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This blog post covers some of the latest features and enhancements in SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Digital Boardroom from the Q4 2021 Quarterly Release Cycle (QRC).
Please note that the SAP Analytics Cloud Help Portal is updated at the same time as the upgrade to this release, so the links here may not yet reflect what is described below until after the upgrade is complete.
Technical Requirements
SAP Analytics Cloud fully supports Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome for all activities and areas of viewing, authoring, and administration.
Be sure to upgrade to the latest SAP Analytics Cloud agent version 1.0.335to take advantage of all the data acquisition types.
Click on the listed links to learn about each feature update in Q4 2021. Alternatively, check out this SAP Analytics Cloud Product Plan and watch the SAP Analytics Cloud Product Updates Video below for more information as well.
For this quarterly release, you can now click into the Data Analyzer from the side navigation panel. Under the Start New section, connect to either a data source or an existing model to use the Data Analyzer as a standalone exploration tool with the new starting page. You can also browse through a list of Recent Files and open existing insights for any further data exploration and maintenance.
Dashboard and Story Design
Best Practice Performance Tips for Story Designers
Additionally, story designers are now guided with best practice performance tips to ensure optimal story design. Note that these tips are only visible in Edit Mode. The performance optimization tips are provided as optional recommendations for story designers to apply throughout the content creation process at your own discretion. A notification icon will pop up to:
Notify story designers to enable Optimized View Mode
Notify story designers when too many pages are added to a story
Notify story designers when too many widgets are added to a page
Notify story designers to collapse page filter input controls
Enterprise Planning
New Planning Area for Data Entry
We are also introducing the Planning Area to optimize data entry and version copy performance. You can enable the Planning Area on a given model by selecting the toggle for Optimize Recommended Planning Area within Model Preferences under Data and Performance. Note that the scope of the Planning Area can be based on existing Data Access Control and/or Data Locking configurations.
This new concept for planning models reduces the amount of data and time necessary to create a private version or to edit a public version. Likewise, the Planning Area improves general version editing time for large data sets. It also simplifies planning workflows with enhanced visual cues for editable data while blocking data entry to non-editable cells.
Mobile Analytics
Analytics Catalog on Mobile iOS App
Another addition to this quarter is the Analytics Catalog in the SAP Analytics Cloud Mobile iOS App. You can now have a uniform experience with accessing responsive stories and designer applications on mobile devices as you would from the web version. By selecting the Analytics Catalog tab in the SAP Analytics Cloud Mobile iOS App, you have the ability to:
Search through a list of published catalogs
Open associated files and supported content types
Sort list by recently added, most viewed, and alphabetical order
Enable the overall Analytics Catalog as a default tab
Add-In for Microsoft Office
Microsoft Office Add-In for SAP Data Warehouse Cloud
Last but not least for this quarterly release, you can connect to live SAP Data Warehouse Cloud data sets using Microsoft Excel on both desktop and online versions for more flexibility. The Builder panel is available along with the functions to sort, expand, and collapse hierarchies and filter based on rankings. You now have the full power of Microsoft Excel, including complex formulas, all for your live SAP Data Warehouse Cloud data sets.