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390 Ratings
SAP Analytics Cloud
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Tableau Desktop
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Based on 1995 reviews and ratings
Feature Set Ratings
- SAP Analytics Cloud ranks higher in 6 feature sets: BI Standard Reporting, Ad-hoc Reporting, Report Output and Scheduling, Data Discovery and Visualization, Access Control and Security, Mobile Capabilities
BI Standard Reporting
8.9
SAP Analytics Cloud
89%

8.1
Tableau Desktop
81%
SAP Analytics Cloud ranks higher in 3/3 features
SAP Analytics Cloud ranks higher in 3/3 features
Pixel Perfect reports
8.7
87%
112 Ratings

8.0
80%
136 Ratings
Customizable dashboards
9.2
92%
130 Ratings

8.5
85%
162 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates
8.7
87%
124 Ratings

7.8
78%
141 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
8.7
SAP Analytics Cloud
87%

8.1
Tableau Desktop
81%
SAP Analytics Cloud ranks higher in 4/4 features
SAP Analytics Cloud ranks higher in 4/4 features
Drill-down analysis
8.6
86%
134 Ratings

8.1
81%
155 Ratings
Formatting capabilities
8.7
87%
131 Ratings

8.1
81%
158 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages
8.5
85%
108 Ratings

7.6
76%
119 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration
9.0
90%
127 Ratings

8.6
86%
154 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
8.7
SAP Analytics Cloud
87%

8.2
Tableau Desktop
82%
SAP Analytics Cloud ranks higher in 4/5 features
SAP Analytics Cloud ranks higher in 4/5 features
Publish to Web
8.8
88%
121 Ratings

8.7
87%
145 Ratings
Publish to PDF
9.0
90%
124 Ratings

8.5
85%
145 Ratings
Report Versioning
8.6
86%
110 Ratings

8.1
81%
111 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling
8.6
86%
101 Ratings

8.2
82%
118 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers
N/A
0 Ratings

7.8
78%
69 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
8.8
SAP Analytics Cloud
88%

8.5
Tableau Desktop
85%
SAP Analytics Cloud ranks higher in 2/3 features
SAP Analytics Cloud ranks higher in 2/3 features
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
9.0
90%
134 Ratings

8.7
87%
150 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
8.7
87%
131 Ratings

8.8
88%
145 Ratings
Predictive Analytics
8.7
87%
132 Ratings

7.9
79%
122 Ratings
Access Control and Security
9.0
SAP Analytics Cloud
90%

8.5
Tableau Desktop
85%
SAP Analytics Cloud ranks higher in 4/4 features
SAP Analytics Cloud ranks higher in 4/4 features
Multi-User Support (named login)
9.1
91%
131 Ratings

8.5
85%
135 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model
8.8
88%
131 Ratings

8.3
83%
114 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
9.0
90%
129 Ratings

8.7
87%
125 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)
9.0
90%
125 Ratings

8.5
85%
73 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
8.4
SAP Analytics Cloud
84%

7.9
Tableau Desktop
79%
SAP Analytics Cloud ranks higher in 3/3 features
SAP Analytics Cloud ranks higher in 3/3 features
Responsive Design for Web Access
8.7
87%
112 Ratings

7.9
79%
120 Ratings
Mobile Application
8.3
83%
99 Ratings

7.9
79%
178 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
8.2
82%
108 Ratings

8.0
80%
112 Ratings
Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
8.9
SAP Analytics Cloud
89%

Tableau Desktop
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
SAP Analytics Cloud ranks higher in 5/5 features
SAP Analytics Cloud ranks higher in 5/5 features
Long-term financial planning
8.9
89%
122 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Financial budgeting
8.7
87%
124 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Forecasting
9.0
90%
127 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Scenario modeling
8.7
87%
127 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Management reporting
9.1
91%
135 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Consolidation and Close
8.7
SAP Analytics Cloud
87%

Tableau Desktop
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
SAP Analytics Cloud ranks higher in 7/7 features
SAP Analytics Cloud ranks higher in 7/7 features
Financial data consolidation
8.8
88%
95 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Journal entries and reports
9.0
90%
93 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Multi-currency management
8.5
85%
100 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Intercompany Eliminations
8.6
86%
80 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Minority Ownership
8.6
86%
74 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Local and consolidated reporting
8.7
87%
102 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Detailed Audit Trails
8.5
85%
95 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Financial Reporting and Compliance
8.7
SAP Analytics Cloud
87%

