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Where attendees dialed in from:
Mostly a North America attended webcast
How familiar we are with SAC
A broad mix
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2020.19 to 2020.02
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Custom current date - applied to story filter
Dynamic time filters - looking at financial information for previous month, today is February 13, it would go back 1 month
As a story designer, you allow user to set what current date; now exposed to calculations
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Improvements to the UI, enable right click action
Left click - data actions
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More flexibility with design
Responsive pages are the preferred pages - 1) mobile adaptive 2) better for performance
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If you have corporate standards that mandates a font; system admin can add font to tenant and then any user can use these fonts
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Ability to see content on different screen sizes; scale by whole story to streamline story building user experience
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Today you can define thresholds with different measures
Now allow you show threshold legend in charts
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Improvements to smart insights - show changes over time when time filter is applied
Smart insights on calculations to help understand context
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Search ask bar; from home page ask a business-relevant question and data comes back with visualization
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Search to insights for mobile - for acquired models
Offline - access to last 10 queries
SAP announced SAC for Android yesterday - link is
here.
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Expand search to insight over time, with different time scenarios
Quarters, half-years, expanded granularity
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Index a model in preference model settings
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Action bar improvements
Options are exposed to designer for how to expose action bar
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Now support exception aggregation in stories (previously available in model)
Time variances are supported
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Q2/2020 - limit constant selection to a subset of dimensions
Geo bubbles will show value of measure in the center
Favorite a story while viewing
Filter - expose custom current date on widgets for certain charts
Export story to PowerPoint; many customers have asked for this
Future direction- improvements to calculations, improvements to rank and sort for more complex use cases
Improved chart building experience
Improvements to explorer
Question & Answer
Q: does SAC have text mining capability or other machine learning function? We need it to categorize free text POs and non-PO invoices.
A: Have machine learning capability with Smart Predict
https://www.sapanalytics.cloud/
Q: Can we rename current date definition?
A: Can rename calculation itself - current date in toolbar cannot be renamed
Q: Can you use fuzzy terms in search to insight?
A: Search to insight improvements - sys admin can set synonyms
Look for it new features in coming releases
Q: Where go to find more information if I am not certain how to do something?
A: Help icon inside tool - the Help Center - search for any feature not sure about.
Link to register for replay is
here
Timestamps, courtesy of ASUG:
Timestamps:
- Welcome [0:00]
- ASUG Updates and Announcements [1:15]
- Speaker Introduction [2:52]
- Disclaimer [7:42]
- Recent BI Features
- BI Core Features [8:23]
- Discoverability & Productivity [10:39]
- Visually Appealing Styling for Legibility [12:45]
- Smart Assist [15:44]
- Digital Boardroom [20:02]
- Enable Remote Sources & Model Support [21:01]
- Demo [22:08]
- Product Plan [45:51]
- Resources [49:40]
- Q&A [50:03]
- ASUG Conclusion [59:04]
What do you think?