2021 Releases

General

• You can now configure the logo that appears in the application shell bar.

Planning

• Upon activation of a calendar process, people who are involved in the process as well as its child events will now receive only one notification instead of notifications for each event. The email notification contains a list of all events that are relevant for the user and specifies their roles.

Mobile

• The Android mobile app now supports Android 12.

Content Management

• You can now publish insights to the Catalog.

Analytics Designer

• It is now possible to use the navigation panel for analytic applications that run on bigger mobile devices like tablets and iPads. Smaller mobile devices, like smart phones, are not fully supported for the time being.

• At design time, you'll receive performance optimization tips when your analytic application design may potentially affect runtime performance. The related best practices include:

  • Collapsing input controls

  • Manually setting Top N

  • Keeping images small

• The linked analysis diagram has been renamed to linked widgets diagram as it can now visualize more than linked analysis and filter line relationships. You can have a graphic view of relationships among input controls, namely cascading effects, and do related settings directly on the diagram.

Data Analyzer

• It is now possible for data analyzer users to select or deselect all measures in the builder panel.

SAP Analytics Cloud, add-in for Microsoft Office

• The SAP Analytics Cloud, add-in for Microsoft Office has been updated. For a list of new features, see the What's New.

System Administration Notes

• With the 2021.24 release of SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Analytics Cloud agent's minimum version remains at 1.0.75, with the following exceptions:

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP ERP / SQL Database, the minimum version is 1.0.99.

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP Universe (UNX), the minimum version is 1.0.91.

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP Business Warehouse (BW), the minimum version is 1.0.233.

  • If you require data acquisition from an SAP HANA view, the minimum version is 1.0.235.

  • If you require data acquisition from File Server, you need to upgrade to version 1.0.248.

  • Note

    Although it is not required, you can upgrade to the agent version 1.0.343, no matter what data acquisition type you use. Do this to take advantage of updates made to SAP Analytics Cloud agent.

  For more information, see System Requirements and Technical Prerequisites.

• Regarding supported features and required updates for the integration of SAP BW with SAP Analytics Cloud, refer to SAP Note 2541557 for further details.

• Regarding supported features and required updates for live universe access through SAP BusinessObjects Live Data Connect with SAP Analytics Cloud, refer to SAP Note 2771921 for further details.

General

• You can now use the bursting functionality in scheduling to share unique and personalized content with individual recipients.

Data Acquisition, Live Data Connections, and Integration

• Performance of data acquisition from S/4HANA has been greatly improved in this release.

Planning

• When you create or edit calendar events with many people involved, now only the first 5 people are displayed in the respective People sections, and a link is added that lets you access a dialog with the complete list of owners, assignees, reviewers, or viewers. In this dialog, you can search for people, add or remove people, or move reviewers to a different review round.

Smart Predict

• In the explanation of time series forecasting models, the impact of the influencers is now clearly separated from the impact of trend and cycles.

Mobile

• iOS mobile app users can now filter, view details, and designate items as favorites in the Catalog tab.

Analytics Designer

• As an application designer, you can now use the API getWidgetApi() to request a list of all widgets of a specific type listed by the new type ENUM "WidgetType".

• As an application designer, you can now enable specific widgets to be hidden in runtime when the screen width is smaller than a certain threshold, by responsive rules configuration in flow layout panels.

System Administration Notes

• With the 2021.23 release of SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Analytics Cloud agent's minimum version remains at 1.0.75, with the following exceptions:

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP ERP / SQL Database, the minimum version is 1.0.99.

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP Universe (UNX), the minimum version is 1.0.91.

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP Business Warehouse (BW), the minimum version is 1.0.233.

  • If you require data acquisition from an SAP HANA view, the minimum version is 1.0.235.

  • If you require data acquisition from File Server, you need to upgrade to version 1.0.248.

  • Note

    Although it is not required, you can upgrade to the agent version 1.0.341, no matter what data acquisition type you use. Do this to take advantage of updates made to SAP Analytics Cloud agent.

  For more information, see System Requirements and Technical Prerequisites.

• Regarding supported features and required updates for the integration of SAP BW with SAP Analytics Cloud, refer to SAP Note 2541557 for further details.

• Regarding supported features and required updates for live universe access through SAP BusinessObjects Live Data Connect with SAP Analytics Cloud, refer to SAP Note 2771921 for further details.

General

• When sharing content with other users, the Email new recipients check box is now unchecked by default. Also, an administrator can now disable sharing to All Users.

Planning

• When pasting cells from a table or an external spreadsheet, you can now paste unbooked cells to booked cells to delete values.

Mobile

• The iOS mobile app now supports iOS 15 and iPadOS 15.

Data Analyzer

• As a story user, you can now open data analyzer from a table via the actions menu item Open Data Analyzer.

  To be able to use this action menu item, first it has to be enabled by one of the following options:

  • Enable data analyzer on a table via the builder panel (by checking the property Enable Data Analyzer).
  • Enable data analyzer for all tables via the Story Details dialog (by selecting the property Enable Data Analyzer for all Tables).

System Administration Notes

• Several improvements have been made when data changes are logged:
  • If data audit is enabled in the modeler, a log entry with activity “Create” is generated.
  • If data audit is disabled in the modeler, a log entry with activity “Delete” is generated (together with the information on how many rows were deleted).
  • If in the Data Changes dialog, some audit entries were deleted, a log entry with activity “Data Change” is generated, together with some deletion information.
  • When a private version is published, a log entry with activity “Data Change” is created, along with some publishing information.
  • When facts are deleted in the modeler, a log entry with activity “Data Change” is created, along with some deletion information.

• With the 2021.22 release of SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Analytics Cloud agent's minimum version remains at 1.0.75, with the following exceptions:

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP ERP / SQL Database, the minimum version is 1.0.99.

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP Universe (UNX), the minimum version is 1.0.91.

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP Business Warehouse (BW), the minimum version is 1.0.233.

  • If you require data acquisition from an SAP HANA view, the minimum version is 1.0.235.

  • If you require data acquisition from File Server, you need to upgrade to version 1.0.248.

  • Note

    Although it is not required, you can upgrade to the agent version 1.0.339, no matter what data acquisition type you use. Do this to take advantage of updates made to SAP Analytics Cloud agent.

  For more information, see System Requirements and Technical Prerequisites.

• Regarding supported features and required updates for the integration of SAP BW with SAP Analytics Cloud, refer to SAP Note 2541557 for further details.

• Regarding supported features and required updates for live universe access through SAP BusinessObjects Live Data Connect with SAP Analytics Cloud, refer to SAP Note 2771921 for further details.

General

• When working with tables with SAP BW live data connections, you can change the display format of ID and description of row members to short, medium, or long texts.

