Welcome to SAP Data Provisioning Insights blog series! In this series, We will cover various aspects of data provisioning, including the latest techniques, benefits, and challenges of data virtualization and replication methods. Data provisioning is a broad term that means getting data from one system to another.
There are many reasons why data provisioning is important, including:
I have been using SAP Analytics Cloud now for a few years and yes - there are some really impressive features coming up in the next couple of months, but there is one of those features that I think is still missing in SAP Analytics Cloud (and has been missing for quite some time), so I decided to look into some options and would like to show in the next couple of days, how this feature could get implemented using SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Datasphere combined.
I am talking about the option to do a simple Drill Down navigation as part of SAP Analytics Cloud Charts or Tables, similar to what is possible in Analysis Office or other BI tools.
Today it is possible to perform a Drill Down navigation (Figure 1), but that does require a hierarchy being defined in SAP Analytics Cloud.