About Analytic Application Design and Analytics Designer

Analytic application design is the capability of SAP Analytics Cloud to create interactive and highly customized analytic and planning applications with SAP Analytics Cloud, analytics designer.

Analytic Applications and Analytics Designer

An analytic application is 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, analytics designer. Analytics designer gives you high flexibility to create powerful applications for data analysis and data planning tailored to your user's business needs.

Required Licences
All SAP Analytics Cloud licenses include the creation and consumption of analytic applications. For planning applications, please note the following:

  • If you only need read access to existing planning models and create private versions only, you can use the SAP Analytics Cloud for business intelligence license.

  • If you need to create public versions and use all planning features, the SAP Analytics Cloud for planning, standard edition is required.

  • If you need to create or update planning models for your planning applications, the SAP Analytics Cloud for planning, professional edition license is required.

Before You Start

As an application designer, make sure that you have got the permission for working with analytic applications. Administrators or users who can edit roles need to add the Analytic Applications permission with create, read, update and delete rights to your role, or assign the standard role Application Creator to you.

Make sure that the users who consume your applications have got the read rights for analytic applications in their roles.

See Granting Permissions for Analytic Applications in Roles.

Tasks
In the following you find typical tasks that you perform either as an application designer using ananlytics designer or as an application user working with analytic applications.
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