Define Measures and Add Business Information to a View
SAP Data Warehouse Cloud allows you to add business information to your data, making it easier for all users to make sense of the data. This is what we call the semantic layer. You can add business names to columns within tables, as well as semantic types to better identify the type of data in columns.
You will learn
- What semantic information is
- How to define measures
- How to add business information
- How to change business names of measures and attributes
- How to change the semantic type of measures and attributes
- How to preview your modelled dataset
Prerequisites
- You have graphically created your data model.
This tutorial is part of a mission, in which you try to help Best Run Bikes to to get a holistic view of their sales data by using the power of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud. You will get the sales data of Best Run Bikes and it is your mission to use the features of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud to help the bike suppliers make the best possible business decisions.
This mission consists of 8 modules that contain the necessary steps you need to follow in your mission to help Best Run Bikes:
- Sign up for trial.
- Get to know the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud interface
- Add users and assign roles
- Create your Space
- Import your datasets
- Create an entity relationship model
- Create a graphical view model
- You are here -> Define measures, business semantics and preview your data
You can also follow the steps in this tutorial by watching this video