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With the Q2 2026 release, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) expands its functionalities in the areas of reporting, story development, administration, and user-friendliness. The focus is on new options for more flexible reporting, improved development support, and optimizations to the user interface and monitoring.
INSIRE provides a concise summary of the most important innovations and their added value for companies.
With the Q2 2026 release, SAP Analytics Cloud significantly simplifies the implementation of asymmetric reporting scenarios. Different time periods, granularities, and comparison values can now be combined more flexibly within a single table.
This allows, for example, actual values, forecast data, budget figures, and variance analyses to be displayed in a single view. This opens up new possibilities for creating clear and informative reports, especially for rolling forecasts, management reports, and plan-actual comparisons.
The advantages at a glance:
With the new Composite versioning framework, SAP expands the possibilities for managing composite objects.
Developers can save, manage, and restore multiple versions of a composite object as needed. Changes to layouts, filters, or visualizations are thus traceably documented and can be further developed in a controlled manner.
Especially in projects with multiple developers or frequent adjustments, this significantly improves traceability and reduces the effort required for changes.
The advantages at a glance:
The Job Monitor will be expanded with additional monitoring functions in the Q2 release. In the future, data export API jobs and delta calculation jobs can also be monitored centrally.
Administrators gain a better overview of ongoing and completed data processes, as well as additional information on runtimes, processing status, and data volume. The new delta calculation jobs also increase transparency regarding data changes and support the analysis of data movements within the system landscape.
The advantages at a glance:
With the new data panel, SAP modernizes the way data sources are used within stories.
For the first time, the data area is more clearly separated from the layout and styling functions. This gives developers and business users more direct access to models, key figures, dimensions, and calculations. At the same time, navigation between data sources is simplified, and working with multiple models becomes more transparent.
The revised user interface supports both experienced developers and casual users in creating and maintaining stories.
The advantages at a glance:
Starting in Q2 2026, SAP will integrate the "Recent" and "Favorites" sections directly into the open and save dialogs of SAP Analytics Cloud.
This allows users to access recently used or favorited stories, models, and folders more quickly without having to search the entire repository structure. Especially in large SAC environments, this reduces search effort and clicks in daily work.
The advantages at a glance:
With the Q2 2026 release, SAP continues to expand SAP Analytics Cloud. Improvements in reporting, enhanced development capabilities, and optimized user interfaces, in particular, help companies to make their analysis, reporting, and planning processes more efficient.
For business users, this means greater flexibility in creating and using reports. Developers and administrators simultaneously benefit from improved traceability, simplified management functions, and greater transparency in daily operations.
The presented innovations demonstrate once again that SAP Analytics Cloud is further expanding its position as a central platform for planning, reporting and analytics.
INSIRE will gladly support you in specifically evaluating the new functions, identifying their potential for your organization and optimally integrating them into your existing SAC landscape.
