Road Map: SAP Analytics Cloud Summary of #SAPTechEd Session

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SAP TechEd Road Map – SAP Analytics Cloud strategy and overview – presented last month at SAP TechEd – you can watch the replay here: https://events.sapteched.com/widget/sap/sapteched2020/Catalog/session/1602555747849001uvDG

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Agenda is shown above

Overview

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SAP Analytics Cloud strategy is to “enable the intelligent enterprise” across all functions

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Road map highlights

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Today: smart wrangling

Q1 – adding data frames for wrangling

Future direction includes the Universal model  and custom sort

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Jump to file is the back image with “bread crumbs”

Middle image is the “combined creation and browse” navigation

Better menu navigation with descriptions

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See filter panel on the left, to provide a “clear and actionable filter overview”.

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With smart discovery, select topic – e.g. revenue, with a more focused answer than before

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Q4 updates for mobile on the left

Q1 – coming soon – voice enabled search for iOS mobile

Smart insight on live SAP HANA connections in Q4

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Smart insights on live HANA data now works

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Q1 reporting – repeat table headers (precision)

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Q1 – MS Azure Data Center support, beyond AWS

Future – cloud foundry data center support for Canada

Content access request – see something interesting, request it

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Coming in Q1 enterprise reporting – design on left, view in middle, distribution for export – PowerPoint or PDF

The legal disclaimer applies, anything in the future is subject to change (Source: SAP)

Related:

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