• Incident Solution Matching integrated into the incident creation form, recommending relevant solutions based on the description of your matter using artificial intelligence.
• The Save as tile feature lets you save any incident list as a launchpad homepage shortcut.
• Permissions that are assigned to users through Authorization Packages are now taken into account in Reports and Updates.
• To alert you about critical SAP Notes or KBAs with very high priority, a notification feature has been implemented for the SAP HotNews application.
• The redesigned License Utilization Information application provides an at-a-glance summary of licensed metrics, measured metrics, and metrics with potential overuse.
• The SAP EarlyWatch Alert Workspace application features a new card, 2 Billion Record Limit, which monitors and forecasts the number of entries in your SAP HANA tables.
• The simulation mode in Data Volume Management now allows instant what-if simulations.
• The new Authorization Objects for Service Requests (HANA Enterprise Cloud) are now mandatory.

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• The new DVM Data Reduction Potential application provides an overview about the data footprint of customer systems operating on SAP HANA and unveils saving potentials.
• The Save as Tile feature allows you to create shortcuts to a particular state of an application to your homepage.
• The Control Center lets you to enter commands into the launchpad's central search field to launch applications or perform predefined actions.
• The redesigned Announcements of Legal Changes application lets you focus on particular systems.
• Administration of authorizations has been significantly simplified in the User Management application.
• The redesigned Secure Area provides improved usability, reduces likelihood of errors, and reflects increased compliance requirements.
• The SAP EarlyWatch Alert Workspace has been enhanced with hourly response time data from your ABAP on-premise or private cloud systems.
• New authorizations give HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC) user administrators the flexibility to choose which HEC users can create or display service requests.

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Highlights:

• The revamped Customer COE Incident Quality Dashboard provides an at-a-glance overview of quality-related key figures for confirmed incidents.
• Have your inquiry automatically routed to the experts at SAP Product Support or your local SAP Customer Interaction Center through the streamlined Contact Us option.
• Get alerted about new notifications on entering the launchpad.
• A reminder is sent to you if your single sign-on certificate is about to expire.
• Share tasks with your colleagues and work on projects collaboratively by adding  search results or custom tasks to worklists.
• Avoid complications and unplanned efforts when implementing an SAP Note thanks to the SAP Notes Dependency Browser.
• See at one glance those add-on product versions that were manually added to a system in the System Data application.
• Font colors and tool tips assist you with filling out fields in the License Key application.
• Pilot customers: Enter commands such as "Create an incident" or "Show S0012006920" directly through the launchpad's search field.

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Highlights:

• If you enter the SAP Notes & KBAs Expert Search from the launchpad's central Knowledge Base search, all previously applied filters are transferred.
• The PDF version for SAP Notes and KBAs has been refined, which dramatically improves the readability especially for tables and screenshots.
• The next steps have been taken in the phase-out of clusters, a legacy feature to group customer and installation numbers. Read how SAP can help you in the transition to modern authorization packages.
• Hosting partners can set up auto-forwarding of service messages to their end customers.
• The SSL Server Certificate application now lists all previously ordered certificates.
• Three new authorizations for HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC) customers give user administrators more flexibility and enhance transparency when requesting services.

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Highlights:

• A new role Customer Center of Expertise can be added to your profile.
• Working with tiles in the catalog has been simplified thanks to filters that reduce the number of options to choose from.
• In the System Measurement Preparation Area, individual systems can be excluded from system measurement.
  
• The new License Utilization Information (LUI) application provides a comprehensive overview of license entitlement and software usage for SAP Public Cloud as well as SAP S/4HANA on-premise customers.
• Schedule an Expert sessions for existing incidents are available on a limited basis offering an easy way to discuss your open incident with the assigned support engineer.
• The Remote Connections application provides quick access to commonly used features directly from a comprehensive overview page.
• Add SAP Notes or KBAs in the Expert Search result list to a worklist in order to share tasks with your colleagues.
• Maintenance of Clusters in the User Administration application has been disabled as a first step in phasing out the dated feature.
• Pilot customers: For SAP Notes and KBAs, automatic translation to Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Russian, and Spanish is now available.
• Pilot customers: The redesigned Incident Quality Dashboard offers filter selections that you can save for re-use, and the information is presented in various formats.
• Pilot customers: The new SAP Notes Dependency Browser helps you analyze the prerequisites for a target SAP Note in order to avoid complications and unplanned efforts.
• Pilot customers: The new SAP Cloud Solution Center application combines the most relevant information about your Cloud solutions into one single spot.

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Highlights:

• A new role SAP Ariba can be added to your profile.
• Finding an administrator to help you get permissions for tiles in the catalog is more user-friendly thanks to filters and more details being displayed.
• The Incident Expert Search better takes your user preferences into account.
• A search tool makes selecting the expert area easier in the Schedule an Expert tool.
• In the System Data application, deleted systems (including associated license keys) can be reactivated.
• The SAP Roadmap Viewer application no longer requires you to browse through the entire roadmap to gain a project overview thanks to better separation between the high-level roadmap description and content required for the project.
• Pilot customers: For SAP Notes and KBAs, machine translation is offered for Spanish, Russian, Chinese (simplified), or Korean.

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Highlights:

• The new application KPI Catalog helps you find and use the business-relevant key figures for your analytic tasks.
• The new Simplification Item Catalog provides customers with a description of all relevant changes that might have an impact when converting from e.g. SAP ERP to SAP S/4HANA.
• Notifications via SMS text messages supplement the established channels Launchpad alert and email.
• The Incident Expert Search lets you find incidents based on a variety of selection criteria.
• New Authorization Packages offer more flexibility when managing your users' authorization.
• The new Download Basket requires you to install the latest version of the SAP Download Manager.
• For HANA Enterprise Cloud customers, a completely re-designed version of the IT Calendar has gone live.
• The SAP Readiness Check now summarizes the most important aspects of a conversion project for SAP BW/4HANA in an easily consumable way.

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Highlights:

• New roles have been introduced to meet the individual needs of different customer segments more than ever.
• The Support by Product application shows support-related content for SAP products, making it unnecessary to visit multiple SAP websites.
• The restructured tile catalog makes it easier to find the applications that are relevant to you.
• In the central launchpad search, multi-selection of filter options is now supported.
• In addition to KBAs, the Product filter in the central search now also works for SAP Notes.
• In the list of SAP Notes contained in a support package, you can merge multiple notes into one page.
• Digitally signed SAP Notes enhance security of notes upload into your systems.
• Design changes in the System Data application make working with cloud tenants and on-premise systems easier and more transparent.
• For pilot customers, authorization packages offer more flexibility when administering users.

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