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meganhoy
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SAP Analytics Cloud brings together analytics and planning with unique integration to SAP applications and seamless access to heterogenous data sources. It helps everyone in your organization make decisions without doubt with trusted insights and integrated plans.

This blog post introduces the features of the SAP Analytics Cloud 2023.03 release available for SAP Analytics Cloud FastTrack customers. For SAP Analytics Cloud Quarterly Release Cycle (QRC) customers, this release and its features will be available as part of the QRC Q2 2023 release. View the QRC release schedule here.

 

System Administration and Technical Requirements


 

Although not required, you may upgrade to the latest SAP Analytics Cloud agent version 1.0.369 to take advantage of all data acquisition types.

The agent’s minimum version remains at 1.0.75, with the following exceptions:

Version 1.0.99 for SAP ERP/SQL Database
Version 1.0.365 for SAP universe (UNX). The SAP Analytics Cloud agent requires additional setup steps, for more details see SAP Note 3262098
Version 1.0.353 for SAP Business Warehouse (BW)
Version 1.0.235 for SAP HANA View
Version 1.0.248 for File Server

For more information, see System Requirements and Technical Prerequisites.

 

Release Highlights



 

Dashboard & Story Design


 
New Optimized Story Experience: Unification of Story and Analytic Application

In this release, we are introducing the unification of stories and analytic application into one single artifact based on the optimized stack in SAP Analytics Cloud.

The optimized story experience is an evolution of the story that provides usability and performance improvements. Additionally, it is the strategic version for new story features. To learn more about the optimized story experience, check out this blog post by Anna Burkhardt.

Here is an overview of the new features part of this release:

  • Unified Artifact for Both Story and App

  • Integrated Design Time for Both Designer and Developer

  • Unified Story Module and Landing Page

  • Enhanced Custom Widget with Data Binding

  • Widget Dynamic Visibility, Size and Position

  • Unified Bookmark Workflow

  • Flexible Theme and CSS Capability

  • Vertical Filter Panel

  • Linked Widgets Diagram

  • Data Analyzer Integration

  • Configurable Runtime Toolbar

  • Configurable Widget Context Menu

  • Last Refreshed Date and Time Support for Dynamic Text for BW live Data model

  • Scheduling and Mobile Support


For a deeper overview and more details on the new Optimized Story Experience that unifies the story and analytic application, check out this blog post by jie.deng.

 

Data Integration


 
Live SAP BW – Support for Data Point Commenting

In tables built on SAP BW or SAP BPC live connection models, you can now add data point comments. If a data point has a comment it will be visualized by a comment indicator in the corresponding cell in the table. In order to read or change the comment the user has to click on the indicator. Alternatively, comments can be visualized in a separate column in the table. Comments can not be changed directly in the table but from the same popup as in the case of the comment indicator. The popup also shows the (BW-) user that has last modified the comment and a time stamp. A history of all changes done on a comment is also available.

The comments are stored in BW in so-called document stores and the feature has to be enabled in the query. The comments are also shared with Analysis for Office. The feature is available for BW 7.50 on Hana and BW/4HANA.


 

Enterprise Planning


 
Planning Process - Quality Improvements on Progress / Status Aggregation

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 are 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.

 
Planning Process - Notify Users About Concurrent Editing

Owners of calendar events are now notified if an event is being concurrently updated by another owner, or if mass edit changes are being made through the bulk edit feature. The warning message will appear in the header of the event details panel, and the notified owner can refresh the details panel directly from the message, and proceed with their work once the message disappears.


 
Support Flexible Time for Table Commenting

With this release, table commenting, including data point and dimension commenting is now supported for models which have enabled flexible time dimensions on the new stack.

One limitation to mention is that dimension commenting is not supported when setting a filter using member navigation (dynamic range filter, or fixed filter with “Start” or “End” etc.) and the filtered dimension is defined in the formula. For example, in an optimized design experience story or in view mode of an optimized view mode story, a dynamic filter range is set on a user-managed time dimension defined in the dimension comment formula. Additionally, if a story in the non-optimized (classic) experience that includes such a filter is converted to one in the optimized story experience, dimension comments will also become unavailable.

We announced the support of Flexible Time Dimensions in the New Model Type in a previous release. Learn more details here.


 
Multi Actions: UX Improvement - Create Multi Actions Parameter 

When working with multi actions, users can now add and create parameters by choosing the { } (Available Parameters) icon in the designer panel and selecting “Create Parameter” from the dropdown menu. This addition of parameter creation provides users with a more intuitive and convenient way to create and select parameters.


 

This blog post only provides a high-level overview of the latest features and enhancements of SAP Analytics Cloud. You can find more details on these features in your In-App Help Guide for FastTrack customers and see this SAP Knowledge Base Article if you’d like to learn more about FastTrack and Quarterly Release Cycle releases.

If you have any questions regarding the content in this blog post, you can comment below. If you have product specific or technical questions, post a question to our SAP Analytics Cloud Questions & Answers forum. Visit our SAP Analytics Cloud Community pages to find more product information, best practices, and more. And check out our SAP Road Map Explorer to see more upcoming features of SAP Analytics Cloud.
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