Announcing general availability of Analysis Office 2.8
Analysis Office 2.8 has just been generally available since Nov 29, 2019.
It is the latest and best release of Analysis Office, combining the power of the classic Analysis functionality and the EPM features. Here’s some short overview on the new features.
Analysis Plug-in
As SAP wants to provide a strong office solution on top of SAP Analytics Cloud, the Analysis plug-in release 2.8 continue the
Integration with SAP Analytics Cloud and introduces the support of “unbooked data” (capability to view and plan on new member) for data entry and live connection to BW queries and HANA views sources (no intermediate model is created).
Analysis Office plug-in 2.8 also offers new
Usability improvements in Variables prompts where direct typing on intervals is now possible or a new sorting of the Variants by «user variance/ public variants”; on the Design panel where the used dimensions are highlighted or displayed by group if desired.
This new release also offers enhancement in
Reporting features
This new release also offers enhancements in
Reporting features as limitations to formula optimized mode have been removed (support hierarchies, support two structures queries).
Note formula mode is available for any type of source (BW, HANA, SAP Analytics Cloud…).For more details please read the Analysis
Help guide.
In addition, the Analysis plug-in reinforce the
Security on data with a stricter handling where users get now a warning when they try to connect to an insecure connection.
A new contextual Help complete these features to fully support user during his navigation.
EPM Plug-in
SAP wants to support the best customers willing to move from EPM standalone version to the EPM contained in Analysis for Office.Then we have made a s
tructural code change in EPM plug in as we replaced it by EPM add in standalone code.
Main goal is to ensure smooth transition to the EPM version contained into SAP Analysis for Office. Please read more details in following blog
Simplifying the EPM plug-in usage.
In addition, the EPM plug-in provides smaller enhancements on top of BPC source as EPM formulas can now supports “Key Date” as parameter. See
Help.
