With the first major update of 2025, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) is once again bringing a number of exciting improvements and new features. These further developments aim to increase user-friendliness, expand analysis and planning options, and optimize integration with other SAP and third-party systems.
In this article, we take a look at the most important innovations and show how they help companies make data-driven decisions even more efficiently.
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Seamless planning integration with SAP Datasphere
A particularly anticipated highlight of the Q1 2025 update is the introduction of the Seamless Planningfeature that enables tighter integration between SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Datasphere. This new integration method enables you to store the data of an SAP Analytics Cloud model – both factual and master data – directly in SAP Datasphere. This reduces storage requirements in SAC while keeping the data available in real time for analysis, additional processing steps, and extension scenarios within SAP Datasphere.
The main advantages of this innovation:
- Real-time control on semantically enriched data for more precise analyses and informed decisions.
- More flexibility for live reportingby combining analytics across SAP Analytics Cloud and other data sources into SAP Datasphere models.
- expandability of SAC planning by using SAP Datasphere functions such as data processing via the SQL editor.
With Seamless Planning, the integration between planning and data management is significantly optimized – a big step towards a more efficient and flexible analysis and planning landscape.
Compass – Probability simulation with Monte Carlo methods
With the Q1 2025 update, SAP Analytics Cloud introduces Compass a new feature that Monte Carlo simulations and is specifically designed to meet the needs of business users. This powerful technology allows multidimensional analyses in real time without any complex IT setup or in-depth prior statistical knowledge.
Compass brings the Monte Carlo simulation from the world of mathematics into a user-friendly environment. An intuitive configuration interface allows even non-technical users risk analyses and probability calculations without having to deal with complex mathematical models.
This innovation opens up new opportunities to better quantify uncertainty and make more informed business decisions – a real game changer for data-driven risk management.
Job Monitor – Support for Multi Actions
With the introduction of the Job Monitors It becomes much easier for business and administrator users to monitor the status of background processes and system-wide operations.
From now on, users can track all jobs created during content transportThe monitor shows a clear list of all transport processes such as Export, Import, Download and Upload. In addition, the Import status directly in the status column which enables quick analysis and tracking.
This innovation ensures more transparency and control via background processes and facilitates the management of data and content movements in the SAP Analytics Cloud.
AI for Planning and Analysis
Extensions for "Just Ask"
The "Just Ask"function in SAP Analytics Cloud is enjoying great popularity and will be enhanced with several powerful innovations in the Q1 2025 update:
- support for currency conversion in acquired data models – queries can be performed directly with converted values.
- Optimized visualization in bar charts – by default, a maximum of 10 bars are now displayed unless sorting or ranking has been defined.
- Using the SAP HANA Cloud Vector Engine to process word embedding models and perform similarity queries for smarter analysis results.
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