Product Plan: SAP Analytics Cloud and Digital Boardroom

Product Plan
SAP Analytics Cloud and Digital Boardroom

Q4 2020
PUBLIC
Quarterly Release Schedule
Updates to the Timeline
Since launching in 2015, SAP Analytics Cloud received updates approximately every two weeks. As of version 2018.19, we
moved from a bi-weekly release schedule to a Quarterly Release schedule to align with SAP’s global strategy for cloud
application releases. This means you can expect a new version once every quarter.
The Product Plan timeline shown below will now reflect the current plan based on this Quarterly Release Schedule.
Q4/2020 Q1/2021 Future Direction
If you are on the Fast-Track subscription (updates every two weeks), please note that features may be available to you earlier
than what is listed in the Quarterly Release Schedule timeline.
More information can be found here.
*The upcoming Q4 2020 release of SAP Analytics Cloud is a dedicated quality and performance release.
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Table of contents
▪ Data integration
▪ Modeling
▪ Data visualization
▪ Reporting
▪ Planning
▪ Smart Assist
▪ Smart Predict / Predictive Planning
▪ Analytics Designer
▪ APIs and Extensions for Developers
▪ Intelligent Enterprise
▪ Mobile
▪ Platform Services
▪ Administration and infrastructure
▪ SAP Digital Boardroom
▪ SAP Analytics Content Network
▪ SAP Microsoft Office Add-ins
▪ Product Plan summary
Product Description
SAP Analytics Cloud

ACT WITH CONFIDENCE
Business Augmented Enterprise

Intelligence Analytics Planning
Digital Analytics Analytics

Mobile
Boardroom Hub Designer
On Premise Hybrid Cloud

Product Description
SAP Analytics Cloud
Hub & Catalog Mobile App

Centralized Portal iOS & Android
Digital Boardroom Stories Analytic Applications MS Office Integration
Business Augmented Enterprise

Intelligence Analytics Planning
Data Discovery & Exploration Conversational Analytics Events & Workflows

Storytelling & Visualizations Automated Analytics Sharing & Simulation
Enterprise Reporting Predictive Analytics Predictive Planning
Data Connectivity Administration Scheduling

PLATFORM SERVICES Data Preparation Lifecycle Management Collaboration
Modeling Auditing SDK’s

Product Description
SAP Analytics Cloud Architecture
Hub & Catalog Mobile

Centralized Portal iOS & Android
User
Digital Boardroom Stories Analytic Applications MS Office Integration
Experience
Business Intelligence Augmented Analytics Enterprise Planning

Analytic Data Discovery & Exploration Conversational Analytics Events & Workflows
Capabilities Storytelling & Visualizations Automated Analytics Sharing & Simulation
Enterprise Reporting Predictive Analytics Predictive Planning
Data Data Lifecycle

Platform connectivity preparation
Modeling Administration
Management
Collaboration Scheduling APIs
PaaS SAP Cloud Platform

Amazon Web Services SAP Data Center
3rd party Data Sources and

Cloud Data Sources
Applications
and Applications
Future Direction
Augmented BI Strategy – Key Future Enhancement themes
Simplicity & Productivity Enhanced support for live Performance

Target the Business Analyst Enterprise Reporting
sources
Provide advanced self-service Provide the very best live analysis Provide the most sought-after Provide Enterprise Reporting with Provide improved performance and
capabilities for intuitive end-user capabilities and greater functional features including enabling more streamlined reporting capabilities in faster load time through client
workflows, improved core workflows parity for HANA, BW, S4 and Explorer use-cases and additional the cloud with enhanced styling, refactoring and filter improvements
and increased feature discoverability Universes business scenarios formatting and export capabilities

Future Direction
Planning – Key Future Enhancement themes
Streamlined Plan Entry Intelligent Planning at Advanced Planning features Complete Plan Process Office 365
Scale to address all Planning Tracking
scenarios
Simplify and optimize Support seamless creation Enrich capabilities and Enhance capabilities to Support for Office 365
performance and features to and integration of predictive calculation logic help to simplify overall plan process including new Excel add-in
enable users to model and forecasts at scale as part of address last mile planning modeling and tracking supporting cross platform
capture their plans quickly and the planning process requirements and enhance scenarios on desktop or in the
effectively overall solution automation browser

Data integration
Product Description
Data integration
Connect to data anywhere stored in on-premise databases, cloud databases, and personal files. Enrich data
and business metadata in preparation for self-service data analysis through purpose-built data modeling
capabilities and calculations.
Live connections
▪ Data replication is not required
▪ Leverage business metadata directly without
additional modeling
▪ Leverage existing security and data authorizations
Data import connections

▪ Business users can model data with Smart Data
Preparation
▪ Easily create, track and reverse data transformations
▪ Refresh data on demand or via schedule

Product Description Native
With SAP HANA or Data Warehouse Cloud
With SAP BI 4.2 and 4.3
Connect With SAP Cloud Platform Open Connector

With Partner Connectivity
SAP
SAP HANA SAP BW SAP S/4HANA SAP Cloud for Customer SAP Business ByDesign
SAP BPC Embedded SAP Marketing Cloud SAP Marketing Cloud SAP SuccessFactors
SAP BusinessObjects Universe SAP HANA Cloud SAP Fieldglass SAP S/4HANA SAP Qualtrics
SAP Data Warehouse Cloud SAP BPC NW & MS SAP HANA SAP ECC
SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence documents SAP BusinessObjects Universe SAP BW
Same SQL data sources as SAP BI

Same SQL data sources as SAP BI Google BigQuery Google Drive OData
Same data sources as SAP DWC Google Sheets Salesforce CSV
SQL Data Sources* SQL Data Sources Excel SQL Data Sources MS SharePoint*
SCP Open Connector Data Sources
Non-SAP
Live Acquired
* - Within next 12 months

Recent Innovations
Data integration
Live Import
Integration with SAP BW Data import connectivity
▪ Remove 4000 member limit for input controls ▪ Acquire from Qualtrics
▪ Copy & Paste of filter values for story and page filters ▪ Increased ingestion thresholds for file sources
▪ Add In-Cell Charts, Add Thresholds on table for queries with two structures
▪ Keep session alive
▪ Prompting enhancements (Copy & Paste (clipboard), Display of attributes)
Integration with SAP BusinessObjects

Standalone deployment
▪ Centralized configuration
Web Intelligence as a source
▪ Support access to Web Intelligence documents data models
Integration with SAP HANA Cloud

▪ SAP HANA Cloud is available as a live data source

Product Plan
Live connections to SAP BW

The upcoming Q4 2020 release of SAP Analytics Enhanced analytic capabilities Enhanced analytic capabilities
▪ Prompting enhancements: Show unbooked members ▪ Enhanced data blending scenarios (1)
Cloud is a dedicated quality and performance release.
− Blending on date dimension
− Blending in BW HANA or other on-premise HANA engine
Enhanced analytic capabilities Integration with BW concepts − Blending of BW Live with HANA Live
▪ Improved support of input controls: ▪ Support of default query read mode (F4 help) for input ▪ Hierarchy expand in Charts
additional selection option for BW hierarchies controls
▪ Support of fiscal dimensions (e.g. Fiscal Year / Period)
▪ Currency conversion on story / page level
▪ Restricted measure based on calculations
▪ Calculation Editor: Difference From, Dynamic time based
calculation for Restricted Measure, Calculated Dimension
▪ Measure based Filters
▪ Display of images in table based on BW XXL attributes
Integration with BW concepts

▪ Improved support of time dependant hierarchy
▪ Linked Nodes support in hierarchies
▪ Improved support of compounded characteristics
▪ Improved handling of query changes
▪ Further prompting enhancements (e.g. Save variants)
▪ Improved support of queries with two structures
− Create new structure member on the fly
Note: Most features on this slide require SAP BW 7.50 or higher and will not be supported with SAP BW 7.40. For more details on feature support see SAP Note 2715030
(1) Requires SAP HANA
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
Product Plan
Live Data Connect to SAP BusinessObjects

Enhanced analytic capabilities Enhanced analytic capabilities Enhanced analytic capabilities

▪ Filters on measures ▪ Calculated dimensions ▪ Calculated measure
▪ Variance ▪ Linked dimensions
Web Intelligence as a source ▪ Support HANA multi columns and currency for HANA SQL ▪ Continuous improvements
universe ▪ Enable Smart Insight
▪ Support Navigation Path as SAP Analytics Cloud set level
▪ Support Universe navigation path (drill up/down) ▪ Enable Smart discovery
Enhanced deployment capabilities

Web Intelligence as a source Enhanced deployment capabilities
▪ BOE audit improvements to capture Live Data Connect
actions ▪ Support Web intelligence hierarchy as SAP Analytics Cloud ▪ Support Scheduling with Live Data Connect
collapsible member dimension
▪ Improved proxy customization for Live Data Connector ▪ Support SAP Analytics Cloud mobile app with Live Data
Connect
Enhanced deployment capabilities
▪ SAML deployment improvements Integration of SAP Universe concepts in
SAP Analytics Cloud Query Builder
▪ Combined queries
▪ Preview Data, View SQL
▪ Continuous improvements
Security
▪ Move key store PKCS 12
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Product Plan
Data import connections

The upcoming Q4 2020 release of SAP Analytics Data preparation Data connectivity
Cloud is a dedicated quality and performance ▪ Smart Grouping of values ▪ Live connectivity to SQL data sources
release. ▪ Start working on replicated data before all the data
gets uploaded
Data integration
▪ Blur the lines between live and data import connectivity
▪ Dataset append
Data preparation
▪ Geo improvements: Disambiguation
of location information, Geo enrichment by city name,
US zip codes
Data integration
▪ Dataframes introduced into Datasets
▪ Full Dataset malleability (refresh & modify)
▪ Data flow: Visual representation
of wrangling transformations in a reusable graph
▪ Datasets can combine multiple sources
▪ Public API to push Datasets
Q1/2021
Data Management of Datasets
Managing the data coming in a dataset

▪ Add append option
▪ Delete row operation
▪ Scheduling
Datasets as a source for all data ingestion

workflows
New wrangling floorplan to better support end

users workflows

Future Direction
Multi-source Datasets
Combine different sources

▪ Prepare sources upfront
▪ Same experience whether datasets are in stories or
public
SAP Labs Preview
▪ Left, inner, union joins
Exposing the data at each stage of the joining

experience

Modeling
Product Plan
Modeling
Modeling on live data

Simulations ▪ Create models based on live HANA and BW
▪ Simulation/what-if scenarios in Datasets connections
▪ Tight interaction with SAP Data Warehouse Cloud
Multi-Source Models
▪ Merge multiple data sources into one model
Continuous Improvement
▪ Time Dependent Hierarchies
▪ Translation Table Upload
▪ Custom Unit of Measure
▪ Geo Public Dimensions
Universal Model
▪ Completely revised Modeling Experience
▪ New, analytics friendly model artifact
▪ Performance improvements
▪ Calculations embedded in model
Recent Innovations
What-If on Datasets
Datasets can be used in what-if scenarios.
Cells can be locked or input ready
Uses planning infrastructure in the background
No planning licence required

