Configuring SAP Analytics Cloud and Offline Analytics Dashboards

This topic describes how to configure SAP Analytics Cloud and analytics dashboards.

Prerequisites

You have a license for SAP Analytics Cloud and an activate account. For more information about SAP Analytics Cloud, see SAP Analytics Cloud Information published on SAP site .

Context

In order that a business user can view analytics dashboards in SAP Asset Intelligence Network, multiple steps are required. First, you perform multiple steps in SAP Analytics Cloud. These steps include, for example, that you define an OData connection, a model and a story. Then, you perform multiple steps in SAP Asset Intelligence Network. These steps include, for example, that you set up a connection between SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Asset Intelligence Network and configure the analytics dashboards based on the stories from SAP Analytics Cloud.

For defining the models and stories in SAP Analytics Cloud, you can choose whether you create your own model and story or import a package with business content. This package is called SAP Intelligent Asset Management and contains a sample OData connection, seven sample models, and two sample stories. One story is for the Offline Analytics Dashboards application and one story is for the equipment page. As data for the models and the stories, the package contains sample data, which you also overwrite. You can also combine the options, which means that you can use a sample model and a sample story or use a sample model and create your own story.

Procedure

Steps related to SAP Analytics Cloud:

Enable your custom identity provider from SAP Asset Intelligence Network in SAP Analytics Cloud to achieve single sign-on. For more information, see Enabling a Custom SAML Identity Provider.
Note

Consider the following when you perform this step:
- For a correct configuration, you also need to configure the trusted origins. To do this, choose System Administration App Integration in the main menu. In the Trusted Origins section, choose between the following options:
  
  Activate the Allow all origins checkbox.
  
  Deactivate the Allow all origins checkbox and add specific trusted origins.
- If you are using Chrome, ensure that the third-party cookies are enabled in the cookie settings.
Define a model in SAP Analytics Cloud. You can choose between the following options:
- Import the SAP Intelligent Asset Management package with the sample models and the sample data. For more information, see Importing Business Content and Overwriting Sample Data in SAP Analytics Cloud.
- Create your own model. To create your own model, proceed as follows:
  - Configure a data connection to use data from SAP Asset Intelligence Network. For more information about configuring a data connection, see Configuring a Data Connection in SAP Analytics Cloud.
  - Create a model and import the data. For more information, see Creating a Model in SAP Analytics Cloud.
Set up a data replication schedule in SAP Analytics Cloud to regularly refresh the data. For more information, see Updating and Scheduling Models.
Define a story in SAP Analytics Cloud based on the model. You can choose between the following options:
- Use one of the sample stories of the SAP Intelligent Asset Management package. To open a sample story, navigate to the Files screen and open the SAP_Content SAP_IAM_Intelligent_Asset_Management folders.
  
  Remember
  
  To use a sample story, you need to have imported the package in step 2 and used one of the sample models.
- Create your own story. For more information, see Creating Your First Story and Creating a New Story.
Assign the BI Content Viewer role with read privileges to the users from SAP Analytics Cloud who want to view analytics dashboards. For more information, see Assigning Roles to Users.

Tip

The users are already created automatically.
Share the story with the users. For more information, see Sharing Stories or Bookmarks.

Tip

To easily share a story with multiple users, we recommend creating teams and share stories with teams including different users. For more information about creating teams, see Creating Teams.

Steps related to SAP Asset Intelligence Network:

Configure SAP Analytics Cloud as an external system in SAP Asset Intelligence Network. For more information, see Configuring SAP Analytics Cloud in SAP Asset Intelligence Network.
Configure analytics dashboards in SAP Asset Intelligence Network. For more information, see Configuring Offline Analytics Dashboards.
(Only relevant if you have configured an analytics dashboard for the equipment or model pages): Configure the object pages. For more information, see Configuring Object Pages.