Tableau Desktop
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
SAP Analytics Cloud ranks higher in 5/5 features
SAP Analytics Cloud ranks higher in 5/5 features
Financial Statement Reporting
8.7
87%
111 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Management Reporting
8.9
89%
129 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Excel-based Reporting
8.9
89%
123 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Automated board and financial reporting
8.5
85%
113 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
XBRL support for regulatory filing
8.5
85%
69 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Analytics and Reporting
9.1
SAP Analytics Cloud
91%

Tableau Desktop
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
SAP Analytics Cloud ranks higher in 6/6 features
SAP Analytics Cloud ranks higher in 6/6 features
Personalized dashboards
9.2
92%
147 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Color-coded scorecards
9.2
92%
139 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
KPIs
9.1
91%
143 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Cost and profitability analysis
8.9
89%
135 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Key Performance Indicator setting
9.1
91%
138 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Benchmarking with external data
8.7
87%
116 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Integration
8.8
SAP Analytics Cloud
88%

Tableau Desktop
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
SAP Analytics Cloud ranks higher in 3/3 features
SAP Analytics Cloud ranks higher in 3/3 features
Flat file integration
9.0
90%
137 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Excel data integration
9.2
92%
137 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
8.3
83%
128 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
SAP Analytics Cloud
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A

7.8
Tableau Desktop
78%
Tableau Desktop ranks higher in 6/6 features
Tableau Desktop ranks higher in 6/6 features
REST API
N/A
0 Ratings

7.8
78%
54 Ratings
Javascript API
N/A
0 Ratings

7.9
79%
48 Ratings
iFrames
N/A
0 Ratings

7.7
77%
47 Ratings
Java API
N/A
0 Ratings

7.3
73%
44 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)
N/A
0 Ratings

7.8
78%
49 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
N/A
0 Ratings

8.1
81%
43 Ratings
Attribute Ratings
- SAP Analytics Cloud is rated higher in 4 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Usability, Support Rating, Implementation Rating
- Tableau Desktop is rated higher in 1 area: In-Person Training
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
SAP Analytics Cloud
88%
152 Ratings