Future Direction
Universal Model
Complete Overhaul of Models
Improved UI
Ability to have both measures and accounts in

same model
Calculations can be right in model
Improved editing (e.g. add, remove dimensions)
Improved analytics performance
SAP Labs Preview

Future Direction
Universal Model
Complete Overhaul of Models
Improved UI
Ability to have both measures and accounts in

same model
Calculations can be right in model
Improved editing (e.g. add, remove dimensions)
Improved analytics performance
SAP Labs Preview

Data visualization
Recent Innovations
Data visualization
Analyst Capabilities
▪ String manipulation for Calculated Dimensions
Filters & Bookmarks
▪ Copy paste dimension members into story and page filters
▪ Set ID and Description per dimension in input controls
Story Formatting
▪ Data label formatting to improve readability
Live Connectivity
▪ Remove 4,000 member limit for BW
Q4/2020
Data visualization
Analyst Capabilities
▪ Zero and null suppression
▪ Change model behind story for acquired models
▪ Re-ordering of facets in Explorer
▪ Table loading indicator improvement
Calculation Improvements
▪ Median and quartile calculation
▪ Copy calculated measures and dimensions
SAP Labs Preview

Product Plan
Data visualization
Analyst Capabilities Analyst Capabilities Analyst Capabilities

▪ Median and quartile calculation ▪ Rank and Sort independently
▪ Rank with multiple dimensions
▪ Zero and null suppression ▪ Optimised table experience ▪ Rank with Others
▪ Change model behind story for acquired models ▪ Custom Widget
▪ Copy calculated measures and dimensions Usability
▪ % of sub-total calculation
▪ Table loading indicator improvement ▪ View-time toolbar improvements
▪ Story Explorer UI improvements ▪ Running Total calculation
▪ Re-ordering of facets in Explorer ▪ Hyperlink improvements
Performance and Usability

▪ Performance Improvements
▪ Improved chart building experience
▪ Improved SAC navigation experience
with Modules
▪ Calculations UI enhancements
▪ Improved experience with cell-
based number formatting in tables
▪ Undo / Redo
Filters & Bookmarks

▪ Filtering Workflow improvements
▪ Bookmark enhancements
Live Connectivity
◼ For more detail please data

Integration section
Reporting
Product Plan
Reporting
Q4/2020
Q4/2020 Q1/2021
Q1/2021 Future Direction
Table Pagination Pagination

▪ Table to dynamically expand table size ▪ Content to support pagination (ex. Table) ▪ Horizontal Pagination
(vertically) ▪ Page Header/ Footer
Table
▪ Page Margins
▪ Repeat Table header
▪ Pagination at Design Time
Repeated content
Table
▪ Repeated group of widgets over pages ▪ Table Header/Footer with support of calculations
▪ Multiple Widgets per group ▪ Table fold/unfold
Precise Formatting and Position Repeated content
▪ Absolute and relative positioning of widgets ▪ Nested Groups
Delivery/sharing ▪ Improved group navigation
▪ Paginated Export to .. (PDF/PPTX) ▪ Group based on hierarchy
▪ *(see Scheduling roadmap for additional Precise Formatting and Position
enhancements) ▪ Alignment of widgets
▪ Smart Layouting
Advanced Calculation
▪ Pre-defined calculations (e.g. based on Page
Number)
▪ Contextual calculations
Templates
▪ Template reports
▪ Bulk updates to templated reports
Planning
Product Description
Planning
Planning for everyone
Eliminate the artificial barriers between Planning & Analysis

Integrated BI, Planning, and Predictive capabilities augmented with rich
collaboration & commenting services promote an agile and seamless
Planning & Analysis experience
Access powerful planning capabilities with a few clicks

Customized data spreading, workflow & process management, unique
versioning & simulation tools, and robust scenario analysis facilitate a
more considered planning process
Deliver planning for an Intelligent Enterprise

Consolidate all planning on a single platform by leveraging best-in-class
connectivity to SAP solutions, and pre-delivered Best Practice content to
realize accelerated time-to-value
Product Description
Collaborative Enterprise Planning
Finalize
Prepare
▪ Submit Data
▪ Planning Model
▪ Data Locks
▪ Drivers & Parameters
▪ Forward Data
▪ Master & Actual Data
Success S/4 Group
HR Strategy
Factors Reporting
Collaborate
Visualize Supply &

Schedule S/4
▪ Review Data Demand Sales Finance Invest
▪ Planning Calendar Finance
▪ Dashboards ▪ Share Stories (IBP)
▪ Processes & Tasks
▪ ACT vs. BUD ▪ Run Discussions
▪ Planners & Reviewers
▪ Enter Comments
C/4 COGS Expense Concur

CRM
Plan Predict
▪ Input / Adjustment ▪ Time Series Forecast
▪ Distribution & Allocations ▪ Planning Proposition
▪ Advanced Formulas
Crowdsource plans and budgets Link operational and Embed within enterprise
1 across the organization to increase 2 financial planning 3 applications
engagement and accuracy to improve alignment and performance for one source of the truth
Recent Innovations
Planning Panel
Streamlined Plan Entry
Unified experience for custom spreading of values
Single context aware

dialog to simplify end-
user advanced
spreading operations

Recent Innovations
Value Driver Tree

Story Based Consumption
Construction and consumption of VDTs directly within stories simplifies their creation and offers enhanced functionality
Builder Panel
support
Design directly
within the story
Flexible node
configuration (e.g.
granular time, multiple
versions, cross
calculations)

Recent Innovations
Planning – Q2/2020
Planning
Plan Entry & Analysis Validation Rules

▪ Planning Panel - Unified experience for ▪ Mark invalid cell data
Spreading/Distribute/Assign
▪ Expand number of dimensions per
▪ API for master data in Analytics Designer rule (3)
▪ Commenting widget
Calendar & Planning
Value Driver Tree Process
▪ Story base VDT widget ▪ Data Action scheduling
▪ Consumption of Analytic Apps in
Data Actions calendar tasks & process
▪ Post Actions (version publish)
▪ URL support for work files
Advanced Formulas
▪ New Time functions (DateDiff) Plan Integration
▪ Version parameter support in ▪ Export to BW 7.50
ResultLookup/Link functions

Q4/2020
Nested Data Actions

Advanced Planning
Embed existing Data Actions as steps within another Data Action
New Embedded Action Deep nesting is supported

step type (i.e. nesting actions which
themselves have nested
actions)
Runtime parameters of
inner Data Actions Nest Actions must have
must be inherited from the same target model
outer Data Action

Q4/2020
Data Action Monitor

Advanced Planning
Easily review Data Action history from a single console
Display and Filter by

several properties (e.g.
Name, Execution Status,
Triggered By)
Users will see only their

individual jobs.
Administrators will have
visibility to all jobs

Product Plan
Planning
Plan Entry & Analysis Advanced Planning Plan Entry & Analysis
▪ Context menu enhancements for Version (data ▪ Advanced Formulas: ▪ Recursive Time functions
undo/redo) • Script to Visual Formula ▪ Data entry disaggregation respecting Data Locks
Advanced Planning • Aggregate function ▪ Planning on Navigation Attributes in Unbooked mode

• Enhanced conditional logic (Else support) ▪ Support for unbooked data entry with Inverse formulas
▪ Data Actions:
▪ Version sorting/renaming
• Data Action Monitor Calendar & Planning Process
• Nesting capabilities ▪ Flexible modeling of calendar objects Advanced Planning
▪ Advanced Formulas: • Distinct tasks for assignees and reviewers ▪ Multi-Actions
• Read attribute values exclusive of ResultLookup • Single event submission ▪ Data Actions:
▪ Cross dimensional validation rules: • Enhanced Task Wizard • Context sensitive execution
• Disable entry on invalid unbooked combinations • Enhanced options for task duration • API for Analytics Designer
• Member based modeling ▪ Advanced Formulas:
Calendar & Planning Process • Calculated member support
▪ Planning process monitoring (List View) • Improved Link function
• Debugging support
• Additional business functions (IRR, NPV)
Calendar & Planning Process
▪ Team support
▪ Conditional dependencies for calendar objects
▪ Enhanced Task Wizard
▪ Event based Data Locking
Plan Modeling & Data Integration
▪ Flexible Time dimension
▪ Multiple account hierarchy support
Smart Assist
Product Description
Smart Assist
Search to Insight Smart Insights R Visualizations Smart Transformation
Time Series
Smart Discovery Forecasting Smart Grouping
Deliver Simplicity through Machine Learning

Integrate machine learning seamlessly into business processes and workflows
Leverage machine learning to save time, remove complexity, and gain actionable insights
Recent Innovations
Smart Discovery – Explainable Simulation

Real time simulation experience, test different scenarios
Easily understood influencer impact
➢ The simulation page in Smart

Discovery allows users to test different
scenarios in their data.
➢ This improved implementation
provides a more intuitive interface for
users.

Q1/2021
Smart Discovery - Business Question Focused

Clarify the business question.
Smart Discovery automatically
prepares the data for the question.
Enables Smart Discovery to
generate content more relevant to
the question.
SAP Labs Preview

Product Plan
SAP Analytics Cloud Smart Assist

Smart Insights Smart Insights Smart Insights

▪ Live SAP HANA data connection support ▪ Enhanced use case support ▪ Further live data connection support
▪ Enhanced use case support ▪ Configuration to exclude dimensions and ▪ Additional Insights
▪ Improved support for hierarchies dimension members Smart Discovery
▪ Drill down on calculated measures ▪ Support for calculations and average
Smart Discovery aggregations
Search To Insight ▪ Business question focused Smart Discovery
▪ New type ahead suggestions now consider Search To Insight
measure & dimension popularity Search To Insight ▪ Supporting common questions / answers for
▪ Grouped type ahead suggestions now a domain
▪ Improved best practice visualizations
surface more potential matches to measures ▪ Support more flexible and complex questions
when searching
or dimensions across multiple models such as comparison & geo
▪ Recommendations for alternate ways
▪ Explore search results with on-chart actions – ▪ Save search results
to visualize search results
e.g. filter, exclude, compare
▪ Scheduled re-indexing of data based on live
▪ More focused measure & dimensions connections
suggestions now consider application context
Smart Predict / Predictive Planning
Product Description
Predictive tailored to the needs of Planners and Business Analysts

▪ Bring the power of automated machine learning to SAP Analytics
Cloud end-users
▪ Generate revenue or cost forecasts (time series), predict business
outcomes (regression), anticipate customer or
employee behavior (classification) with the push of a button and
without the intervention of a data scientist
▪ Produce transparent, understandable and trustworthy predictions
that can be easily integrated in SAP Analytics Cloud BI and
Planning stories
Natively integrated with SAP Analytics Cloud data models

▪ Predictive Planning: Smart Predict can use Planning models as a
data foundation and create time series forecasts at large scale.
▪ Acquired datasets can be used as a data foundation for Smart
Predict, including dataset wrangling capabilities
▪ Smart Predict can use live datasets (SAP HANA tables & SQL
views) and delegate processing to SAP HANA on-premise
systems
Recent Innovations
Predictive Planning
Intelligent Planning at Scale
• Planners can automate planning at scale with Smart Predict. Time series models can use planning models as data sources.
• Planners add predictive forecasts to planning models to support data-driven business decisions. Time series models are easily understood & trusted.
• Configuration is straightforward: a version is selected, an account member can be forecasted, predictive forecasts are generated across multiple dimensions.

