System Requirement and Prereq
System Requirement and Prereq
Prerequisites
Client
Software Requirements
Client
Configuration Requirements
Supported
Languages
Mobile
Requirements
Data
Connectivity – Import
Data
Connectivity – Live
SAP Analytics
Cloud Agent
SAP Digital
Boardroom
Smart
Predict
Note
Mobile browsers such as Google Chrome for iOS and Android, and Microsoft Edge for
iOS and Android, are not supported. Please
use the SAP Analytics Cloud mobile app:
Mobile App.
Desktop browser Google Google releases continuous updates to their Chrome browser.
Chrome, We
make every effort to fully test and support the latest
Note latest versions
as they are released. However, if defects are
version (see introduced with
OEM-specific browser software, we cannot
SAP Analytics Cloud only supports a browser zoom
Additional guarantee fixes in all
cases.
(scale) level of 100% for
designing or viewing stories.
Information)
For additional system requirements, see your web browser
While you shouldn't change the browser scale, you can
documentation.
change
the scale for your display settings: on Windows
10 devices
look for Display Settings and then
Scale and layout, and on Mac
devices look for
Display and then
Scaled preferences.
Client Software Version Additional Information
(Microsoft
Edge
browsers
based on the
Chromium
engine)
Operating system Microsoft SAP Analytics Cloud is not dependent on any specific
Windows 7, operating system. All
capabilities are accessible through a
8, 10 web browser.
Network Minimum 500-800 kbit/s per user In general, SAP Analytics Cloud requires no more bandwidth
bandwidth than is required to browse the
internet. All application
modules are designed for speed and
responsiveness with
minimal use of large graphic files.
JavaScript Enable
Power Option High Performance mode for improved JavaScript For Microsoft based Operating Systems
Recommendation performance
Proxy Expose path and subpaths for: For example, viewing model schedule job history requires
access
to
https://<TENANT_URL>/sap/fpa/services/.
https://<TENANT_URL>/sap/fpa/ui/
https://<TENANT_URL>/sap/fpa/services/
Supported Languages
Mobile Requirements
Device (iOS) Requires iOS 13.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone and iPad
only.
Note
The iPhone SE is not currently supported.
URL Connections The mobile iOS app can only connect to URLs that are trusted
connections. This includes both intermediary URLs
used to log on
to the SAP Analytics Cloud system, or live data source connections consumed by stories
viewed in the
app.
SAP Analytics Cloud Supports Xcode 11.4 and above for iOS 13.0 SDK or later.
iOS SDK
Safari Support for Stories in embed mode only. Disable Prevent cross-site
tracking in Preference
for remote connection
with Basic Authentication.
Note
Safari on iPhone is not currently supported. IPad with less than 3GB RAM is not
supported.
Note
The information in
this section applies to both datasets and models, except where noted in the
table.
Note
For information on data acquisition maximums, see System Sizing, Tuning, and Limits.
SAP S/4HANA On-Premise Edition: SAP S/4HANA 1610 with SAP NW release 7.51
SP2 Y
Note
Higher releases of SAP S/4HANA are supported. It is
recommended to be on
the latest available release.
Note
Financial Planning for SAP S/4HANA On-Premise Edition is supported via
import and
export beginning with release 1809 SP01. For more information,
see SAP Note 2753796 .
Note
OLAP based UNX are not supported. Only relational UNX are
supported.
Note Note
This data source isn't yet available Only connectivity to classic SAP InfoSet
queries or SAP Queries is supported.
for datasets.
Note
SAP Hybris Cloud for Customer has
been renamed to SAP Cloud
for
Customer.
What's Supported Versions Scheduled
Refresh
Note
This data source isn't yet available
for datasets.
Note
For information on data acquisition
maximums, see System Sizing,
Tuning, and Limits.
Note
For information on data acquisition
maximums, see System Sizing,
Tuning, and Limits.
Note
This data source isn't yet available
for datasets.
Note
This data source isn't yet available
for datasets.
What's Supported Versions Scheduled
Refresh
Note
Note
This data source isn't yet available
For SAP BPC 10.1, version for SAP NetWeaver, if the BPC
environment is not
for datasets.
with HANA Accelerator on (this can be
checked via environment level IMG
parameter ACCELERATOR_ON
in BPC system), make sure you refer to the
consulting note
1858257 to enable member set
functions in BPC first.
Note
For SAP BPC 10.1, version for SAP NetWeaver on BW 740, make
sure you
apply the note 2550738 in BPC
system beforehand.
Note
To import a larger volume of transaction data from BPC to
SAP Analytics
Cloud without changing your memory configuration, you can apply
the SAP
Note 2755379 .
Note
To import a larger volume of transaction data from
BPC to SAP Analytics
Cloud without changing your memory configuration, you
can apply the SAP
Note
2755379 .
Note
This data source isn't yet available
for datasets.
What's Supported Versions Scheduled
Refresh
SQL Databases (JDBC + Freehand SQL) See the following list for supported JDBC databases. Y
Note
Only database
authentication is
supported. Third-party
authentication
methods cannot be
used with this connection type, for
example, SSO/SSL etc.
SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) See Import Data Connection to SAP Integrated Business Planning.
SAP Cloud Platform Open Connectors See Integrate SAP Cloud Platform Open Connectors for
supported query-based
and cloud storage (document-based) data
sources.