• You can now format the body of the message you include while scheduling and sharing stories over email.

Stories

• In your table, when you remove a calculation row (or column) that was an anchor for other rows (referenced by other rows), the anchored rows now remain in the table.

• You can now use both thresholds and cross-calculations in your charts. However, the mobile app does not yet support this feature.

Planning

• You can now define a recommended planning area on a planning model to optimize version size when editing public versions or creating private versions. This subset of data is based on either data locking, data access control and model settings, or both.

• You can now add automatic Calendar tasks to a parent process. Further changes are as follows:

  • To define the duration of the process more precisely, you can edit the estimated due date of the automatic tasks. Their default duration is 10 minutes.

  • After creation, the automatic tasks are now inactive and need to be activated to change their status to open.

• You can now add work files and multiple review rounds to your generated tasks and processes in the Calendar wizard.

Mobile

• iOS mobile app users can now view items published in the Catalog.

• iOS app administrators can now push an App configuration through the supported MDM tools to change the enforced default server URL to a new connection URL.

Content Management

• You can now add more tabs to the default Catalog overview dialog, where users can fill in additional metadata when publishing content to the Catalog.

• A number of improvements have been made to the Catalog:

  • In the filter panel, the count of the number of items is now shown.

  • Cascading filter behavior: when you select members in a filter, those selections cascade down to the other filters and hide members that would be incorrect.

  • The Catalog card sort state is remembered across sessions.

  • The filter panel open/close state is remembered across sessions and is included in the URL.

• When in a workspace, you can now access all resources in My Files for use.

Analytics Designer

• The new linked analysis diagram lets you, as an application designer, get a graphic overview of all the links among widgets, after you create a linked analysis or a filter line in your analytic application. In addition, you can modify the existing relationships for each widget directly here.

• A styling panel is now available now for Data Analyzer. In it, you can set the number format for specific measures, such as scale, display unit or currency, and decimal place.

• As an application designer, you can now choose to copy the version to planning area when using the copy() API.

• As an application designer, you can now use the technical component Calendar Integration together with the following new APIs for the calendar task of type composite, general, or review:

  • canUserSubmit() and canUserDecline() APIs to verify if you can submit/decline a calendar task for the assignee user role.

  • canUserApprove() and canUserReject() APIs to verify if you can approve/reject a calendar task for the reviewer user role or assignee role on a review task.

System Administration Notes

• With the 2021.19 release of SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Analytics Cloud agent's minimum version remains at 1.0.75, with the following exceptions:

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP ERP / SQL Database, the minimum version is 1.0.99.

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP Universe (UNX), the minimum version is 1.0.91.

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP Business Warehouse (BW), the minimum version is 1.0.233.

  • If you require data acquisition from an SAP HANA view, the minimum version is 1.0.235.

  • If you require data acquisition from File Server, you need to upgrade to version 1.0.248.

  • Note

    Although it is not required, you can upgrade to the agent version 1.0.333, no matter what data acquisition type you use. Do this to take advantage of updates made to SAP Analytics Cloud agent.

  For more information, see System Requirements and Technical Prerequisites.

• Regarding supported features and required updates for the integration of SAP BW with SAP Analytics Cloud, refer to SAP Note 2541557 for further details.

• Regarding supported features and required updates for live universe access through SAP BusinessObjects Live Data Connect with SAP Analytics Cloud, refer to SAP Note 2771921 for further details.

General

• You can now navigate Mass Data Entry mode with ease, using keyboard shortcuts.

• When working with tables with SAP BW live data connections, you can view all the applied BW query conditions in their tooltips, view all the conditions from the BW model, and directly mark as active or inactive in the context menu.

• You can now customize the email header of the sender while configuring the Email Server settings.

Stories

• You can now include story and page filters in your measure-based Calculated Dimensions.

• You can now enable Optimized View Mode for your story directly from the story's menu bar.

Planning

• Aside from executing multi actions in the planning trigger, you can now schedule their automatic execution from the calendar.

• You can now populate multi action parameters from your story context, using input controls or story filters.

• For the new measure model, you can now use a currency variable to set a default target currency for conversions bound to that variable. You can override the currency variable both in stories and story widgets. Changing the variable switches the target currency for conversions and all calculations consuming these conversions. This simplifies the definition and use of currency conversions.

• You can now transport your multi actions by exporting them though the content network storage or through a .tgz file. You can then import them to another system.

Analytics Designer

• As an application designer, you can use the getInfo() API to get general information about the data source. You can call the API on a data source object of any supported data source-based widget. Some of the API properties have values only for SAP BW data sources.

• You can now access Data Analyzer via the side navigation of SAP Analytics Cloud. On the Data Analyzer start page, you can click Start New and connect to either an SAP BW data source, an SAP HANA data source, or to an existing model. On the start page you also find a list of recent insights that you can open from there.

• As an application designer, you can now enable only the active charts or tables to refresh in runtime to avoid unnecessary fetching of the result set and thus improve the performance of your application.

SAP Analytics Cloud, add-in for Microsoft Office

• The SAP Analytics Cloud, add-in for Microsoft Office has been updated. For a list of new features, see the What's New.

System Administration Notes

• With the 2021.18 release of SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Analytics Cloud agent's minimum version remains at 1.0.75, with the following exceptions:

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP ERP / SQL Database, the minimum version is 1.0.99.

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP Universe (UNX), the minimum version is 1.0.91.

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP Business Warehouse (BW), the minimum version is 1.0.233.

  • If you require data acquisition from an SAP HANA view, the minimum version is 1.0.235.

  • If you require data acquisition from File Server, you need to upgrade to version 1.0.248.

  • Note

    Although it is not required, you can upgrade to the agent version 1.0.333, no matter what data acquisition type you use. Do this to take advantage of updates made to SAP Analytics Cloud agent.

  For more information, see System Requirements and Technical Prerequisites.

• Regarding supported features and required updates for the integration of SAP BW with SAP Analytics Cloud, refer to SAP Note 2541557 for further details.

• Regarding supported features and required updates for live universe access through SAP BusinessObjects Live Data Connect with SAP Analytics Cloud, refer to SAP Note 2771921 for further details.

General

• You can now turn on a connection notification that alerts users when the network is having problems.

Stories

• You can now use a team signature in a dynamic text element to identify whether a story was modified by a team member or by someone else (someone that the story was shared with).

• You can now use your story details settings to override the default page navigation settings.

Planning

• Assignees and reviewers of calendar events can now decide to decline an event for their role only, or on behalf of all assignees or reviewers. Owners are notified, and can either resend the event, or remove the person from the event and assign someone else.

  Owners of calendar processes can now assign several assignees to a process.