8.6
Tableau Desktop
86%
190 Ratings
Likelihood to Renew
SAP Analytics Cloud
N/A
0 Ratings

8.9
Tableau Desktop
89%
39 Ratings
Usability
8.9
SAP Analytics Cloud
89%
73 Ratings

8.8
Tableau Desktop
88%
65 Ratings
Availability
SAP Analytics Cloud
N/A
0 Ratings

8.0
Tableau Desktop
80%
20 Ratings
Performance
SAP Analytics Cloud
N/A
0 Ratings

6.1
Tableau Desktop
61%
18 Ratings
Support Rating
8.7
SAP Analytics Cloud
87%
75 Ratings

8.0
Tableau Desktop
80%
73 Ratings
In-Person Training
9.0
SAP Analytics Cloud
90%
1 Rating

9.4
Tableau Desktop
94%
4 Ratings
Online Training
SAP Analytics Cloud
N/A
0 Ratings

8.0
Tableau Desktop
80%
4 Ratings
Implementation Rating
9.0
SAP Analytics Cloud
90%
1 Rating

8.0
Tableau Desktop
80%
68 Ratings
Product Scalability
SAP Analytics Cloud
N/A
0 Ratings

7.0
Tableau Desktop
70%
3 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
SAP Analytics Cloud
Our organization uses SAP Analytics Cloud mainly for predictive analysis and data visualization. We were able to drive business outcomes and improve decision-making with the use of the generated reports. It also provides real-time access to data and also the self-service data visualization feature enabled with ML allows us to take rapid decisions. This is a great platform for large-scale organizations but for small-scale organizations it might be an expensive solution.
Consultant
Experience CommerceMarketing & Advertising, 501-1000 employees
Tableau Desktop
Tableau Desktop is better for data analysis and visualization. Its advanced visualization features helped us better understand our business and customer demographics. We use Tableau Desktop to track our team’s progress. Real-time analyses and interactive dashboards are helpful for monitoring data. We can now create and share insights in ways we couldn’t before. It’s easy to put faith in and use these insights. Tableau Desktop can compare data from previous years with weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual comparisons. It assists businesses in identifying the best and least-sold products. However, this requires expensive licenses and skilled personnel, which small businesses cannot afford.
Software Engineer
Prime Tech Solutions Ltd.Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees
Pros
SAP Analytics Cloud
- It is a very reliable tool in data updating and notifications which are in real-time meaning no time is wasted.
- Analysis assists in monetary budgeting and this goes in hand with the accounting department.
- Multi-currency exchange the organization is worldwide and this is well handled here to facilitate business with all other countries.
Quality Assurance Analyst
PfizerPharmaceuticals, 10,001+ employees
Tableau Desktop
- An excellent tool for data visualization, it presents information in an appealing visual format—an exceptional platform for storing and analyzing data in any size organization.
- Through interactive parameters, it enables real-time interaction with the user and is easy to learn and get support from the community.
Information Technology Business Consultant
Alfa NET+Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees
Cons
SAP Analytics Cloud
- Sometimes the uploading of data requires a lot of time and [a] very fast internet connection which results in failure of data uploading.
- Little guidance in the form of reference/hints regarding what type of data to be uploaded should be provided on various sections of the software to make it more user-friendly for [the] layman.
- Data Modeling needs to be polished a little more. Data models often require complete reworking for minor changes such as changes in [the] format required.

Verified User
Consultant in Finance and Accounting
Accounting Company, 10,001+ employeesTableau Desktop
- Formatting the data to work correctly in graphical presentations can be time consuming
- Daily data extracts can run slowly depending on how much data is required and the source of the data
- The desktop version is required for advanced functionality, editing on [the] Tableau server allows only limited features

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employeesPricing Details
SAP Analytics Cloud
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
$36 per month
SAP Analytics Cloud Editions & Modules
Edition
SAP Analytics Cloud for Business Intelligence | $36.001 |
---|---|
SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning | Contact sales |
- Per User/Per Month
- none
Additional Pricing Details
90-day free trial available.Tableau Desktop
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
$70 per month
Tableau Desktop Editions & Modules
Edition
Tableau Creator | $70.001 |
---|
- Per User / Per Month
Additional Pricing Details
All pricing plans are billed annually.Likelihood to Renew
SAP Analytics Cloud
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Tableau Desktop
Tableau Desktop 8.9
Based on 39 answers
Our use of Tableau Desktop is still fairly low, and will continue over time. The only real concern is around cost of the licenses, and I have mentioned this to Tableau and fully expect the development of more sensible models for our industry. This will remove any impediment to expansion of our use.

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Mining & Metals Company, 10,001+ employeesUsability
SAP Analytics Cloud
SAP Analytics Cloud 8.9
Based on 73 answers
As mentioned earlier, the UI could be confusing and hard to get used to for many people in the initial stages. We had to keep many training sessions and tutorials for our employees so that they could get used to the platform. Although once we are past this hurdle it is one of the best platforms on the market and provides a wide range of features to work with
Operations Associate
FynTune SolutionsComputer Software, 501-1000 employees
Tableau Desktop
Tableau Desktop 8.8
Based on 65 answers
It is a good tool for creating beautiful visualizations and sharing dashboards. It does offer a variety of features and also making interactive dashboards. It is easy to learn and create custom visualizations really fast. It does offer good API connectivity to gather data. But it lacks the structure for data cleaning and processing.

Verified User
Analyst in Marketing
Apparel & Fashion Company, 1-10 employeesReliability and Availability
SAP Analytics Cloud
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Tableau Desktop
Tableau Desktop 8.0
Based on 20 answers
When used as a stand-alone tool, Tableau Desktop has unlimited uptime, which is always nice. When used in conjunction with Tableau Server, this tool has as much uptime as your server admins are willing to give it. All in all, I've never had an issue with Tableau's availability.
Associate Data Analytics Consultant
MarinerInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Performance
SAP Analytics Cloud
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Tableau Desktop
Tableau Desktop 6.1
Based on 18 answers
Tableau Desktop's performance is solid. You can really dig into a large dataset in the form of a spreadsheet, and it exhibits similarly good performance when accessing a moderately sized Oracle database. I noticed that with Tableau Desktop 9.3, the performance using a spreadsheet started to slow around 75K rows by about 60 columns. This was easily remedied by creating an extract and pushing it to Tableau Server, where performance went to lightning fast

Verified User
Professional in Research & Development
Biotechnology Company, 201-500 employeesSupport Rating
SAP Analytics Cloud
SAP Analytics Cloud 8.7
Based on 75 answers
I haven’t interacted with SAP support since our in-house support team [reaches] out to them when there is an issue. However, I am pretty sure they must be highly responsive and knowledgeable since we have never lasted with an issue for more than an hour ever since I joined Movement Bank.

