SAP Analytics Cloud vs. Snowflake

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
SAP Analytics Cloud
Score 8.4 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
Snowflake
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
The Snowflake Cloud Data Platform is the eponymous data warehouse with, from the company in San Mateo, a cloud and SQL based DW that aims to allow users to unify, integrate, analyze, and share previously siloed data in secure, governed, and compliant ways. With it, users can securely access the Data Cloud to share live data with customers and business partners, and connect with other organizations doing business as data consumers, data providers, and data service providers.N/A
Pricing
SAP Analytics CloudSnowflake
Editions & Modules
SAP Analytics Cloud for Business Intelligence
$36.00
per month per user
SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning
Price upon request
per month per user
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
SAP Analytics CloudSnowflake
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsGet started on your 30-day trial with SAP Analytics Cloud, supporting analytics enterprise-wide. Extend it up to 90 days if you want to.
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Community Pulse
SAP Analytics CloudSnowflake
Considered Both Products
SAP Analytics Cloud
Chose SAP Analytics Cloud
SAP undoubtedly provides the best use case scenario given its integration capabilities and data management features. Other products do not provide a complete solution and obviously the product quality and reputation matters a lot given the intensity of product usage across the …
Snowflake

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Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
SAP Analytics CloudSnowflake
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
SAP Analytics Cloud
8.0
247 Ratings
5% above category average
Snowflake
-
Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports7.9204 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable dashboards8.1242 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates7.9220 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
SAP Analytics Cloud
7.9
257 Ratings
3% below category average
Snowflake
-
Ratings
Drill-down analysis8.1248 Ratings00 Ratings
Formatting capabilities7.9245 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages7.8190 Ratings00 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration7.9235 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
SAP Analytics Cloud
8.0
242 Ratings
2% below category average
Snowflake
-
Ratings
Publish to Web8.0207 Ratings00 Ratings
Publish to PDF8.1233 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Versioning8.1201 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling7.7194 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
SAP Analytics Cloud
7.8
250 Ratings
2% above category average
Snowflake
-
Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.6239 Ratings00 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.6232 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive Analytics8.1235 Ratings00 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining7.934 Ratings00 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
SAP Analytics Cloud
8.1
256 Ratings
7% below category average
Snowflake
-
Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)8.0235 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model8.1242 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)7.9233 Ratings00 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control8.146 Ratings00 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)8.6236 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
SAP Analytics Cloud
7.9
219 Ratings
1% above category average
Snowflake
-
Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access7.8208 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Application7.7180 Ratings00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile8.0203 Ratings00 Ratings
Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
Comparison of Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting features of Product A and Product B
SAP Analytics Cloud
8.0
274 Ratings
2% below category average
Snowflake
-
Ratings
Long-term financial planning7.9233 Ratings00 Ratings
Financial budgeting7.9239 Ratings00 Ratings
Forecasting8.2245 Ratings00 Ratings
Scenario modeling7.5237 Ratings00 Ratings
Management reporting8.4265 Ratings00 Ratings
Consolidation and Close
Comparison of Consolidation and Close features of Product A and Product B
SAP Analytics Cloud
7.7
229 Ratings
2% below category average
Snowflake
-
Ratings
Financial data consolidation7.6182 Ratings00 Ratings
Journal entries and reports7.9173 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-currency management7.5188 Ratings00 Ratings
Intercompany Eliminations7.4142 Ratings00 Ratings
Minority Ownership7.6128 Ratings00 Ratings
Local and consolidated reporting7.9179 Ratings00 Ratings
Detailed Audit Trails7.8170 Ratings00 Ratings
Financial Reporting and Compliance
Comparison of Financial Reporting and Compliance features of Product A and Product B
SAP Analytics Cloud
8.0
254 Ratings
1% above category average
Snowflake
-
Ratings
Financial Statement Reporting8.0213 Ratings00 Ratings
Management Reporting8.3244 Ratings00 Ratings
Excel-based Reporting7.9225 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated board and financial reporting8.1203 Ratings00 Ratings
XBRL support for regulatory filing7.6113 Ratings00 Ratings
Analytics and Reporting
Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of Product A and Product B
SAP Analytics Cloud
8.1
277 Ratings
1% above category average
Snowflake
-
Ratings
Personalized dashboards8.2270 Ratings00 Ratings
Color-coded scorecards8.1255 Ratings00 Ratings
KPIs8.3261 Ratings00 Ratings
Cost and profitability analysis8.2243 Ratings00 Ratings
Key Performance Indicator setting8.3246 Ratings00 Ratings
Benchmarking with external data7.7206 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration
Comparison of Integration features of Product A and Product B
SAP Analytics Cloud
7.4
258 Ratings
11% below category average
Snowflake
-
Ratings
Flat file integration7.5244 Ratings00 Ratings
Excel data integration7.8247 Ratings00 Ratings
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources6.9226 Ratings00 Ratings
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SAP Analytics CloudSnowflake
Small Businesses
IBM Planning Analytics
IBM Planning Analytics
Score 8.3 out of 10
Google BigQuery
Google BigQuery
Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Centage
Centage
Score 9.5 out of 10
Google BigQuery
Google BigQuery
Score 8.7 out of 10
Enterprises
Prophix
Prophix
Score 8.8 out of 10
Teradata Vantage
Teradata Vantage
Score 8.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
SAP Analytics CloudSnowflake
Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
(298 ratings)
8.9
(43 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.2
(8 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(219 ratings)
9.3
(19 ratings)
Support Rating
5.8
(75 ratings)
9.9
(8 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.6
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
SAP Analytics CloudSnowflake
Likelihood to Recommend
SAP
SAP Analytics Cloud is great for big companies that want advanced data analysis and planning, especially when they need to work together in real-time or when people need to access data on their phones. It's like a super tool for predicting future trends in industries like retail or finance. SAC also works well for companies that use different types of computer systems because it can easily connect them. But, for small businesses that only need basic reports or don't have a lot of technical resources, a simpler tool might be better. If a company doesn't always have a good internet connection or if they're just starting with analytics, there might be other tools that work better.