Product Plan

Predictive Planning Handle Disrupted Time Series Predictive Planning

▪ Planners can predict & plan in local ▪ Predictive forecasts can ▪ Native hierarchy support allows for
currencies. All currency conversions be continuously delivered when business greater control of predictive forecasting.
scenarios are handled. volatility is high (initial delivery). ▪ Support of additional variables provide
increased business context.
▪ Increased transparency and trust is
provided on the predictive forecasts.
Handle Disrupted Time Series

▪ Predictive forecasts can be continuously
delivered when business volatility is high
(complete delivery).
Trusted Predictions for Business Analysts

▪ Understand the main reasons leading to
a prediction.
Q4/2020
Predictive Planning
Predict and Plan in Local Currencies
• Planners perform their planning with financials amounts expressed with default currency or in local currency.
• Predictive Planning generate predictive forecasts based on the selected currency option.
• Predictive forecasts can be saved into the planning model in the desired currency.
Set predictive
scenario with local
currency to get
predictions in the
Save predictions
currency of each
to the planning in
country
local currency

Q1/2021
Continuously Deliver Predictive Forecasts when Business Volatility is High

• External, unpredictable events like the COVID-19 crisis disrupt business time series.
• Customers face challenges when planning the future business evolution.
• The exact level of disruption varies, typical impacts are detailed in this blog.
• Automated time series techniques will be enhanced to mitigate disruption and detect key changes in trends.
SAP Labs
Preview
Change points are detected and trend detection is adapted.
Analytics Designer
Product Description
Analytics Designer
Professional design of centrally governable analytic content, ranging from dashboards via guided
analytics to sophisticated planning.
What is an analytic application?

▪ Applications range from simple dashboards to complex applications
▪ Applications expose custom logic based on scripting
▪ Applications are created by a few experts to be consumed by many
What is analytics designer?

▪ Rich set of capabilities for professional designers of analysis
applications to meet sophisticated business requirements
▪ Dedicated development environment with advanced scripting
capabilities
▪ Drive standardization of analytics content, create reusable UI elements
and application logic (such as headers, footers, toolbars)
▪ Extending applications via custom widgets and APIs
Developer Handbook: https://www.sapanalytics.cloud/analytics-designer-handbook/
API Reference Documentation:

https://help.sap.com/doc/958d4c11261f42e992e8d01a4c0dde25/latest/en-US/index.html This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
Recent Innovations
Analytics Designer
▪ Integrating analytic applications within SAP Analytics Cloud
Mobile iOS app (Controlled Release)
▪ Performance features: Loading invisible widgets in
background to accelerate the start-up performance
▪ New widgets: Page Book, List box
▪ Integration with SAP Data Warehouse Cloud: Creating
applications by using SAP Data Warehouse Cloud as live
data source
▪ Simple widgets property binding to reduce coding effort in
design time
▪ Enable Navigation Panel for table based on SAP Analytics
Cloud model
▪ Calendar task integration with scripting access
▪ Support setting Variable Values with SAP Analytics Cloud
URL parameter
▪ Scripting API Enhancements:
▪ Create member-on-the-fly / getMemberProperties for Planning
Model
▪ Set Variable value for hierarchy node variable,
getVariableValue, get Filter Value, Hierarchy scripting API
▪ Application message API, getApplicationInfo API,
▪ Extending getResultSet API to access dimension attributes
▪ Change widget property and style API
▪ Export to PDF API for setting Include and exclude parts
▪ Support of setting Null Numbers via scripting API
Q4/2020
Integration to SAP Analytics Cloud Mobile iOS App
▪ User is able to use SAP Analytics Cloud mobile

Application to list, view and interact with the analytic
applications created by Analytics Designer.
▪ Seamless authentication and session lifecycle management
▪ Import & Live Connections
▪ Application Refresh, Sharing, Annotation and Bookmarks
▪ iPad Support (Landscape mode), iPhone Support (Portrait mode)
▪ Support push notification to open the Analytics Applications
▪ Hyperlink for navigation between applications and stories
▪ Deep Link
▪ Mobile setting in design time

▪ Setting application property to „ Mobile Enabled“
▪ Then application will be visible on mobile devices
▪ Application designer/developer needs to make sure that the application is
suitable for mobile consumption
SAP Labs Preview

Q4/2020
Filterline working with multiple widgets
▪ Filterline can now support 2 modes:

▪ Individual widget filter → existing behavior : local filter
▪ Group filter /multiple widgets → new enhanced behavior:
external filter
▪ Configuration via Builder Panel
▪ In case there are overlap or conflict between local filter Application Design Time Settings
and group filter, the joined filter (filter operation “and”) will
take effect to charts or tables.
Application Runtime
SAP Labs Preview

Q4/2020
Flow Panel for Responsive Layout(2020.20)
▪ Flow Panel as container widget for building responsive

layout without any codes
▪ Widgets within Flow Panel can be flowed to proper position
▪ Support mixed usage of Flow Panel and existing Canvas Layout
Panel
▪ Coding free via new break point concept
▪ Design time preview
Break Points Definition Flow Panel combined with fixed area
SAP Labs Preview

Q4/2020
CSS-like Theme
▪ Providing additional CSS capabilities to customize the

application look and feel
▪ Theme level CSS
▪ Stored in file repository and can be applied to multiple applications Theme level CSS
▪ Application level CSS
▪ Stored within analytic applications
▪ Widget level CSS class
▪ CSS class defined within Theme level CSS or Application level CSS
can be assigned to individual widgets
▪ Application level CSS can be saved as Theme level CSS
▪ Widget CSS class can be dynamically changed at application
runtime via script API
▪ Priorities to influence the style of applications (from low to
high):
▪ Application Theme
▪ Widget styling properties
▪ Theme CSS and Application CSS
Application Level CSS

SAP Labs Preview

Product Plan
Analytics Designer (1/2)

Dashboarding Capabilities: Dashboarding Capabilities: Dashboarding Capabilities:
▪ Integration with SAP Analytics Cloud Mobile iOS ▪ Data Change Insight (GA) ▪ Mobile App support for Android devices
Application (GA)
▪ Applying Explorer results back to table and chart ▪ Re-use input control from story
▪ New Widget: Value Driver Tree, Toggle Switch
▪ Customized entry for context menu ▪ Blending support as in story, SAP Digital
▪ CSS-like Theme Boardroom Integration
Enterprise Capabilities:
▪ Responsive Layout Flow Panel Data Analyzer:
▪ Home, Shell, Toolbar and Modules redesign
▪ Filter line enhancements to support multiple ▪ Completely customizable Data Analyzer in
▪ Bookmark enhancements with meta data support
widgets Analytics Designer
▪ PDF enhancements to support full table export Extension Capabilities:
▪ Data Change Insights (Beta) ▪ Custom widgets further enhancements( Data
– support remote repository for snapshots Access, Mobile Support, Bookmarking, Theming
etc.)
▪ Composites, Templates
▪ Performance improvements: pause refresh API and
widget initialization flag ▪ Advanced Printing capabilities
▪ Data Source browser and set data model by script ▪ Export to SAP Analytics Cloud, add-in for Microsoft
variable for table Office
▪ Show run time messages for scheduling task ▪ Creating applications within S/4
Product Plan
Analytics Designer (2/2)

Script API Enhancements: Script API Enhancements: Script API Enhancements:
▪ Pattern based function ▪ DataSource.getMembers ▪ Geo Map script API
▪ Explorer API enhancements ▪ Calendar Task APIs enhancements ▪ Get data model script API
▪ Script API to send notifications to SAP Analytics ▪ Triggering scheduling dialog via script API ▪ DataSource related APIs, events etc.
Cloud Mobile Application Developer productivity features:
▪ Enhance Bookmark script API with additional meta
Developer productivity features: data ▪ Data source and widget binding
▪ Undo/Redo
▪ Pause/Refresh at design time
APIs and Extensions for Developers
Product Description
APIs and Extensions
• Enables seamless embedding of analytical capabilities into

SAP and non-SAP applications
• Allows developers to extend existing set of visualization

available in SAP Analytics Cloud with new ones using custom
widget SDKs
• Contextualized Insights allows the application end-users to

make faster, better and more confident decisions
• Enables partners to scale the delivery of their innovations to

customers by automating the entire provisioning process
• Deliver out-of-the-box insights and augment it with easy ad-

hoc access to all relevant application data
• Build and monetize your SAP Analytics Cloud content,

extensions through SAP App Center
Product Description
APIs
Provide analytic micro-services for SAP Cloud Platform and third-party application platforms
Content embedding URL API
▪ Embed a story into a web application
Embedding URL API - to directly open a story via the URL
▪ Apply a story-level filter dynamically when using the URL API https://<public_url>/sap/fpa/ui/tenants/<tenant_description>/bo/story/<story_id>
• <public_url> is the public AC URL for the tenant
▪ Specify a model, dimension, and value to filter • <tenant_description> is the tenant name in lower case.
• <story_id> is the unique story identifier in AC (no id provided indicates new story creation)
▪ Support non-default hierarchy filtering Get Stories REST call
UI URL Parameters
• mode=edit, present, embed
▪ Support HANA and BW variables and input parameters /[PublicApiService path on server]/api/stories
• in present mode, you can see the pagebar, but the mainbar is removed and the toolbar is hidden. The toolbar will
show if you hover
Adding “?include=models”
the mouse over the top of the pagebar.
will also return models used in the story as a JSON array
▪ Deep linking to a story in Analytics Cloud mobile app Example JSON response:
• in embed mode, you
{ can see the pagebar with a filter button, but the mainbar and toolbar are removed.
▪ Set window height and width using post message API "id": "0000000AA513C9583E39BB216A0569E1",
• pageBar=show, disable"name": "Dashboard",
• only works for embed mode PATCH api/v1/stories/STORY_ID
"description": "",
• page=1,2,3,… or page_uuid
Story REST API "created": "2017-03-09T21:26:06.919Z",
• Renames the story specified by <STORY_ID>.
"createdBy": "ADMIN",
Example
▪ REST API returns a list of stories and story metadata "changed":
"changedBy":
"2017-03-09T21:26:06.919Z",
• Parameters:
https://dev-i817904-1.eu1.projectorca.cloud/sap/fpa/ui/tenants/005/bo/story/56F0EA003E71722BE10000000A4E740E?mode=embed&pageBar=disable&page=2
"ADMIN", The ID of the story to rename
• <STORY_ID>:
▪ Copy, delete and rename stories "template": For
"sample":• false
true,
example, api/v1/stories/<STORY_ID>, where <STORY_ID> is the ID of the story you want to rename.
name: The new name for the story.
}
User and team management REST APIs DELETE api/v1/stories/STORY_ID
▪ Create, delete, update users and teams • Deletes the story specified by <STORY_ID>.
• Parameters:
• <STORY_ID>: The ID of the story to delete.
OAuth support For example, api/v1/stories/<STORY_ID>, where <STORY_ID> is the ID of the story you want to delete.
▪ 3-legged flow is a traditional pattern with resource owner interaction

