QRC2 2022 has just dropped for SAP Analytics Cloud, and we have over 40 new features available for you to enjoy. This quarter we have a whopping 34 Customer requests with a combined 800 VOTES!! Our biggest delivery of Customer Influence requests in a single quarter to date. Bear with me in this blog were I will take you through ALL the features requested and voted for by you, our Customers, via the Customer Influence Portal.
Dashboard & Story Design
Undo/ Redo
The most single voted for item with almost 200 votes this quarter and s big topic requested frequently from our customers is the ability to undo and redo. This is not just for users consuming a Story but also very important for Story designers. We are delighted to announce with the delivery of 2 big features this quarter Optimized Design Experience & Optimized story viewer – planning & analytics designer support undo/redo is now available in both experiences.
Undo & forward button
Enterprise Planning
Flexible Time handling
Handling multiple time dimensions in a story can often be tricky so it is not surprising that our next most requested feature, Flexible Time Handling, with 9 different customer asks and 188 votes combined was featured in our Top 5 for Q2 2022
An exciting topic within planning where we enable both System and User Managed Time.
System Managed time enable support for:
- Weekly pattern support
- Support for 53rd week
- Option to mix weekly patterns with other time granularities
User Managed Time we enable additional support for:
- Special periods
- Configurable dates
- Custom attributes
- and/or additional hierarchies
This new flexible time handling features covers several customer requests:
- WEEK in Time Dimension
- Option to add properties/Attributes to Date Dimension
- Allow Internal Calendar to match company's Fiscal Calendar
- Add Half Year to the standard time dimensions in SAC
- FISCAL MONTH NAMES vs "P01"
- Add "Year, Half-Year, Quarter, Period" Date dimension default hierarchy & ability to change setting
- Enable value unassigned for dim Time
- Add Period 13 and Period 00 in Standard Date dimension - Planning model
- Add "half-year" in the standard hierarchy of fiscal year
- Data Locking affecting Top nodes
- Global Parameters in Multi Actions
- Having sequence of dependent tasks option in Calendar
- DataAction use 'not equal to' sign in MEMBERSET !=
- Stories should prioritize Planning Enabled tables
- Cannot copy measures (associated with Currency) with reference data from Actuals to Forecast
- Calendar executes tasks using a distinct "Calendar user"
- Possibility to manage data action calendar task created by another admin
A particular mention to Fluid Data Entry one of our Top 5 for Q2 2022 this feature optimizes both performance and usability for the end user.
Highlights include:
- Rapid entry of data into multiple cells without any noticeable delay
- Process data entry requests automatically including immediate recalculation of table formulas and delayed recalculation of model formulas and other widgets
- Version history tracks each required recalculation as a single transaction for roll back/roll forward
- Delayed recalculation occurs after 1 sec pause, but this is configurable within the tenant administration settings
- Also, when I bring up the Change history you can see that much like Mass Data entry it is batched so I can revert changes since the last update.
Data Integration
Data Export – open API for data export
An important feature coming from multiple customer requests and almost 70 votes is the new Data Export Open API. Although this feature was initially delivered under controlled release in Q1 it is now generally available as of Q2 2022.
We know our planning customers often wish to include their forecasts in other applications such as S/4HANA, BW as well as third party applications.
With the new Open API for data export, planning and forecasting data can now be pulled externally from SAP Analytics Cloud, allowing easier downstream data processing operations on forecasting and planning data. Using an OData service users can browse SAP Analytics Cloud models to pull data from and the initial support includes:
- Transaction Data
- Master data of the dimensions in a model
This feature covers several customer requests including:
- Enhanced Export Capability (e.g. to generic ODATA targets)
- Process chain for several export steps (OData)
- SAC extraction limited to 6 million lines
Some additional Data integration and data wrangling features delivered in Q2 2022 and voted for by you include:
- Share all import connections with teams and users
- Dynamic HANA Input parameters integration with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)
- Load Data into New Model without Creating Members first
- Import Connections from DWC
Analytics Catalog
There are also some new features to improve the overall user experience with SAP Analytics Catalog, simplifying the workflow to publish to Analytics Catalog and remembering users filter preferences.
Analytic Applications
Analytic Applications is always a popular topic within the Customer Influence portal and this quarter we bring you some exciting new features including the advanced capabilities when configuring tabstrips.
Administration and Service Management
This release is not just about our end users and designers there are plenty of new features to help our Administrators in SAP Analytics Cloud in Q2 2022. These include:
- Add Team assignments to the Security / Users page
- Change User of Import Job (Import Connection)
- Automated download of security activities
- Automatic Download of Security Audit Logs (SAL)
SAP Analytics Cloud, add-in for Microsoft Office
Last but at no means least we have a much anticipated feature with our add-in for Microsoft office. In this quarter we deliver the ability for customers to use prompts to control currency, default, and non-default variables within in model. Prompts can be used for individual tables or a whole workbook.
Customer Influence Portal
Finally, you can get the full list of all requests for SAP Analytics Cloud in the Customer Influence Portal. Here you can have your say by adding your own ideas and requests for new features in SAP Analytics Cloud.
Our customer requests Open for Voting have now over 2700+ requests so get in raise your requests and cast your votes to have your say.
If there is an area that is of particular interest to you for example Data Exploration, you can narrow your search to just these requests using the filter bar.
We want to continue hearing from you so get voting!
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