Prophix vs. SAP Analytics Cloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Prophix
Score 8.5 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Prophix One, a Financial Performance Platform, is used to improve the speed and accuracy of decision-making within a harmonized user experience. To reduce complexity and uncertainty, the software offers automated insights and planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and consolidation functionalities.N/A
SAP Analytics Cloud
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
The SAP Analytics Cloud solution brings together analytics and planning with integration to SAP applications and access to heterogenous data sources. As the analytics and planning solution within SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP Analytics Cloud supports trusted insights and integrated planning processes enterprise-wide to help make decisions without doubt.
$36
per month per user
Pricing
ProphixSAP Analytics Cloud
Editions & Modules
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SAP Analytics Cloud for Business Intelligence
$36.00
per month per user
SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning
Price upon request
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ProphixSAP Analytics Cloud
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsA 30-day trial with SAP Analytics Cloud is available, supporting analytics enterprise-wide. A trial can be extended up to 90 days on request.
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Community Pulse
ProphixSAP Analytics Cloud
Considered Both Products
Prophix
Chose Prophix
Prophix was chosen because it appeared nimble and easy to use. In contrast, it was more affordable than the other solutions we looked at.
Chose Prophix
Prophix had the feature set we wanted, at the most competitive price, and could be deployed on-prem.
Chose Prophix

Compared to Host Analytics and Adaptive, Prophix provides more value for the dollar, especially when we deploy multiple models. Solution set is also comparably built out, so we are not missing any critical functionality. Self-maintenance by finance is also comparable to Host …

Chose Prophix
For our specific use and purpose, most of the packages we reviewed would meet practically all of our needs. Therefore, it came down to the ease/timing of implementation, the availability of support personnel, and the ability to customize for our specific needs. Prophix met …
SAP Analytics Cloud

No answer on this topic

Features
ProphixSAP Analytics Cloud
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Prophix
8.5
64 Ratings
11% above category average
SAP Analytics Cloud
7.6
355 Ratings
7% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports8.827 Ratings7.4301 Ratings
Customizable dashboards8.457 Ratings7.9343 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates8.461 Ratings7.4318 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Prophix
8.5
180 Ratings
9% above category average
SAP Analytics Cloud
7.5
356 Ratings
7% below category average
Drill-down analysis8.9177 Ratings7.9346 Ratings
Formatting capabilities7.7171 Ratings7.3343 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration8.9163 Ratings8.1332 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings6.9255 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Prophix
8.7
159 Ratings
8% above category average
SAP Analytics Cloud
7.4
337 Ratings
10% below category average
Publish to PDF8.9150 Ratings7.8319 Ratings
Report Versioning8.6119 Ratings7.5280 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling8.7136 Ratings7.4276 Ratings
Publish to Web00 Ratings7.7289 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings6.757 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Prophix
8.5
71 Ratings
14% above category average
SAP Analytics Cloud
7.4
341 Ratings
8% below category average
Predictive Analytics8.571 Ratings7.3311 Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings7.8324 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings7.5310 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings7.098 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Prophix
8.9
169 Ratings
6% above category average
SAP Analytics Cloud
8.2
347 Ratings
3% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)8.8160 Ratings8.2321 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model8.7161 Ratings8.0329 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.9166 Ratings8.1322 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control9.0107 Ratings8.1132 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings8.5325 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Prophix
9.2
83 Ratings
20% above category average
SAP Analytics Cloud
7.4
292 Ratings
4% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access9.283 Ratings7.4281 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings6.8246 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings6.9272 Ratings
Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
Comparison of Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting features of Product A and Product B
Prophix
8.5
292 Ratings
5% above category average
SAP Analytics Cloud
-
Ratings
Long-term financial planning8.6243 Ratings00 Ratings
Financial budgeting8.8280 Ratings00 Ratings
Forecasting8.5262 Ratings00 Ratings
Scenario modeling8.1217 Ratings00 Ratings
Management reporting8.4271 Ratings00 Ratings
Consolidation and Close
Comparison of Consolidation and Close features of Product A and Product B
Prophix
8.9
220 Ratings
14% above category average
