SAP Analytics Cloud brings together analytics and planning with unique integration to SAP applications and seamless access to heterogenous data sources. It helps everyone in your organization make decisions without doubt with trusted insights and integrated plans.
This blog post introduces the features of the SAP Analytics Cloud 2024.15 release available for SAP Analytics Cloud FastTrack customers. For SAP Analytics Cloud Quarterly Release Cycle (QRC) customers, this release and its features will be available as part of the QRC Q3 2024 release. View the QRC release schedule here.
System Administration and Technical Requirements
Although not required, you may upgrade to the latest SAP Analytics Cloud agent version 1.0.409 to take advantage of all data acquisition types.
The agent’s minimum version remains at 1.0.75, with the following exceptions:
- Version 1.0.99 for SAP ERP/SQL Database
- Version 1.0.365 for SAP universe (UNX). The SAP Analytics Cloud agent requires additional setup steps, for more details see SAP Note 3262098
- Version 1.0.353 for SAP Business Warehouse (BW)
- Version 1.0.235 for SAP HANA View
- Version 1.0.248 for File Server
For more information, see System Requirements and Technical Prerequisites.
Regarding supported features and required updates for the integration of SAP BW with SAP Analytics Cloud, refer to SAP Note 2541557 for further details.
Regarding supported features and required updates for live universe access through SAP BusinessObjects Live Data Connect with SAP Analytics Cloud, refer to SAP Note 2771921 for further details.
Please download the latest version of the Simple Deployment Kit from Software Center.
Note: To avoid downloading older versions and potentially exposing users to a vulnerable bundling of the Cloud Connector with SAPJVM, or Apache Tomcat, only the three latest versions of the kits are available to download.
For Cloud agent version change management details, refer to SAP Note 3264839.
Release Highlights
- AI for Planning and Analytics
- Just Ask: Additional User Rights
- Data Integration
- Deprecate Salesforce Connection
- Enterprise Planning
- Story API: Add decline support for reviewer on composite task
- Story Extensibility
- Enhance Performance Tool for Story Designer View time Scenarios
AI for Planning and Analytics
Just Ask: Additional User Rights
To provide Just Ask admins with more granular control over access, the following permissions have been implemented:
- Execute: Enables users to use Just Ask. The tool's bulb icon will appear on the top-right corner of the page.
- Maintain: Users with this permission can in addition to accessing the tool, upload models not explicitly indexed for Just Ask.
Data Integration
Deprecate Salesforce Connection
Data connections to Salesforce are no longer supported. To import data from Salesforce systems, use the SQL Database connection using JDBC or APOS Live Data Gateway for Acquired Connections. See SAP Note 3402695.
Enterprise Planning
Story API: Add decline support for reviewer on composite task
In composite tasks, the functions “decline()” and “canUserDecline()” that were already available for assignees of composite tasks, are now also available for reviewers of composite tasks. This way the API behaves consistently with the UI. Both assignees and reviewers can decline a task on the UI, and now also via stories or analytic applications that offer these functions via scripting.
Story Extensibility
Enhance Performance Tool for Story Designer View time scenarios
In the optimized story experience, users can use the performance analysis tool in view time, which provides loading sequence, story statistics, and recommendations based on the assets in your story for you to analyze the story performance.
This blog post only provides a high-level overview of the latest features and enhancements of SAP Analytics Cloud. You can find more details on these features in your In-App Help Guide for FastTrack customers and see this SAP Knowledge Base Article if you’d like to learn more about FastTrack and Quarterly Release Cycle releases.
If you have any questions regarding the content in this blog post, you can comment below. If you have product specific or technical questions, post a question to our SAP Analytics Cloud Questions & Answers forum. Visit our SAP Analytics Cloud Community pages to find more product information, best practices, and more. And check out our SAP Road Map Explorer to see more upcoming features of SAP Analytics Cloud.
