Upcoming Change: Member Limit Enforcement for Data Action Parameters

OverviewIf you use data actions in SAP Analytics Cloud Planning, particularly those where story scripting is involved - whether triggering a data action directly or via a multi action - there is an im...

Business Data Architecture: Modeling Layers for Structured Transformations

Transformations end up everywhere when teams lack a shared understanding of what's been done to data and what still needs to happen. Modeling layers solve this - layers that define where transformatio...

Recreating Excel‑Like Heat Maps in SAP Analytics Cloud Using Dynamic User‑Driven Thresholds

Context Aware Data Action Scoping

OverviewData actions are a critical component of end-to-end planning workflows in SAP Analytics Cloud, supporting everything from seeding, to allocations, to complex calculations. Despite their import...

Turning Spreadsheet Logic into a Scalable Calculation Framework in SAP Analytics Cloud

Compass: Predictive Range Proposal "Smart Boundaries"

IntroductionFor SAP Analytics Cloud, version 2026.12, we have integrated the capability of Smart Predict into compass to generate forecast of possible driver fluctuations with one single click. Custom...

Business Data Architecture: Platform Responsibility in a Multi-Platform Analytics Landscape

Without explicit platform ownership, organizations end up with the same metric calculated differently on each platform, duplicate ingestion pipelines creating version conflicts, and teams unable to an...

Building a Cashflow for Compass: An approach to NPV calculations for appraisals in SAC (1/3)

Part 1 of moving a finance appraisal into SAC Compass. We start with the problem that trips up every Excel modeller first: there's no cell to the left. How do you carry a balance forward when the calc...

Microsoft Teams as a Delivery Channel for My Metrics Reports in SAP Analytics Cloud

Your metrics reports now come to you — directly in Microsoft Teams. With the new Teams delivery channel for My Metrics, business users receive scheduled notifications with full metric details, varianc...

Improved Data Action scoping with the new Data Filter Parameter type

OverviewDesigning powerful planning and analytics processes requires more than static member selections. In many real-world scenarios, planning users rely on dynamic story filters and input controls, ...

The Architecture Question Your AI Strategy Can't Avoid

The ODI's supplementary research on data fabrics, released alongside the main framework, maps this to three specific capabilities: integration, cataloguing, and governance.

Smarter, More Flexible, More Powerful: SAP Analytics Cloud Composites Innovation Roundup

This article describes the most important innovatons for SAP Analytics Cloud Composites.

Business Data Architecture: Defining Business Meaning

Why do analytics environments break down as they scale? Not because of data - but because meaning gets mixed together. In this post, we unpack a simple but powerful shift: separating what you measure ...

SAP BW Modernization and Stewardship with SAP Business Data Cloud - Introduction

Decades of SAP BW data, an AI era that demands it, and a maintenance clock that's ticking - this blog series covers how to modernize SAP BW with SAP Business Data Cloud without a big-bang migration.

Your AI Agent Has Three Different Definitions of "Customer." That's a Problem.

MDM is no longer a data governance discipline. In an agentic world, it's AI infrastructure.