What's New – 2023 Releases

Find out what's new in the latest version of SAP Analytics Cloud.

Version 2023.20

SAP is pleased to announce a new version of SAP Analytics Cloud.

General

  • While managing scheduled publication, you can now see more details about the status of your scheduled events from your workspace calendar. You can view the detailed status of the publication generation and delivery for each individual view and user on every scheduled publication event.

Stories

  • As a story designer in Optimized Story Experience, you can now copy and paste widgets, scripting elements and pages from one browser tab to another. Copy and paste items across composites or between composites and optimized stories is also supported.
  • For chart tooltips in the optimized story experience, you can now set the measure/account tooltips to use the same number scale as the one used in the chart.
  • When adding the Version (or Category) dimension to the Color section for your chart, you can now choose to use the measures/accounts to set the color and patterns. This feature is only available in the optimized story experience.
  • When creating story calculations based on data from the new model (with an account dimension), you can now use MEMBERLOOKUP and ACCOUNTLOOKUP functions in the calculations. This feature is only available in the optimized story experience.
  • When using a restricted measure calculation that includes a Version dimension, you can now remove the version dimension from the chart axis. This feature is only available in the optimized story experience.
  • As a developer, you can develop custom add-ons for the built-in widgets in SAP Analytics Cloud. The custom add-ons can then be uploaded to SAP Analytics Cloud and added to widgets in optimized stories to customize the elements, such as tooltip and plot area.

Data Acquisition, Live Data Connections, and Integration

  • We've made significant improvements to the scalability, resilience, and correctness of master data acquisition from SAP BW (SAP Analytics Cloud agent 1.0.385 or above required). These improvements apply to acquisition of non-hierarchical characteristics without query view conditions and hierarchy node filters on other characteristics.

Planning

  • When you use the Add Member functionality in a table, inner dimension members relative to the member where you trigger this functionality are now automatically replicated and filled into the new line. This enhancement is also available to tables built on SAP BPC live data models.
  • When configuring the API step of multi actions, you can now select the Require CSRF Token checkbox and enter a CSRF token URL if a CSRF token is required by the external application you want to use.
  • In table forecast layouts, you can now set Week as the granularity for Range (a new option used for setting the timeframe covered in a forecast layout), Look back additional, and Look ahead additional. In rolling forecast layouts, the Week granularity is now available for Look back and Look ahead.
  • In validation rules created by combining dimension members, you can now copy dimension member combinations from other applications like Microsoft Excel or from existing member combinations, and paste them into the validation rule grid, either by using dedicated buttons or via keyboard shortcuts. This helps you quickly add many member combinations into your rule.
  • In IF statements of advanced formulas, you can now use "==" or "!==" to define a dimension combination filter that produces a scope of dimension member combinations based on whether or not dimension properties match.
  • When editing a public version with the recommended planning area defined in the model settings, you can now first select the checkbox Auto-generate based on the table context in the Builder panel of the table you're working on before putting the public version into Edit Mode. The recommended planning area that's applied also takes into account the table context that covers story, page, and table filters. This helps you further restrict the size of the recommended planning area to improve performance, especially for large public versions.
  • In data actions, you can now select the checkbox Allow "All Members" as a parameter property. Parameters with this property enabled can be used in the source context of different types of data action steps. In data action triggers, you can now choose Member Selection, Input Control, or Story Filter to set values for such parameters using the All Members selection.
  • You can now benefit from features of the Multi Actions Service API on the API Business Hub.
  • The following Story APIs can now be used to customize the planning area:
    • As an application designer or story developer in optimized story experience, you can use getPlanningAreaInfo with filter related APIs to define customized planning area. You can further use startEditMode and copy API to edit or copy the customized planning area.
    • As an application designer or story developer in optimized story experience, you can use startEditMode API to start edit mode on specific planning areas in public versions.
    • In both analytics designer and optimized story experience, the copy API to now supports the options to create a planning version from visible data and customized planning area.

Calendar

  • Next to the planned start and end dates of calendar events, you can now see the actual dates of the events in the List workspace and in the Details panel of an event. Both planned and actual dates are visualized in the Gantt chart. Administrators can turn off the display of the actual dates under Start of the navigation pathSystem Next navigation step  AdministrationEnd of the navigation path. For details, see Work in the List Workspace.
  • To better identify overdue and delayed events, you can now filter your calendar List workspace according to their time-related status (On Track, Delayed, or Overdue). For details, see Filter Calendar Events.
  • When the owner or involved people of a calendar task series remove a single occurrence from their calendars, the occurrence is now displayed as decoupled occurrence in the calendars of other involved users. Any updates to the series won't be applied to this occurrence.

Data Analyzer

  • In the table visualization in data analyzer you can now scroll horizontally if the table has a large number of columns. If there are more than 100 columns a warning message is displayed to use the filter function and restrict the number of columns.
  • You can now find the following improvements for the chart usage in data analyzer:
    • You can now also use the Stacked Column and the Stacked Bar charts for the visualization of your data.
    • You can now use the chart visualization with all model types except the classic account model.
    • There are user experience improvements in the builder panel for charts.
  • In data analyzer you can now drag objects from the Builder panel on the table. The following object types are supported:
    • Dimensions
    • Display attributes (connected with the associated dimension)
    • Measures
    • Structures

System Administration Notes

  • With the 2023.20 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 1.0.365, the SAP Analytics Cloud agent requires additional setup steps, for more details see 3262098 Information published on SAP site.
    • If you require data acquisition from SAP Business Warehouse (BW), the minimum version is 1.0.353.
    • 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 1.0.385, no matter what data acquisition type you use.
    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 2541557 Information published on SAP site 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 2771921 Information published on SAP site for further details.
    • Please download the latest version of the Simple Deployment Kit from Service Marketplace.
      Note
      To avoid downloading older versions and potentially exposing users to a vulnerable bundling of the Cloud Connector with SAPJVM, or Apache Tomcat, only the three latest versions of the kits are available to download.
    • For Cloud agent version change management details, refer to 3264839 Information published on SAP site .

Version 2023.19

SAP is pleased to announce a new version of SAP Analytics Cloud.

Stories

  • When using charts that interact with SAP BW conditions, the user experience has been improved. The menu will now display just the condition's description, but it will also show the "ID (Description)" combination in a hover-over tooltip. This feature is only supported in the optimized story experience.
  • When you convert your story to Optimized Story Experience, all the classic responsive pages are converted to optimized ones. Additionally, if there’re still classic responsive pages in your optimized story, you can convert all of them to optimized ones by selecting Convert Responsive Pages from the edit time toolbar.
  • As a story designer in Optimized Story Experience, you can now use a cross calculation input control based on a classic account model or measure input control based on a universal account model as the source for your dynamic text.
  • You can create a composite, which is a combination of widgets with configured data and optionally scripting elements and can be reused across optimized stories. As a story designer or developer in Optimized Story Experience, you can import composites to your story and use them as other built-in widgets.

Modeling

  • ToPeriod, a new dynamic time navigation formula, is now available in the Modeler. This new formula allows you to aggregate values over a given period, such as Year, Quarter, Month, Period or Day.

Calendar

  • In calendar events, the term "due date" has changed to "end date".

Data Acquisition, Live Data Connections, and Integration

  • We've greatly improved performance and increased data correctness for data acquisition from SAP HANA (SAP Analytics Cloud agent 1.0.383 or above required).

