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The NextTables deck

The deck covers use cases, architecture and pricing in one file.

Keep up with what ships

Each edition brings new features, design patterns from real setups and builder playbooks from the team building NextTables.

Help from the NextTables team

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Familiar, guided, ready to use

Update the data behind your reports, and know it fits your master data before you save

Your team edits in a familiar grid that writes straight to your data platform. Every value is checked while they are still in the field, and your reports show the change at once.

Diagram: a business user adds and edits in the NextTables grid, a familiar grid that is validated at entry and guided by master data, and the update is immediately visible in the BI dashboard

Guided entry with search against your master data

A business user types what they know, part of a name or a number, and picks the right value from your own master data. The list is read live from your platform, so what they choose is a value your reports already know.

Typing part of a name finds the right value

In a cost center mapping, typing “logistics” into a cost center cell finds the logistics cost center of that row's company, with its key beside the name. The person picks what they mean, and the cell stores the key your platform expects.

The NextTables grid of a cost center mapping, where typing logistics in a cost center cell finds Logistics Pralinees Works (10001400)

The Add row form of a cost center mapping, where typing export lists three cost centers with controlling area, cost center and company code

Compound keys, shown in full

SAP master data often needs several values to name one object. Once the controller has chosen controlling area EU01, typing “export” in the form lists the export cost centers of every company in EU01, each with its full key: controlling area, cost center and company code.

Values come live from your platform

Results come straight from the master data table or view in your platform at the moment of entry. A cost center created this morning is available this morning, and every app reads the same list.

Unknown keys find no match

A key that is not in your master data finds no match, so a typo stays out of your reports. Typing the subsidiary key BN4320 instead of BN4230 shows “No item found” before anything is entered.

A familiar grid: filter, sort, copy, paste and import

Filtering, sorting, copy and paste, bulk updates and file import work the way your team already knows, in the terms your business uses for its tables and fields. Every edit lands on your data platform after it has been checked.

Spreadsheet-like editing, on the platform

People edit in the table with keyboard navigation, copy and paste across rows and bulk changes. Master data columns show the text with its key, here the cost center, company code and business line of each mapping.

The NextTables grid of a cost center mapping, with controlling area, cost center, company code and business line shown as text and key

The upload preview of a cost center mapping in NextTables: 3 new rows, 1 updated, 2 errors marked at the cells

Upload a file to update the table

An Excel or CSV file maps to the table's fields, and the preview shows what will happen before anything is written: here three new rows, one update and two rows that fail a check, each marked at the cell with its reason. Duplicates inside the file are flagged the same way.

Export with texts

A download to CSV or Excel carries the master data texts next to the keys and follows the filters and sort order on screen, so the file matches what the person sees.

Business names for tables and fields

Every table and field carries a business name your team reads, while the technical name stays with your platform team and its integrations.

Intelligent forms that adapt as people fill them in

Fields appear, become required or lock as the entry takes shape, defaults and helper text guide each step, and rules check every value in real time. Complex entry stays a form that your own key users configure and change.

The form asks only for the figure that applies

In this ESG form the person picks the emission source first. For electricity the form asks for the consumption in kWh and whether the tariff is green, and it keeps the figure marked as required until it is filled in.

An ESG emissions form in NextTables that, after Electricity is chosen, asks for the energy consumption in kWh and the green tariff

The NextTables form designer with the condition that makes the note required when the valid-from date is not January 1

Designed by your key usersEnterprise

The form designer sets when a field is visible, read-only or required, what its default is and when it resets, each as a condition on other fields. Here the note becomes required as soon as a mapping starts during the year instead of on January 1.

The form designer is part of the Enterprise edition; the pricing page lists what each edition includes.

Defaults and helper text

Fields can start with a default or a computed value and carry a short hint below the label, so a first-time user knows what belongs there.

A form is also JSON

Every form can be written, copied and uploaded as JSON, so a form with many rules moves from one table to the next in a single step.

Hierarchies, restructured where your reports read them

Business teams open a hierarchy as a tree, find any node with its full path and move a whole branch by drag and drop, directly on your data platform. Alternative org charts and product groupings for reporting stay with the people who define them.

