Top New Features in SAP HANA Cloud | Q1 2026 Release Highlights

Discover what’s new in SAP HANA Cloud Q1 2026 in under 7 minutes. In this short update, Thomas Hammer (Lead Product Manager, SAP HANA Cloud) walks you through key innovations in the Q1 2026 release, focused on making it easier to explore enterprise data, integrate across SAP platforms, analyze performance, and build intelligent applications. You’ll learn how the new Discovery Agent and Data Agent help reduce the barrier to working with enterprise data. Instead of relying on deep database expertise and manual SQL, you can describe what you need in natural language. The Discovery Agent uses a custom database object knowledge graph to find relevant data, while the Data Agent turns your request into SQL and executes it in SAP HANA Cloud. This enables a more intuitive path from question to insight. Next, see how semantic onboarding brings existing SAP HANA Cloud calculation views into SAP Business Data Cloud, selectively and without data movement, using remote connectivity. This supports reuse of existing models while complementing them with SAP Business Data Cloud capabilities. Thomas also introduces the new Performance Analysis application in SAP HANA Cloud, designed to simplify troubleshooting with guided workflows and predefined presets for common scenarios, like CPU bottlenecks, memory pressure, and lock contention. It also includes an on-demand chart library for deeper investigation. Finally, the release includes improvements to text classification in the predictive analysis library, enhancing performance, efficiency, and ease of use, including text feature processing with automated machine learning models. Chapters: 0:00 - Intro 0:47 - Discovery Agent and Data Agent in SAP HANA Cloud 2:24 - Semantic Onboarding of calculation views into SAP Business Data Cloud 3:25 - Performance analysis application in SAP HANA Cloud 4:28 - Improvements in text classification capabilities 5:16 – Further innovations 👉 Join Our Data & Discovery Agents Beta program: https://sap.to/6053B6wW3z 👉 Join the SAP HANA community to stay connected: https://sap.to/6050Awvou Follow us on social: LinkedIn: https://sap.to/6055B6wW33 Instagram: https://sap.to/6056B6wW3O Facebook: https://sap.to/6057B6wW3P Threads: https://sap.to/6058B6wW3u About SAP: As a global leader in enterprise applications and business AI, SAP stands at the nexus of business and technology. For over 50 years, organizations have trusted SAP to bring out their best by uniting business-critical operations spanning finance, procurement, HR, supply chain, and customer experience. For more information, visit: https://sap.to/6059B6wW3R #SAPHANACloud #SAPBusinessDataCloud #DataAndAI