SAP Analytics Cloud
-
Ratings
Financial data consolidation8.9181 Ratings00 Ratings
Journal entries and reports8.9115 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-currency management9.092 Ratings00 Ratings
Intercompany Eliminations8.7110 Ratings00 Ratings
Minority Ownership8.849 Ratings00 Ratings
Local and consolidated reporting9.2151 Ratings00 Ratings
Detailed Audit Trails8.6139 Ratings00 Ratings
Financial Reporting and Compliance
Comparison of Financial Reporting and Compliance features of Product A and Product B
Prophix
9.1
265 Ratings
14% above category average
SAP Analytics Cloud
-
Ratings
Financial Statement Reporting9.1246 Ratings00 Ratings
Management Reporting9.2255 Ratings00 Ratings
Excel-based Reporting8.8229 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated board and financial reporting8.7203 Ratings00 Ratings
XBRL support for regulatory filing9.623 Ratings00 Ratings
Analytics and Reporting
Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Prophix
8.5
239 Ratings
5% above category average
SAP Analytics Cloud
-
Ratings
Personalized dashboards8.4223 Ratings00 Ratings
Color-coded scorecards8.6159 Ratings00 Ratings
KPIs8.2174 Ratings00 Ratings
Cost and profitability analysis8.4168 Ratings00 Ratings
Key Performance Indicator setting8.6142 Ratings00 Ratings
Benchmarking with external data8.6101 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration
Comparison of Integration features of Product A and Product B
Prophix
8.6
259 Ratings
5% above category average
SAP Analytics Cloud
-
Ratings
Flat file integration8.7208 Ratings00 Ratings
Excel data integration8.7224 Ratings00 Ratings
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources8.5198 Ratings00 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Prophix
-
Ratings
SAP Analytics Cloud
7.1
65 Ratings
8% below category average
REST API00 Ratings7.155 Ratings
Javascript API00 Ratings7.048 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings7.142 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings7.141 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings7.450 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings6.742 Ratings
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User Ratings
ProphixSAP Analytics Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(230 ratings)
8.6
(318 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(16 ratings)
8.6
(14 ratings)
Usability
7.6
(49 ratings)
8.1
(250 ratings)
Availability
9.9
(30 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.8
(29 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.2
(121 ratings)
6.0
(70 ratings)
In-Person Training
10.0
(11 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
10.0
(13 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(19 ratings)
8.0
(7 ratings)
Configurability
9.0
(11 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.8
(29 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.8
(27 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.5
(23 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
7.6
(21 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
ProphixSAP Analytics Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
Prophix Software
The software does its job well, and they are continuing to improve their product and listening to their customer base on where to go next. Prophix is great, and it processes large volumes of data to provide the information our financial team needs and must provide to executives.
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SAP
>> Using SAC predictive analytics capabilities for inventory management in a Production line setup has helped generate Purchase Requisitions and Purchase Orders for raw or semi-finished goods without much head-banging into Demand management rules. It does it beautifully with seamless integration with HANA core MM and PP modules, along with BI integration. It has resulted in 30% greater warehouse storage capacity, thereby saving revenue from piled-up inventory and associated manpower costs. >> SAC sometimes shows latency in working out a large data set, thus giving a poor user experience compared to its competition. Also, it may occasionally show misinterpretations when embedding data from 3rd-party systems into the HANA core dataset.
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Pros
Prophix Software
  • Reporting - single report that can be opened by multiple users, each will see only aspect specific to them based on their security access.
  • Budgeting - workflow driven budget data collection, visibility of its current status, ability to take action to ensure timely completion. Ability to snapshot budget data at a point in time. Ability to perform what-if scenarios.
  • Forecasting - as above with added benefit of either reusing budget level of grain or forecasting at high level.
  • Granular planning - ability to create unlimited number of subsidiary models to assist with the planning process. Non-financial data collected during budget/forecast process help with operation planning and variance analysis.
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SAP
  • It makes it easier yo analyse order and related records easily.
  • We can easily maintain and track the performance of employees in organisation.
  • Can easily track various aspects for the growth of an organisation thus allowing real time analysis and tracking of organisation's growth and performance.
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Cons
Prophix Software
  • Ability to filter report views for report binder without creating duplicate reports.