Smart Assist

• Smart Insights now works in scenarios in which minimal model metadata is available to generate candidates for top contributors.

  Note

  The restriction that Smart Insights does not support Live HANA models with mandatory variables or input parameters without default values has been removed.

Smart Predict

• Entity Filters help in filtering the entities you want to get the predictive forecasts for. You can select the relevant values in dimensions and hierarchies that have been defined as part of the entity. This helps you focus the predictive forecasting scope.

Analytics Designer

• When working with tables and a BW model, you can now display images in table cells.

System Administration Notes

• With the 2021.17 release of SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Analytics Cloud agent's minimum version remains at 1.0.75, with the following exceptions:

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP ERP / SQL Database, the minimum version is 1.0.99.

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP Universe (UNX), the minimum version is 1.0.91.

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP Business Warehouse (BW), the minimum version is 1.0.233.

  • If you require data acquisition from an SAP HANA view, the minimum version is 1.0.235.

  • If you require data acquisition from File Server, you need to upgrade to version 1.0.248.

  • Note

    Although it is not required, you can upgrade to the agent version 1.0.331, no matter what data acquisition type you use. Do this to take advantage of updates made to SAP Analytics Cloud agent.

  For more information, see System Requirements and Technical Prerequisites.

• Regarding supported features and required updates for the integration of SAP BW with SAP Analytics Cloud, refer to SAP Note 2541557 for further details.

• Regarding supported features and required updates for live universe access through SAP BusinessObjects Live Data Connect with SAP Analytics Cloud, refer to SAP Note 2771921 for further details.

Enterprise Reporting

• Transform your canvas and experience the new reporting layout. Add a header, a footer, and margins with dedicated formatting and enjoy the additional real estate to refine your stories.

Stories

• When working with tables and a BW model, you can now display images in table cells.

• When blending data from BW models that have similar hierarchies, you can now link on matching parent-child or time-dependent hierarchies.

System Administration Notes

• With the 2021.16 release of SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Analytics Cloud agent's minimum version remains at 1.0.75, with the following exceptions:

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP ERP / SQL Database, the minimum version is 1.0.99.

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP Universe (UNX), the minimum version is 1.0.91.

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP Business Warehouse (BW), the minimum version is 1.0.233.

  • If you require data acquisition from an SAP HANA view, the minimum version is 1.0.235.

  • If you require data acquisition from File Server, you need to upgrade to version 1.0.248.

  • Note

    Although it is not required, you can upgrade to the agent version 1.0.331, no matter what data acquisition type you use. Do this to take advantage of updates made to SAP Analytics Cloud agent.

  For more information, see System Requirements and Technical Prerequisites.

• Regarding supported features and required updates for the integration of SAP BW with SAP Analytics Cloud, refer to SAP Note 2541557 for further details.

• Regarding supported features and required updates for live universe access through SAP BusinessObjects Live Data Connect with SAP Analytics Cloud, refer to SAP Note 2771921 for further details.

Planning

• You can now set the recurrence pattern of calendar tasks to occur in a monthly interval. For example, you can set a task to occur on the 5th day every 2 months.

• In tables, you can now also plan against dimension properties on unbooked combinations, including properties of the time dimension.

System Administration Notes

• With the 2021.15 release of SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Analytics Cloud agent's minimum version remains at 1.0.75, with the following exceptions:

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP ERP / SQL Database, the minimum version is 1.0.99.

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP Universe (UNX), the minimum version is 1.0.91.

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP Business Warehouse (BW), the minimum version is 1.0.233.

  • If you require data acquisition from an SAP HANA view, the minimum version is 1.0.235.

  • If you require data acquisition from File Server, you need to upgrade to version 1.0.248.

  • Note

    Although it is not required, you can upgrade to the agent version 1.0.331, no matter what data acquisition type you use. Do this to take advantage of updates made to SAP Analytics Cloud agent.

  For more information, see System Requirements and Technical Prerequisites.

• Regarding supported features and required updates for the integration of SAP BW with SAP Analytics Cloud, refer to SAP Note 2541557 for further details.

• Regarding supported features and required updates for live universe access through SAP BusinessObjects Live Data Connect with SAP Analytics Cloud, refer to SAP Note 2771921 for further details.

General

• You can now have the metadata for content links translated by a common translation service. The translated metadata includes the titles and descriptions of the content links, plus the titles of any secondary links to other web content.

• As an administrator, you can now choose whether the default navigation for story pages is a tab bar or a dropdown list. For more information, see Customize the Default Appearance of the Interface.

Enterprise Reporting

• When creating linked dimensions for Parent Child Hierarchy off SAP BW or HANA Data sources, you can now choose to Link on ID.

• You can now schedule a paginated story, with the maximum size of the exported PDF being 15 MB.

Stories

• For BW Live models with Universal Display Hierarchies (UDH) shown in a table, you can now switch the display options using the context menu of the header cell of the UDH dimension.

• In a table, you can now choose which calculation has priority at the intersection point of the calculated rows and calculated columns that you create.

Modeling

• When importing fact data to the new measure model, you can choose the option to reverse the sign of measures, based on account type, or select which dimension hierarchy to enforce non-leaf node restrictions.

• In the Calculation Preview panel of the Calculations workspace, you can now use hierarchical filters to display dimensions hierarchically, and switch hierarchies to change how the results are displayed.

Planning

• In an advanced formulas step, you can now repeat a group of statements a specified number of times, using the FOR keyword. Employing a BREAK statement inside a FOR loop will allow you to stop the loop when the given condition is met, offering more flexibility.

• Owners of calendar events can now reopen events that have been accomplished, partially accomplished, or canceled. For example, as owner of large planning processes, you can follow-up on issues with finished child processes or tasks and reopen them. The events that are directly connected with the reopened event by a dependency or by a hierarchical relationship will also be set to "Open", and the involved people can proceed with their work. Note that task series, automatic tasks, input tasks, and manual data locking tasks can't be reopened.

• Multi actions are now available to link a sequence of different types of planning operations to a single planning trigger. In this release, you can use them to run a sequence of data actions and version management steps on one or more models or versions. This can help save time if your planning process involves structured planning on multiple versions or models at the same time, for example.

• Models with measures (the new model type) now support structured allocations and value driver trees.

Smart Predict

• Different linear trends can now be combined when creating a time series forecasting model. This increases the quality of the time series forecasting model(s) and improves the handling of disrupted time series.

• You can now refine your predictive forecasts further by using the new Influencers setting that allows you to select and include influencer variables before training your predictive planning model. This creates new possibilities for predictive planning, scenario planning, and to forecast future business evolution, as well.

Mobile

• App users can now delete default bookmarks when using the iOS Optimized mode. For more information, see Preparing Stories for Mobile.

Analytics Designer

• As an application designer, you can add an input control as a dimension member filter to the canvas page and do related settings without scripting, such as:

  • Turning on a cascading effect to make value selection changes in an input control affect other values.

  • Creating linked analysis to allow specific widgets in your application to display selected dimension members from an input control. Supported widgets include chart, table, R visualization, geo map, and value driver tree.

• As a user of data analyzer, you can now remove default filters that come from an SAP BW query and that are displayed in the table header.

• As an application designer, you can now use new calendar task APIs to request task properties such as name, progress, description, etc. Furthermore, the following APIs are available:

  • getCalendarTaskById() to retrieve a task on demand

  • activate() to activate a task

  • createCompositeTask() to create a new composite task

  • submit(), decline(), approve() and reject() for changing the status of any composite task you have a user role for

  • getRelatedTaskIds() to get the tasks except recurring composite tasks, for the opened analytic application, for which the application is a work file

SAP Analytics Cloud, add-in for Microsoft Office

• SAP Analysis, edition for SAP Analytics Cloud, now allows you to store workbooks on the BI platform and BW repositories. With the new edition, you can connect directly to BW (or BI platform) without using the live connections defined in SAP Analytics Cloud. You can also open and analyze workbooks created with the Analysis full version.

  For more information about this new Analysis edition, please see the SAP Help Portal at SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office, edition for SAP Analytics Cloud.

System Administration Notes

• Note

  As of this version, SAP Analytics Cloud no longer supports Microsoft Internet Explorer 11, in accordance with Microsoft’s announcement that Office 365 will no longer support IE11.

• With the 2021.13 release of SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Analytics Cloud agent's minimum version remains at 1.0.75, with the following exceptions:

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP ERP / SQL Database, the minimum version is 1.0.99.

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP Universe (UNX), the minimum version is 1.0.91.

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP Business Warehouse (BW), the minimum version is 1.0.233.

  • If you require data acquisition from an SAP HANA view, the minimum version is 1.0.235.

  • If you require data acquisition from File Server, you need to upgrade to version 1.0.248.

  • Note

    Although it is not required, you can upgrade to the agent version 1.0.327, no matter what data acquisition type you use. Do this to take advantage of updates made to SAP Analytics Cloud agent.

  For more information, see System Requirements and Technical Prerequisites.

• Regarding supported features and required updates for the integration of SAP BW with SAP Analytics Cloud, refer to SAP Note 2541557 for further details.

• Regarding supported features and required updates for live universe access through SAP BusinessObjects Live Data Connect with SAP Analytics Cloud, refer to SAP Note 2771921 for further details.

General

• In story and digital boardroom creation workflows, you can now choose the Catalog view to select files that have been published to the Catalog, such as datasets and models, or stories.

Planning

• You can now copy comments from one version to another when creating a private version.

• Your value driver trees that have been created in a story are now included when you export that story as PDF. However, legacy value driver trees won't be included.

• Structured allocation now supports the use of negative reference values.

Smart Predict

• You can now deliver individual prediction explanations from your classification or regression predictive scenarios. For instance, if you want to understand the employee interests in staying or leaving your company, you can include these explanations in your story. This data helps in getting a better understanding of the reasons behind predictions, develops trust in the prediction results, and also guides to make better decisions for the future of your business.

Mobile

• In the iOS mobile app, you can now open iOS Optimized stories based on the following connection types:

  • SAP HANA Cloud connections

  • SAP Data Warehouse Cloud connections

Analytics Designer

• As a user with viewer role, you can now save an insight in data analyzer in your private files. To do this, an administrator can grant the private insight privilege to these users who have no create rights on the public or private files.

• As an application designer, you can now log the performance of scripts used in your analytic or planning application by using the parameter APP_PERFORMANCE_LOGGING=true in the application URL and by clicking a key combination to display a performance swim lane diagram that appears as a popup.

• As an application designer, you can apply additional sandbox restrictions to the web page widget to allow for downloads or popups from the embedded web page.

System Administration Notes

• With the 2021.12 release of SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Analytics Cloud agent's minimum version remains at 1.0.75, with the following exceptions:

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP ERP / SQL Database, the minimum version is 1.0.99.

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP Universe (UNX), the minimum version is 1.0.91.

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP Business Warehouse (BW), the minimum version is 1.0.233.

  • If you require data acquisition from an SAP HANA view, the minimum version is 1.0.235.

  • If you require data acquisition from File Server, you need to upgrade to version 1.0.248.

  • Note

    Although it is not required, you can upgrade to the agent version 1.0.323, no matter what data acquisition type you use. Do this to take advantage of updates made to SAP Analytics Cloud agent.

  For more information, see System Requirements and Technical Prerequisites.

• Regarding supported features and required updates for the integration of SAP BW with SAP Analytics Cloud, refer to SAP Note 2541557 for further details.

• Regarding supported features and required updates for live universe access through SAP BusinessObjects Live Data Connect with SAP Analytics Cloud, refer to SAP Note 2771921 for further details.

General

• When publishing content to the Catalog, you can now choose whether or not to grant Read access to the content. If Read access isn't granted, content viewers will need to request access from an administrator.

Stories

• When you have multiple dimensions in your chart, you can apply ranking to one dimension and sorting to another.

Planning

• You can now set the recurrence pattern of calendar tasks to occur by minutes. The minimum interval is every 5 minutes. Note that a recurrence by minutes can put extra load on the system. To avoid unnecessary system load, automatic tasks with a preceding task occurrence that is still running are automatically canceled.

Analytics Designer

• As an application developer, you can add properties to a bookmark in one or more key-value pairs via script API when saving a bookmark.

  As an application user, you can access, modify and save bookmarks with specific properties.

• As an application developer, you can enable the dialog to open even in runtime for sharing application and sharing personal bookmark via script API.

  As an application user, you can now customize the link to a shared application or bookmark by setting additional URL parameters.

• As a data analyzer user, you can now select an SAP Analytics Cloud model as a data source within data analyzer via URL.

System Administration Notes

• With the 2021.11 release of SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Analytics Cloud agent's minimum version remains at 1.0.75, with the following exceptions:

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP ERP / SQL Database, the minimum version is 1.0.99.

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP Universe (UNX), the minimum version is 1.0.91.

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP Business Warehouse (BW), the minimum version is 1.0.233.

  • If you require data acquisition from an SAP HANA view, the minimum version is 1.0.235.

  • If you require data acquisition from File Server, you need to upgrade to version 1.0.248.

  • Note

    Although it is not required, you can upgrade to the agent version 1.0.323, no matter what data acquisition type you use. Do this to take advantage of updates made to SAP Analytics Cloud agent.

  For more information, see System Requirements and Technical Prerequisites.

• Regarding supported features and required updates for the integration of SAP BW with SAP Analytics Cloud, refer to SAP Note 2541557 for further details.

• Regarding supported features and required updates for live universe access through SAP BusinessObjects Live Data Connect with SAP Analytics Cloud, refer to SAP Note 2771921 for further details.

Enterprise Reporting

• You can now format sections in you stories and make them stand out using the new dedicated options in the user preferences. For more information, see Using Sections to Format a Story.

Planning

• We've simplified the people assignment for your calendar events:

  • You can now add individual users as well as SAP Analytics Cloud teams as owners, assignees, reviewers or viewers ("Shared With").

  • If you've defined teams in your dimension attributes, and you generate events along this driving dimension with the calendar wizard, the generated events are assigned to the specified teams.

• Creating the process hierarchy for your calendar events is a lot easier now:

  • When you create a new task or process, you can add the required parent process in the create dialog. If you've selected the process in the calendar and then started creating a child event, the process is already preselected as parent process.

  • When you copy a task or a process, you can select the parent process for the copied event in the copy dialog.

SAP Analytics Cloud, add-in for Microsoft Office

• The SAP Analytics Cloud, add-in for Microsoft Office has been updated. For a list of new features, see the What's New.

System Administration Notes

• With the 2021.10 release of SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Analytics Cloud agent's minimum version remains at 1.0.75, with the following exceptions:

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP ERP / SQL Database, the minimum version is 1.0.99.

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP Universe (UNX), the minimum version is 1.0.91.

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP Business Warehouse (BW), the minimum version is 1.0.233.

  • If you require data acquisition from an SAP HANA view, the minimum version is 1.0.235.

  • If you require data acquisition from File Server, you need to upgrade to version 1.0.248.

  • Note

    Although it is not required, you can upgrade to the agent version 1.0.321, no matter what data acquisition type you use. Do this to take advantage of updates made to SAP Analytics Cloud agent.

  For more information, see System Requirements and Technical Prerequisites.

• Regarding supported features and required updates for the integration of SAP BW with SAP Analytics Cloud, refer to SAP Note 2541557 for further details.

• Regarding supported features and required updates for live universe access through SAP BusinessObjects Live Data Connect with SAP Analytics Cloud, refer to SAP Note 2771921 for further details.

General

• We've introduced navigation improvements to the overall product design to simplify how you interact with SAP Analytics Cloud:

  • A more accessible side navigation is faster to use and responsive to your needs. Enjoy one-click access to your tools and make use of flexible display options to get the most out of your screen space.

  • Consistent start pages let you browse your recent files or create new content from the same place. A streamlined breadcrumb navigation provides a fast and easy way to find your files and folders.

  • Content creation shortcuts let you quickly move from one part of the product to another without breaking flow. Create a new story based on an open model or launch directly into a planning workflow – make use of shortcuts for many common interactions.

  To learn more and access additional resources, check out our community article and announcement blog!

  Are you an SAP Analytics Cloud administrator? Read through our comprehensive IT handbook for a summary of changes, tips and highlights, and an FAQ.

Stories

• The default table option is now the Optimized Presentation table, a table that provides smooth scrolling, pixel-level column or row resizing, and other features. If you prefer to use the other table option, simply go to the Builder panel and clear the checkbox for Optimized Presentation. For more information, see Optimized Presentation Table: Features and Restrictions.

System Administration Notes

• With the 2021.9 release of SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Analytics Cloud agent's minimum version remains at 1.0.75, with the following exceptions:

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP ERP / SQL Database, the minimum version is 1.0.99.

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP Universe (UNX), the minimum version is 1.0.91.

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP Business Warehouse (BW), the minimum version is 1.0.233.

  • If you require data acquisition from an SAP HANA view, the minimum version is 1.0.235.

  • If you require data acquisition from File Server, you need to upgrade to version 1.0.248.

  • Note

    Although it is not required, you can upgrade to the agent version 1.0.319, no matter what data acquisition type you use. Do this to take advantage of updates made to SAP Analytics Cloud agent.

  For more information, see System Requirements and Technical Prerequisites.

• Regarding supported features and required updates for the integration of SAP BW with SAP Analytics Cloud, refer to SAP Note 2541557 for further details.

• Regarding supported features and required updates for live universe access through SAP BusinessObjects Live Data Connect with SAP Analytics Cloud, refer to SAP Note 2771921 for further details.

Stories

• Optimized View Mode is now enabled on a per story basis and provides several usability improvements and improves the performance of dashboard rendering (in certain scenarios). It does not include all the features that are currently supported in a non-optimized story. For more information, see Use Optimized View Mode in Analytic Applications and Optimized Story Experience Restrictions.

Analytics Designer

• Custom widgets now not only work in Google Chrome but also in Microsoft Edge, version 79 and higher.

SAP Analytics Cloud, add-in for Microsoft Office

• The SAP Analytics Cloud, add-in for Microsoft Office has been updated. For a list of new features, see the What's New.

System Administration Notes

• With the 2021.8 release of SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Analytics Cloud agent's minimum version remains at 1.0.75, with the following exceptions:

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP ERP / SQL Database, the minimum version is 1.0.99.

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP Universe (UNX), the minimum version is 1.0.91.

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP Business Warehouse (BW), the minimum version is 1.0.233.

  • If you require data acquisition from an SAP HANA view, the minimum version is 1.0.235.

  • If you require data acquisition from File Server, you need to upgrade to version 1.0.248.

  • Note

    Although it is not required, you can upgrade to the agent version 1.0.317, no matter what data acquisition type you use. Do this to take advantage of updates made to SAP Analytics Cloud agent.

  For more information, see System Requirements and Technical Prerequisites.

• Regarding supported features and required updates for the integration of SAP BW with SAP Analytics Cloud, refer to SAP Note 2541557 for further details.

• Regarding supported features and required updates for live universe access through SAP BusinessObjects Live Data Connect with SAP Analytics Cloud, refer to SAP Note 2771921 for further details.

Modeling

• The Modeler now offers the possibility to create a new model type which lets you add multiple measures and an optional account dimension to the model. Models with measures are beneficial for both planning and reporting, and they provide you with:

  • More flexible modeling: You can set formatting and aggregation on accounts, measures, or both, and choose which settings to prioritize. This flexibility opens up new options like generating your balance sheet and your profit and loss statement out of a single model. You can also choose to use a generic dimension for your accounts to avoid any restrictions related to the account dimension.

  • New powerful calculation area in the modeler: Calculated measures and currency conversion measures can be added in the modeler and reused across multiple stories and analytic applications. Numeric dimension properties are also available for calculations. You now can see the results of your calculations and currency conversions instantly in the preview. As in the story table, you can add dimensions to the drill, filter on values, and so on.

  • Enhanced currency conversion: You can now model and plan on transaction currencies, local currencies, and group currency. Besides reusable conversion measures, you can also base calculated measures on your currency conversions. In tables, you can plan on any base measure or conversion measure and instantly see the results across currencies. And you can apply currency conversion while copying data with a data action.

  • Better integration: Measure models match the structure of many trusted data sources like SAP S/4HANA more closely, making data integration faster and simpler.

  • Clearer experience for story builders and viewers: Non-financial data can be stored in measures instead of members of the account dimension, making data in charts and tables easier to understand.

  • Migration tool: To get access to the new features quickly, you can migrate a classic account model with no dependent objects into a new model with measures. The new model has same account hierarchy and the option to add additional measures.

• You can now switch off currency conversion in a model that doesn't have dependent objects, LINK formulas, private versions, or pre-converted currencies.

General

• For reporting, the canvas now supports a 16:9 (HD) page size, which is 1280x720.

• You can format story and data point comments with different font styles and colors, add bullet or numbered lists, and insert hyperlinks.

Stories

• Blending data is supported for the new model type (model with measures). The new model type with an account dimension (model with measures and an account dimension) is not supported for blending.

• When using a new model type, the Explorer now shows facets for Accounts, Measures, and Dimensions. For the classic account model, the Explorer now shows facets for Measures, Cross Calculations, and Dimensions.

Planning

• As the data locking owner of a specific region (or data slice) of a model, you can now schedule automatic data locking tasks in the calendar, and the system will set the locks at the specified time.

• When assignees and reviewers of calendar tasks change data in a story or analytic application, they don't need to publish their changes in a separate step anymore. The data changes will automatically be published when assignees submit the task, and when reviewers approve or reject the work of the others.

• When adding a data action trigger to a story, you can now link parameter values to input controls and story filters. This lets users run the data action on the current story context by retrieving parameter values automatically from the linked input controls and filters.

• Several restrictions have been removed for IF conditions with AND and OR keywords. For example, you can now combine conditions on members, RESULTLOOKUP values, properties, variables, external parameters, dates, and numbers. You can also use parentheses to group conditions. For more information, see About Script Formulas and Calculations in Advanced Formulas for Planning.

• In the advanced formulas script editor, you can now specify dimension members to aggregate for the entire step, whether from the default model or a linked model. This way, you can avoid running calculations on separate records for each dimension member.

• The advanced formulas script editor now lets you check the scope of your functions by hovering over them, letting you see how many members from each dimension are included and whether all members are included for any dimensions. It helps you understand how each calculation will work, and how long it might take to run.

• In an advanced formulas step, you can now specify a condition to skip the remaining loops of a FOREACH function, using the BREAK keyword. This gives you better control over FOREACH calculations, and lets you improve the performance of your data action by skipping unnecessary calculations in a FOREACH function.

Mobile

• The iOS app now supports "Tunnel" direct remote connections when working in the optimized story loading mode.

Smart Predict

• Predictive planning now lets you save predictive forecasts for past periods to the private version of your planning model. This means you can assess the performance of your predictive forecast by using all the visual and modeling powers right there in your story, to compare the difference between your predictive forecast and the actuals, plans or budget.

Analytics Designer

• As there is a new model type in SAP Analytics Cloud, some enhancements and changes relating to this new model type have also been made in analytic applications. These enhancements and changes include:

  • Display of account structure, measure structure or both in the navigation panel depending on the (new) model configuration.

  • Script API adaptions to make the script APIs work consistently with all different types of models.

  • R Visualization widget and analytic application bookmark adaptions to make these widgets run consistently with all different types of models.

• As a user of data analyzer, you can now directly access SAP Analytics Cloud models in the Select Data Source dialog for your ad-hoc data analysis.

• As an application designer, you can now use the technical object Data Actions and the relating script APIs to run short-running data actions via scripts as well as set and read parameter values.

Analytics Content Network

• You can now choose a location to import your Analytics Content Network (ACN) packages.

• You can now add datapoint comments to the new model type.

SAP Analytics Cloud, add-in for Microsoft Office

• The SAP Analytics Cloud, add-in for Microsoft Office has been updated. For a list of new features, see the What's New.

System Administration Notes

• With the 2021.6 release of SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Analytics Cloud agent's minimum version remains at 1.0.75, with the following exceptions:

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP ERP / SQL Database, the minimum version is 1.0.99.

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP Universe (UNX), the minimum version is 1.0.91.

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP Business Warehouse (BW), the minimum version is 1.0.233.

  • If you require data acquisition from an SAP HANA view, the minimum version is 1.0.235.

  • If you require data acquisition from File Server, you need to upgrade to version 1.0.248.

  • Note

    Although it is not required, you can upgrade to the agent version 1.0.313, no matter what data acquisition type you use. Do this to take advantage of updates made to SAP Analytics Cloud agent.

  For more information, see System Requirements and Technical Prerequisites.

• Regarding supported features and required updates for the integration of SAP BW with SAP Analytics Cloud, refer to SAP Note 2541557 for further details.

• Regarding supported features and required updates for live universe access through SAP BusinessObjects Live Data Connect with SAP Analytics Cloud, refer to SAP Note 2771921 for further details.

General

• On the System  Administration  App Integration tab, the "Allow all origins" option has been removed from the "Trusted Origins" section. This option was removed to enhance security when embedding SAP Analytics Cloud in your client application. You can still add any specific trusted origins that will host your client application.

Stories

• You can now include sections in your canvas story tabs.

Planning

• Since planning on large versions can affect performance, models now have a recommended limit on the initial version size for planning. Modelers can configure the size limit, and a warning appears if users exceed it while creating a private version or starting to edit a public version.

Mobile

• The following table cell actions are now supported:

  • Swap Axis

  • Drill

  • Display Options

  • Hyperlinks

  This limited support is available when working with the iOS app in Optimized iOS mode, the Android app, and IOS Safari.

Analytics Designer

• As a user of the data analyzer, you can now select SAP HANA view as a data source for your data analysis.

• Besides starting the export to Excel and CSV from the table's context menu at runtime, as an application designer, you can now use the Script API exportReport() to launch the table export to Excel and CSV on an event such as, for example, Button.onClick.

• As a user of analytic application, you can now set the chart-level change range when setting high importance/subscribe/unsubscribe in Data Change Insights, so that you can decide whether the data point value is included or excluded during the Data Change Insights calculation. Moreover, you can define the version of the Data Change Insights component for snapshot validation and customize subscription settings or open the subscription dialog using script APIs.

• As an application designer, you can now use the setUserInput() API on BPC live models to plan an unbooked cell.

SAP Analytics Cloud, add-in for Microsoft Office

• The SAP Analytics Cloud, add-in for Microsoft Office has been updated. For a list of new features, see the What's New.

System Administration Notes

• With the 2021.5 release of SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Analytics Cloud agent's minimum version remains at 1.0.75, with the following exceptions:

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP ERP / SQL Database, the minimum version is 1.0.99.

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP Universe (UNX), the minimum version is 1.0.91.

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP Business Warehouse (BW), the minimum version is 1.0.233.

  • If you require data acquisition from an SAP HANA view, the minimum version is 1.0.235.

  • If you require data acquisition from File Server, you need to upgrade to version 1.0.248.

  • Note

    Although it is not required, you can upgrade to the agent version 1.0.311, no matter what data acquisition type you use. Do this to take advantage of updates made to SAP Analytics Cloud agent.

  For more information, see System Requirements and Technical Prerequisites.

• Regarding supported features and required updates for the integration of SAP BW with SAP Analytics Cloud, refer to SAP Note 2541557 for further details.

• Regarding supported features and required updates for live universe access through SAP BusinessObjects Live Data Connect with SAP Analytics Cloud, refer to SAP Note 2771921 for further details.

Stories

• To make it easier to access functions directly where you need them in your workflow, we have moved some functions (Value Lock Management, Cell References and Show/Hide for Formulas) from the view-time toolbar for Stories and Analytic Applications to the Table context menu.

Smart Predict

• We have introduced a data smoothing technique that helps to increase on average the quality of your predictive models, and to better handle disruptive time series. We've also enhanced the reports for time series predictive scenarios to explain the forecasting technique used.

Security and Infrastructure

• On the Security  Data Changes screen, you can now filter the auditing data by Audit Time, Audit User, Audit Action, and all dimensions from the planning model.

System Administration Notes

• With the 2021.4 release of SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Analytics Cloud agent's minimum version remains at 1.0.75, with the following exceptions:

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP ERP / SQL Database, the minimum version is 1.0.99.

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP Universe (UNX), the minimum version is 1.0.91.

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP Business Warehouse (BW), the minimum version is 1.0.233.

  • If you require data acquisition from an SAP HANA view, the minimum version is 1.0.235.

  • If you require data acquisition from File Server, you need to upgrade to version 1.0.248.

  • Note

    Although it is not required, you can upgrade to the agent version 1.0.309, no matter what data acquisition type you use. Do this to take advantage of updates made to SAP Analytics Cloud agent.

  For more information, see System Requirements and Technical Prerequisites.

• Regarding supported features and required updates for the integration of SAP BW with SAP Analytics Cloud, refer to SAP Note 2541557 for further details.

• Regarding supported features and required updates for live universe access through SAP BusinessObjects Live Data Connect with SAP Analytics Cloud, refer to SAP Note 2771921 for further details.

General

• While scheduling your publication, you can now check the availability of time slots.

• You can customize the permissions to add, view, and delete comments on a story, analytic application, model, and folder.

• As a story creator, you can now choose to remove a story's URL when you export a story or when you schedule a story for publication: the setting is in the system configuration area.

Stories

• For SAP BW Live data sources, you can now create restricted measures that are based on SAP Analytics Cloud story calculations or on SAP BW formulas.

• For Beta tables that span multiple pages, the table header will be repeated on each page. You can also freeze the Table header for vertical scrolling tables.

• You can now replace any public or private dataset in your story with a new public dataset that can contain additional measures and dimensions, alongside the measures and dimensions of the original dataset. Replacing the dataset preserves the configuration of all widgets in your story.

Planning

• When you publish a private version to an unrelated public version, the default publishing option has changed. You'll publish only the changed data by default, not the entire version.

• You can now preview validation rules in a table view that displays all relevant dimensions.

• When choosing variables for a BPC planning sequence in a live connection model, after you set the values for the parent variable, the available choices for the child variable now show only the values of the child characteristic that matches the selected parent.

• When you modify data in a table cell, all changed cells – including any new cells (records) – will be highlighted.

• When you add a data action trigger, you can now set it to automatically run the data action in the background.

• In a table, data locking is now supported with certain types of advanced filters. The appropriate data will be locked while you're carrying out planning operations in the filtered table.

Smart Predict

• You can now get even more accurate and trusted predictive results when creating Smart Predict classification and regression models.

Mobile

• System administrators can now provision default configurations for the Android mobile app, using VMware AirWatch and MobileIron Cloud.

Analytics Designer

• With this version, hierarchies for dimensions on a free axis in a table are no longer ignored. Consequently, if you have used setDimensionFilter() in your applications with these types of dimensions, you may experience different results and need to adapt your scripts manually for each analytic application that uses setDimensionFilter API functions in the mentioned context. Please read the SAP Analytics Cloud Analytics Designer API Reference for suggestions on adjusting the affected scripts in the analytic application.

• As an application designer, you can now use the new technical component Calendar Integration together with the following new APIs for the calendar event:

  • Submit() and Decline() APIs to submit/decline a calendar event for the assignee user role.

  • Approve() and Reject() APIs to approve/reject a calendar event for the reviewer user role.

  Additionally, the following APIs are introduced and can be used for the Calendar Integration technical component:

  • getCurrentTask()

  • getStatus()

  • getType()

  • hasUserRole()

• As an application designer, you can write a createStoryFromWidget() API to allow application users to create a new story from a chart or table widget during the application's runtime.

• You can now add and trigger a data action widget in an SAP Analytics Cloud iOS mobile App. In addition, we've introduced a CSS class to allow users to change the opacity of a widget, so that you can further modify the appearance of the data action widget.

System Administration Notes

• With the 2021.3 release of SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Analytics Cloud agent's minimum version remains at 1.0.75, with the following exceptions:

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP ERP / SQL Database, the minimum version is 1.0.99.

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP Universe (UNX), the minimum version is 1.0.91.

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP Business Warehouse (BW), the minimum version is 1.0.233.

  • If you require data acquisition from an SAP HANA view, the minimum version is 1.0.235.

  • If you require data acquisition from File Server, you need to upgrade to version 1.0.248.

  • Note

    Although it is not required, you can upgrade to the agent version 1.0.307, no matter what data acquisition type you use. Do this to take advantage of updates made to SAP Analytics Cloud agent.

  For more information, see System Requirements and Technical Prerequisites.

• Regarding supported features and required updates for the integration of SAP BW with SAP Analytics Cloud, refer to SAP Note 2541557 for further details.

• Regarding supported features and required updates for live universe access through SAP BusinessObjects Live Data Connect with SAP Analytics Cloud, refer to SAP Note 2771921 for further details.

General

• As part of SAP's commitment to social justice and equality, SAP is replacing insensitive terms in our software and documentation with inclusive language – defined as "language free from expressions or words that reflect prejudice". Our first and foremost objective was to replace the terms "master/slave" and "whitelist/blacklist" in SAP documentation with "neutral" terms that are more technically accurate, and to apply these new terms across all major products and solutions over time. You will find the modifications to these terms in the latest version of the SAP Analytics Cloud Help.

• To make it easier to navigate to the functions that are most important to you in your current workflow, we've enhanced the view time toolbar for Stories and Analytical Applications:

  • So that you can quickly get to the most commonly used functions, we've grouped the functions into sections with quick access buttons.

  • You can also move more easily through stories with a lot of pages, using the enhanced page navigation.

  • The new full screen mode completely hides the toolbar, so you can focus more on your content. But, if you want to see a condensed version of the toolbar again, just hover over the top of the screen.

• When exporting or batch exporting to PDF and PPT from Story View mode, paginated reports are now supported to include all pagination pages.

• The Catalog filter behavior has been changed. For example, let's say you have the following company departments:

  • Sales Canada

  • Sales Germany

  • Operations Canada

  • Operations India

  • Development India

  • Development France

  If you select Sales and Operations in the Department filter category, and you select India in the Region category, the filter will return:

  • Operations India

  In previous releases, the filter would return:

  • Sales Canada

  • Sales Germany

  • Operations Canada

  • Operations India

  • Development India

Stories

• In a story that lets you explore charts and tables, you can now modify the Explorer view or even create and save new Explorer views.

• Story Designers can now configure report tables to vertically expand when more data needs to be displayed.

• In fixed-size story tabs in View mode, dynamic-size (growing) tables can now be displayed on multiple pages when they expand.

• When running Search to Insight queries, recommended follow ups are provided to help users improve their visualization experience.

• You can now replace an analytic account model in your story with a planning model, and vice versa, as long as the new model has at least the same measures and dimensions as the original model. Replacing the model preserves the configuration of all widgets in your story.

• You can now create calculations that aggregate values based on standard deviation. Minimal support is for acquired and Live HANA 2.0 only.

Calendar

• You can now use new task types in the calendar: composite tasks, general tasks and review tasks. Your existing events are automatically migrated.

  Additional features let you set up your workflows in a flexible way:

  • Owners of a composite task can adjust the default time distribution between the assignees' and the reviewers' work.

  • When multiple assignees work on a task, not all of them need to submit. The task is accomplished once one of them submits.

  • When multiple reviewers work in one review round, not all of them need to accept the task. The review round is accomplished once one of them accepts.

  • To fine-tune their workflow, owners can convert a composite task to a process that consists of a general task for the assignees and one review task for each review round.

  • To delegate their task to others, assignees can convert the composite task assigned to them to a process that consists of a child process and one review task for each review round.

Modeling

• To make large numbers easier to read in stories, you can now assign a scaling factor to your measures under Measure properties.

Planning

• When using advanced formulas in a data action, you can now define ELSE in an IF condition to take in the remaining scope of all previous conditions.

• When you're viewing a story or analytic application, the streamlined toolbar makes it easier to work with planning model data. Common functions like Version Management and Allocate are more prominent, and the new Publish Data button lets you quickly publish or revert your edits to public versions.

• When using a script to design an advanced formula in a data action, you can now type " (double quotation mark) for a list of valid members and filter members (by ID) in real-time.

Smart Predict

• The automated time series forecasting function of Smart Predict (Predictive Planning) has been enhanced to help financial planners and BI analysts produce more accurate and reliable forecasts in this climate of increasing disruption.

Mobile

• Search to Insight on the iOS mobile app now supports voice recognition for entering text in the search field.

• The Android app now supports a seamless SSO experience, based on the SAPCP Cloud Connector, to SAP BW and SAP HANA live data sources.

• The Android mobile app now supports "Tunnel" direct remote connections.

• SAP Analytics Cloud iOS SDK now supports XCode 12.

• You can now save bookmarks when using optimized story-loading mode on iOS mobile and Android app.

Analytics Designer

• A new section has been added to the Custom Widget Developer Guide that explains hosting custom widgets in more detail.

• The new API DataSource.getMember() has been added to retrieve member information by passing a member ID. As well, the API DataSource.getMembers() has been extended, so that you can better specify what members you want to retrieve.

• The notification settings for subscribing to data-change insights have been updated. Users can now:

  • Define how many auto-insights are needed.

  • Choose whether to send notifications via email or the mobile app or both.

  • Add multiple SAP Analytics Cloud users to receive the subscription notifications.

  • Change the subscription "Customize Script Variable" option to be off by default.

  • Update insights ranking calculations when a chart has TopN enabled.

• Custom widgets can now be enabled for rendering on mobile devices by using a new property in the contribution JSON. The lifecycle callbacks onBeforeCustomWidgetUpdate and onAfterCustomWidgetUpdate are passed in the information if the application is running on a mobile device.

• As an application designer, you can now add a Comment widget to a canvas to work with table data-cell comments.

• New DataExplorer APIs that allow application users to apply explorer results to a chart or table widget are introduced in this release. With the updated results, application users can change chart or table dimensions/measures/filters and/or chart type when running an analytic application; they can also bookmark the results afterwards.

• You can now save an insight in data analyzer. An insight represents the displayed data source with filters, the navigation and the presentation state of the table.

SAP Analytics Cloud, add-in for Microsoft Office

• The SAP Analytics Cloud, add-in for Microsoft Office has been updated. For a list of new features, see the What's New.

System Administration Notes

• With the 2021.1 release of SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Analytics Cloud agent's minimum version remains at 1.0.75, with the following exceptions:

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP ERP / SQL Database, the minimum version is 1.0.99.

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP Universe (UNX), the minimum version is 1.0.91.

  • If you require data acquisition from SAP Business Warehouse (BW), the minimum version is 1.0.233.

  • If you require data acquisition from an SAP HANA view, the minimum version is 1.0.235.

  • If you require data acquisition from File Server, you need to upgrade to version 1.0.248.

  • Note

    Although it is not required, you can upgrade to the agent version 1.0.303, no matter what data acquisition type you use. Do this to take advantage of updates made to SAP Analytics Cloud agent.

  For more information, see System Requirements and Technical Prerequisites.

• Regarding supported features and required updates for the integration of SAP BW with SAP Analytics Cloud, refer to SAP Note 2541557 for further details.

• Regarding supported features and required updates for live universe access through SAP BusinessObjects Live Data Connect with SAP Analytics Cloud, refer to SAP Note 2771921 for further details.