Organizations want to move forward, but how do you ensure plans lead to real action? Each quarter, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) delivers updates that sharpen its role as a hub for practical planning and clear decision-making. In Q2, we saw expansions to Smart Insights and new live connectivity. This quarter, SAC builds on that momentum with AI-powered productivity boosts, smarter planning tools, and deeper integration with Microsoft Office. Let's break down the updates and what they mean for you.
AI for Planning & Analytics
SAP Analytics Cloud continues to push the boundaries of intelligent planning with new AI capabilities. Presentations become a breeze with AI Chart Summaries in PowerPoint, where the SAC add-in automatically generates concise, three-bullet summaries for your charts, ensuring your data stories are clear and easy to digest. Furthermore, say goodbye to sifting through lengthy discussions with AI Comment Summaries, a feature that condenses, translates, and rephrases table comments, helping you extract critical insights efficiently.
Data Integration
Connectivity expands further with Expanded JDBC Support, now including Oracle (19c, 21c, Exadata 19), HP Vertica (11, 12), and PostgreSQL (14, 15). This broadens your options for import jobs and enhances data security by allowing you to restrict access to rejection summaries.
Enterprise Planning
Enterprise planning gains significant enhancements, offering greater flexibility and efficiency. Compass Enhancements now allow you to define driver ranges relative to a baseline using absolute or percentage values, making simulations more realistic. The New Builder Panel streamlines table customization with an intuitive drag-and-drop interface, improved selectors, and better error handling. Plan Entry Improvements ensure cleaner, more focused data by highlighting editable cells and offering controls to hide unplannable data. Most notably, Faster Data Entry, powered by SAP S4/HANA multidimensional pipelining, boosts planning cycles by up to 60% and reduces CPU usage by up to 90%, especially for models with complex calculations.
Microsoft Office Integration
Integration with Microsoft Office reaches new levels of seamlessness. You can now export stories into Excel workbooks that retain their model and navigation state, allowing for uninterrupted analysis. A new SAP.GETCOMMENT Formula in Excel bridges the gap between data and collaboration by retrieving the latest data-point comments for specific dimension members directly into your spreadsheets.
Story Design
Finally, Cross-Story Copy & Paste revolutionizes story design, allowing you to copy widgets between different stories or tabs, which streamlines the creation process and ensures consistency across your reports.
Putting These Updates to Work
The Q3 2025 updates bring a practical mix of AI assistance, planning flexibility, and tighter integration. With more powerful tools at your fingertips, SAC is solidifying its role as an intelligent, connected platform for planning and analysis.
Unsure where to begin with these new features? Our team can help. Contact us today to explore how these updates can benefit your workflows and unlock their full potential.
