Frustrated with slow performance in SAP Analytics Cloud? This guide is your answer! Learn the basics of solution performance and optimization and then start making your adjustments: get the story builder and analytics designer apps running smoothly, fine-tune your backend settings, and follow best practices for viewing dashboards. With detailed examples of performance improvements throughout, this book has everything you need for an optimal SAP Analytics Cloud experience!

Highlights include:
1) User experience
2) Dashboards
3) Performance analysis
4) Story building
5) Model building
6) Analytics designer
7) Backend and tenant optimization
8) Viewing optimizations
9) Acquired data
10) Live data connections
11) Best practices

About the Author

Erik Bertram is a software developer who currently leads the Global Design Operations and Services team in the HANA and Analytics organization at SAP. He is responsible for all kinds of customer engagements and operational activities. Before joining SAP in 2016, Erik was working as a postdoctoral researcher at Heidelberg University. He holds a PhD in theoretical astrophysics.

Carl Dannenhauer joined SAP in 2020 and is currently a data scientist in the SAP Business Technology Platform design organization. He has spent his professional career fostering data-driven decisions by building advanced dashboards and generating actionable insights by analyzing user feedback. As an SAP Analytics Cloud expert his focus lies in developing effective and easy-to-use dashboards. Carl has a studies background in business informatics.

Melanie Holzapfel is a data scientist in the HANA & Analytics organization at SAP. She joined SAP in 2019 after finishing her physics studies at Heidelberg University. At SAP, she is responsible for analyzing customer feedback and building dashboards with suitable data visualization graphics.

Sandra Loop joined SAP in 2016 and is a user researcher in the SAP Business Technology Platform design organization. She has been a user experience designer and user researcher for over 25 years. Prior to joining SAP, she was a developer and UX designer for a data visualization company and she was also a product manager where dashboards were a major component of the product's user interface. Sandra believes that a good user experience is crucial for product success and that good performance is an important factor of the user experience.

Stephanie Range joined SAP in 2021 and is currently a data scientist in the SAP Business Technology Platform design organization. Before joining SAP, Stephanie worked as a data scientist in a pharma company, where she developed and automated statistical methods, configured data bases, and validated business processes. Today, her expertise lies in optimizing and building SAP Analytics Cloud dashboards. She holds a master's degree in physics.

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