How to – Custom Status management in SAP BW / SAP SAC with aDSOs (using BW-IP / BPC) Status Management – Introduction In BW there is often the need to track the status of a process. This can be a planning process or a regular data load/working process. In this Blog, I will show how…

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Road to Seamless Planning :: SAC Migration :: 4 :: Move and Test  Introduction  After three weeks of migration, we now enter the final phase—moving content to the new SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) tenant. We decided to use 5.3.8 (Content Network) to move our content, skipping 5.3.5 (Export Content) and 5.3.6 (Import Content), to save…

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Generating and Importing Synthetic Sales Data Using ChatGPT, Python and Excel – A Step-by-Step Guide  In today’s data-driven landscape, access to high-quality, varied, and seasonality-aware datasets is crucial for training forecasting models, performing data analysis, and conducting simulations. However, real-world data is often incomplete, unavailable, or limited in scope. This is where generating synthetic data,…

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Road to Seamless Planning :: SAC Migration :: 3 :: Migration of content from the source tenant to the new tenant  Introduction  Following our journey toward seamless planning, we now focus on the migration process itself. This chapter covers the key steps required to transfer content from the source tenant to the new tenant efficiently. …

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Road to Seamless Planning :: SAC Migration :: 2 :: Setup security settings Introduction As we move forward on our Road to Seamless Planning (https://www.zpartner.eu/road-to-seamless-planning-sac-migration-1-0-setup/), the next critical step in our SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) migration is setting up security in the new tenant. Security configurations ensure the right users and roles are assigned, access…

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Road to Seamless Planning :: SAC Migration :: 1.0 :: Setup Introduction As described in the Blog “Minimum Viable Product with Seamless Planning” (https://www.zpartner.eu/minimum-viable-product-with-seamless-planning/) a prerequisite for Seamless Planning is that the SAC tenant is running on HANA Cloud. Currently, our tenant is not hosted on HANA Cloud, making migration the first necessary step toward…

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SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) – Dynamic Time Navigation Overview This document is a step by step guide on how to work with Dynamic Time Navigation Functions. At the model level, Modellers and Planners can now utilize a new formula called ToPeriod, which calculates a running total over flexible time granularities for a specified period. Additionally,…

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SAP Analytic Cloud (SAC) Story on SAP Datasphere (DSP) 1. General  SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) is a powerful frontend tool and offers multiple options to collaborate between users. Data for SAC Stories are coming from different data sources. Either from BW live connections, Native Models, S3 buckets and many more as well as SAP Datasphere. SAP…

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How To: SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) Presentation Mode General The Presentation mode is to display story content as a presentation. This feature replaces the Digital Boardroom. The Digital Boardroom is not available for Optimized Design Experience based stories anymore. This blog shows how to set-up a presentation in SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) and the functions…

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Generate Combinations Function in SAC Planning In customer projects input queries are often restricted to only posted values to ensure optimal performance for the end-users. As business requirements are usually quite similar from year to year, this supports the end-user to easily plan their values in a well-arranged input form without thinking about validity of…

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