To simplify how our customers today use SAP Analytics Cloud and based on the feedback over the years from our users, we continue integrating SAP Analytics Catalog features into the core of SAP Analytics Cloud capabilities. Access to analytics assets is vital and needs to be user friendly and easily accessible for everyone. We are convinced that the addition of a catalog experience in SAP Analytics Cloud is a huge benefit for business users and administrators. This change will bring a new direction and going forward we have decided to focus on SAC Analytics Catalog and discontinue new investments in SAP Analytics Hub. At the same time, we will place SAP Analytics Hub into sunset and remove it from the price list in the summer of 2021.
Preliminary remark: To simplify reading, SAP Analytics Cloud, Analytics Catalog will be called SAC Analytics Catalog throughout the document.
Analytics Catalog
SAC Analytics Catalog provides a very rich set of features from content management to enriching asset metadata, easy navigation access and a great consumption experience. Inside this blog you can find more details of these capabilities: https://blogs.sap.com/2020/06/22/sap-analytics-cloud-analytics-catalog/.
We acknowledge that some Hub customers might find certain constraints with the custom theming, URL filtering, custom Catalog template and validation workflows because we don’t plan to target complete parity between the two solutions, but we aim to focus on active SAC Analytics Catalog customer enhancement requests in the future.
Future
For the above use cases we consider building new enhancements in SAP Analytics Cloud. With the workflow functionality, the validation workflow will go in a two step process: Users can start by creating or enriching a story. Next Catalog administrators can take action to publish for business users to access these assets inside the Catalog.
SAP Analytics Hub customers should be informed we do not plan to invest in supporting an automated migration at this time. The layout design and asset creations would be a manual process while all links to the existing content will remain the same in SAP Analytics Cloud.
We have been asked if we plan to provide a standalone version of SAC Analytics Catalog in the future. We have currently no plans for this. Each customer who wishes to benefit from SAC Analytics Catalog innovations can do so since Analytics Catalog is by default part of their existing SAP Analytics Cloud BI, Planning Public or Private Tenant(s).
SAP Analytics Hub customers are recommended considering moving to SAC Analytics Catalog. Both SAP BI and Planning public and private edition include SAC Analytics Catalog functionality as part of the SAP Analytics Cloud core subscription license. SAC Analytics Catalog feature is tightly Integrated with SAP Analytics Cloud content management workflows. Users can connect to any external content residing in different landscapes and establish SAC Analytics Catalog as a discovery experience for all analytical content, whether SAP or not.
Relevant Links
- Access to Product information, Learning track and much more is here
- Give customers the opportunity to influence SAP software development decisions is here
- Find out here in SAP Roadmap Explorer what SAP Analytics Cloud innovations are planned for 2021
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