▪ 2-legged SAML bearer assertion flow describe an OAuth-authenticated request without the end-user involved
▪ OAuth support for Client Credentials Grant This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
Product Description
APIs
Content embedding URL API
– Embed Analytics Designer content and provide a POST message
JavaScript API for enabling Insight to Action scenarios
Embedding URL API - to directly open a story via the URL

User and team management REST APIs https://<public_url>/sap/fpa/ui/tenants/<tenant_description>/bo/story/<story_id>
– Support user profile management e.g. date formatting, data access • <public_url> is the public AC URL for the tenant
• <tenant_description> is the tenant name in lower case.
language, preferred language • <story_id> is the unique story identifier in AC (no id provided indicates new story creation)
– Support assigning roles which utilize concurrent session licenses Get Stories REST call
UI URL Parameters
• mode=edit, present, embed
/[PublicApiService path on server]/api/stories
• in present mode, you can see the pagebar, but the mainbar is removed and the toolbar is hidden. The toolbar will
show if you hover
Adding “?include=models”
the mouse over the top of the pagebar.
will also return models used in the story as a JSON array
Content permission API Example JSON response:
– Allows sharing of stories between users and teams • in embed mode, you
{ can see the pagebar with a filter button, but the mainbar and toolbar are removed.
"id": "0000000AA513C9583E39BB216A0569E1",
• pageBar=show, disable"name": "Dashboard",
• only works for embed mode PATCH api/v1/stories/STORY_ID
"description": "",
• page=1,2,3,… or page_uuid
"created": "2017-03-09T21:26:06.919Z",
• Renames the story specified by <STORY_ID>.
Tenant configuration API for Hyperscalers (AWS) "createdBy": "ADMIN",
Example "changed": "2017-03-09T21:26:06.919Z",
– OAuth Client, Live connections "changedBy":
• Parameters:
https://dev-i817904-1.eu1.projectorca.cloud/sap/fpa/ui/tenants/005/bo/story/56F0EA003E71722BE10000000A4E740E?mode=embed&pageBar=disable&page=2
"ADMIN", The ID of the story to rename
• <STORY_ID>:
– Trusted Origin, Set up Customer Identity Provider, Trusted IDP "template": For true,
example, api/v1/stories/<STORY_ID>, where <STORY_ID> is the ID of the story you want to rename.
"sample":• false name: The new name for the story.
}
Content deployment management APIs for Hyperscalers DELETE api/v1/stories/STORY_ID
(AWS) • Deletes the story specified by <STORY_ID>.
– API to deploy content packages to tenants • Parameters:

• <STORY_ID>: The ID of the story to delete.
For example, api/v1/stories/<STORY_ID>, where <STORY_ID> is the ID of the story you want to delete.
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Recent Innovations
APIs
Tenant Provisioning API
− Create and manage SAP Analytics Cloud tenants for embedding analytical
capabilities into application built and deployed in SAP Cloud Platform
Tenant configuration API

− Live connectivity to HANA, SCP
URL API
− Open Application in the browser
ACN API
− API enhancement to manage listing & sharing permissions for My Content &
Business Content Packages
− Content Import/Export API with restricted visibility based on the OEM’s
(ACN)
▪ Available on Neo
▪ Available on Cloud Foundry with OAuth 2.0 client credential workflow
Recent Innovations
Custom Widgets
Provide SDK for custom third-party widgets
Custom Widget SDK

▪ Allows for custom, third party widgets in stories and apps
▪ Once installed, are used like SAP delivered widgets
▪ Built using WebComponents
▪ Developers can use their favorite JavaScript libraries (e.g. D3)
▪ Extend the styling panel, for refined widget configuration
▪ Extend Analytics Designer’s scripting API with your own commands
▪ Create custom script events
▪ Data driven, with connections to models
Modern, cloud friendly distribution

▪ Customers can create their own widgets
Product Plan
APIs and Extensions

Future Direction
▪ URL API enhancements:

▪ Wizard to generate the URL construct.
▪ Open in create mode by using an existing
template
▪ Open in data exploration mode when
provided with only the model id
▪ Customization of Email Notifications
▪ Data binding in widgets
▪ Custom (SDK) widget support in stories
▪ Translation API
▪ Push Dataset API
▪ Model API – create models in SAP
Analytics Cloud based on HANA live
connections (Calculation View)
▪ Repository API:
 Delivers all content type
Intelligent Enterprise
Product Description
SAP Analytics in the Intelligent Enterprise

Powerful Integration – Strong Analytics Insights
Enterprise Analytics provides rich cross-

SAP Fieldglass
LOB analytics insights. Get started
Workforce Management quickly with pre-built Business Content
SAP C/4HANA
Customer Experience
SAP S/4HANA Cloud and

SAP S/4HANA
Digital Core SAP Analytics Cloud will be SAP Analytics Cloud is
embedded in all SAP Cloud consumable as a Business
Applications Technology Platform
SAP SuccessFactors Service*
People Engagement SAP Analytics Cloud
SAP Ariba
Spend Management
SAP Concur SDK & APIs: Programmatically use

Travel & Expense Management APIs to embed, build, extend and
* More Information
lifecycle-manage Analytics
Product Description
SAP Analytics Cloud – Embedded in SAP Cloud Applications

Further SAP LoB Onboarding continues 2020/21
SAP S/4HANA Cloud (GA) SAP SuccessFactors SAP Ariba (Limited Availability)
(People Analytics) (GA)
SAP Marketing Cloud (GA) SAP Sales Commissions (GA) SAP Fieldglass (Beta)

Product Description
Embedded Analytics in SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP S/4HANA on premise

enabled by SAP Analytics Cloud
Enterprise Analytics:
• SAP Analytics Cloud real-time and data acquisition connectivity to
SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Cloud
• SAP Analytics Cloud planning write-back to SAP S/4HANA Cloud
• 60+ Business Content stories available in Analytics Content Network, thereof 10+ based on live
access to SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Embedded Analytics in S/4HANA Cloud:

• SAP Analytics Cloud available seamlessly embedded in
SAP S/4HANA Cloud with no additional license
• Automated tenant provisioning including live connectivity and
content deployment
• Integration into Fiori Launchpad including SAP S/4HANA role and screen variant management,
in-shell intent-based navigation and lifecycle management
• Data Analyzer for ad-hoc querying
• Details and Demo here. Available Content: here.
Advanced UI Integration in S/4HANA on premise:

• Integration of stories based on live data access to S/4HANA on premise into Fiori Launchpad
including SAP S/4HANA role and screen variant management, in-shell intent-based navigation
and lifecycle management –
similar business user experience as in Embedded Analytics in S/4HANA Cloud
• Available Q4/2020
• Requires separate Enterprise license; no automated tenant provisioning.
• Enterprise SAP Analytics Cloud administration and story lifecycle management by customers
• Required S/4HANA on premise release is 2020. Details and Demo here.
Product Description
Embedded Analytics in SAP Marketing Cloud

▪ Analytics Cloud is SAP Marketing Cloud’s analytics platform
▪ Analytics Cloud stories seamlessly embedded in SAP

Marketing Cloud showing analytics real-time
▪ Analytics Cloud tenant available with every tenant of SAP

Marketing Cloud and SAP Marketing
▪ Analytics Cloud stories available in SAP Marketing Cloud

Analytics Gallery
▪ 25+ standard Business Content stories available in the

Analytics Content Network
▪ OEM Embedding for new customers with 2011 release

Product Description
Embedded Analytics in SAP Sales Cloud

▪ Sales Commissions provides live connectivity

to SAP Analytics Cloud. 20+ standard
stories delivered through Analytics Content
Network.
▪ Using Mashup technology, SAP Analytics Cloud

can be embedded in C4C
▪ Out-of-the-box analytical content available

for C4C Sales along with data acquisition
connector
SAP Labs Preview

Product Description
Analytics in SAP Service Cloud

▪ Data Acquisition connectivity to SAP Field

Service Management. Standard content
available in Analytics Content Network.
▪ Out-of-the-box analytical content available

for C4C Service along with data acquisition
connector

Recent Innovations
Embedded Analytics in SAP Cloud for Customer

▪ Real-time, in-build SAP Analytics Cloud

analytics with automated provisioning of SAP
Analytics Cloud tenant with a Query Builder to
design queries based on C4C objects.
▪ Common authentication
▪ Restricted GA in Q4 2020

Product Description
Connector for Qualtrics

• Data Acquisition connector to analyse Qualtrics

surveys
• Use the power of SAP Analytics Cloud to derive

insights while analysing X+O scenarios by
combining experience data from Qualtrics with
operational data from all SAP applications
• Standard Business content for CSAT available in

the Analytics Content Network
• Q2- Standard Business content for Touchpoint NPS

available in the Analytics Content Network

Recent Innovations
SAP SuccessFactors People Analytics

Embedded edition (formerly reporting)
Access your data across

SAP SuccessFactors solutions
▪ SAP SuccessFactors People Analytics will
leverage the SAP Analytics Cloud solution
embedded within the solution.
▪ Live data from SAP SuccessFactors solutions
▪ Intelligent joins across modules
▪ Secure, role-based access
▪ People-centric data privacy and protection
Tell compelling stories using a single

solution with data from across the entire
SAP SuccessFactors suite.

