SAP Analytics Cloud QRC3 2025 – New Home Screen, Optimized Table, and AI is coming!

SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) is SAP’s cloud-based Business Intelligence platform that provides a range of analytics and reporting tools. It is a fast-evolving product, which gets updated frequently. In this blog, Kris van Brouwershaven takes you through the main takeaways from the latest release for SAP Analytics Cloud: QRC Q3 2025-release, which happened on August 16-18, 2025. 

Kris has been working with McCoy & Partners since 2020 and is specialized in SAP Analytics Cloud. 

Note: This blog will keep Enterprise Planning out of scope.

Home Screen renewal

This update brings a new home screen to SAP Analytics Cloud. 
It gives the users more flexibility in what they want to see when they open SAC:

·      Direct access to Learning Journeys and tutorials.

·      Data Change Insights (Last 7 Days).

·      JustAsk is centered and highlighted to encourage usage.

·      Favorites, Quick Actions & Calendar Highlights are added. 

Weighted Average as aggregation

Averages are a very common type of calculation, but sometimes not all numbers are equally important. When a ‘regular’ (arithmetic) average is not the right calculation, a weighted average could be. 

Syntax: WAVG ([Measure1], [Weighted Measure],[Dimension1],...,[Dimension10])

Example when you want to calculate the average Sale Price of all products sold:

The Arithmetic (unweighted) Average treats all Sale Prices equally, ignoring the number of Units Sold.

Arithmetic Average Price 
All Sales Prices added together, divided by the number of Sale Prices
= (€10 + €20 + €30) / 3 
= €60 / 3
= €20

Weighted Average Price
Each Sale Price multiplied by its Units Sold, then all those totals added together, divided by the Total Units Sold.
= (€10 X 100) + (€20 x 50) + (€30 x 25) / (100 + 50 + 25)

= (€1000) + (€1000) + (€750) / 175

= €2750 / 175 
= €15.71

Tooltips on Table Data Cells

With this update, we get the flexibility to turn Tooltips on or off on the Table widget. 
In short, we get the following: 

• The re-introduction of the Threshold Tooltip for the Table Widget 

• A new (default) Tooltip for the Table Widget.

• Show/Hide Tooltips

NOTE: If not already converted, you’ll have to convert the tables to the new optimized Table Build Experience. If you don’t do this, you will not get the option to show/hide the Tooltips!

Launching an Excel Workbook from a Story

This enables the users to launch a Microsoft Excel add-in workbook from a story. 
The same model is used and the navigation state of the model is also retained. 
Whether all filters are directly implemented in this file, remains to be seen.

When triggering this functionality, a download of an Excel-file is triggered. 
This means it is a jump to Excel Desktop only. 

AI-assisted Advanced Formula and Documentation Generation

NOTE: Currently, this only works for Data Actions (on Acquired Data)
We expect that these features will come to the Stories in the near future

This feature works two ways: 

• Select the script and click on ‘Generate’ to generate documentation. 

• Enter business-logic in your script and click on ‘Generate’ to generate the script for this logic. 

After generation, you can accept or reject the generated script. 

This screenshot is taken from SAP’s YouTube-video regarding QRC3 2025

Extra styling options

This update provides more styling options: 

• Support for Widget Margins 

• Increase and Decrease signs (↓ or ↑) in charts

• Displaying vertical and horizontal axis titles

• Addition options to customize the axis lines

• Ability to further control grouped-category divider colors and thickness

Honorable Mentions

• New aggregations when building calculations: Last, First, Average (all including unbooked members)

• You can give users Read-Only rights on Data Analyzer Files (Insights)

• A new builder panel (is initially hidden, has a new look-and-feel)

• Additional JavaScripts for access to Composite-properties

Previous releases of SAP Analytics Cloud

Are you curious about the previous releases of SAP Analytics Cloud? Check our other blogs:

•  SAP Analytics Cloud QRC3 2024 

•  SAP Analytics Cloud QRC4 2024 

Would you like to know more about SAP Analytics Cloud or Reporting in general? Feel free to reach out to Kris van Brouwershaven.