{"id":155772,"date":"2025-02-06T07:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T12:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?page_id=155772"},"modified":"2026-04-27T13:46:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T17:46:03","slug":"sac-workshop-recordings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/buworks\/business-reporting-analytics\/sac\/sac-workshop-recordings\/","title":{"rendered":"SAC Workshop Recordings"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Essentials of SAC reporting<\/h2>\n<p>This workshop examines SAC basics &#8211; the minimum a user needs to know to help in transitioning from BW reports to the corresponding reports in SAC. Rather than a broad look at SAC overall, the session explored the essentials: how to navigate to SAC, how to find and run a report, how to export data to Excel, and how to perform common tasks when working with data.<\/p>\n<p>For a review of more comprehensive look at SAC functionality, check out the two recordings in the &#8220;Introduction to&#8230;.&#8221; sections below.<\/p>\n<p>Note: the workshop was run prior to the removal of the BW Funds Management (Distributed), Grants Management (Distributed), Grants Management (Faculty) and FASB reporting folders, so there is some discussion about how that removal will impact the user community.<\/p>\n<p>Recording duration: 1 hour<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width: 400px; height: 285px; border: 0;\" id=\"kaltura_player\" src=\"https:\/\/cdnapisec.kaltura.com\/p\/2159741\/embedPlaykitJs\/uiconf_id\/54272102?iframeembed=true&amp;entry_id=1_69840e2f&amp;config%5Bprovider%5D=%7B%22widgetId%22%3A%221_vlzx9bbo%22%7D&amp;config%5Bplayback%5D=%7B%22startTime%22%3A0%7D\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\" allow=\"autoplay *; fullscreen *; encrypted-media *\" sandbox=\"allow-downloads allow-forms allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation allow-pointer-lock allow-popups allow-modals allow-orientation-lock allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-presentation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" title=\"Essentials of SAC reporting\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Introduction to SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Two versions of the Introduction to SAC workshops have been run and recorded. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The SAC functionality explored is the same in both<\/span>. The slight difference in content is due only the reports used to demonstrate the concepts: Grants Management (GM) or Funds Management (FM). The duration of either recording is 1.5 hours.<\/p>\n<h3>Introduction to SAP Analytics Cloud using Grants Management (GM) reports<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"285\" id=\"kaltura_player\" src=\"https:\/\/cdnapisec.kaltura.com\/p\/2159741\/embedPlaykitJs\/uiconf_id\/54272102?iframeembed=true&amp;entry_id=1_o7s3wulg\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\" allow=\"autoplay *; fullscreen *; encrypted-media *\" sandbox=\"allow-downloads allow-forms allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation allow-pointer-lock allow-popups allow-modals allow-orientation-lock allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-presentation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Introduction to SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) using GM reports\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Introduction to SAP Analytics Cloud using Funds Management (FM) reports<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"285\" id=\"kaltura_player\" src=\"https:\/\/cdnapisec.kaltura.com\/p\/2159741\/embedPlaykitJs\/uiconf_id\/54272102?iframeembed=true&amp;entry_id=1_s1r3k1o9\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\" allow=\"autoplay *; fullscreen *; encrypted-media *\" sandbox=\"allow-downloads allow-forms allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation allow-pointer-lock allow-popups allow-modals allow-orientation-lock allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-presentation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Introduction to SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) using FM reports\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Building an SAC Dashboard (aka Story)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The ability to build your own story is a powerful feature that may appeal to SAC users who want to develop visuals to view and analyze their data. However, creating visuals is not a requirement for using SAC. Many users will find that simply running a report developed by our BW Development team is sufficient.<\/p>\n<p>Recording from Feb 11th, 2026:<\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"kaltura_player\" src='https:\/\/cdnapisec.kaltura.com\/p\/2159741\/embedPlaykitJs\/uiconf_id\/54272102?iframeembed=true&amp;entry_id=1_8896v8yt&amp;config%5Bprovider%5D=%7B%22widgetId%22%3A%221_wfb1gab6%22%7D&amp;config%5Bplayback%5D=%7B%22startTime%22%3A0%7D'  style=\"width: 400px;height: 285px;border: 0;\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozAllowFullScreen allow=\"autoplay *; fullscreen *; encrypted-media *\" sandbox=\"allow-downloads allow-forms allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation allow-pointer-lock allow-popups allow-modals allow-orientation-lock allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-presentation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" title=\"Introduction To Story (Dashboard) Building In SAC - Feb 11Th 2026\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><strong>SAC Learn Ask Share &#8211; Apr 23rd 2026<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><iframe id=\"kaltura_player\" src='https:\/\/cdnapisec.kaltura.com\/p\/2159741\/embedPlaykitJs\/uiconf_id\/54272102?iframeembed=true&amp;entry_id=1_ptbg828n&amp;config%5Bprovider%5D=%7B%22widgetId%22%3A%221_gwynixk9%22%7D&amp;config%5Bplayback%5D=%7B%22startTime%22%3A0%7D'  style=\"width: 400px;height: 285px;border: 0;\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozAllowFullScreen allow=\"autoplay *; fullscreen *; encrypted-media *\" sandbox=\"allow-downloads allow-forms allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation allow-pointer-lock allow-popups allow-modals allow-orientation-lock allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-presentation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" title=\"SAC Learn Ask Share - Apr 23rd 2026\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Essentials of SAC reporting This workshop examines SAC basics &#8211; the minimum a user needs to know to help in transitioning from BW reports to the corresponding reports in SAC. 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