Q4/2020
Embedded Analytics in SAP Ariba

▪ Limited availability in Q4 2020: Pre-built

embedded analytics for SAP Ariba
Network Buyers
▪ Limited availability in Q1 2021: Pre-built
embedded analytics for SAP Ariba
Network Suppliers
▪ Limited Availability in Q4 2020: Pre-built
embedded analytics for SAP
Ariba Spend Analysis
▪ Analytics stories seamlessly embedded
within Ariba Network and Apps
SAP Labs Preview

Q4/2020
Embedded Analytics in SAP Fieldglass

• Beta continues in Q4 2020

• Pre-built embedded analytics for SAP
Fieldglass based on live connectivity
▪ Analytics stories seamlessly embedded
within Fieldglass application
SAP Labs Preview

Product Plan
SAP Analytics Cloud - Embedded in SAP Cloud Application

▪ SAP Ariba: Limited Availability for Ariba ▪ SAP Ariba: General availability ▪ SAP Ariba: embedded analytics
Network buyers and Ariba Spend Analysis for Ariba Network buyers for Ariba Network & Spend Analysis
Apps App (GA)
▪ SAP Ariba: Limited Availability
▪ SAP Fieldglass: Beta Continues for Ariba Network Suppliers & ▪ SAP Ariba: Wider support by providing
Ariba Spend Analysis Apps embedded analytics for other
▪ SAP Cloud for Customer (Restricted GA)
Ariba applications like SAP Ariba
▪ SAP S/4HANA Cloud: additional Content, ▪ SAP Fieldglass: restricted GA
Sourcing etc.
further improvements ▪ SAP Concur: Limited Availability
▪ SAP Cloud for Customer (GA)
▪ SAP S/4HANA: Advanced UI Integration in ▪ SAP S/4HANA Cloud: additional
o SAP Concur (GA)
S/4HANA on premise Content, further improvements
▪ SAP Fieldglass (GA)
▪ SAP SuccessFactors: People
Analytics embedded edition (2011) ▪ SAP SuccessFactors: People
Analytics embedded edition:
▪ SAP Marketing Cloud OEM embedding for
continuous enhancements and
new customers
improvements
Analytics advanced edition
Analytics planning edition
Product Description
Enterprise Analytics: 164 Industry and LoB Content packages

86 Packages 78 Packages

by SAP by Partners
▪ SAP S/4HANA ▪ SAP data sources
▪ SAP C/4HANA ▪ Non-SAP data
▪ SAP SFSF sources
▪ SAP Concur
▪ SAP Ariba
▪ etc..
Accelerate your Enterprise Analytics projects with pre-built analytics from SAP and our Partners
Recent Innovations
Business content delivered by SAP

Line of Business ▪ SAP S/4HANA for Financial Products Subledger –
▪ Professional Services S/4HC (BPE)
Reporting ▪ Public Sector
▪ Advanced Compliance Reporting
▪ Sales Cloud for SAP S/4HANA (BPE) ▪ Public Services: Higher Education and Research Real Estate
▪ Business ByDesign (Finance and Procurement)
▪ Sales Performance and Target Planning (CRM) ▪ SAP Public Services: Volunteer Workforce and
▪ Financial Analytics Dashboard for SAP Analytics Cloud (New)
▪ Sales Cloud for SAP S/4HANA Cloud (BPE) Incident Management (New)
▪ Environment, Health and Safety
▪ SAP Sales Planning for SAP S/4HANA Cloud
▪ Field Service Management ▪ Retail (Model Company Fashion for Vertical Business)
▪ Service Cloud Analytics (CRM)
▪ Finance
▪ Solution Manager: Test Suite Analysis ▪ Retail (Model Company Core Retail)
▪ Finance Account Receivable – Invoice Payment Forecasting. ▪ Solution Manager IT Service Management Analytics
▪ Finance Contract Accounts (FI-CA) ▪ Sports One Analytics ▪ Retail (Omnichannel Article Availability and Sourcing)
▪ Finance – Live based on Semantic Tags ▪ Sports One Analytics (German) ▪ Rural Sourcing Management
▪ Financial Consolidation for SAP S/4HC Cloud (BPE) ▪ Strategic Workforce Planning with SAP ▪ Supply Demand Overview (S/4 Fashion) (New)
▪ Financial Planning & Analysis for SAP S/4HANA Cloud SuccessFactors (New) ▪ SAP Replenishment Planning (New)
▪ FI Operational Expense Planning ▪ Trade Management ▪ SAP Unified Demand Forecast (New)
▪ Goods and Services Tax GST Analytics ▪ Travel & Expense – Concur ▪ Utilities
▪ Human Resources (SuccessFactors) ▪ Treasury Management ▪ Utilities - Meter to Cash (New)
▪ Human Resources (SuccessFactors) – Simplified Chinese ▪ Vendor Management System (Fieldglass)
Localization ▪ Workforce Planning for S/4HC (BPE) Packages that include Planning
▪ Human Resources (SuccessFactors) (BPE) ▪ SAP Product Carbon Footprint Analytics
▪ Banking
▪ Human Resources Salary Planning ▪ SAP Qualtrics Touchpoint NPS
▪ Intelligent Asset Management ▪ Chemicals
▪ Integrated Financial Planning for SAP S/4HANA
Industry
▪ Finance
▪ Liquidity Planning for SAP S/4HANA Cloud ▪ Agriculture Origination, Trading and Risk Management ▪ Financial Planning & Analysis S/4HC (BPE)
▪ SAP Marketing ▪ FI Operational Expense Planning
▪ Marketing Onprem 2009 (New) ▪ Automotive - Sales Orders and Stock (New) ▪ High Tech
▪ Manufacturing S/4HC (BPE) ▪ Banking ▪ Human Resources Salary Planning
▪ Procurement ▪ Integrated Financial Planning for SAP S/4HANA
▪ Procurement for SAP S/4HC (BPE) ▪ Chemicals ▪ Liquidity Planning for SAP S/4HANA Cloud (BPE)
▪ Product Cost Planning ▪ Consumer Products ▪ Oil & Gas
▪ Project and Portfolio Management ▪ Consumer Products / CPG - Revenue Growth ▪ Product Cost Planning
▪ Project Budgeting & Planning S/4HC (BPE) Management (New) ▪ Project Budgeting & Planning S/4HC (BPE)
▪ Project Staff Planning ▪ Customer Profitability Analysis ▪ Project Staff Planning
▪ Receivables Management for S/4HANA Cloud (BPE) ▪ Engineering, Construction, & Operations ▪ SAP Product Carbon Footprint Analytics
▪ SAP Entitlement Management (New) ▪ Sales Performance and Target Planning (CRM)
▪ SAP Finance – Contract-based revenue recognition (CBRR)
▪ Health Care ▪ Sales Planning for SAP S/4HANA Cloud (BPE)
▪ SAP Financial Products Subledger IFRS17 for S/4HANA
▪ High Tech ▪ Travel & Expense (Budget Planning)
▪ SAP Integrated Business Planning
▪ Industry Innovation Kit – Leonardo Zero Waste ▪ Workforce Planning for SAP S/4HC (BPE)
▪ SAP Intelligent Asset Management
▪ SAP Qualtrics - Customer Satisfaction Score ▪ Insurance
▪ SAP Qualtrics - Survey distribution and Analysis ▪ Mill Products
▪© 2020 SAP Supply Base Optimization ▪ Mining Further information can be found in the following blog
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▪ Oil & Gas
Recent Innovations
Business content delivered by Partners • VASPP – Spend Analytics

The power of our eco system now directly in SAP Analytics Cloud • VASPP – Employee Experience Analytics
• VASPP – HR IT Metrics
• A41S Avantum – Finance and Controlling • Itelligence India - It.Analytics CXO Dashboard
• Visual BI – Accounts receivables
• Abaco Consultores – Logistics and supply chain • Itelligence Nordics – Gross Profit and Revenue
• Visual BI – Sales and Distribution
• Akili – Retail Solution Analysis
• Visual BI – Upstream Oil & Gas
• Aqoia - Alcohol and Beverages Transformation • Itelligence Turkey – Finance dashboard
• Visual Crossing – Location Analysis
• Aqoia – Digital Edge Solution (Automotive) • Maihiro - CRM to Go for SAP Analytics Cloud
• Visual Crossing – Weather analysis
• Blueprint – People Science • Mibcon – Data Privacy and Protection
• Westernacher – Supply Chain Performance
• Blue Reply –Sales Funnel Dashboard • MSG Systems – Raw Material Planning
• WIPRO – Energy Usage
• Bramasol – Revenue Recognition • MSG Systems – Activity Based-Costing • VASPP – Retail Seasonal Forecasting
• Cognizant – Leads and Opportunity Management • Nimbl LLC – Vendor Risk Rating • VASPP - Revenue by Plant Maintenance
• Cognizant – Equipment Effectiveness • NTT Data - IT Infrastructure Monitoring • VASPP - Request Accommodation for
• Cognizant – Spend Analytics Solution • Plus-IT AG – easyBI® Tiles Disability Act
• Comerit – Analytics for SAP Lease Administration • Process Partner AG – ProTime Analytics • SAVIC – Planning and Production analysis
by NAKISA • Protiviti – iPlan • NIMBL – Headcount Planning
• CTAC – Like for Like Method Retail • Prowess Enterprise – Demand Forecast Planning • Prowess Enterprise – Employee Attendance
• CTAC – RFM Method Retail • PwC – Predictive Analytics • Prowess Enterprise – Retail Data
• CTAC – Shelf Optimizer • Renew HR – SHARP HR Analytics • Visual BI – HR Management
• Delaware – Cost to Serve • RW Consulting – Digital Marketing Analytics • Visual BI – Production Analytics
• Ernst & Young – Financial Statement • SAVIC – Material Analytics Solution
• Incture – Sales Analysis • Sierra - Contract and Lease Management
• Infomotion – Corporate Finance Analytics for SAP HANA
Recent Packages
• Infosys – Retail HR – Store Analytics • Syntax – Opportunity Pipeline Reporting • Infosys: Qualtrics Employee Engagement
• Infosys – Utilities 360 – Energy Supply • Syntax – Financial Planning Survey
• Infosys – AR Reporting • TruQua - Price Volume Mix (PVM) • Infosys: Retail Industry Financial Solution
• Infosys – Business Trip Planning • TruQua – Social Media Sentiment Analysis • SAVIC: Finance Analytics Solution
• Infosys – Org Review for CPG • VASPP – Access Control Inventory • Dahlbeer: ARAP Planning
• Innologic – Load Monitor • VASPP – Cap-Ex Planning • Dahlbeer: Product Portfolio Planning
• Intellect Bizware – ZoomIn Sales Analytics • VASPP - Ideal Supplier Indentification • Dahlbeer: Application Catalogue
• Intellect Bizware – ZoomPro Project Analytics • VASPP – Inventory Optimization • Protiviti: iPlan (Updated)
• VASPP – Process Control
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Q4/2020
Financial Analytics Dashboard for SAP Analytics Cloud
Solution capabilities
▪ Predelivered quick time to value and flexible cross-application
analytics solution for the CFO to monitor and act on the most critical business
metrics and improve the company’s overall financial and human resource health
▪ Able to orchestrate with other company leaders and make decisions
by analyzing key performance indicators around P&L, balance sheet, cash flow,
and people analytics
SAP Analytics Cloud Why should customers care / value prop

▪ One integrated solution that visualizes cross-analytics finance and HR metrics
to effectively measure the top- and bottom-line impact
Live connection SAP Data Warehouse Cloud
▪ Discover new insight, trends, and predictions through powerful analytics
Federation
VDM/CDS views ▪ Built-in collaboration functionality to share findings and improve decision-making
Replication ▪ Accelerated implementation with quick time to value and low total cost of
ownership through predelivered content
Intelligent suite SAP differentiators

… ▪ Expense and cost analytics from integrated lines of business
SAP S/4HANA
▪ Complete end-to-end self-service data management and analytics in the cloud
SAP Customer Experience

