Lucanet vs SAP Analytics Cloud

Likelihood to Recommend

Lucanet is an easy to understand consolidation tool that displays the company's PnL, balance sheets, and cash flow statement in a clear way. The software is intuitive and easy to understand. User access functionalities are good. Dashboarding, reporting, and variance analysis are limited which is a disadvantage compared to other applications who do offer more all-in-one solutions.

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Analyst in Finance and Accounting

Food & Beverages Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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SAP Analytics Cloud is great for collaborative planning. It allows users to work together on plans, discuss specific adjustments, and to create planning processes for other users to follow. Its BI capabilities also make it stand out among the competition, and it's possible to create a very customized, user-friendly planning experience.

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Consultant in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Lucanet

SAP Analytics Cloud

Drill-down analysis

Formatting capabilities

Integration with R or other statistical packages

Report sharing and collaboration

Lucanet

SAP Analytics Cloud

Long-term financial planning

Financial budgeting

Forecasting

Management reporting

Scenario modeling

Lucanet

SAP Analytics Cloud

Financial data consolidation

Journal entries and reports

Multi-currency management

Intercompany Eliminations

Local and consolidated reporting

Minority Ownership

Detailed Audit Trails

Lucanet

SAP Analytics Cloud

Financial Statement Reporting

Management Reporting

Excel-based Reporting

Automated board and financial reporting

XBRL support for regulatory filing

Lucanet

SAP Analytics Cloud

Personalized dashboards

KPIs

Cost and profitability analysis

Color-coded scorecards

Key Performance Indicator setting

Benchmarking with external data

Lucanet

SAP Analytics Cloud

Flat file integration

Excel data integration

Direct links to 3rd-party data sources

Lucanet

SAP Analytics Cloud

Pixel Perfect reports

Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

Lucanet

SAP Analytics Cloud

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Report Versioning

Report Delivery Scheduling

Lucanet

SAP Analytics Cloud

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Predictive Analytics

Lucanet

SAP Analytics Cloud

Multi-User Support (named login)

Role-Based Security Model

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Lucanet

SAP Analytics Cloud

Responsive Design for Web Access

Dedicated iOS Application

Dedicated Android Application

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

Pros

Very intuitive interface to slice and dice the data to have a monthly, quarterly, or yearly view
Easy to add additional journal entries
Present legal consolidation structure in an intuitive way

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Analyst in Finance and Accounting

Food & Beverages Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Functional desing. Easy to learn and develop
Live connectivity to SAP sources so the data is not needed to be in the cloud (important for some business for data privacity)
SAC is working in different functionalities
SAC is growing in a scheduled way so you can know which roadmap will be the following months
Easy SSO with SAP sources

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Andreu Piqueras

BI Consultant

SDG GroupInformation Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees

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Cons

Limited dimensions to drill-down to a lower level of detail
Limited reporting functionality
We used it mainly for consolidation of actuals. As far as I know, limited functionality for variance analysis

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Verified User

Analyst in Finance and Accounting

Food & Beverages Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Performance: in some scenarios, the tool has big troubles in its performance when the volume of data is quite big (mainly with tables and filters).
Maturity: as it is a quite new tool, it is not mature enough to satisfy some business necessities. Also, the tool has some bugs which should be basic for a reporting tool.
Mobility: I believe mobile apps for SAP Analytics Cloud should be improved (both for Android and iOs devices). They are not as good as the web version. Moreover, stories for mobile devices have to be created in a particular template, which can be annoying in some cases.

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Alex Gutierrez

BI Consultant

SDG GroupInformation Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees

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Usability

No score

No answers yet

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SAP Analytics Cloud 9.5

Based on 2 answers

1. Only tool with all three type of analytics wherein one can plan, predictive and check existing descriptive reports to understand status quo of business.2. With handy prediction capabilities it has provided consultant ability to do predictive analytics without knowing technical know-how of working of backend algorithms. In case someone is well groomed in R, SAC provides integration.

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Parijatam S

Lead Consultant

Invenio Business SolutionsInformation Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Support Rating

No score

No answers yet

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SAP Analytics Cloud 9.0

Based on 3 answers

SAC support allows you to ensure that your company has the specialized support during and after implementation, which means that your company will not stop its operations due to the operation of the system, since, in case of doubts or problems with the system , the team of experts will solve them in the shortest possible time.

Continuous support is very important, since it allows to obtain the maximum performance of the solution and to obtain a balance between the functionality, the performance of the tool and an efficient support service.

SAP has a specialized team dedicated exclusively to providing advice to support staff and end users, solving technical and operational problems and providing support in the additional requirements is an added value for your business that gives way to continuous improvement and maximum use of the system.

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Enrique Espindola Barajas

Consultor de SAP Basis

TAG Consulting Technology Applied GroupInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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In-Person Training

No score

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SAP Analytics Cloud 9.0

Based on 1 answer

Good videos and reference material available in SAP Portal.

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Dharmesh Shah

Senior BI Architect

VirtusaBanking, 10,001+ employees

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Implementation Rating

No score

No answers yet

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SAP Analytics Cloud 9.0

Based on 1 answer

SAP Analytics Cloud combined features of analytics and cloud offering.

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Dharmesh Shah

Senior BI Architect

VirtusaBanking, 10,001+ employees

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Alternatives Considered

Verified User

Analyst in Finance and Accounting

Food & Beverages Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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This tool does not match up to its competitors like microstrategy and Tableau when it comes to data visualization. It takes more time and effort creating dashboards and building schema objects in this tool. It is not as easy to learn as other competitive tools. Implementation is also not as smooth as other data visualization tools and platforms available on the market. Creating ad-hoc reports is not as quick and easy compared to its competitors.

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Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Return on Investment

Provides single source of truth regarding financial data
Affordable solution

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Verified User

Analyst in Finance and Accounting

Food & Beverages Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Multiple SAP sources can be connected into one software.
No lag time with data or analytics. Crucial for our real estate market which is always changing.
The only negative ROI would be the training and steep learning curve we had to invest in this.

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Verified User

Employee in Human Resources

Real Estate Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Lucanet Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

SAP Analytics Cloud Editions & Modules

Edition

Business	$21¹
Enterprise	Custom²

per user, per seat
Unlimited users

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Rating Summary

Lucanet

SAP Analytics Cloud

Lucanet

SAP Analytics Cloud

Lucanet

SAP Analytics Cloud

Lucanet

SAP Analytics Cloud

Lucanet

SAP Analytics Cloud