Verified User
Consultant in Finance and Accounting
Banking Company, 11-50 employeesTableau Desktop
Tableau Desktop 8.0
Based on 73 answers
The Tableau Desktop's support team has been very helpful and tend to response very quickly. After all you have paid very premium price for the product and it goes to the services. This makes using the tool much easier for these who doesn't have such experience to get help quickly.

Verified User
Analyst in Professional Services
Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employeesIn-Person Training
SAP Analytics Cloud
SAP Analytics Cloud 9.0
Based on 1 answer
Good videos and reference material available in SAP Portal.
Senior BI Architect
VirtusaBanking, 10,001+ employees
Tableau Desktop
Tableau Desktop 9.4
Based on 4 answers
It is admittedly hard to train a group of people with disparate levels of ability coming in, but the software is so easy to use that this is not a huge problem; anyone who can follow simple instructions can catch up pretty quickly.
Associate Vice President
DePaul University, Division of Enrollment Management and MarketingHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees
Online Training
SAP Analytics Cloud
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Tableau Desktop
Tableau Desktop 8.0
Based on 4 answers
The training for new users are quite good because it covers topic wise training and the best part was that it also had video tutorials which are very helpful
BI Developer
CognizantInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees
Implementation Rating
SAP Analytics Cloud
SAP Analytics Cloud 9.0
Based on 1 answer
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
Copilot
SWITCH - Business TransformationInformation Technology & Services, 1-10 employees
Tableau Desktop
Tableau Desktop 8.0
Based on 68 answers
Again, training is the key and the company provides a lot of example videos that will help users discover use cases that will greatly assist their creation of original visualizations. As with any new software tool, productivity will decline for a period. In the case of Tableau, the decline period is short and the later gains are well worth it.
Decision Sciences - Modeling, Simulation & Analysis
San Francisco State UniversityHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees
Alternatives Considered
SAP Analytics Cloud
Very flexible and easy features on SAP Analytics Cloud and the capabilities that the solution has for effective data management is amazing. SAP Analytics Cloud data integration functions are more functional and powerful for the quick and stable data import of multiple large data from other applications through its cloud services.
Project Manager
Equifax MexicoInformation Technology & Services, 51-200 employees
Tableau Desktop
Tableau hands-down wins based upon functionality, interoperability with a wide variety of enterprise-class data connections, end-user support, and quality of visualizations. Tableau Desktop offers a substantially more robust, refined, and mature product. It became quickly apparent that there was no real comparison. For applications that need fast, accurate analytics using a wide portfolio of underlying data sources, Tableau Desktop is the clear winner.
Chief Financial Officer
Clinical Management Concepts, Inc.Pharmaceuticals, 51-200 employees
Scalability
SAP Analytics Cloud
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Tableau Desktop
Tableau Desktop 7.0
Based on 3 answers
Tableau Desktop's scaleability is really limited to the scale of your back-end data systems. If you want to pull down an extract and work quickly in-memory, in my application it scaled to a few tens of millions of rows using the in-memory engine. But it's really only limited by your back-end data store if you have or are willing to invest in an optimized SQL store or purpose-built query engine like Veritca or Netezza or something similar.

Verified User
C-Level Executive in Finance and Accounting
Internet Company, 51-200 employeesReturn on Investment
SAP Analytics Cloud
- We have been able to empower our team with all cloud analytics capabilities that enable them to analyze data without incurring extra costs for hiring data scientists.
- We have been able to make future cost planning such as loan borrowing by incorporating financial planning tools.
- Additionally, data consolidation in one platform is cost-effective compared to holding data in multiple clouds and on-premises applications.
Director of Internal Audit
Sprouts Farmers MarketRetail, 10,001+ employees
Tableau Desktop
- Tableau was acquired years ago, and has provided good value with the content created.
- Ongoing maintenance costs for the platform, both to maintain desktop and server licensing has made the continuing value questionable when compared to other offerings in the marketplace.
- Users have largely been satisfied with the content, but not with the overall performance. This is due to a combination of factors including the performance of the Tableau engines as well as development deficiencies.
Data developer
HKS, Inc.Architecture & Planning, 1001-5000 employees