More Information
Blog SAP S/4HANA on premise: Integration of SAP Analytics Cloud
Blog Integrated Analytics: SAP Analytics Cloud now embedded in SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Blog Best Practices for consuming Qualtrics surveys in SAP Analytics Cloud
SAP Analytics Cloud Embedded Edition: Build stories and embed them into your business applications
with live, connected data
Embedded Analytics Become an Intelligent Enterprise with Embedded Analytics
Embedded in sapanalytics.cloud and sap/products
SAP Analytics Cloud in the SAP API Hub
Connectors Overview Video Live Connectivity explained

Mobile
Product Description
SAP Analytics Cloud Mobile on iOS

Access anywhere
▪ Access SAP Analytics Cloud stories and SAP Digital
Boardroom presentations from your iOS mobile devices
securely
Responsive layouts
▪ Spend less time adjusting story layouts
▪ Build once and content will automatically format for all
screen dimensions
Intuitive interaction
▪ Swipe, tap, and filter your favorite stories and SAP
Digital Boardroom presentations with fast and intuitive
user design
Enterprise ready
▪ Deploy in Internal App store using the SDK
▪ Access already visited stories without internet
connectivity through caching
Product Description
SAP Analytics Cloud Mobile on Android
▪ Access responsive SAP Analytics Cloud stories on

both Android Tablets and Phones through this new
application
▪ You need to have a supported Android device with

Android 9.0 or later with more than 4GB of RAM
▪ Support both Acquired and Live connections as in

the current iOS application
▪ Support Single Sign on to the remote system
Recent Innovations
Mobile
Key recent improvements to the SAP Analytics Cloud mobile

app include:
▪ New Capabilities
▪ Search to Insights supports Synonyms defined by the Admin in
SAP Analytics Cloud
▪ The system admin can define Synonyms to each of the entities which
are more likely to be used by end users
▪ End users can then search with such natural language terminology

Future Direction
SAP Analytics Cloud Mobile Application
Mobile App
Boardroom
Content Type Stories Analytical Applications
Presentations
Data connectivity Live & Import
Cloud data sources On-premise data sources and

and applications applications
Product Plan
Mobile
New Capabilities (iOS) New Capabilities (iOS) New Capabilities (iOS)

▪ Support Canvas layout based story
▪ Additional BW variable and HANA parameter ▪ Voice enabled Search to Insights
support through Unified Prompt support in Story ▪ Live Universe Connectivity support
▪ My Data Watchlist support
▪ Analytics Designer support ▪ Commenting Widget support
▪ Support SAP Data Warehouse Cloud based Stories
Feature enhancements (Android) ▪ Free form exploration capabilities on the device
User experience / Performance enhancements ▪ MDM support Feature enhancements
(iOS) ▪ SAP Cloud Connector based SSO Support ▪ Geo maps support Android and iOS Optimized view
▪ Mobile Optimized support for Stories for improved ▪ Continue to enhance Android support
▪ Direct Tunnel connection support
performance
▪ Additional Geospatial support (bubble, clustering)
▪ Enhance caching / Offline Support
Feature enhancements (iOS) ▪ Responsive layout enhancements
▪ Additional filtering options (Look back, dynamic Embeddability enhancements
filters) ▪ Embed Stories in other SAP Mobile Apps – Intelligent
Enterprise
▪ Access all story Bookmarks from the device
Enterprise Readiness
▪ Custom authentication integration with SDK
Enterprise Readiness (iOS) ▪ Android SDK
▪ Support Citrix MDM based browser for ▪ Intune SDK / wrapping support with MSAL
authentication through SAP Analytics Cloud Mobile
SDK
Platform Services
Product Description
Platform Services
Commenting / Collaboration Schedule Publications Multi-lingual Support
✓ SAP Analytics Cloud commenting ✓ Schedule your SAP Analytics Cloud ✓ SAP Analytics Cloud multi-lingual
services Stories/ Analytical applications to support
✓ Data point comments on table different destinations like emails ✓ Product Translation
✓ Visualization widgets comments ✓ Personalized story publications ✓ Story/ Analytics application translation
✓ Comment Widget
✓ Discussions panel This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
Product Description
Commenting / Collaborations
Widget Comments Data Point Comments Comment Widget
✓ Available across stories where same model is

used
✓ Granular collaboration with context associated
to data members
✓ Table Cell level collaboration
✓ Print comment in column using Print()
✓ Associated with Stories/ Analytics ✓ Available as a widget on your page and

applications across stories where model is used
✓ No context associated to data ✓ Context Based on different filters
combinations
✓ Add Comments on any widgets
✓ Each page can support multiple comment
✓ Like, reply , address other users as
widgets
@UserName
Product Description
Discussion Panel
✓ Collaborate between SAP

Analytics Cloud users including
teams and initiate discussions
✓ Link story, add attachments for

easy collaboration
✓ Create new tasks & processes

directly out of discussions
Product Description
Scheduling Publications
Schedule your publications for SAP

Analytics Cloud Stories & Analytical
applications
✓ Schedule Story/Analytical applications and deliver to different

users/ groups on email as a PDF
✓ Define schedule frequency for recurring schedules
✓ Support personalization to batch users using
bookmarks(Bookmarks can be used in combination of different
filters – story, page or widget filters with drill states)
✓ Schedule stories for both Acquired and Live data connections.
Product Description
Use cases Single Pass
1
Multi Pass Per Batch
Multi Pass Per Recipient

3
Product Description
Multi-Lingual Support
▪ Translate Story content text

▪ Translate data for HANA Live and BW Live
connectivity
▪ Translation dashboard for import/export of user
inputted text
▪ Translate Analytics Hub
Product Plan
Commenting / Collaboration
The upcoming Q4 2020 release of SAP Analytics ▪ Rights management at Story / Analytics Feature enhancements
Cloud is a dedicated quality and performance application level privilege ▪ Manage global view of comments on story/model
release. ▪ Edit Comments
Administration capabilities
▪ Rich text formatting for comments ▪ Export / Import of Comments with Models/ Stories/
Analytics application between Tenants
▪ Encryption of comments at customers premise
▪ Delete comments centrally
Data Point Comments

▪ Data point Comment with Dimension property as filters
▪ Copy Data points comments b/w all versions
▪ Comment on calculated measures
▪ Data point comment for variables
▪ Data point comments on Live data connected models
▪ Data point comment for advanced filters
Commenting Widget
▪ Commenting Widget for BW / HANA Live Data
connection support
▪ Show Measure when the comment was added
▪ HANA Live data model support
Product Plan
Schedule Publications
Feature enhancements Feature enhancements Feature enhancements

▪ Support BW dynamic filters as prompts ▪ S/4 HANA live support for Scheduling ▪ Support CSV based data for widgets
▪ Paginated table support for publications
▪ Support for Tunnel connection publications
▪ Personalized Bursting with recipients data access rights
▪ Support SAP HANA Cloud connection as data ▪ Slot Availability for scheduling publications ▪ Live universe data source support
source Managing Schedules enhancements
▪ Schedule Cockpit / Admin View
Managing Schedules enhancements ▪ Pause / Resume / Rerun schedules
▪ Schedule Manager to manage all schedule with- ▪ Unsubscribe publications by recipients
in tenant Schedules delivery frequency enhancements
▪ Monthly recurrence for Schedule
▪ Event based schedules
Delivery and Destinations enhancements
▪ File based
▪ Configure Customer SMTP for mail delivery ▪ Model Data based +Model refresh (Acquired)
▪ PowerPoint format for publications ▪ Support custom calendar frequency
▪ Rule / alert-based delivery with status
Delivery and Destinations enhancements
▪ FTP & SFTP
▪ Email text formatting options
▪ Dynamic text in email
▪ Customization of email template
▪ Dynamic text in Subject/ Body/ File name
Product Plan
Multi-Lingual Support
▪ Translation of Analytics catalog

▪ Translation of SAP Digital Boardroom
▪ Translation of model metadata
(Measures)
▪ Translations of dimension members
, (Acquired)
Administration and infrastructure
Product Description
Data center locations
Europe
US Japan
China
UAE
KSA
Singapore
Brazil
Australia
SAP Analytics Cloud delivery options

Customer can choose their data center –
otherwise the closest center will be used
Future Direction
Data center locations
Europe*
US* Europe
Canada*
US Japan
China
UAE
KSA
Singapore
Brazil
Australia
SAP Analytics Cloud delivery options

Customer can choose their data center –
otherwise the closest center will be used
* Planned data centers
Product Plan
Infrastructure
Infrastructure Infrastructure
▪ Microsoft Azure Data Center support ▪ Cloud Foundry data center support for Canada
Product Plan
Administration
Analytics Catalog Authentication Authentication and Security

▪ Catalog Filtering UX Enhancements ▪ Support for large SAML assertions ▪ Support CCEK
▪ Catalog Link access UX Enhancements
▪ Multi-Lingual Support Analytics Catalog Usage Tracking and logging
▪ Non-SAP Analytics Cloud Content access UX ▪ Audit trail of system owner changes
Enhancements ▪ Improved self service auditing -View a user’s
▪ Update to Filter List of value selection team memberships and role assignments
behavior (defaulting operand from ‘OR’ to
‘AND’)
User and License Management
▪ Disable user accounts instead of deleting them
▪ Create teams with sub-teams
▪ Assign concurrent license to teams
Folders and Permissions

▪ Delegated administration and content separation
▪ Create branch or deep copy of content
Analytics Catalog
▪ Custom sections
▪ Content access request
▪ Support for new asset types including models,
dimensions and connections
SAP Digital Boardroom
Product Description
Alignment from Top to Bottom Data Driven Insights What-if Simulations Take Action
Digitize the boardroom function Critical relationships in your data Identify the impact of potential Update plans based on
by providing oversight and are uncovered through actions and simulate the results simulated options and cascade
alignment on all corporate automated machine learning instantly those changes to every level of
objectives at every level techniques the organization
Product Plan

Future Direction
▪ Boardroom Prompt Consumption
▪ Search to insight integration
▪ Bookmarking and favorite topics
SAP Analytics Content Network
Product Description
SAP Analytics Cloud Analytics Content Network

Customers | Partners | OEM’s | Developer Community
Customers:
▪ Transport and manage Content across tenants (e.g.
Dev – Test – Prod environments)
▪ Automate life cycle management w/ application
transports via API’s Samples
Partner
▪ Discover and import relevant Industry & LoB Business
Content & Custom Widgets from SAP, Partners and Content sharing & Life
cycle management (1) Transport
Community Publish
SAP & Mo
Partners & OEM’s: netize
Pre-delivered Industry &
LoB content &
▪ Market and monetize (via App Center) Industry & LoB Technical components (1)
Business Content & Custom Widgets Import Customer
Embedded content in
▪ Deliver Business Content & Custom Widgets any time LoB Applications (1)
Developer
▪ Centrally manage delivery & updates for all scenarios Community
▪ Automate workflow with API’s for all scenarios
Content Library
Developer Community:
▪ Collaborate and utilize developer community expertise
Product Plan
Analytics Content Network Product Roadmap & Status