  • More extensive documentation and examples in the ProCalc library.
  • More ProCalc functions that deal with the time dimension and allow functions that can utilize the system date. So if it is day 8 of the month.
  • Ability to save company color scheme for use in reporting.
  • Would like to create a link between the account dimension and another dimension so I can easily report on account properties. For example, an account property could be columns in a report.
  • Would like to see the ability to have a report view on a dashboard. The tables are poorly formatted, and I’d like more formatting ability.
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SAP
  • Complexity in Data Modeling
  • SAC supports various data sources, but improvements in the ease of connecting to and integrating with certain data repositories, especially non-SAP databases, would enhance the platform's versatility and integration capabilities.
  • An offline mode for SAC could be valuable for users who need to access and analyze data without an internet connection. Additionally, optimizing performance for large datasets and complex visualizations would contribute to a smoother user experience.
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Likelihood to Renew
Prophix Software
The system works well for us, and meets all of our needs. All of our future plans can and will be achieved within Prophix, so there is no need to pursue another product. Prophix has continuously proven to improve their product over the years, which provides an even higher level of confidence in this tool, and future developments
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SAP
We are planning to review the licensing as we have issues with SAC dealing with huge datasets. Analytics area is good for import models but when we have live connections in place that's when we have issue with SAC dealing with huge datasets in live be it BW or be it HANA models in the backend.
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Usability
Prophix Software
I have used other reporting software over the years and so far this has been the simplest to set up, the most flexible to use and we have not yet used Prophix to its full capacity. Over the next year or so I can see us extending our use of Prophix to include any number of other functions.
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SAP
I landed on a 7 out of 10 for a few key reasons. The tool is flexible in the sense that we are using very very very (very) little off the shelf solutions and customizing to our needs. Users enjoy having the customized data actions, key variance calculations, and easy to use headcount/salary planning in the same tool. One downside is that users are hard to please when they are used to excel. SAP Analytics Cloud simply is not excel, and the flexibility of excel in a crunch is not there.
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Reliability and Availability
Prophix Software
The availability in Prophix is relatively good. We have occurred random outages in different versions that wipe out data, which can be brought back. Or we have ran into system wide slowness that impacts all users in the system, but we have been able to get more capacity to supply our performance.
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SAP
I would rate SAP Analytics Cloud an 8 out of 10 for scalability. It offers a flexible, cloud-based architecture that supports expansion across departments and geographies. The platform adapts well to growing data volumes and user needs, making it a strong choice for organizations looking to scale analytics capabilities efficiently.
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Performance
Prophix Software
Prophix has always performed consistently. We are using on-premise so many factors can contribute to slower than desired performance, most having nothing to do with Prophix itself. If we move to the web-client cloud based solution I believe performance will even be better.
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SAP
I would rate SAP Analytics Cloud’s performance an 8 out of 10. Pages generally load quickly, and reports run within a reasonable time frame, even with complex datasets. Integration with other systems is smooth and doesn’t noticeably affect performance. Overall, it’s a responsive and efficient tool for business analytics. But
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Support Rating
Prophix Software
We’ve gotten moved around a lot and so we don’t always know our pod people. Also when we book sessions with a random person it seems like we have to take the first 15-20 minutes explaining our system and process.
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SAP
Since the implementation stage, the support team has been very helpful and assisting. Even in the later stages, the tech team had quite a rapid response. In general, SAP has provided us with great customer support, let it be for a specific product of SAP or for integration of different modules.
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In-Person Training
Prophix Software
Training is essential for this software to be successful for any company. We unfortunately had a bad implementation and training manager so I can say with confidence that if we had the CSM we have now - we would be light years ahead of our knowledge of the system. I highly suggest taking all training opportunities and not rushing the implementation training
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SAP
Good videos and reference material available in SAP Portal.
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Online Training
Prophix Software
We used our system and created a test cube to work with our own data. We ran through the different functions of Prophix and covered alot of material. We did two sessions a week, with homework tasks assigned. We were able to ask questions and cover any questions during the followup sessions.
