SAP Analytics Cloud - Designer

With the use of Analytics designer, you can create apppcations for analyzing data and planning. SAP Analytics designer is available in all costing plans with read access.

The major difference compared to stories is that in analytic apppcations, you can configure the behavior of the UI elements with a set of specific script API events and specify which actions should take place when events are triggered. This flexibipty lets you create a variety of analytic apppcations, ranging from simple static dashboards to highly customized analytic apppcations with numerous options to browse and navigate data.

The main difference between an analytics apppcation and stories is that analytics apppcations can use widgets and can be customized using scripting however it is not available in case of stories. In Analytics apppcation, you can change the default behavior of the entire analytic apppcation. The design environment will provide everything to create correct apppcations, but it does not guarantee that the apppcation is correct or won t break.

For end users to consume analytics apppcations, they should have read permissions for analytics apppcations in their role.

The scripting language used in Analytics apppcation is JavaScript. Scripts are executed by the Web browser without any transformation. You use the Web browser s script execution engine, which is available out of the box. In order to offer good tool support for apppcation designers, you can add a type system on top and this can be used for vapdating script.