Life cycle management Consume Package Life cycle management

Quality improvements ▪ Notification on content sharing. ▪ Choose download location while import packages
User experience improvements ▪ Support Private Folders content and comments,
- Search package with Tags. ▪ Support for Version management, rollback &
Connection override
- Ability to identify View only packages.
▪ Schedule Package updates.
▪ Support Azure data center.
• Support transport of SAP Analytics Cloud Comments.
Consume package
▪ Catalogue based package discovery & consumption
▪ Recommend & suggest packages in SAP Analytics
Cloud workflows
SAP Microsoft Office Add-ins
Product Description
2 complementary add-ins for Microsoft Office

Statement of direction
A Cloud based edition, delivered SAP Analytics Cloud,

through Microsoft Store add-in for Microsoft Office
A Desktop edition, delivered by

SAP
SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office
SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office continues to be a key add-in for SAP Analytics Cloud,
specifically for customers requiring access to multiple data sources like BW, BPC, S/4,
Group Reporting … It is designed for financial analysts who require a advanced Analytics
Excel capabilities
Major planning enhancements for an Excel environment connecting to SAP Analytics

Cloud will be delivered in SAP Analytics Cloud, add-in for Microsoft Office
• It is available for both Microsoft Office 365 Cloud and Desktop versions
Product Description
Extending options to prepare and analyze data

▪ SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office workflows and user
experience based on SAP Analytics Cloud data
▪ Workflow starts in Excel – logon, browse for models, views,
queries, discover data
▪ Select table designs with SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office and
perform conditional formatting
▪ Consume cloud models as measure-based SAP Analysis for
Microsoft Office models
▪ Access live SAP BW (query) and SAP Hana (view) data
▪ Plan data connected to native planning models
▪ Use new launcher capability to open Excel Workbook
Product Plan

Continuous improvements Continuous improvements ▪ Support SAP S/4HANA Cloud

▪ Quality and stability ▪ Quality and stability ▪ SAP Analytics Cloud repository
▪ Usability improvements as repeat headers
▪ Continuous improvements as strengthen
self-service
Product Description
SAP Analytics Cloud, add-in for Microsoft Office
A cloud-based add-in exclusively for SAP Analytics Cloud
AVAILABLE THROUGH MICROSOFT STORE

Allows access to SAC data in Microsoft Excel with no installation,
no maintenance pain
WORK ANYWHERE
Office 365 online or desktop on any device: at work, home, on the
road
DEDICATED TO SAP ANALYTICS CLOUD

Analyze, Share or Plan against SAC models
Product Plan
SAP Analytics Cloud, add-in for MS Office

Planning Planning
Planning
▪ Plan on asymmetric reports
▪ Unbooked Data ▪ Currency handling (default / local)
▪ Version management
▪ Mass data entry mode ▪ Preserve Excel formulas in data region
▪ Execute Data Actions
▪ Support Cell based formulas (retrieve data e.g.…)
Continuous improvement of analytic

Continuous improvement of analytic workflows
workflows
▪ Sorting
▪ Ranking Continuous improvement of analytic workflows ▪ Seamless integration from Story
Sources / Platforms ▪ Member selector improvement

Sources / Platforms
▪ Full support of Windows platform *
▪ Support of further data connections (SAP
Data Warehouse Cloud Support)
▪ Integration into SAP Analytics Cloud
repository
*Requires MS Office 365 July semi-annual channel version
Product Plan Summary
Product Plan summary
Key themes and capabilities
Recent Innovations Product Plan
Live Connectivity Live & Data Import Connectivity
Integration with SAP BW Integration with SAP BW Integration with SAP BW ▪ Continue feature enhancements for
▪ Remove 4000 member limit for input ▪ Improved support of input controls: ▪ Blending on Date dimension live and data import connections
controls additional selection option for BW ▪ Prompting enhancements: ▪ Expand the breadth of supported
▪ Copy & Paste of filter values for story and hierarchies Show unbooked members data sources
page filters ▪ Support of default query read mode ▪ One connection experience for both
▪ Add In-Cell Charts, Add Thresholds on (F4 help) for input controls data import and live models
table for queries with two structures
Integration with SAP BusinessObjects ▪ Extended data blending scenarios for
▪ Keep session alive Live Connectivity
▪ Filters on measures Integration with SAP BusinessObjects
▪ Prompting enhancements (Copy & Paste ▪ Live connectivity to SQL data
▪ Navigation path support ▪ Calculated dimensions
(clipboard), Display of attributes) sources
▪ Audit improvements ▪ Variance
▪ Connect to MS SQL 2019
▪ Drill up/down based on universe
Integration with SAP BusinessObjects navigation path
▪ Centralized configuration ▪ Expand/collapse based on Webi Integration with SAP
▪ Support access to Web Intelligence documents OLAP hierarchies BusinessObjects
documents data models ▪ Calculated measures
▪ Linked dimensions
▪ Measure difference
Data Import Connectivity
▪ Enable Smart Insight/Discovery
▪ Connect tall SCP Open Connector data ▪ Smart Wrangling ▪ Data Frames
sources ▪ Combined queries
▪ Greatly improved Dataset handling
▪ Connect to MS SQL 2017
Modeling Q4/2020 Q1/2021 Future Direction
▪ Structure and Fact view in Modeling ▪ Simulations ▪ Data Frames ▪ Time Dependent Hierarchies
▪ Geographical enrichment for datasets in stories ▪ Translation Table Upload
▪ Custom Unit of Measure
▪ Geo Public Dimensions
Data Visualization ▪ Universal Model
Analyst Capabilities Analyst Capabilities Analyst Capabilities Analyst Capabilities

▪ String manipulation for Calculated ▪ Median and quartile calculation ▪ Rank and Sort independently ▪ Rank with multiple dimensions
Dimensions ▪ Zero and null suppression ▪ Rank with Others
▪ Optimised table experience
▪ Change model behind story for ▪ Custom Widget
Filters & Bookmarks acquired models ▪ % of sub-total calculation
▪ Copy paste dimension members into ▪ Copy calculated measures and Usability
▪ View-time toolbar improvements ▪ Running Total calculation
story and page filters dimensions
▪ Story Explorer UI improvements ▪ Hyperlink improvements
▪ Set ID and Description per dimension ▪ Table loading indicator improvement
in input controls ▪ Re-ordering of facets in Explorer Performance and Usability
Story Formatting ▪ Improved chart building experience
▪ Data label formatting to improve ▪ Improved SAC navigation experience with
readability Modules
▪ Calculations UI enhancements
Live Connectivity ▪ Improved experience with cell-based number
▪ Remove 4,000 member limit for BW formatting in tables
▪ Undo / Redo
Filters & Bookmarks
▪ Filtering Workflow improvements
▪ Bookmark enhancements
Live Connectivity For more detail please data
Integration section
Planning
▪ Data Entry – Planning Panel, API for master ▪ Data Entry – context menu ▪ Adv Planning – script to visual formula ▪ Data Entry – simplify and optimize
data in Analytics Designer enhancements for version support, data aggregation function, enhanced performance and features to enable
▪ Adv Planning – enhanced story based VDT, ▪ Adv Planning – Data Action Monitor, conditional logic users to model and capture their plans
post actions for Data Actions, new time Nested Data Actions, member based ▪ Calendar – flexible modeling of calendar quickly and effectivelyoptimized table
functions for Adv Formulas (i.e. Datediff) modeling for validation rules objects experience,
▪ Calendar – Data Action scheduling, ▪ Calendar – improved process tracking ▪ Adv Planning – expand calculation
Consumption of Analytic Apps in Calendar (list view) capabilities and logic to address last
task mile planning requirements and
enhance overall solution automation
▪ Plan Modeling/Integration –tighter coupling of
Smart Predict with Planning, export to BW ▪ Calendar – improve overall plan
7.50 process modeling and tracking
▪ Plan Modeling/Integration – support
enriched modeling and simplify
connectivity for planning scenarios
▪ Smart Assist
▪ Smart Insights – Top Contributors for ▪ Smart Insights - Live HANA support ▪ Smart Discovery – Business question ▪ Smart Insights - Additional live data
calculations. ▪ Smart Insights - Improved insights for focused exploration. connections
▪ Smart Discovery – Improved simulation hierarchies ▪ Search to Insight On-chart actions for search ▪ Smart Discovery - Live data connection
experience ▪ Search to Insight Synonym support for results – e.g. filter / drill support
▪ Search to Insight improved number based metrics & dimensions & Synonym ▪ Search to Insight Improved search ▪ Search to Insight - support common
questions – e.g. ‘show sales over 5M’ management with bulk import/export recommendations based on content questions / answers for a domain
▪ Search to Insight on Live Universe Connections ▪ Search to Insight - Exclude dimensions popularity ▪ Search to Insight - support comparison &
(requires Live Universe 2.3) when indexing live models. Support high ▪ Search to Insight Improved auto-complete geo questions
cardinality dimensions. when searching ▪ Search to Insight synonyms mapped to
measure + filter expressions
Smart Predict / Predictive Planning Q4/2020 Q1/2021 Future Direction
Predictive Planning Predictive Planning Handle Disruptive Time Series Predictive Planning
▪ Predictive Planning helps forecast revenues ▪ Planners can predict & plan in local ▪ Predictive forecasts can ▪ Native hierarchy support allows
or costs at large scale and provides a smart currencies. All currency be continuously delivered when for greater control of predictive
& trusted baseline to planning activities. conversions scenarios are handled. business volatility is high (initial forecasting.
delivery). ▪ Support of additional
From Analytics to Augmented Analytics variables provide increased business
• Predictive Scenarios are context.
integrated to SAP Analytics Cloud file ▪ Increased transparency and trust is
system allowing fine- provided on the predictive forecasts.
grain security management.
Handle Disruptive Time Series
▪ Predictive forecasts can
be continuously delivered when
business volatility is high (complete
delivery).
Trusted predictions for business

