What's New – 2023 Releases

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

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.

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.

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 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 Display 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 .