Search to Insight is a feature that enables users to search for quick answers to questions directly through SAP Analytics Cloud stories using natural, everyday language. Simply type what you would like to know from your data – such as “Net Revenue for the last quarter” – into the search box, and SAP Analytics Cloud will create an appropriate visualization to your query.
Search to Insight is available from any story from the top right corner in the Shell Bar. Click on the light bulb icon, and SAP Analytics Cloud will bring up a new tab for you to query data with Natural Language.
To demonstrate Search to Insight, let’s dive into another scenario: Decide which Sales Manager should be promoted to Regional Sales Manager.
For this, you should take a look at our top performing sales managers. Let’s type in “Show top 5 Gross Margin by Sales and Store”.
It turns out that 4 out of the 5 stores with the highest gross margins are handled by Janet Bury
. Thus, you learned that even though Kiran Raj
has the most quantity sold out of the Sales Managers, Janet Bury
sells to the 4 stores with highest Gross Margin.
Furthermore, within Search to Insight, you can alter the mode, value, dimension, measure, cross calculation, and version of the chart that Search to Insight generated. In the above example, you changed the value of 5 to 10 to change the ranking from Top 5 to Top 10. Again, from here, you can filter, exclude, drill down, and copy the chart to your story.
To learn more, here are more in-depth resources on Search to Insight: