In a planning model that uses currency conversion, a rate version is a set of currency exchange rates applied to one or more specific versions in a story.

Therefore, rate versions can be used to quickly simulate an exchange rate scenario.

Records are the granular values that make up model data. Imported to a model or created by data entry on a planning model, records are assigned to a leaf member for each dimension.

For example, a record could represent a single purchase or sale, including the value, date, location, and so on. When you add the model data to a story, records are aggregated along each dimension to allow data analysis.

Records are sometimes known as facts, too.

Notification that will be sent to all assignees who have not completed a task by the due date.

The reminder can be sent to the assignee's manager, as well, and as email.

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A measure that is restricted so that it excludes data from selected members of one or more dimensions.

In a chart, restricted measures are members of the Account dimension. In a table, you can create a restricted measure based on a member of the Account dimension (also known as a restricted account), or based on the Calculations dimension.

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Series of statements which are created by application designers using the script editor.

By adding a script to a widget, you can influence the behavior of this widget and thus enable user interaction, also referred to as events, at run time. A script typically consists of several statements.

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In a table based on a planning model, spreading refers to changing the values of the cells that aggregate up to a source cell.

It can refer to manual spreading, which is an allocation feature that allows you to specify values for target cells of a certain dimension and hierarchy level. It can also refer to automatic spreading, where a value is entered in an unbooked cell and the system automatically determines how to spread the value to leaf members.

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A programmatic instruction within a script.

The execution of a statement is typically triggered by user interaction with the widget.

A table is a representation of data in a two-dimensional tabular view, which is typically related to a source model (although basic tables independent of any model are also possible).

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A calendar event that supports you to organize your workflows.

A value or value range that provides visual cues to let you know what areas are doing well and what areas may need improvements.

Multiple thresholds can be assigned labels such as OK, Warning, and Critical.

A container for one or more story pages in a Digital Boardroom presentation.

The hierarchy of topics in a presentation determines its sequence and flow.

A tuple filter is a complex filter that is a combination of other filters.

For example, a tuple filter can be used to exclude historical forecast data while at the same time include forecast data for a selected time period.

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An unassigned member is automatically created for all generic and organization dimensions in a planning model.

It is always a leaf member in a dimension hierarchy. The unassigned member, which has a hash symbol (#) as its ID, is necessary for planning operations such as structured allocation and automatic spreading. When you enter data in an unbooked cell, it is generally added to the unassigned member for dimensions that are not on a table axis.

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Unbooked cells (unbooked data) are displayed in a table for sets of dimension members that do not yet have a value.

Unbooked cells display a dash character (-). A cell with a value of zero is considered a booked cell.

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A directed graph made up of nodes linked together by different types of calculations, such as union calculations, or year-over-year growth calculations.

Value driver trees read data from accounts in a planning model, and write the results of the calculations back to the model. For example, you can use a value driver tree to simulate how changes to driver accounts such as head count and average contract value will affect top line metrics such as gross revenue.

• Public versions require data access privileges to view and modify the data.
• Private versions are only visible to the one who created them.
• Shared versions are private versions that have been shared with others.