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Snowflake Computing
Snowflake is well suited when you have to store your data and you want easy scalability and increase or decrease the storage per your requirement. You can also control the computing cost, and if your computing cost is less than or equal to 10% of your storage cost, then you don't have to pay for computing, which makes it cost-effective as well.
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Pros
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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Snowflake Computing
  • Snowflake scales appropriately allowing you to manage expense for peak and off peak times for pulling and data retrieval and data centric processing jobs
  • Snowflake offers a marketplace solution that allows you to sell and subscribe to different data sources
  • Snowflake manages concurrency better in our trials than other premium competitors
  • Snowflake has little to no setup and ramp up time
  • Snowflake offers online training for various employee types
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Cons
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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Snowflake Computing
  • Add constraints for views and not just for tables
  • Do not force customers to renew for same or higher amount to avoid loosing unused credits. Already paid credits should not expire (at least within a reasonable time frame), independent of renewal deal size.
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Likelihood to Renew
SAP
There’s no doubt I will renew SAP Analytics Cloud. It is the most vital tool in our organization that makes it seamless to make rapid business decisions by collecting, modeling and visualizing data in real-time.
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Snowflake Computing
SnowFlake is very cost effective and we also like the fact we can stop, start and spin up additional processing engines as we need to. We also like the fact that it's easy to connect our SQL IDEs to Snowflake and write our queries in the environment that we are used to
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Usability
SAP
Considering the feedback and improvements made over time, users often rate SAP Analytics Cloud's usability in the range of 7 to 9 out of 10. Positive aspects include its integration capabilities, collaborative features, and the ability to create visually appealing dashboards. Some users, however, may note a learning curve or desire additional customization options.
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Snowflake Computing
Because the fact that you can query tons of data in a few seconds is incredible, it also gives you a lot of functions to format and transform data right in your query, which is ideal when building data models in BI tools like Power BI, it is available as a connector in the most used BI tools worldwide.
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Support Rating
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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Snowflake Computing
We have had terrific experiences with Snowflake support. They have drilled into queries and given us tremendous detail and helpful answers. In one case they even figured out how a particular product was interacting with Snowflake, via its queries, and gave us detail to go back to that product's vendor because the Snowflake support team identified a fault in its operation. We got it solved without lots of back-and-forth or finger-pointing because the Snowflake team gave such detailed information.
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In-Person Training
SAP
Good videos and reference material available in SAP Portal.
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Snowflake Computing
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Implementation Rating
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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Snowflake Computing
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Alternatives Considered
SAP
SAP is a product/solution that contains extra capabilities that might be considered an enhancement; SAP Analytics Cloud models are based on a huge data collection, and numerous models can be integrated. When coupled with different SAP systems, Analytics Cloud has a common dataset architecture; this software also includes improved analytics capabilities.
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Snowflake Computing
I have had the experience of using one more database management system at my previous workplace. What Snowflake provides is better user-friendly consoles, suggestions while writing a query, ease of access to connect to various BI platforms to analyze, [and a] more robust system to store a large amount of data. All these functionalities give the better edge to Snowflake.
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Return on Investment
SAP
  • In general, SAC is a comprehensive analytics platform that offers a range of capabilities for data visualization, reporting, planning, and predictive analytics. It is particularly well-suited for businesses that use SAP systems and are looking to gain insight into their data in a single, integrated platform.
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Snowflake Computing
  • With separate compute and storage feature, the queries get executed quickly and it improves our overall productivity.
  • Earlier we were using a different product for analytical purposes, but with Snowflake's in-built analytical feature we are now able to save money.
  • Snowflake is cost efficient, features like auto suspend for compute resources helped to control the costs.
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