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As we enter Q2 2025, we have many great features to share with you. In this blog we give you a sneak peek into our Top 5 features in SAP Analytics Cloud for QRC2 2025. A full list of what is coming can be found on our Roadmap Explorer.
Smart Insights
Since the very beginning Smart Insights has been a popular feature in SAP Analytics Cloud and in this quarter we are delighted to announce that Smart Insights will now be available in the Optimized Design Experience and also on SAP Datasphere models. You can expect to see:
- Smart Insights panel to uncover hidden insights and providing top contributing members from the most relevant dimensions
- Combines top contributors visualizations and natural language explanations
- Deliver complete stories using the optimized design experience story
- Uncover facts from the SAP Datasphere model beyond the data that is readily visible
Analytical insights in Joule
Staying with insights a much anticipated feature coming this quarter is analytical insights in Joule, powered by SAP Analytics Cloud. Joule users can get answers to analytical questions thanks to SAP Analytics Cloud just ask technology
- Adds conversational features to just ask NLQ in particular the ability:
- Specify model when multiple models could provide a relevant answer
- Refine previous question for example adding a dimension breakdown or a filter criterion
- Support for SAP Analytics Cloud acquired data models
- Support for SAP Datasphere models when SAP Dataphere and SAP Analytics Cloud tenants are part of a SAP Business Data Cloud formation
For more information check out this great blog by @ashutosh_rastogi
Data analyzer: pin insights to a story visualization
Data analyzer continues to be a popular feature in SAP Analytics Cloud and in Q2 2025 we the option to story viewers to save and pin insights to a story visualization. This includes:
- Listings of the pinned insights under the story context menu Open Data Analyzer, sorted in ascending order from newest to oldest
- Ability to save and pin multiple insights to the same story visualization
- Persistence of the linked insights on the User > Story Visualization > Time level, with no need to create a story bookmark
Multi Actions: Profitability and Performance Management step
The integrating of SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) and SAP Profitability and Performance Management (PaPM) offers significant business value by combining powerful data visualization and planning capabilities with advanced profitability and allocation calculations. In this quarter we introduce a dedicated profitability and performance management (PaPM) step type within multi actions, which gives the:
- Ability for multi action author to insert the PaPM step
- Ability to display the list of PaPM actions and select them within the step
- Ability to display relevant parameters for the selected action directly populated or assign multi action parameters
For full details on how to use this filter check out this great blog by @SarauShen
Combining data in new-model import jobs
Dataframes manipulation capability, similar to R or the Python Pandas library. Dataframes will be manipulated via expressions in the wrangler expression language.
Benefits include:
- Ability to create, manipulate and combine dataframes
- Definition of all transformations: named output of the transformation graph:
- Name objects for further reuse in other expressions
- Manipulate dataframes: representations of a dataset at different points of transformation
- Statements applied on multiple columns at a same time, such as ForEach(columns.startWith(“Week_”): execute multiple statements together
There are plenty more exciting deliverables coming your way this quarter and we will be taking a deeper dive into these items in our What’s New video and blog series so stay tuned. For a full list of all features coming in QRC2 2025 for SAP Analytics Cloud check out the Roadmap Explorer and the What's New Viewer
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