SAP has released its Q3 2025 updates for SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), bringing a host of new features across planning, modelling, analysis, and integration.
These updates are designed to improve productivity, streamline workflows, and make the platform even more intuitive for business users and analysts. At On Device Solutions, a trusted SAP Partner for many years, we’ve reviewed the highlights to show what they mean in practice for our SAP enterprise clients.
A Smarter Home Screen Experience
SAC’s home screen has been redesigned with greater personalisation in mind.
- Onboarding Card – direct access to guided tours and learning content to help users get up to speed quickly.
- Quick Actions – the ability to configure shortcuts for frequent tasks such as creating stories or models.
- “Just Ask” Search – powered by generative AI, this feature enables natural language queries, refining results with filters for faster insights.
- Resource Card – one-stop access to updates, community resources, and product roadmaps.
- Favourites Card – improved visibility of frequently accessed content, now with folder support.
AI-Powered Analytics and Planning
SAP continues to embed AI into SAP Analytics Cloud to make advanced analytics more accessible:
- AI-Assisted Calculations – generate formulas and calculations using natural language, with clear explanations of business logic.
- AI-Assisted Commenting – summarise, translate, or rephrase input from stakeholders to improve clarity in collaborative planning.
- AI-Assisted Chart Summaries – available through the Microsoft PowerPoint add-in, helping users present insights clearly and concisely.
Enhancements to Data Analysis
The Data Analyser receives useful upgrades:
- New role-based permissions, including read-only access.
- Story creators can now add hyperlinks on charts that link directly to Data Analyser insights.
- Improved filter context handling when navigating between visualisations and Data Analyser.
Modelling Improvements
Data modelling is more flexible than ever:
- Privacy Filters in the Modeler – view access restrictions directly within the modeller without switching roles.
- New Aggregation Types – “first,” “last,” and “average” exception aggregations now include unbooked values.
- Weighted Average Formula – simplifies scenarios like average pricing calculations without complex workarounds.
Planning Features for Greater Control
Several planning-focused enhancements have been rolled out:
- Audit Log Threshold Alerts – administrators can configure alerts when data change logs reach defined limits.
- Plan Entry Improvements – greater control over unbooked values, validation rules, and disaggregation, all integrated with new table settings.
- Leaf-Level Upload Enforcement – uploaded data can now be restricted to leaf members, reducing errors.
- Compass for Driver-Based Planning – define driver assumptions as relative ranges from baselines, with automatic conversion to absolute values.
- Multi-Action Enhancements – more flexibility in managing data actions and parameter selections.
- Version Management APIs – new scripting capabilities to create, modify, or undo version data changes.
Microsoft Office Add-In Enhancements
The SAP Analytics Cloud Microsoft Office integration continues to evolve:
- Excel – new design panel, comment management at cell level, and seamless story integration.
- PowerPoint – AI-assisted chart summaries for quicker, more impactful presentations.
Story Design and Extensibility
Visualisation and storytelling in SAC also found major refinements:
- New Table Builder – streamlined interface aligned with chart design, offering improved usability and consistency.
- Client Calculations Panel – clearer management of custom calculations.
- Enhanced Member Selector – better navigation, search, and filtering for dimensions.
- Sort & Rank Enhancements – more flexibility in sorting and ranking data, including “rank with others.”
- Styling Options – control axis line thickness/colour, axis titles, and group dividers, with new options for arrow indicators in variance analysis.
- Story Extensibility – widget margins, copy/paste for widgets across stories, and expanded scripting for composites.
Why This Matters
This quarterly release underlines SAP’s focus on AI-driven insights, usability, and tighter integration with planning workflows. For organisations, it means:
- Faster onboarding and adoption.
- More accurate and consistent planning processes.
- Better storytelling and collaboration with enhanced design tools.
At ODS, we help businesses unlock the full potential of SAP Analytics Cloud by ensuring new features are aligned with your business needs.
These innovations in SAP Analytics Cloud are also part of a bigger picture: SAP’s strategy to bring all capabilities together on the Business Technology Platform (BTP).
If you’d like to understand how SAC fits into the wider SAP ecosystem, read our blog All Roads Converge at SAP BTP. Alternatively, for more on SAP Analytics Cloud, contact us here or visit the official release highlights page.
