Finally! Live Versions in SAP Analytics Cloud – No More Waiting for Actuals

We all know this scenario: It's the 5th working day of the month, the management meeting is in two days, and we're still waiting for the current actuals for our rolling forecast. Someone has to gather data from various systems and sources, cleanse it, upload it – and hope that no errors occur. Meanwhile, the clock is ticking.

I keep hearing from colleagues in finance teams: "The most frustrating thing isn't the planning itself, but the endless waiting for current data."

With QRC4 2025 and Live Versions, this waiting game becomes a thing of the past.

👉 The Game-Changer: Rolling Forecasts Without the Wait
Imagine this: Our forecast model always displays the current actuals. No more manual uploads, no nightly import jobs, no delays. The figures from the last business day are immediately available – directly from SAP Datasphere or our cloud data warehouse.

What this means in practice:

➡️ Instead of waiting for data → immediately ready to plan Instead of spending days per year on data loading → time for value-adding analysis

➡️ Instead of outdated decisions → management meetings with up-to-date forecasts

Two Additional Use Cases That Excite Me

1️⃣ Daily Liquidity Planning: We can plan on a daily basis using current account balances – without manual Excel acrobatics. Particularly valuable in volatile times when Treasury and Controlling need to work hand in hand.

2️⃣ Driver-Based Planning with Live Data: External factors such as rates, commodity prices, or market data flow into our planning models in real time. This makes the difference between "rough direction" and "reliable planning".
Why Now Is the Right Time

Live Versions work both for Seamless Planning in SAP Datasphere and for classic SAC models with connections to Google BigQuery, Azure, or Snowflake.

A particular highlight: We can use Live Versions even without Datasphere!

Direct access to SQL data sources like BigQuery is already possible – with Azure and Snowflake following soon.

My assessment: If we spend more than 5 hours per month on data loading processes and forecast at least monthly, we should seriously evaluate Live Versions.

For those with SAC Fast Track, the feature is already available with Wave 20.2025. For everyone else, Live Versions arrives with QRC4 2025. Finally, we can take use cases to a new level that were simply not technically possible before.

How do you currently handle the currency of your planning data? I'm keen to hear about your experiences!

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