#ASUG Webcast: What’s New in Analysis Office 2.6 Recap
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Expect GA in 3 weeks
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Legal disclaimer applies
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Some nice features are coming
You can schedule events based on dates
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SAP Analytics Cloud integration started in 2.5; making more use of the HANA engine such as exception aggregation
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You can create a new connection today using Analysis Office 2.5
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New exception aggregation
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Some limitations are shown above
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BI platform enhancements include launch workbooks stored in BI platform via URL and passing parameters
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Available as of SP5 for BI4.2
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It is possible to reschedule scheduling jobs
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Schedule based on events – you can trigger scheduling jobs in Analysis Office
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Autocomplete enhancement of table design
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You can use VLOOKUP
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You can use full member selector instead of the simple to use search and range options
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Filter by range is possible – has some performance impacts
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Planned for SP1 and BW support package
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Rendering dates Excel natively – and also the chart rendering is correct
Question & Answer
Q: Will the slides be available?
Q:How do we connect to BO Universes?
Q: when releasing new version of Analysis, do we plan to apply cloud model and premise both ? seems that analysis office 2.6 is the case?
Q: When is convergance of Analysis & Live Office planned for?
Q: Can we create variables with “IF” statements in it? Can we move key figures to be amongst the dimensions & not stuck at the end of the table?
Q: AFO publication bursting supported yet?
Q: Can we “rename” dimensions for reporting without going back to the bex query in AO?
Q: Is there a way to set AO so it does not fetch all Key Figures/Measures by default? This was easy in BEx but does not exist in AO. It displays all by default
Q: Is there any plan to support parallel data source execution ?
Q: Not just publication….but bursting like Webi. I must have missed it….
Q: With BW 7.5 and BEx sunset in 2021, will AO convert workbook b enhanced?
I thought a comment function was planned for 2017 ?
Unfortunately previously announced commenting functions seem to be running gags by SAP since several releases 🙂 ...please prove me wrong SAP!
Hello Tammy,
Could you please highlight some benefits from EPM perspective? EPM Addin that comes bundled with AFO 2.6.
Thanks and Regards,
Swakshar Choudhury
Hello - thank you for reading and replying; I don't work on the EPM side so I don't feel comfortable covering it. You can check the SAP Help for updates at help.sap.com https://help.sap.com/viewer/p/SAP_BUSINESSOBJECTS_ANALYSIS_OFFICE
Okay, thanks Tammy