analysts
• Understand the main reasons leading
to a prediction.
Analytics Designer Q4/2020 Q1/2021 Future Direction
▪ Integration with SAP Analytics Cloud Mobile ▪ Integration with SAP Analytics Cloud Mobile ▪ Data Change Insight (General Availability) ▪ Mobile App support for Android devices
Solution: enable analytic application within SAP iOS Application (General Availability) ▪ Applying Explorer results back to table and ▪ Integrate input control into analytics
Analytics Cloud Mobile iOS ▪ New Widget: Value Driver Tree, Toggle chart designer
Application (Controlled Release) Switch ▪ Customized entry for context menu ▪ Blending support as in story, SAP Digital
▪ New widgets: Page Book, List box ▪ CSS-like Theme Boardroom Integration
▪ Home, Shell, Toolbar and Modules
▪ Enable Navigation Panel for table based on ▪ Responsive Layout Flow Panel redesign ▪ Completely customizable Data Analyzer in
SAP Analytics Cloud model Analytics Designer
▪ Filter line enhancements to support multiple ▪ Bookmark enhancements with meta data
▪ Calendar task integrations with scripting access widgets support ▪ Custom widgets further
▪ Performance features: Loading invisible ▪ PDF enhancements to support full table ▪ DataSource.getMembers enhancements(e.g. data access, mobile
widgets in background to accelerate the start- export support, bookmarking, theming etc.)
▪ Calendar Task APIs enhancements
up performance ▪ Composites, Templates
▪ Performance improvements: pause refresh ▪ Triggering scheduling dialog via script API
▪ Creating applications by using SAP Data API and widget initialization flag ▪ Advanced Printing capabilities
Warehouse Cloud as live data source
▪ DataSource browser and set data model by ▪ Export to SAP Analytics Cloud, add-in for
▪ Create member-on-the-fly / script variable for table Microsoft Office
getMemberProperties for Planning Model
▪ Show run time messages for scheduling task ▪ Creating applications within S/4
▪ Script API Enhancements
▪ Script API Enhancements ▪ Geo Map script API
▪ Simple widget property binding
▪ DataSource related APIs, events etc.
▪ Grouping widgets at design time
▪ Data source and widget binding
▪ Undo/Redo
▪ Pause/Refresh at design time
▪ APIs and Extensions for Developers Q4/2020 Q1/2021 Future Direction
▪ Content Embedding URL API (Story and ▪ URL API enhancements:
application) ▪ Wizard to generate the URL
▪ Story Rest API construct.
▪ Open in create mode by using an
▪ User and Team Provisioning APIs existing template
▪ OAuth Support ▪ Open in data exploration mode
when provided with only the
▪ Content permission API model id
▪ Tenant configuration API for Hyperscalers ▪ Embed Stories in other Mobile Apps –
(AWS) Intelligent Enterprise
▪ Custom Widgets ▪ Customization of Email Notifications
▪ Tenant Provisioning API ▪ Data binding in widgets
▪ Tenant Configuration API – Live connectivity ▪ Custom (SDK) widget support in stories
to HANA, SCP
▪ Translation API
▪ ACN API to manage permission of My
Content ▪ File Repository API
▪ Export/Import of content (Available on NEO, ▪ Push Dataset API
On CF works with Client credential & ▪ Model API – create models in
OAuth2SAML workflow) SAP Analytics Cloud based on HANA
▪ Extend external API’s live connections (Calculation View)
support for Business Content Packages ▪ Get Repository API - stories,
▪ Get Resource API - stories and applications applications and Digital Boardroom
▪ Intelligent Enterprise Q4/2020 Q1/2021 Future Direction
▪ Multiple packages of LoB and Industry ▪ LoB and Industry Business Content from ▪ LoB and Industry Business Content from ▪ LoB and Industry Business Content from
Business Content from SAP and partners SAP and partners SAP and partners SAP and partners
▪ Embedded SAP Analytics Cloud ▪ Embedded SAP Analytics Cloud ▪ Embedded SAP Analytics Cloud ▪ Embedded SAP Analytics Cloud
▪ SAP Sales Commissions (GA) ▪ SAP Ariba Network Buyers (LA) ▪ SAP Ariba Network Buyers (GA) ▪ SAP Ariba (GA) for Ariba Network
▪ SAP S/4HANA Cloud (GA) ▪ SAP Ariba Spend Analysis (LA) ▪ SAP Ariba Network Suppliers (LA) and Spend Analysis app. / Wider
support for other Ariba applications
▪ SAP Marketing Cloud (GA) ▪ SAP Fieldglass solutions (Beta ▪ SAP Ariba Spend Analysis (LA continues)
continues) ▪ SAP Cloud for Customer (GA)
▪ SAP Cloud for Customer (Restricted Beta) ▪ SAP Fieldglass (restricted GA)
▪ SAP S/4HANA Cloud, further ▪ SAP Concur (GA)
▪ SAP SuccessFactors: People Analytics ▪ SAP Concur (LA)
embedded edition (2005) improvements, SAP S/4HANA on ▪ SAP Fieldglass (GA)
▪ SAP S/4 HANA Cloud further
premise tight integration for business ▪ SAP SuccessFactors:
improvements
users People Analytics advanced edition
▪ SAP Cloud for Customer (Restricted GA) ▪ SAP SuccessFactors:
▪ SAP Marketing Cloud OEM embedding People Analytics planning edition
▪ for new customers ▪ SAP S/4 HANA Cloud further
▪ SAP SuccessFactors: People improvements
Analytics embedded edition (2011)
Mobile Q4/2020 Q1/2021 Future Direction

▪ Search to Insights supporting Synonyms as ▪ Mobile Optimized support for Stories in ▪ Support Data Watchlist for ▪ Save bookmarks for stories
defined by the Admin IOS for better performance personalized access to specific data ▪ Support SAP Data Warehouse Cloud
▪ Supporting Analytics Designer in controlled ▪ Analytics Designer support on IOS ▪ Voice enabled Search to Insights based Stories
release
▪ Additional BW variable and HANA ▪ Live Universe Connectivity support
▪ Supporting Safari Mobile Device Browser for parameter support through Unified
▪ Continue to enhance Android support
embedding use cases on iPad Prompt support in Story
▪ Support Citrix MDM based browser for
authentication through SAP Analytics
Cloud Mobile SDK
Platform services
▪ Data points comments on acquired data ▪ Custom SMTP Server config for mail ▪ Rights management for comments ▪ Comments export /import b/w
Analytics model delivery Tenants
▪ S/4 HANA live support for scheduling
▪ Rights management for Comments/ ▪ PPTX format in publications publications ▪ Rich text formatting for comments
Discussion panel at Tenant application level
▪ Schedule manager to view all schedules ▪ Data point comments with
▪ Scheduling publications for stories and dimensions properties as filters,
Analytics applications calculated measures , variables
▪ Additional 7 SAP Analytics Cloud product ▪ Copy comments b/w versions
languages
▪ Paginated table for publications
▪ Commenting widget for acquired data model
▪ Scheduling publications to FTP
▪ Event based scheduling
▪ Bursting with recipient data
authorization
▪ Email text formatting for scheduling
▪ Schedule cockpit
▪ Unsubscribe schedules
▪ Translation of Analytics catalog
▪ Model meta translations –
Dimension members / Account
members
Administration and Infrastructure Q4/2020 Q1/2021 Future Direction
▪ Cloud Foundry data center support ▪ Azure datacenter support ▪ Cloud Foundry data center support
for Greater China • Support for larger SAML assertions for Canada
▪ Support for SAML IdP-initiated SSO ▪ CCEK support
▪ Convert team folders into system folders ▪ Improvements in user, team, role and
folder management
▪ Create branch or deep copy of
content
▪ Delegated administration and content
separation with Analytic Spaces
▪ Improvements to Analytics Catalog
▪ Boardroom Prompt Consumption
▪ Search to insight integration
▪ Bookmarking and favorite topics
SAP Analytics Content Network Q4/2020 Q1/2021 Future Direction
▪ Partner restrict Business content ▪ Ability to filter Business content package ▪ Notification on content sharing. ▪ Support Private Folders content and
package Import to specific tenants by Industries and Line of Business. comments,
▪ API enhancement to manage listing & ▪ Support for Version management,
sharing permissions for My Content rollback & Connection override
▪ Transport of Teams and Teams content . ▪ Schedule Package updates.
§Partner restrict
▪ Catalogue based package discovery
Business content
& consumption
package Import to
specific tenants ▪ Allow users to choose destination
§API enhancement location while importing Package.
to manage listing & ▪ Support transport of SAP Analytics
sharing Cloud Comments.
permissions for My
Content ▪ Support Azure data center.
Transport of Teams and Teams content
SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office Q4/2020 Q1/2021 Future Direction
Quality & Stability Quality & Stability Support SAP S/4HANA Cloud
SAP Analytics Cloud repository
Usability improvements as repeat
headers
Continuous improvements as
strengthen self-service
▪ SAP Analytics Cloud, add-in for MS Office
Planning Planning Planning

• Unbooked Data • Preserve Excel formulas in data region ▪ Plan on asymmetric reports
• Mass data entry mode • Support Cell based formulas (retrieve ▪ Version management
data e.g.…) ▪ Execute Data Actions
Continuous improvement of analytic • Currency handling (default / local)
workflows:
Continuous improvement of analytic
• Sorting workflows:
• Ranking ▪ Seamless integration from Story
Continuous improvement of analytic
Sources / Platforms workflows: Sources / Platforms
▪ Full support of Windows platform * • Member selector improvement e.g. ▪ Support of further data connections
Member Search (DWC)
▪ Integration into SAP Analytics Cloud
repository
*Requires MS Office 365 July semi-annual channel
version
Thank you.
Key links for more information
Key links
▪ sapanalytics.cloud
▪ Product Plan and Updates
▪ 30-day trial
▪ Pre-built business content
▪ Community
▪ Help and technical specs
▪ How to get support
▪ Blogs
▪ What’s New series
Key links for more information
For SAP internal
Key links
▪ SAP Analytics Cloud Jam group
▪ SAP Analytics Cloudpedia Jam sub-group for
technical questions
▪ Security and Compliance resources Jam sub-group
▪ Who’s Who in SAP Analytics Cloud wiki
▪ SAP Digital Boardroom Jam sub-group
▪ SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Digital Boardroom
pre-built content Jam sub-group
▪ Analytics for SAP Apps Jam sub-group
▪ Analytics Hub Jam sub-group
▪ SAP Analytics Cloud for Predictive Jam sub-group
▪ SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning Jam sub-group
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SAP Analytics Cloud

Business Augmented Enterprise

Digital Analytics Analytics

On Premise Hybrid Cloud

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SAP Analytics Cloud

Hub & Catalog Mobile App

Digital Boardroom Stories Analytic Applications MS Office Integration

Business Augmented Enterprise

Data Discovery & Exploration Conversational Analytics Events & Workflows

Data Connectivity Administration Scheduling

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SAP Analytics Cloud Architecture

Hub & Catalog Mobile

Business Intelligence Augmented Analytics Enterprise Planning

Data Data Lifecycle

PaaS SAP Cloud Platform

3rd party Data Sources and

Augmented BI Strategy – Key Future Enhancement themes

Simplicity & Productivity Enhanced support for live Performance

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Planning – Key Future Enhancement themes

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Data import connections

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Connect With SAP Cloud Platform Open Connector

Same SQL data sources as SAP BI

* - Within next 12 months

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Integration with SAP BusinessObjects

Integration with SAP HANA Cloud

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Live connections to SAP BW

Integration with BW concepts

Live Data Connect to SAP BusinessObjects

Enhanced analytic capabilities Enhanced analytic capabilities Enhanced analytic capabilities

Enhanced deployment capabilities

Data import connections

Data Management of Datasets

Managing the data coming in a dataset

Datasets as a source for all data ingestion

New wrangling floorplan to better support end

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Combine different sources

Exposing the data at each stage of the joining

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Modeling on live data

Datasets can be used in what-if scenarios.

Cells can be locked or input ready

Uses planning infrastructure in the background

No planning licence required

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Complete Overhaul of Models

Ability to have both measures and accounts in

Calculations can be right in model

Improved editing (e.g. add, remove dimensions)

Improved analytics performance

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