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SAP
In hindsight, it would have been easier to have someone there in person. Questions were answered, but with 11 participants, it got a bit chaotic online
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Implementation Rating
Prophix Software
Prophix Consulting should bring, in house, chargeable expertise in Oracle EBS table access for Drill Across and provide reasonable limits on dimension member combinations so there are no unreasonable expectations about the application of multi dimensional cubes to detail, such as revenue by product and customer.
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SAP
SAC is a simple solution ad it works fine when connecting it to other SAP tools. On the other hand, connecting it to third party solutions brings difficulties when there's no previous design and the objetives are not clear. It is really important to integrate Business users from the start to provide with valuable business insights
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Alternatives Considered
Prophix Software
Prophix is so much easier to use that other platforms or products. It can be customized so much easier than other larger, more expensive products. I work for a small university where we have a small finance team and Prophix allows us to tailor reporting to emerging needs in real time without having to reconfigure clunky systems with expensive modifications
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SAP
SAP Analytics Cloud and Power BI are both tools that help businesses understand their data, but they have some differences. SAC, made by SAP, works well if your company already uses other SAP products. It's in the cloud, easy to use, and has features for analyzing data, getting insights, and planning for the future. Power BI, made by Microsoft, can be used in the cloud or on your own computers. It fits well with Microsoft tools, is easy to use, and can do advanced data analysis. SAC has built-in planning tools, while Power BI needs extra tools for detailed planning
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Prophix Software
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SAP
unit pricing
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Scalability
Prophix Software
I gave Prophix a 10 on scalability because we currently deploy the solution to department heads across our entire organization and never have any issues with those individuals using or accessing the system to look at their financial information within premade templates . They currently enter budgets and review reports within the system currently. The only issue is they cannot typically use the ad hoc functionality because that would require higher level licenses that cost more and it is not worth it to give them more costly licenses since they really aren't working in the system quite like the robust finance users
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SAP
Is good for use across multiple locations. It allows users to access data and reports from anywhere, regardless of their location. Can consolidate data from various sources, including different SAP systems and external sources, which facilitates cross-location analysis. SAC enables access to data and models from SAP Datasphere to create new stories. Detailed permissions can be defined for cross-departmental use.
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Professional Services
Prophix Software
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SAP
very simple
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Return on Investment
Prophix Software
  • Prophix has made it possible to move away from some Excel reporting we were doing, which allows for 50% quicker reporting on a monthly basis.
  • Although it has saved us time, an improved PowerPoint feature that automatically updates our decks would save an additional 75% on top of what we already do.
  • Our Board Reporting has improved by 10 hours by moving our reports fully into Prophix.
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SAP
  • Many manual data manipulations and exports in Excel have been replaced by the tool, providing management with improved insight into the amount of time spent at each stage of an invoice's lifetime, allowing bottlenecks to be discovered.
  • We now have more insight into the data, and people with little technical experience can easily build stories.
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ScreenShots

Prophix Screenshots

Screenshot of Prophix One Portal: One single point of entry into Prophix One through its portal simplifies access and authentication but also allows seamless movement between applications.Screenshot of Chart Insights, one of the AI Insights capabilities that utilizes Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing to provide enhanced business awareness.  Chart Insights extends the important details contained within dashboards, and analyzes the complete dataset behind the dashboard, automatically surfacing the data relationships not obvious in dashboard visualizations alone. It then provides a summary of key performance metrics found buried within Prophix charts.  It also summarizes the important insights in plain English.Screenshot of Prophix One Financial Planning & Analysis: Prophix's self-serve dashboards and visualizations are directly integrated with data, workflow tasks, announcements, and external URLs and databases. Dashboard Studio helps users to be informed and make better business decisions.Screenshot of Detailed interactive charts and graphs that Prophix offers to uncover insights. Prophix’s visual analytics are linked directly to data with transaction details.  There is no need to input the numbers.  Prophix does this tedious work, automatically.Screenshot of Prophix’s Workflow Manager, used to assign tasks to users and facilitate approvals across the business.  Stakeholder input can be captured directly with the ability to add comments and notes in a single unified database.Screenshot of Cell Comments, that allow users to add supporting details like notes and attachments to data.  Since comments are stored with the data, they can be viewed in any template along with their trailing history. Cell Comment Reports can also be generated to show all comments from any data view in one convenient report.