You are staring at a planning table in SAP Analytics Cloud. Actuals in one column, budget in another, forecast in a third. You need a quick deviation — not a new calculated measure, not a story-level formula, just a fast ad-hoc number to sanity-check what you are seeing.
What do you do? You reach for Excel. Or the Windows calculator. You mentally note the values, switch applications, type them in, get your number, and switch back.
It is a small friction, but it happens dozens of times a day for anyone doing serious planning work in SAC. And small frictions, multiplied across every controller in your organisation, add up.
This blog post introduces a Custom Widget that eliminates exactly that friction: a Business Calculator that lives inside your SAC Analytical Application — and that lets users click directly on table cells to load values as operands.
Overview Screen SAC BusinessCalculator
The Problem Every Controller KnowsYou are staring at a planning table in SAP Analytics Cloud. Actuals in one column, budget in another, forecast in a third. You need a quick deviation — not a new calculated measure, not a story-level formula, just a fast ad-hoc number to sanity-check what you are seeing.What do you do? You reach for Excel. Or the Windows calculator. You mentally note the values, switch applications, type them in, get your number, and switch back.It is a small friction, but it happens dozens of times a day for anyone doing serious planning work in SAC. And small frictions, multiplied across every controller in your organisation, add up.This blog post introduces a Custom Widget that eliminates exactly that friction: a Business Calculator that lives inside your SAC Analytical Application — and that lets users click directly on table cells to load values as operands.Overview Screen SAC BusinessCalculator Read More Technology Blog Posts by SAP articles