The following JDBC databases are supported. The “Freehand SQL Only” column
indicates that for some databases, you can create
queries using freehand SQL, but not
using the Query Builder.
DB2 v9 True
GreenPlum 3 True
GreenPlum 4 True
HP Vertica 8 True
PostgreSQL 8 True
PostgreSQL 9 True
Sybase IQ 15 True
Sybase IQ 16 True
Teradata 12 True
Teradata 13 True
Teradata 14 True
Teradata 15 True
Teradata 16 True
Teradata V2 R True
Teradata V2 R6 True
SAP HANA For SAP HANA Cloud, the product automatically receives the
latest updates.
Direct
Minimum SAP HANA 1.0 SPS12 with SAP HANA Info Access Service
(InA), Connection
version 4.10.0 is required. Higher versions are
supported.
SAP Cloud
Minimum SAP HANA 2.0 SP01 is required. Higher versions are supported. In Platform
addition, the
SAP HANA EPMMDS plugin must be installed on your SAP HANA
2.0 system. Refer to SAP Note 2456225
and SAP Note 2444261 for
additional
setup information.
Note
For data blending, higher revisions
are required for your SAP HANA on-
premise system. For
more information, see Blending Data.
Note
For more information, see the Enabled
Features section in Models Based
on Live Data Connection HANA Views.
Note
Cloud connections to SAP
HANA 1.0 are supported.
Note
Cloud connections to
SAP HANA 2.0 are supported, via the SAP HANA
Analytics
Adapter for Cloud Foundry.
Restriction
The enriched time dimension feature isn't
available with SAP HANA as a Service
(HaaS) deployments.
What's Supported Version Connection Type
SAP Business Warehouse The minimum requirements for SAP BW support are:
Direct
(BW)
SAP BW 7.40 SP17+, recommended to upgrade to SAP BW 7.50 or SAP BW/4 Connection
HANA 2.0
Note
For details about support of SAP Analytics Cloud features with BW Live, it
is mandatory to refer to
SAP notes 2715030 and
2541557 .
Supported deployments:
See Supported
Features of SAP BW Live Data Connections for full
documentation of
BEx query support and product limitations.
SAP BW/4HANA The minimum requirements for SAP BW/4HANA support are:
Direct
SAP BW/4HANA 1.0 SP8+, recommended to upgrade to SAP
BW/4HANA 2.0 Connection
SP4+ (see 2715030 )
Note
For details about support of SAP Analytics Cloud features with
BW/4HANA Live, it is mandatory to refer
to SAP note 2715030 .
See Supported
Features of SAP BW Live Data Connections for full
documentation of
BW query support and product limitations.
What's Supported Version Connection Type
SAP Business Planning and As BW is the underlying data warehouse of BPC, the minimum
requirements for BPC
Direct
Consolidation (BPC) support package correspond to that of BW,
which are:
Connection
(embedded only)
SAP BPC 11.0, version for BW/4HANA SP 1+
Note
All the notes apply to BW also apply to corresponding BPC
embedded system:
Note
For BPC planning sequence, if the planning sequence variables
you defined in
BPC are mandatory without default value, make
sure you apply the note 2738235
. Otherwise,
the variable dialog might not popup correctly in SAP Analytics
Cloud.
SAP BPC 11.0 and 11.1, version for BW/4HANA only supports running
on HANA.
SAP S/4HANA The minimum requirements for SAP S/4HANA support are: Direct
Connection
On-premise: SAP S/4HANA 1610 with SAP NW release 7.51 SP2. It is
recommended to upgrade
to S/4HANA 1909 (see SAP Notes 2715030
and Cloud
2541557 ).
Note
For details about support of SAP Analytics Cloud features with SAP S/4HANA, it
is mandatory to
refer to SAP note 2715030 .
On-premise: SAP S/4HANA 1709 SP1 with SAP NW release 752 SP01. It is
recommended to
upgrade to S/4HANA 1909+ (see SAP Notes
2715030
and
2541557 ).
Note
SAP Hybris Marketing has been renamed to SAP Marketing.
RedHat EL 8 x86_64
Both the Java Virtual Machine and the application server are shipped with SAP
BusinessObjects Live Data Connect.
What's Required
SAP BW = 1.0.233
Note
Although it is not required, you can upgrade to the new
agent version 1.0.329, no matter what data acquisition type you
use. Do this to
take advantage of updates made to SAP Analytics Cloud agent.
Tip
You can download and update the
SAP Analytics Cloud agent before the scheduled date of your SAP Analytics Cloud tenant upgrade. For
more information, see SAP Analytics Cloud Agent Simple Deployment Kit.
Machine Specifications:
Note
You must deploy the SAP Analytics Cloud agent to a different
Tomcat server than the one embedded with your SAPCP Cloud
Connector.
Modifying the SAPCP Cloud Connector’s embedded web
application is not supported.
Smart Predict
Recommendations:
A node hour is defined as the number of hours (rounded up to the nearest hour) of
infrastructure resources which are dedicated to the
generation or application of
machine learning models in SAP Analytics Cloud. The duration of all machine
learning model training and
scoring workloads in a given month shall be computed
and rounded to the nearest hour to determine total node hours per month.
Smart Predict on live SAP HANA is included with the 2019 Q4 quarterly
release of SAP Analytics Cloud. It is now possible to
connect Smart Predict
to SAP HANA tables and SQL views.
Smart Predict Live currently works today against on-premise SAP HANA.