System Administration Notes

  • With the 2023.20 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 1.0.365, the SAP Analytics Cloud agent requires additional setup steps, for more details see 3262098 Information published on SAP site.
    • If you require data acquisition from SAP Business Warehouse (BW), the minimum version is 1.0.353.
    • 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 1.0.383, no matter what data acquisition type you use.
    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 2541557 Information published on SAP site 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 2771921 Information published on SAP site for further details.
    • Please download the latest version of the Simple Deployment Kit from Service Marketplace.
      Note
      To avoid downloading older versions and potentially exposing users to a vulnerable bundling of the Cloud Connector with SAPJVM, or Apache Tomcat, only the three latest versions of the kits are available to download.
    • For Cloud agent version change management details, refer to 3264839 Information published on SAP site .

Version 2023.18

SAP is pleased to announce a new version of SAP Analytics Cloud.

Stories

  • When creating stacked bar/column charts or stacked area charts in the optimized design experience, you can now add both the version (or category) dimension and other dimensions to the color feed.

  • Blended Charts on some acquired and Hana-Live models are now supported in Optimized Design Experience.

Modeling

  • You can now convert existing stories with Area Enriched Dimensions to the Optimized Experience. We also allow you to consume enriched generic or organization dimensions by area names if the data does not contain numeric coordinates. Only one geo area enrichment is possible per dimension. Create one of the following property combinations (any other combination is not valid) for the enriched dimensions:
    • Country/Region
    • Country/Region and Region
    • Country/Region, Region and Sub-Region
    The country data can be added as ISO2 codes, or the Country/Region names in English.
  • The limit of 150,000 dimension members when importing dimension members with parent-child hierarchies via wrangling has been removed. The general limit of 1 million members now applies.

Calendar

  • You can now reset the setting changes of decoupled occurrences so they match the series settings again. You can do this either from the Details panel of the decoupled occurrences, from the Details panel of the series, or when you update the series. For more information, see Working with Series.
  • Until now, you could add parent processes to events. Now you can also add or remove direct child events in the Details panel of a process. For more information, see Work with Processes.
  • You can now view the time zone in which a calendar task series was created by selecting the icon in the Time section of a series or single occurrence. If a series takes place during a daylight saving time change, it is adjusted accordingly and takes place one hour earlier or later. Note that you need to update existing series to make use of this feature.

Data Acquisition, Live Data Connections, and Integration

  • You can now configure a batch size when creating a query based on an OData connection. The batch size helps fine tuning pagination when retrieving records and improves overall query performance.

Mobile

  • Classic stories enabled for mobile will by default now have Optimized iOS set to ON. Also, when Enable Optimized mode is turned ON, Optimized iOS will automatically be set to ON. Story designers can opt to turn off either setting.

System Administration Notes

  • With the 2023.18 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 1.0.365, the SAP Analytics Cloud agent requires additional setup steps, for more details see 3262098 Information published on SAP site.
    • If you require data acquisition from SAP Business Warehouse (BW), the minimum version is 1.0.353.
    • 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 1.0.381, no matter what data acquisition type you use.
    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 2541557 Information published on SAP site 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 2771921 Information published on SAP site for further details.
    • Please download the latest version of the Simple Deployment Kit from Service Marketplace.
      Note
      To avoid downloading older versions and potentially exposing users to a vulnerable bundling of the Cloud Connector with SAPJVM, or Apache Tomcat, only the three latest versions of the kits are available to download.
    • For Cloud agent version change management details, refer to 3264839 Information published on SAP site .

Version 2023.17

SAP is pleased to announce a new version of SAP Analytics Cloud.

Planning

  • When configuring a version management step in multi actions, you now have the option to decide how you want your data to publish. You can choose to automatically publish your changes and have the publish fail if there are any restrictions, or you can choose to automatically publish your changes and discard any data that is affected by restrictions.

System Administration Notes

  • With the 2023.17 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 1.0.365, the SAP Analytics Cloud agent requires additional setup steps, for more details see 3262098 Information published on SAP site.
    • If you require data acquisition from SAP Business Warehouse (BW), the minimum version is 1.0.353.
    • 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 1.0.381, no matter what data acquisition type you use.
    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 2541557 Information published on SAP site 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 2771921 Information published on SAP site for further details.
    • Please download the latest version of the Simple Deployment Kit from Service Marketplace.
      Note
      To avoid downloading older versions and potentially exposing users to a vulnerable bundling of the Cloud Connector with SAPJVM, or Apache Tomcat, only the three latest versions of the kits are available to download.
    • For Cloud agent version change management details, refer to 3264839 Information published on SAP site .

Version 2023.16

SAP is pleased to announce a new version of SAP Analytics Cloud.

System Administration Notes

  • With the 2023.16 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 1.0.365, the SAP Analytics Cloud agent requires additional setup steps, for more details see 3262098 Information published on SAP site.
    • If you require data acquisition from SAP Business Warehouse (BW), the minimum version is 1.0.353.
    • 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 1.0.379, no matter what data acquisition type you use.
    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 2541557 Information published on SAP site 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 2771921 Information published on SAP site for further details.
    • Please download the latest version of the Simple Deployment Kit from Service Marketplace.
      Note
      To avoid downloading older versions and potentially exposing users to a vulnerable bundling of the Cloud Connector with SAPJVM, or Apache Tomcat, only the three latest versions of the kits are available to download.
    • For Cloud agent version change management details, refer to 3264839 Information published on SAP site .

Version 2023.15

SAP is pleased to announce a new version of SAP Analytics Cloud.

Stories

  • If you have the permission to edit a story, you can now go directly to edit mode from the file repository (select the story's More Actions menu, and then select Open in Story Edit Mode).
  • When converting an analytic application to the optimized design experience, you can choose to either overwrite the current analytic application or keep it and convert its copy.
  • As a custom widget developer using the optimized design experience, you can now enable filtering and linked analysis support for your custom widget through functions in the Custom Widget framework. Linked analysis can be used in these custom widgets in the same way that it is used in other SAP Analytics Cloud widgets.
  • As a story designer using the optimized design experience, you can now create cross calculations in your charts. Cross Calculations are now also supported in SAP Datasphere.
  • As a story designer using the optimized design experience, you can now align the chart axes for all charts on a story page.
  • As a story designer using the optimized design experience, you can now hide the Add Filter button (in your current story) to prevent viewers from creating their own story filters.
  • In the optimized story experience, you can now set range filters for non-numeric dimensions. You can set range filters in story, page, or chart filters, or in geo local filters.
  • For tables in the optimized story experience, you can now create simple filters on individual dimension members.
  • For tables, instead of choosing to repeat outer member names while scrolling, you can now choose to keep the current member visible at the top (or left) of the data.
  • In the optimized story experience, you can now use the keyboard to navigate through the horizontal filter bar and variables, as well as adding filters or variable to your story.
  • In the optimized story experience, the chart right-click and context menus have been reorganized to show fewer items per menu and more sub-menus.
  • As a story designer using the optimized design experience, you can now turn Date Clarification on or off for time dimensions (when the dimension hierarchy is using flat presentation).
  • Native SAP Datasphere models are now paginated in search results and lists of models when creating a story in SAP Analytics Cloud.