Every match with its path

Typing a few letters lists every matching node together with its full path in the tree, so a product group is found by name wherever it sits.

Illustration from our hierarchy video.

Illustration from the NextTables hierarchy video: searching fruit lists matching nodes with their path in the product hierarchy

Illustration from the NextTables hierarchy video: the node Fruit Sticks is dragged into Core Range

Drag a node to its new parent

Dragging a node onto its new parent moves the whole branch with it. Several hierarchies, such as 2026 and 2027, sit side by side in one directory, every node carries its validity period, and a reference date shows the structure valid on that day.

Illustration from our hierarchy video. Watch the hierarchy video on YouTube.

Embedded in SAP Analytics Cloud, Power BI and Tableau

A NextTables application embeds in SAP Analytics Cloud, Power BI, Tableau or any tool that supports web objects, in a dedicated embedded mode that shows the grid alone. The dashboard's context filters the rows, so a finance user looking at one company sees that company's rows in the tile.

Embedded mode shows the grid alone

Opened in embedded mode, the app shows the table without the navigation and sidebar and fits into the dashboard tile. Filters and sort order travel in the link, so this tile opens on the six cost centers of company code 1100.

A NextTables cost center mapping in embedded mode, filtered to company code 1100

Schematic of a BI dashboard with key figures and a chart, and a NextTables app embedded as one tile where a product group is being maintained

The dashboard's context filters the rows

The dashboard hands its current selection, such as a company code or a cost center, to the embedded app as a filter. The same validation and authorization apply whichever BI tool hosts the app.

One app across platforms

Many organizations run SAP Business Data Cloud alongside Databricks. One data entry app can validate against master data in one platform and write validated, authorized and auditable updates to the other. The business user sees one app.
SAP Business Data Cloud
Databricks
PostgreSQL
Snowflake, on the roadmap
Microsoft Fabric, on the roadmap

Validate here, write there

HR reference data in SAP Business Data Cloud serves as the validation source for classifications written to Databricks. One interface for the team, one set of rules across the boundary.

Native on each platform

SAP Business Data Cloud, Databricks and PostgreSQL are generally available. Snowflake and Microsoft Fabric are on the roadmap. The platform pages carry the architecture: SAP Business Data Cloud, Databricks.

One sign-in, through your identity provider

People sign in through your identity provider. The platform connection runs on one technical user, so maintenance-only users stay outside the platform's user management and licensing.

From data entry to the BI report, built by your own team

A team with its own workspace on the platform creates the table, maintains it and sees it in its own reporting the same day. Setup is configuration rather than development, in business terms.

Create the table

A key user defines fields, types and which master data backs them. The table is created on the platform, in the schema your administrator scoped.

Maintain it in the grid or a form

Editors work in the grid, in the form or by upload. Validation and value help come with the field definitions, so each rule is built once.

See it in the report

The maintained table is available to your models and dashboards at once. The full cycle stays with the people who own the process.

Frequently asked questions

1. Do business users need training?

The grid works like the spreadsheet they know: filtering, sorting, copy and paste, bulk updates, file import. Value help and validation guide the entry itself, so people learn the rules of a table while they use it.

2. Which BI tools can host a NextTables app?

SAP Analytics Cloud, Power BI, Tableau, and any tool that supports web objects. The embedded mode shows the grid alone, and the dashboard's context filters the rows.

3. Can our teams keep working in Excel?

Yes. Excel stays an input: edit offline, upload through NextTables, and every row is validated before it is written. Keys match existing records and duplicates are flagged.

4. Do business users need an account on the data platform?

They sign in to NextTables through your identity provider. The platform connection runs on one technical user, so maintenance-only users stay outside platform user management.

5. Who builds the apps?

Key users in the business team, in configuration rather than code: fields, master data, rules, roles. Where a rule needs logic, the built-in expression layer carries it.

6. How is NextTables licensed?

NextTables is licensed as a subscription, sized by users and tables. The details are on the pricing page.

See it with your own tables

Take the deck to the team first, or spend half an hour with us on your data, in your BI tool.