{"id":3530,"date":"2020-01-24T16:52:54","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T15:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/?p=3530"},"modified":"2020-01-24T16:56:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T15:56:14","slug":"sap-analytics-cloud-add-in-for-ms-office-beta-first-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/sap-analytics-cloud-add-in-for-ms-office-beta-first-look","title":{"rendered":"SAP Analytics Cloud Add-in for MS Office (beta) &#8211; First Look"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of 2019 SAP suddenly introduced a completely new addition to the SAP Analytics Cloud suite: SAP Analytics Cloud for Office. I\u2019ve had a quick look at the beta version of this Excel add-in and it &#8211; obviously &#8211; looks a lot like our good old SAP Analysis Office. Apparently the decision was made to create a new Excel add-in from scratch specifically for SAC.<\/p>\n<p>From what I\u2019ve seen, there are at least two major differences in the foundations of this tool: First, the installation of this SAC for Office is done via the built-in MS Office store. That means that you can easily push this add-in to all Excel installations within your organization. Also think about what this means for the distribution of updates: this is not necessary anymore as the users will always run the latest version of the software from the MS Office store! Second: this add-in not only works within your \u2018on-premise\u2019 Excel installation on your Windows laptop, but also in online Office 365 plus &#8211; and I\u2019ve waited over 10 years for this &#8211; on the Mac! Awesome!!<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hsg8nXlk1fo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>So check out the video where I show a very minimal demo. As this is just the very first beta, don\u2019t expect much. For live HANA\/BW connectivity you still need to use SAP Analysis Office 2.8 for example. Also, there is still no integrated SAC repository option to easily store and open your workbooks on the SAC platform. Looking at the roadmap, the focus for the first half of 2020 is on Planning.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAC_Officeaddin_Roadmap_2020Q1-1024x413.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAC_Officeaddin_Roadmap_2020Q1-1024x413.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAC_Officeaddin_Roadmap_2020Q1-150x60.png 150w, https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAC_Officeaddin_Roadmap_2020Q1-300x121.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAC_Officeaddin_Roadmap_2020Q1-768x310.png 768w, https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAC_Officeaddin_Roadmap_2020Q1.png 1042w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of 2019 SAP suddenly introduced a completely new addition to the SAP Analytics Cloud suite: SAP Analytics Cloud for Office. I\u2019ve had a quick look at the beta version of this Excel add-in and it &#8211; obviously &#8211; looks a lot like our good old SAP Analysis Office. Apparently the decision was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[304,299],"tags":[333,345,328],"class_list":["post-3530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis-for-office","category-sap-analytics-cloud","tag-analysis-office","tag-sac-add-in-for-office","tag-sap-analytics-cloud"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pKaa2-UW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3521,"url":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/sap-analytics-cloud-2019-roundup-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly","url_meta":{"origin":3530,"position":0},"title":"SAP Analytics Cloud 2019 Roundup: the good, the bad and the ugly","author":"Xavier Hacking","date":"December 29, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"2019 is almost over, so just like last year\u00a0this is a good moment to look back at what happened in the SAP Analytics Cloud universe over the past 12 months. 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