SAP Analytics Cloud is a BI tool. It has many charts and graphs to use to build good and interactive visualizations. A chart refers to a graphical representation of data that helps users visualize their insights and make easy data driven decisions. Different types of charts in SAC allow users to quickly analyze and interpret complex data through various visual formats.
What is Chart?
A chart is a specific type of graphical, pictorial and visualization that typically presents data in a structured form, such as bars, lines, or pie segments.
Examples include bar charts, line charts, pie charts, and scatter plots. Charts are often a single element or type of graph that helps display data points in a straightforward way.
Know More About Characteristics of Charts in SAC
- Easy to Customization: Charts in SAC are easily customizable. You can easily adjust the chart features like colors, labels, chart axes and more to make it easier to understand and present to others.
- Interactivity: SAC charts are interactive, allowing users to drill down into the data for a more detailed view. You can filter data, hover over data points to see values of different parts of the Story, report or dashboard.
- Integration with Data Models: Charts in SAC are linked to underlying data models, ensuring that the visuals are always based latest data and that helps with real time analytics and reporting.
- Easy to Share: Once a chart is created in SAC, it can be embedded in dashboards, stories, or reports, which can be shared with others in the organization for collaboration or decision making.
- Export Chart Data: SAC has also functionality easily to export chart data in CSV format also other format like PDF and PPT.
Different Types of Charts in SAP analytics Cloud
Different types of charts in SAC provides various options, including bar charts, line charts, pie charts and more. You can choose the chart type based on the data you want to display and the insights you want to show.
Below are the List of all different types of Charts in SAC
| Types of Charts | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Bar Chart | SAC offers horizontal and vertical bar charts that allow you to compare different categories of data. | Bar charts are ideal for showing comparisons between categories and useful when you want to compare quantities across different categories. |
| Time Series Chart | Line charts are perfect for visualizing and analysis the trends of data over time period. | Line Chart good for trend analysis, such as sales by months or quarterly revenue growth. This are commonly used for time-series data. |
| Pie Chart | Pie charts are circular charts that divide data into proportional slices. | Pie charts are useful when you want to show the composition like the distribution of sales by region or share by company. |
| Stacked Area Chart | Stacked Area chart is used to show the trends in line form with fills areas between the lines. | It help to show, how much area is covered with the product, region, or items. If the quantity and amount is high then the area between the line shows bigger then others areas. |
| Donut chart | Donut chart is similar to a pie chart but with a blank center (look like wheel), allowing for more room to display additional information. | Donut charts is great for showing proportional data, same purposes as pie charts but offer a cleaner design, making them ideal for dashboards. |
| Waterfall Chart | Waterfall chart help to visualize the cumulative impact of sequentially, by positive or negative values of bar. | It is useful for financial analysis, such as tracking the changes in profit and loss. For example, Waterfall chart can be used to track revenue growth or expenses over a period. |
| Heat Map Chart | Heat Map chart, display data in a matrix format with colors to represent values. The intensity of the color corresponds to the magnitude of the data, to just highlight high and low values. | Example: would like to spot patterns or identify areas that require attention, like which months have the highest sales. |
| Bullet Chart | A bullet chart is a variation of a horizontal bar chart that resembles a progress bar. Bullet chart is used to compare one measure against other benchmarks or target values. | Example actual vs Target, Actual vs Forecast and displays the bar with a threshold or set of ranges. |
| Scatter Plot Chart | Scatter plots chart, visualize the relationship between two variables by plotting data points on X and Y axis. | Scatter plots chart are ideal for identifying correlations, or outliers in datasets. Example, plot customer satisfaction scores against sales performance. |
| Insert In Cell Chart | This Chart is used in Table cells, this type of visualization is very useful because you can visualize a table together with a bar/column chart. | Example: to show highest and lowers values in the table or sorting of data in columns to show bar. |
| Tree Map Chart | Tree Map visualizes hierarchical data as nested rectangles and each rectangle size & color represent a specific value. This is compact way to display large amounts of hierarchical data. | Example: This chart are excellent for visualizing the revenue breakdown by department or market region. |
| Combined Chart | Combined chart combines two different chart types (like bar and line charts) into a single visualization. Help to comparing two different types of data. | Example, showing sales (bar chart) along with growth rate (line chart) can offer more insights. |
| Radar Chart | Radar charts display data in a circular layout, with multiple axes representing different variables. It can comparing multiple categories and identifying patterns or outliers (also known as spider charts). | Compare customer satisfaction scores across different departments or employee performance on various skills. |
Conclusion
SAP Analytics Cloud provides a wide range of charts to help users to visualize and analyze their data effectively. Whether you are tracking performance over time, comparing categories, countries, or your organization customers trends. The above mentioned all types of charts will be really helpful as per your use case requirement.