Exploring SAP Analytics Cloud — Lesson 1: Navigation, Data Connections, Data Sources, and Data Analyzer

Learning Objectives

• Interpret Navigation, Data Connections, Data Sources, and Data Analyzer within the course scenario and its control boundaries.
• Perform the workflow and create a reviewable SAP Analytics Cloud exploration foundation map.
• Evaluate the condition where foundational settings do not support the intended SAP Analytics Cloud exploration workflow and choose proportionate follow-up.

Detailed Topics

• Navigation: purpose, SAP objects, configuration or process behavior, dependencies, and expected evidence.
• Data Connections: purpose, SAP objects, configuration or process behavior, dependencies, and expected evidence.
• Data Sources: purpose, SAP objects, configuration or process behavior, dependencies, and expected evidence.
• Data Analyzer: purpose, SAP objects, configuration or process behavior, dependencies, and expected evidence.

Instructor Demonstration

The instructor traces Navigation, Data Connections, Data Sources, and Data Analyzer through a realistic case involving a business analytics team developing governed self-service analysis and collaborative planning for operational and executive users. The walkthrough connects navigation, process logic, settings, system messages, and the evidence retained in SAP Analytics Cloud exploration foundation map. It also demonstrates how to investigate the condition where foundational settings do not support the intended SAP Analytics Cloud exploration workflow.

Hands-On Exercise

Complete a controlled activity covering Navigation, Data Connections, Data Sources, and Data Analyzer and preserve the final result in SAP Analytics Cloud exploration foundation map.

1. Confirm the business objective, organizational scope, required roles, source data, and expected system result.
2. Execute the workflow in sequence while recording transactions, settings, documents, messages, and observations.
3. Test the stated exception and isolate the first point where expected SAP behavior changes.
4. Document corrective action, ownership, retest evidence, review triggers, and operational handover notes.

Scenario Analysis

• Identify which SAP object, rule, setting, or process step most strongly influences the observed result.
• Compare two defensible responses and explain their business, technical, control, and evidence trade-offs.
• Determine how the SAP Analytics Cloud exploration foundation map should be approved, retained, retested, and updated.

Troubleshooting Guidance

Begin where expected SAP behavior first differs from the observed result. Check organizational assignments, master data, configuration sequence, authorization, integration, and transaction evidence separately. Treat “foundational settings do not support the intended SAP Analytics Cloud exploration workflow” as a testable hypothesis until relevant settings, logs, documents, and outcomes confirm the cause.

Validation Checklist

• Required SAP structures, master data, roles, settings, and dependencies are present.
• The SAP Analytics Cloud exploration foundation map connects each conclusion to objective, reviewable system evidence.
• Normal processing, the stated exception, integration behavior, and follow-up were tested.
• Corrections, ownership, retest criteria, documentation, and operational handover are complete.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can apply Navigation, Data Connections, Data Sources, and Data Analyzer, explain the resulting SAP behavior, and defend the outcome through SAP Analytics Cloud exploration foundation map.