Planning

  • When publishing a version where your changes conflict with another user's changes that were published while you were editing, you can choose whether to publish only your non-conflicting changes and discard your conflicting changes or publish all your changes while overwriting the other user's changes.
  • You now have improved performance when using the fluid data entry mode, which becomes the default data entry mode for newly created tables.
  • In multi actions, you can now choose the option of Allow External API Access, whereby external systems can consume multi action APIs to access various capabilities offered by multi actions, such as data import and planning.
  • In the cross-model copy step of data actions, you now have the option to include the names of the ancestors of a source member when auto-generating a mapping strategy that maps to target members with identical names.
  • When a multi action with a data action step is triggered from a story or analytic application, the Triggered From column in the data action monitor will show both the multi action and the story or analytic application that triggers it, which are listed in a sequence.
  • Legacy Value Driver Trees have been removed from the application.

Data Acquisition, Live Data Connections, and Integration

  • The Data Import Service now allows you to import public dimension data to your SAP Analytics Cloud system.

Mobile

  • Users can now use universal links to directly access content in the iOS mobile app.
  • You can now view and add comments through the comment widget in optimized stories accessed through the iOS and Android mobile apps, or when using embed mode for the Safari browser.
    Note
    Currently, once posted, comments cannot be edited.

Data Analyzer

  • As a data analyzer user you can now use conditional formatting for highlighting data with thresholds. You can add thresholds to the data analyzer table in the styling panel and choose how to display the threshold values (for example as symbols or colors).
  • In data analyzer you can now set range filters for non-numeric dimensions. You can set range filters in the filter dialog that you can access by using the filter line or the context menu of the table. Once you have added a range filter it is displayed in the filter line.
  • You can now open data analyzer from any chart type in the story, except the histogram chart.
  • In data analyzer you can now switch data visualization from table to chart by choosing a chart type in the dropdown box at the top of the builder panel.
    Note
    The Data visualization switch is only supported for SAP BW live and SAP HANA live connections. The following chart types are available: bar/column, line, pie and donut.

System Administration Notes

  • With the 2023.15 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 1.0.365, the SAP Analytics Cloud agent requires additional setup steps, for more details see 3262098 Information published on SAP site.
    • If you require data acquisition from SAP Business Warehouse (BW), the minimum version is 1.0.353.
    • 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 1.0.379, no matter what data acquisition type you use.
    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 2541557 Information published on SAP site 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 2771921 Information published on SAP site for further details.
    • Please download the latest version of the Simple Deployment Kit from Service Marketplace.
      Note
      To avoid downloading older versions and potentially exposing users to a vulnerable bundling of the Cloud Connector with SAPJVM, or Apache Tomcat, only the three latest versions of the kits are available to download.
    • For Cloud agent version change management details, refer to 3264839 Information published on SAP site .

Version 2023.14

SAP is pleased to announce a new version of SAP Analytics Cloud.

General

  • When you are configuring a custom SMTP server, as an administrator, you now have the option to change the default email address to another valid email address. After which, all notifications and emails from SAP Analytics Cloud will have this new email address as the header sender address.

Stories

  • In the optimized story experience, you can now use the keyboard to navigate through the story filters and input controls.
  • In the optimized story experience, you can now change the default story settings for thresholds in the story's theme preferences. There are five pre-defined threshold states to choose from, and you can change the colors or symbols for each of these states.
  • In the optimized story experience, you can now display dimension totals as a bar in your chart, or as part of the color or trellis feed. (The feature works in bar/column, stacked bar/column, and Marimekko charts.)
  • In the optimized story experience, you can now sort and rank the percentage or absolute variance in your charts.
  • In the optimized story experience, you can now activate/deactivate SAP BW conditions in charts.
  • You can now migrate existing stories with choropleth layers to the optimized design experience or create new ones.

Planning

  • When adding an API step to your multi action, you can now insert parameters in the selection field.
  • When working in a table, you can now copy a single source cell and paste it to multiple cells at the same time.
  • When creating a multi action, you can now include up to 50 steps.

Modeling

  • Currency conversion workflows have been enhanced thanks to a redesign of the toolbar and a new drop-down menu to help you switch between your rate table and a list of conversion errors. Currency tables are now easier to maintain, navigation has been refined, and a brand-new wizard now helps you add missing rates to your currency conversion tables quicker than before.
  • To offer a consistent user experience, the option Enable Currency has been removed from the properties section in the modeler's side panel. Instead you can create a property of type Currency in the Create Property dialog.
  • You can now change the data source or edit the query definition of an import job based on a model with measures.

    This enhancement should also help adapting changes to the external data source from which data needs to be brought into the model.

    This increased flexibility allows to adjust existing import jobs to changes both in the model, and in the external data source, while preserving the import job settings. This reduces the effort to create new import jobs from scratch.
  • The Data Import Service now allows you to import currency conversion data to your model.

Data Analyzer

  • In data analyzer you can now use the cascading filter effect for dimensions in the following ways:
    • Turn on cascading effect in the dimension member dialog for the list of available filter members of a single dimension.
    • Turn on the cascading effect on the filter line for all dimensions added to the filter line. This overwrites the settings of all filter tokens in the filter line but can be turned back to the default dimension setting.
    For SAP BW data sources, the default is the respective setting in the SAP BW query. For SAP HANA data sources, the default setting is “booked”.
  • When you work on a story (in optimized design and view experience) you can now enable data analyzer also on a chart via the builder panel (by checking the property Enable Data Analyzer).

Content Management

  • You can now download or upload packages in the Content Network through API endpoints.

System Administration Notes

  • With the 2023.14 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 1.0.365, the SAP Analytics Cloud agent requires additional setup steps, for more details see 3262098 Information published on SAP site.
    • If you require data acquisition from SAP Business Warehouse (BW), the minimum version is 1.0.353.
    • 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 1.0.379, no matter what data acquisition type you use.
    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 2541557 Information published on SAP site 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 2771921 Information published on SAP site for further details.
    • Please download the latest version of the Simple Deployment Kit from Service Marketplace.
      Note
      To avoid downloading older versions and potentially exposing users to a vulnerable bundling of the Cloud Connector with SAPJVM, or Apache Tomcat, only the three latest versions of the kits are available to download.
    • For Cloud agent version change management details, refer to 3264839 Information published on SAP site .

Version 2023.13

SAP is pleased to announce a new version of SAP Analytics Cloud.

General

  • On the Files page, select the Shared with Me view to find content that has been shared with you by other users or select the Owned by Me view to find content that you own. These new views show files from private, public, and workspace folders.

  • You can configure an SMTP server of your choice, for all email deliveries, using the advanced authentication type, OAuth. Before you begin using OAuth as the Authentication Type, make sure you've created an OAuth app with the necessary scope and permission set to send email via the service provider for the mail services. For more information, see Configure Email Server.

  • You now have an advanced settings toggle available to hide HTML tags in the translation panel. Once you enable this, you can see the texts for translation formatted in the same way as they appear in all your stories. You can choose to turn off this toggle if you want to see the HTML tag details in the translation panel. For more information, see Edit Translations Manually.

Stories

  • In the optimized story experience, you can now synchronize the scaling of both axes on a dual-axis chart so that the measures are using the same scale. The synchronization applies to Line, Combination Column & Line, or Stacked Combination Column & Line charts.

  • In the optimized story experience, you can now change the order of the story filters, whether you want to group similar filters together or put the most important ones first in the filter panel.

  • In optimized story experience, as a story developer, you can use script APIs related to story filters and variables to let story viewers change the visibility of the filter panel, set story filters, set story variables, and so on.

Modeling

  • For new properties of type Text of generic, account, organization, and version dimensions, you can set the maximum text length for the property’s values from 1 up to 5000 characters. For existing properties, you can increase the maximum text length up to 5000 characters. This feature also applies to properties of semantic type Generic and data type Text of user-managed date dimensions. In stories, very long property values may be displayed in abbreviated form.

  • You can now use the following improvements in the variable dialog:
    • Show technical names of variables
    • Show only mandatory prompts
    • Use multi-selections for certain variable types

Planning

  • In mass data entry mode, you can now use the Add Member option to add a dimension member to your table built on an SAP BPC live data model. This can only be an existing member in the model.

Data Analyzer

  • You can now search for SAP Datasphere models by using the search field in the Select Model dialog.

System Administration Notes

  • With the 2023.13 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 1.0.365, the SAP Analytics Cloud agent requires additional setup steps, for more details see 3262098 Information published on SAP site.
    • If you require data acquisition from SAP Business Warehouse (BW), the minimum version is 1.0.353.
    • 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 1.0.379, no matter what data acquisition type you use.
    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 2541557 Information published on SAP site 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 2771921 Information published on SAP site for further details.
    • Please download the latest version of the Simple Deployment Kit from Service Marketplace.
      Note
      To avoid downloading older versions and potentially exposing users to a vulnerable bundling of the Cloud Connector with SAPJVM, or Apache Tomcat, only the three latest versions of the kits are available to download.
    • For Cloud agent version change management details, refer to 3264839 Information published on SAP site .

Version 2023.12

SAP is pleased to announce a new version of SAP Analytics Cloud.

Stories

  • You can now export stories to CSV format from optimized view mode.

    When scheduling a publication, you have an option to select widgets within a story that can be exported in a CSV file type and delivered to the required destination.

Modeling

  • The Data Export Service now allows you to export currency data from any currency table in an SAP Analytics Cloud tenant. For details, see the Data Export Service documentation.

Planning

  • When setting up a data action planning trigger, configuring a data action step in multi actions, or adding a data action to be scheduled in the calendar, you now have the option to decide how you want your data to publish. You can choose to automatically publish your changes and have the publish fail if there are any restrictions, or you can choose to automatically publish your changes and discard any data that is affected by restrictions.

System Administration Notes

  • With the 2023.12 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 1.0.365, the SAP Analytics Cloud agent requires additional setup steps, for more details see 3262098 Information published on SAP site.
    • If you require data acquisition from SAP Business Warehouse (BW), the minimum version is 1.0.353.
    • 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 1.0.377, no matter what data acquisition type you use.
    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 2541557 Information published on SAP site 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 2771921 Information published on SAP site for further details.
    • Please download the latest version of the Simple Deployment Kit from Service Marketplace.
      Note
      To avoid downloading older versions and potentially exposing users to a vulnerable bundling of the Cloud Connector with SAPJVM, or Apache Tomcat, only the three latest versions of the kits are available to download.
    • For Cloud agent version change management details, refer to 3264839 Information published on SAP site .

Version 2023.11

SAP is pleased to announce a new version of SAP Analytics Cloud.

Stories

  • When using the flat presentation of time hierarchies in charts in the optimized story experience, dates will now be displayed clearly. For example, instead of just showing the month, the date may also include the year or quarter, depending on how the hierarchy is defined.

  • Tables built on SAP BPC live connection models now follow IBCS-compliant styles on version dimensions.

Planning

  • When setting up a planning trigger for multi actions, data actions, or BPC planning sequences using the optimized story experience in stories, you can now format the trigger to your liking. The additional formatting options include choosing the color of the trigger button and icon, uploading your own icon, and choosing the font, size, style, and color of your trigger text.

  • In data actions and multi actions, you can now choose input controls and story filters using the All Members selection, when at least one member is deselected.

Calendar

  • To focus on specific calendar events or series, you can now filter your calendar or list workspace to show the required events only. When you select a process as filter, its child events will be displayed as well. For details, see Filter Calendar Events.

System Administration Notes

  • With the 2023.11 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 1.0.365, the SAP Analytics Cloud agent requires additional setup steps, for more details see 3262098 Information published on SAP site.
    • If you require data acquisition from SAP Business Warehouse (BW), the minimum version is 1.0.353.
    • 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 1.0.375, no matter what data acquisition type you use.
    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 2541557 Information published on SAP site 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 2771921 Information published on SAP site for further details.
    • Please download the latest version of the Simple Deployment Kit from Service Marketplace.
      Note
      To avoid downloading older versions and potentially exposing users to a vulnerable bundling of the Cloud Connector with SAPJVM, or Apache Tomcat, only the three latest versions of the kits are available to download.
    • For Cloud agent version change management details, refer to 3264839 Information published on SAP site .

Version 2023.10

SAP is pleased to announce a new version of SAP Analytics Cloud.

Stories

  • You can now choose to convert your classic story to an optimized story (which will overwrite the contents and let you continue to use the same story ID), or to keep the classic story and save the converted story as a new story with a new ID.

  • When your chart contains multiple dimensions, you can now use the context (right-click) menu to create a single dimension filter. This feature is only available in the optimized story experience.

Modeling

  • You can now search for SAP Datasphere Analytic Models, Analytical Datasets and Perspectives within the model selection dialog when creating a story.

    Select an SAP Datasphere tenant and use keywords to search either across all SAP Datasphere spaces or within a specific space.

    This will help you track your SAP Datasphere data instantly before creating a story.

Calendar

  • In the Generate Events wizard, you can now add automatic data locking tasks before or after the events that will be generated for the leaf members of the driving dimension.

    As event types, you can now choose to create general tasks and review tasks and schedule data locking before or after the general task or after all review tasks. Alternatively, you can choose to create composite tasks as before and schedule data locking before or after the composite tasks.

    For a better overview, you can group the generated tasks in a process, and enter task type specific suffixes to the task names. You can add individual descriptions for each task type, or a general description for all generated events.

    For details, see Generate Tasks and Processes with the Calendar Wizard.

System Administration Notes

  • With the 2023.10 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 1.0.365, the SAP Analytics Cloud agent requires additional setup steps, for more details see 3262098 Information published on SAP site.
    • If you require data acquisition from SAP Business Warehouse (BW), the minimum version is 1.0.353.
    • 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 1.0.375, no matter what data acquisition type you use.
    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 2541557 Information published on SAP site 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 2771921 Information published on SAP site for further details.
    • Please download the latest version of the Simple Deployment Kit from Service Marketplace.
      Note
      To avoid downloading older versions and potentially exposing users to a vulnerable bundling of the Cloud Connector with SAPJVM, or Apache Tomcat, only the three latest versions of the kits are available to download.
    • For Cloud agent version change management details, refer to 3264839 Information published on SAP site .

Version 2023.9

SAP is pleased to announce a new version of SAP Analytics Cloud.

Stories

  • You can now add data point comments to unbooked cells.

Smart Predict

  • Smart Predict now provides more flexibility to evaluate the accuracy of time series forecasting models. Expected MAE, Expected MASE, Expected RMSE, and Expected R² are now provided in addition to Expected MAPE. When evaluating the accuracy of an entity-based time series forecasting model, the predictive user can display the Median, Third Quartile, Average, and Sum for all the provided performance indicators across all entities.

System Administration Notes

  • With the 2023.09 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 1.0.365, the SAP Analytics Cloud agent requires additional setup steps, for more details see 3262098 Information published on SAP site.
    • If you require data acquisition from SAP Business Warehouse (BW), the minimum version is 1.0.353.
    • 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 1.0.373, no matter what data acquisition type you use.
    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 2541557 Information published on SAP site 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 2771921 Information published on SAP site for further details.
    • Please download the latest version of the Simple Deployment Kit from Service Marketplace.
      Note
      To avoid downloading older versions and potentially exposing users to a vulnerable bundling of the Cloud Connector with SAPJVM, or Apache Tomcat, only the three latest versions of the kits are available to download.
    • For Cloud agent version change management details, refer to 3264839 Information published on SAP site .

Version 2023.8

SAP is pleased to announce a new version of SAP Analytics Cloud.

Stories

  • For charts in optimized story experience stories that are based on SAP BW live data connections, you can now expand hierarchies in your charts or select a specific drill level.
  • SAP BW hierarchies with linked nodes are now supported in the optimized story experience.
  • In the Optimized Design Experience, you can now freely position your widgets using the new responsive layout.

  • Now for optimized stories, global and personal bookmarks permissions can be customized. If you’re a custom role, ensure that you have the relevant permissions so that you can create bookmarks, for example. For more information, refer to Permissions.

General

  • The updated SAP Analytics Cloud page titles now reflect the page content. You can easily distinguish between opened browser tabs, quickly navigate your history, and manage your bookmarks.
  • As an analytic application designer or story developer in the optimized story experience, you can use getTeamsInfo() and getRolesInfo() APIs, which get the team and role of the current user respectively.

Mobile

  • Android mobile app users can now access live SAP S/4HANA On-Premise data using a standard S4 live (SAML SSO) connection.

Data Analyzer

  • In data analyzer you can now use a template as styling option for tables. Currently the default and basic templates are supported. Additionally, you can set alternating rows.
  • For SAP BW data sources, you can now set the following options in the data analyzer styling panel: Scale, Unit, or Currency Position. Choose whether the options should be displayed in the data cells, row header, or column header.

System Administration Notes

  • If your SAP Analytics Cloud tenant has exceeded the license limits you'll see a warning message. When you've reached the maximum number of allowed licenses, you'll be restricted from creating or updating any more users which those licenses. See Manage License Usage Limits.
  • With the 2023.08 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 1.0.365, the SAP Analytics Cloud agent requires additional setup steps, for more details see 3262098 Information published on SAP site.
    • If you require data acquisition from SAP Business Warehouse (BW), the minimum version is 1.0.353.
    • 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 1.0.373, no matter what data acquisition type you use.
    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 2541557 Information published on SAP site 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 2771921 Information published on SAP site for further details.
    • Please download the latest version of the Simple Deployment Kit from Service Marketplace.
      Note
      To avoid downloading older versions and potentially exposing users to a vulnerable bundling of the Cloud Connector with SAPJVM, or Apache Tomcat, only the three latest versions of the kits are available to download.
    • For Cloud agent version change management details, refer to 3264839 Information published on SAP site .

Version 2023.7

SAP is pleased to announce a new version of SAP Analytics Cloud.

General

  • Comment statistics will now give you information on the number of comments associated with a planning or analytic model, at model and version level. Information such as number of data point comments, number of dimension comments, and threads are all part of the statistics.

    You must have permission to manage and read comments in the tenant, and read permissions on planning and analytic model in the tenant to view comment statistics.

Stories

  • In Optimized Story Experience, as a story viewer, you can subscribe to top N data change insights in the story to keep notified of data changes of specific charts on specific pages on a regular basis.
  • In the Optimized Story Experience, you can now use the keyboard to navigate between widgets on story pages as well as within the menu options in the widget context (More Actions) menus.
  • In Optimized Story Experience, as a story developer, you can use setAllMembersSelected API for selecting all members on an input control, and isAllMembersSelected API for confirming whether all members have been selected. In addition, you can write scripts for an input control’s onSelect event, which are executed when viewers change the member selections.
  • How comments in your tables refresh now follows the modes you set for Data Refresh. This helps avoid unnecessary fetching of comments and improve the performance of your optimized story, especially when you have many tables or a large number of comments.
  • You can now add long text paragraphs in all form of comments (excluding dimension comments). 10,000 characters are the new character limits per comment (dimension comments continue to have 255 characters limit per comment).
  • As a custom widget developer, you can upload your custom widget’s JSON file and resource file at the same time. Resource files can now be hosted on SAP Analytics Cloud instead of an external web server.
  • In Optimized Story Experience, you can now customize the variance colors for your charts.
  • As a story designer using the Optimized Story Experience, you can now change the horizontal filter bar into a vertical filter panel, and you can also define the default orientation for view mode.

Planning

  • For a story in optimized story experience, you can now create a forecast layout using calculation input controls even when your model enables Week-Based Date Pattern or uses a user-managed time dimension.
  • In the version management panel, you can now directly create a blank public or private version without copying an existing version. Creating a blank public or private version has fewer restrictions than copying an existing version and allows for more flexibility when managing your versions.
  • In data actions, you can now change the default model after adding data action steps. Previously, you were only able to change the default model before adding steps to your data action.
  • In multi actions, you can now add data locking steps to protect your data from unwanted changes.
  • In the allocation step of data actions, you can now choose non-default hierarchies for source and target dimensions. Creating hierarchies specific to your allocation scenario allows you to define an efficient and easy-to-maintain set of allocation rules.
  • There are new privileges for the data action monitor. If you have Read or Manage permission for Data Action Monitor Administration, you can now view all data action jobs, including the name, trigger source, and model data. Additionally, if you have Manage permission for the data action monitor administration and Execute privilege for the data action, you can cancel data actions that were triggered by other users.
  • In the allocation step of data actions, you can now create a structured allocation directly from the data action designer. The new data action allocation steps can be edited in the designer and do not need a time reference.
  • In the data action monitor, you can now view data actions that are part of a multi action executed in the calendar.
  • You can now use planning capabilities, like entering data, in a table built on an SAP BPC live connection model with Universal Display Hierarchy enabled in its underlying query.
  • The copy step of data actions has new copy rule behaviors for copy rule for copying along time dimensions. You can now use user-managed time dimension, time dimensions with week granularity, and time dimensions with weekly patterns. These improved copy rule behaviors allow for more flexibility and have fewer restrictions than the previous copy rule behaviors.
  • When using the version management panel, you can now choose to display only the versions that are currently being used.

Mobile

Modeling

  • The Data Import Service is an open API that allows you to import fact and master data to SAP Analytics Cloud. Along with its Data Export Service counterpart, the Data Import Service offers bi-directional data flows, helping you:
    • Export data out of SAP Analytics Cloud models,
    • Perform advanced operations using external engines, custom logic, proprietary machine learning algorithms,
    • Import enriched data to SAP Analytics Cloud models,
    • Consume that data in SAP Analytics Cloud planning and analytical workflows.
  • The Apply selected dimension as a filter option is now available for stories based on the same SAP Datasphere model, and designed either with Optimized View Mode enabled or created using Optimized Design Experience. Use this option in stories to create and open hyperlinks to other stories with dimension filters applied.
  • As an administrator, it is now possible to view all API subscriptions for all models in an SAP Analytics Cloud tenant under the Subscriptions Overview tab in the Connections page.
  • In the Modeler you can now use a new editor for editing parent-child hierarchies for dimensions. It offers the following enhancements: -

    • You do not need to load all dimension members upfront before opening the parent-child hierarchy editor, which allows you to handle dimensions with a large amount of members.

    • New sorting capability enables you to sort all direct children of a parent member by their ID or description (ascending or descending) and the sort order will be saved.

    • New filter capability to filter the members that are currently displayed in the tree to those matching the entered value (either in ID or description).

    • For small dimensions with less than 1.000 members the member list offers the additional view “Unused” (in addition to “All” and “In Use”), which displays only members that are not yet contained in the hierarchy.

  • The Enable Legacy Export option that allows you to enable data exports to other applications such as SAP S4/HANA, SAP Business Integrated Planning, SAP BW and SAP BW4/HANA using OData services, can now be found under the Data and Performance tab in the model preferences.
  • Two new Subtotal and %Subtotal functions have been added to the Modeler. With these functions, you can now return the subtotal or percentage of subtotal for a member broken down by one or multiple dimensions.

Data Analyzer

  • In the available objects list of data analyzer, the dimensions are now grouped as defined in the model.
  • The available dimensions and measures in the data analyzer filterline dropdown list are now shown in a hierarchical structure.
  • When opening data analyzer from the table in a story, you can now choose to open data analyzer in a new browser tab or to open it in the current tab. When data analyzer is opened in a new tab, the story will remain open in the initial tab. When opening data analyzer in the current browser tab it is opened in place as overlay.
  • You can now use the toolbar functions Undo, Redo and Reset in data analyzer. These functions support all actions that manipulate the data source in the table (like for example sorting, swap axis and more) . They do not support table styling settings and general appearance settings of UI elements.
  • As a user of a story in optimized design and view mode, you can now open data analyzer not only from a table but also from a number of supported chart types via the actions menu item Open Data Analyzer. The supported chart types are:
    • Column
    • Bar
    • Line
    • Numeric
    • Pie
    Note that there is currently the restriction that you cannot enable data analyzer per widget on the chart builder panel.

    To be able to use the action menu item for a chart, the data analyzer property has to be enabled via the Story Details dialog (by selecting Start of the navigation pathStory Details Next navigation step Data Exploration Settings Next navigation step Enable Data Analyzer for all supported widgets)End of the navigation path in the File menu of the story. When opening data analyzer from a chart, the chart data is transferred and mapped to the data analyzer table.

System Administration Notes

  • You can now configure BYOK directly in SAP Analytics Cloud. Go to Start of the navigation pathSystem Next navigation step Administration Next navigation step External SystemsEnd of the navigation path.
  • The System Overview has been added to the side navigation. This analytic application allows you to monitor and analyze your system usage.
  • With the 2023.07 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 1.0.365, the SAP Analytics Cloud agent requires additional setup steps, for more details see 3262098 Information published on SAP site.
    • If you require data acquisition from SAP Business Warehouse (BW), the minimum version is 1.0.353.
    • 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 1.0.372, no matter what data acquisition type you use.
    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 2541557 Information published on SAP site 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 2771921 Information published on SAP site for further details.
    • Please download the latest version of the Simple Deployment Kit from Service Marketplace.
      Note
      To avoid downloading older versions and potentially exposing users to a vulnerable bundling of the Cloud Connector with SAPJVM, or Apache Tomcat, only the three latest versions of the kits are available to download.
    • For Cloud agent version change management details, refer to 3264839 Information published on SAP site .

Version 2023.6

SAP is pleased to announce a new version of SAP Analytics Cloud.

General

  • In both Analytics Designer and Optimized Story Experience, APIs related to table cell comments and comment widgets now support SAP BW live data models.

Data Acquisition, Live Data Connections, and Integration

  • Import data connections to Dow Jones data sources are no longer available as of this release.

Modeling

  • You can now use multiple language member descriptions for private dimensions (except date and version dimensions) and give more meaning to your dimension members by adding descriptions in up to 49 different languages. This makes your model more accessible and allows global customers to cater for all their end-users in their preferred language.

Planning

  • In mass data entry mode, you can now use the Add Member option to add a dimension member to your table. This can be an existing member or a new member not yet available in the model (a "member on the fly").

  • You can now access data actions and multi actions in the File repository. From the file repository, you can use the toolbar to perform actions such as moving, copying, or deleting your objects.

  • When a multi action runs with a warning in a step, you will get an executed with warning message.

System Administration Notes

  • With the 2023.06 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 1.0.365, the SAP Analytics Cloud agent requires additional setup steps, for more details see 3262098 Information published on SAP site.
    • If you require data acquisition from SAP Business Warehouse (BW), the minimum version is 1.0.353.
    • 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 1.0.372, no matter what data acquisition type you use.
    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 2541557 Information published on SAP site 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 2771921 Information published on SAP site for further details.
  • Please download the latest version of the Simple Deployment Kit from Service Marketplace.
    Note
    To avoid downloading older versions and potentially exposing users to a vulnerable bundling of the Cloud Connector with SAPJVM, or Apache Tomcat, only the three latest versions of the kits are available to download.
  • For Cloud agent version change management details, refer to 3264839 Information published on SAP site .

Version 2023.5

SAP is pleased to announce a new version of SAP Analytics Cloud.

Stories

  • You can now choose a resolution for PDF and PowerPoint files shared via email that best fits your purpose of publication. 1920 x 1080 being the default page resolution, you have more options to choose from while scheduling a publication. For the scheduled publications that are in progress, changing the page resolution settings is disabled.

Calendar

  • Owners of calendar events can now delete events and remove them from the calendar of any involved people. For details, see Canceling, Suspending, Removing, or Deleting Calendar Events.
  • You can now view, create, edit, and remove dependencies among calendar events in the Gantt chart of the List workspace. For details, see Changing the Planned Dates and Start Conditions of Calendar Events.
  • Owners of calendar parent processes can now decide to activate the process with or without any role transfer. The role transfer before activation can now be reached by a button in the People section, and there the option to transfer the owner role only has been removed. Upon activation as well as when selecting the Transfer Roles Now button, the same mechanism of transferring all roles to the child events is applied.

System Administration Notes

  • With the 2023.05 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 1.0.365, the SAP Analytics Cloud agent requires additional setup steps, for more details see 3262098 Information published on SAP site.
    • If you require data acquisition from SAP Business Warehouse (BW), the minimum version is 1.0.353.
    • 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 1.0.372, no matter what data acquisition type you use.
    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 2541557 Information published on SAP site 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 2771921 Information published on SAP site for further details.
  • Please download the latest version of the Simple Deployment Kit from Service Marketplace.
    Note
    To avoid downloading older versions and potentially exposing users to a vulnerable bundling of the Cloud Connector with SAPJVM, or Apache Tomcat, only the three latest versions of the kits are available to download.
  • For Cloud agent version change management details, refer to 3264839 Information published on SAP site .

Version 2023.4

SAP is pleased to announce a new version of SAP Analytics Cloud.

Stories

  • You can now show or hide total values and display net total values for Stacked Bar/Column and Combination Stacked Column & Line charts. For details, see Show Total Values (Optimized Story Experience).

  • You can now group your integrated variance data labels with the base variance data labels. This feature is only available in the optimized story experience.

  • You can now add comments in the comment widget to stories built on SAP BW or SAP BPC live data models.

  • In Optimized Story Experience, if you’re assigned to the Application Creator role, you can now turn on or off Advanced Mode as you like to have different views for building your story. Advanced Mode lets you add custom logic to your story, with more widgets, functionalities and scripting capabilities. For more information, see About Advanced Mode (Optimized Story Experience).

Modeling

  • You can now connect to SAP Successfactors Workforce Analytics to create models with measures and datasets.

Planning

  • In the API step of multi actions, you can now configure the fields mapping when requesting a response status. This allows you to overwrite the default fields in the response body.

  • When creating an input task, users are now informed about the possibilities to use calendar tasks instead. They can proceed with the input task creation or go to the calendar from there. For more information they are guided to the following new help chapter: From Input Tasks to Calendar Tasks

Mobile

  • The Analytics Catalog is now available in the Android mobile app.

  • App authentication configuration via the custom MDM browser is now supported for the iOS app.

System Administration Notes

  • With the 2023.04 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 1.0.365, the SAP Analytics Cloud agent requires additional setup steps, for more details see 3262098 Information published on SAP site.
    • If you require data acquisition from SAP Business Warehouse (BW), the minimum version is 1.0.353.
    • 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 1.0.372, no matter what data acquisition type you use.
    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 2541557 Information published on SAP site 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 2771921 Information published on SAP site for further details.
  • Please download the latest version of the Simple Deployment Kit from Service Marketplace.
    Note
    To avoid downloading older versions and potentially exposing users to a vulnerable bundling of the Cloud Connector with SAPJVM, or Apache Tomcat, only the three latest versions of the kits are available to download.
  • For Cloud agent version change management details, refer to 3264839 Information published on SAP site .

Version 2023.3

SAP is pleased to announce a new version of SAP Analytics Cloud.

New Optimized Story Experience

  • Whether you were building stories or analytic applications, you can now use the new Optimized Story Experience, which integrates features in both stories and analytics designer. You can create customized interactions and add custom logic with a variety of widgets, functionalities, and scripting capabilities. Here is a list of the functional and usability-specific highlights of the new Optimized Story Experience:

    • Unified Design Time

      • The new Assets panel makes it easier for you to build your story by dragging and dropping any available widgets.

        The Outline panel lists all the widgets added to each page or popup in a structured way, as well as scripting elements used in your story.

      • Respective design experiences for story designers and story developers. Added capabilities such as scripting, advanced widgets and CSS are available if you’re a story developer, who is assigned to the Application Creator role.

        New widgets include Button, Input Field, Text Area, Checkbox Group, Dropdown, Filter Line, List Box, Radio Button Group, Range Slider, Slider and Switch. As a story developer, you can assign scripts to them to create customized interactions.

      • You can align widgets, set their size and position, disable mouse actions to resize or reposition them, and change their edit time and view time visibility to manage all the widgets in your story.

    • Edit-View Switch

      You can choose whether to view your story in the current tab or a new tab by default.

      Note

      If the story contains scripting elements, you can only view in a new tab. To view the newly created story in a new tab, you need to save it first. When you view in a new tab, only saved states are displayed.

    • Scripting Capabilities

      As a story developer, you can create script variables, script objects and technical objects, and use APIs related to widgets and other services to add custom logic to your story. All the scripts are based on JavaScript.

    • Custom Widget with Data Binding

      You can use custom widgets in your stories, which extend the predefined set of widgets provided by Stories. Like other widgets, custom widgets now support data binding and filtering.

    • Flexible Theming and CSS Capabilities

      • Creating themes is more intuitive with widget previews available for you to adjust styling settings and better design your story.

      • After configuring styling preferences for the current story in design time, you can create a theme from them, which can be reused in other stories.

      • In addition to setting styling in Styling panel and theme preferences, as a story developer, you can define CSS classes for either the whole story or any widget, page or popup, which brings more flexibility and granularity to the styling in your story.

    • Linked Widgets Diagram

      In design time, after creating linked analysis or filter line in your story, you can open Linked Widgets Diagram, which offers a graphic overview of the relationships among widgets. In addition, you can modify the existing relationships for each widget directly on the diagram.

    • Configurable View Time Widget Context Menu

      In the Styling panel of a widget, you can select what actions to be exposed to your story viewers when they open the context menu on it.

    • View Time Navigation

      As a story designer or developer, you can choose to show view time page navigation as tabs, a dropdown, or none to use your custom navigation style.

    • Customizable View Time Toolbar

      At design time, you can customize the view time toolbar, so that specific quick access and submenu functions are displayed to your story viewers.

    • Filter Panel Enhancements

      As a story viewer, now you can manage your story filters in a vertical filter panel, which makes it easier to view hierarchies and to see a long list of members.

    • Unified Bookmark Workflow

      In bookmarks global settings, story designers or developers can update version so that bookmarks created in other versions become invalid. Story developers can also choose what to include in bookmarks.

      In addition to filters, input controls and prompts, story viewers can now bookmark widget states, such as the display of data, and width and height. They can choose whether to save the last changed values of dynamic variables.

      All the bookmarks can be accessed from the Bookmarks tab of Stories start page.

    • Export to PDF

      • When you export your story to PDF in view time, you can now define orientation, page size and page number position of the export, add header or footer, and include comments.

      • Story developers can use Export to PDF technical objects with related APIs to define the export behavior for viewers, such as what components to include in the export.

    • Scheduling

      Scheduling publication for stories is now supported in Optimized Story Experience. Note that only PDF format is available, and there’re added file settings such as paper size and whether to include comments. You can also enable other viewers to customize the values of script variables when they open the story.

    • Last Refreshed Date and Time Support for Dynamic Text

      At design time, you can add last refreshed data and time of any SAP BW live data model used in your story to Text, table title and chart title.

    • Binding Image to Script Variable

      As a story developer, you can bind the Image widget to a script variable in your story, whose value can be the source URL of any image.

    • Widget Data Refresh Settings

      In the Builder panel of charts or tables, you can choose to refresh only active widgets in view time to avoid unnecessary fetching of the result set and thus improve the performance of your story.

    • View Time Script Performance Analysis

      In view time, you can use the Script Performance Popup to analyze the performance of scripts used in your story. It visualizes the duration of script execution, and operations that affect script performance.

    • Loading Optimization

      Whether in edit time or view time, you can choose to load contents in the background or restrict content loading to the visible area of the screen to improve your story’s performance.

    • Data Analyzer Integration

      You can open the new Data Analyzer from a table in your optimized story.

    • Mobile Support

      Viewing optimized stories is supported on SAP Analytics Cloud iOS and Android mobile apps, as well as in iOS Safari browser.

Stories

  • In tables built on SAP BW or SAP BPC live connection models, you can now add point comments.

  • In the optimized story experience, you can now add comments to tables built on models with user-managed time dimensions.

Planning

  • In multi action steps, you can now add and create parameters by choosing the icon in the designer panel.

Calendar

  • There are the following changes for processes:

    • Processes with assignees now receive their statuses and progress from their assignees.

    • The status and progress of processes without assignees is defined by their child events. Canceled child events are excluded from the status and progress aggregation.

    • When reopening a parent process that has an assignee, the owner can decide to reopen the process only, or the process and its child events.

    • The statuses Accomplished and Partially Accomplished are no longer in use. To align between manual and automatic events, the statuses Successful and Partially Successful are used instead.

    For details, see Calendar Processes: Aggregation of Status and Progress.

  • Owners of calendar events are now notified if an event is being changed by another owner who is currently updating the same event or who has scheduled longer running changes to multiple events including this one in the Edit Events wizard. The notified owners can refresh the details panel directly from the message, and proceed their work once the message disappears.

System Administration Notes

  • With the 2023.03 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 1.0.365, the SAP Analytics Cloud agent requires additional setup steps, for more details see 3262098 Information published on SAP site.
    • If you require data acquisition from SAP Business Warehouse (BW), the minimum version is 1.0.353.
    • 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 1.0.372, no matter what data acquisition type you use.
    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 2541557 Information published on SAP site 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 2771921 Information published on SAP site for further details.
  • Please download the latest version of the Simple Deployment Kit from Service Marketplace.
    Note
    To avoid downloading older versions and potentially exposing users to a vulnerable bundling of the Cloud Connector with SAPJVM, or Apache Tomcat, only the three latest versions of the kits are available to download.
  • For Cloud agent version change management details, refer to 3264839 Information published on SAP site .

Version 2023.2

SAP is pleased to announce a new version of SAP Analytics Cloud.

Calendar

  • Assignees of review tasks can no longer add any work files to the task. With this change, reviewers have the same experience regardless if they work in composite tasks or review tasks.

Stories

  • The "Difference From" calculation is now supported for stories that use SAP BW remote sources.

System Administration Notes

  • With the 2023.02 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 1.0.365, the SAP Analytics Cloud agent requires additional setup steps, for more details see 3262098 Information published on SAP site.
    • If you require data acquisition from SAP Business Warehouse (BW), the minimum version is 1.0.353.
    • 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 1.0.369, no matter what data acquisition type you use.
    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 2541557 Information published on SAP site 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 2771921 Information published on SAP site for further details.
  • Please download the latest version of the Simple Deployment Kit from Service Marketplace.
    Note
    To avoid downloading older versions and potentially exposing users to a vulnerable bundling of the Cloud Connector with SAPJVM, or Apache Tomcat, only the three latest versions of the kits are available to download.
  • For Cloud agent version change management details, refer to 3264839 Information published on SAP site .

Version 2023.1

SAP is pleased to announce a new version of SAP Analytics Cloud.

Data Analyzer

  • New Data Analyzer

    You can now use a new data analyzer that offers functional and usability-specific enhancements. The previous data analyzer has been renamed to classic data analyzer (classic insights). Classic insights can still be accessed from the file repository. Here is a list of the functional and usability-specific enhancements of the new data analyzer:

    • Table Enhancements:

      • Adaptive table layout
      • ID and description for dimensions presented in two columns
      • Freeze column headers (default)
      • Removed default row limit
      • Lazy loading when scrolling
      • Drag and drop within a table
    • Filter Enhancements:
      • One-level filters (widget filter has been removed)
      • Dynamic filters with default values from SAP BW query are displayed in the filter line
    • Updates of Filter Dialog for Dimension Members:
      • Copy and paste filter values from clipboard
      • Display attributes and search by attributes
      • Checkbox to select "All" members
      • Harmonized value help experience for filter dialog and variable prompts
    • Context Menu Enhancements:
      • Filter by Member option to open the value help dialog
      • Filter Members option (works as a Cartesian filter)
      • Freeze Header option to freeze column and row table headers
    • Builder Panel Enhancements:
      • Independent arrangement of totals and hierarchy nodes
    • Builder Panel Enhancements – Drag and Drop:
      • For SAP HANA live data sources: customizing measure order
      • Selecting display attributes from the available objects list
      • Customizing the order of display attributes
    • SAP BW Queries with Two Structures – Drag and Drop:
      • Selecting members of the second structure from the available objects list
      • Customizing the member order
    • Integration with Story:
      • You can open data analyzer from a table visualization in optimized story
    • Migration of Insights:
      • You can manually switch insights from classic data analyzer to new data analyzer insights

      For more details, see Data Analyzer.

General

  • You can now add comments in the comment widget to data sourced from single column dimensions in an analytic model.
  • You can now schedule a publication for stories and analytic applications that are in optimized view mode, just like you would in the classic mode.

Stories

  • You can now add data point comments and dimension comments to tables with single column dimensions in their axes or filters. Note that such tables are built on analytic models.
  • You can now create running total calculations (such as sum, count, max, min, and average) that can be used for all tables and charts in your story. This feature is only available in the optimized story experience.
  • For both private and public generic as well as organization dimensions, you can now enrich a dimension using coordinate data within the modeller. The enriched dimension can be consumed as a location dimension in Geo Maps. Note: this feature is only available within the Optimized Story Experience.
  • SAP Datasphere Analytic Models are now supported in stories created using the Optimized Design Experience. If you have a live connection to SAP Datasphere, you can now access Analytic Models along with Analytical Datasets and Perspectives. The model selection dialog has also been enhanced to allow browsing for both live connections and models directly within the dialog. For more information, see Live Data Connections to SAP Datasphere.
  • As a story designer, you can now decide how your users apply changes to multi-selection filters:
    • Immediately update the chart or table contents as members are selected or deselected in the filter.
    • Make your changes in the filter dialog and then use Apply Selections to apply all the changes at the same time. (This is the default setting for new member filters that allow multiple selections.)

    This feature is only available in the optimized story experience.

  • For stories in optimized design experience, you can now create a dynamic forecast layout using calculation input controls.

Modeling

  • In the Data Management space, by default, only the file and the SAP BPC options are now available as export options. To be able to push data to other applications such as SAP S4/HANA, SAP Business Integrated Planning, SAP BW and SAP BW4/HANA using OData services, you now have to switch on the Enable Legacy Export option first. Please note that as a best practice, we recommend using the Data Export Service whenever possible to export data. For more information, see Learn About the Modeler.
  • The Data Management space has been enhanced with a new API Subscriptions tab to provide a visual user interface to the Data Export Service, in order to visualize and manage all your model subscriptions directly within SAP Analytics Cloud. For more information, see Learn About the Modeler and Manage API Subscriptions for Data Exports.

Mobile

  • The Android mobile app is now available to download from the Tencent Appstore.

Planning

  • With the new debugging tool of data action tracing, you can set tracepoints in a data action, execute the data action, and check the intermediate results at tracepoints, as well as data changes between tracepoints, in a story-like table layout. Note that such an execution doesn't pause at these tracepoints or make actual changes on the target version. Based on insights from tracing, you can edit and refine your data action to fix its issues so that it can work as you desire.
  • You can now regenerate data locks by using the Redeploy Model option in model preferences.
  • In the predictive step of multi actions, you now have the option of saving the forecast values for past periods.
  • In data actions, you can now view the auto-generated rules in the cross-model copy step.

Data Acquisition, Live Data Connections, and Integration

  • The following SQL Server databases are now supported by import data connections: Microsoft SQL Server 2019, PostgreSQL 10, PostgreSQL 11, PostgreSQL 12, PostgreSQL 13.
  • CSV exports can now be scheduled with an hourly cadence.
  • New Concur connections can now be created with a new authentication workflow. For more information, see Import Data Connection to SAP Concur.

System Administration Notes

  • With the 2023.01 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 1.0.365, the SAP Analytics Cloud agent requires additional setup steps, for more details see 3262098 Information published on SAP site.
    • If you require data acquisition from SAP Business Warehouse (BW), the minimum version is 1.0.353.
    • 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 1.0.369, no matter what data acquisition type you use.
    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 2541557 Information published on SAP site 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 2771921 Information published on SAP site for further details.
  • Please download the latest version of the Simple Deployment Kit from Service Marketplace.
    Note
    To avoid downloading older versions and potentially exposing users to a vulnerable bundling of the Cloud Connector with SAPJVM, or Apache Tomcat, only the three latest versions of the kits are available to download.
  • For Cloud agent version change management details, refer to 3264839 Information published on SAP site .