SAP Analytics Cloud vs. Workday Financial Management

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
Workday Financial Management
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Workday Financial Management is a cloud-based financial software platform built on an in-memory architecture and an object-oriented data model. The system unifies transaction processing, multidimensional reporting, and consolidation into a single environment accessible via web and mobile interfaces. Financial Operations and Automation The platform employs Artificial Intelligence (AI) models and specialized financial agents to manage core business cycles. These…N/A
Pricing
SAP Analytics CloudWorkday Financial Management
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 CloudWorkday Financial Management
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo 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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Features
SAP Analytics CloudWorkday Financial Management
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
SAP Analytics Cloud
7.6
357 Ratings
7% below category average
Workday Financial Management
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Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports7.4302 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable dashboards7.9345 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates7.4319 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
SAP Analytics Cloud
7.5
358 Ratings
7% below category average
Workday Financial Management
-
Ratings
Drill-down analysis7.9348 Ratings00 Ratings
Formatting capabilities7.3345 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages6.9256 Ratings00 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration8.1334 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
SAP Analytics Cloud
7.4
339 Ratings
10% below category average
Workday Financial Management
-
Ratings
Publish to Web7.7290 Ratings00 Ratings
Publish to PDF7.8321 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Versioning7.5282 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling7.5278 Ratings00 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers6.758 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
SAP Analytics Cloud
7.4
343 Ratings
8% below category average
Workday Financial Management
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Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.8325 Ratings00 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.5312 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive Analytics7.3312 Ratings00 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining7.099 Ratings00 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
SAP Analytics Cloud
8.2
349 Ratings
3% below category average
Workday Financial Management
-
Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)8.2323 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model8.0331 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.1324 Ratings00 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control8.2134 Ratings00 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)8.5327 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
SAP Analytics Cloud
7.4
294 Ratings
4% below category average
Workday Financial Management
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Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access7.4283 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Application6.8247 Ratings00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.0274 Ratings00 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
SAP Analytics Cloud
7.1
66 Ratings
8% below category average
Workday Financial Management
-
Ratings
REST API7.156 Ratings00 Ratings
Javascript API7.049 Ratings00 Ratings
iFrames7.143 Ratings00 Ratings
Java API7.142 Ratings00 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)7.451 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)6.843 Ratings00 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP Analytics Cloud
-
Ratings
Workday Financial Management
8.1
23 Ratings
9% above category average
Pay calculation00 Ratings8.323 Ratings
Benefit plan administration00 Ratings8.020 Ratings
Direct deposit files00 Ratings8.120 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
SAP Analytics Cloud
-
Ratings
Workday Financial Management
8.1
20 Ratings
8% above category average
API for custom integration00 Ratings8.517 Ratings
Plug-ins00 Ratings7.719 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
SAP Analytics Cloud
-
Ratings
Workday Financial Management
9.0
25 Ratings
7% above category average
Single sign-on capability00 Ratings9.225 Ratings
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.823 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
SAP Analytics Cloud
-
Ratings
Workday Financial Management
7.9
27 Ratings
7% above category average
Dashboards00 Ratings8.027 Ratings
Standard reports00 Ratings7.924 Ratings
Custom reports00 Ratings8.022 Ratings
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of Product A and Product B
SAP Analytics Cloud
-
Ratings
Workday Financial Management
7.7
23 Ratings
0% above category average
Accounts payable00 Ratings7.518 Ratings
Accounts receivable00 Ratings6.918 Ratings
Global Financial Support00 Ratings7.419 Ratings
Primary and Secondary Ledgers00 Ratings7.319 Ratings
Journals and Reconciliations00 Ratings7.616 Ratings
Configurable Accounting00 Ratings7.619 Ratings
Standardized Processes00 Ratings7.820 Ratings
Inventory Management
Comparison of Inventory Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP Analytics Cloud
-
Ratings
Workday Financial Management
7.1
11 Ratings
12% below category average
Inventory tracking00 Ratings7.511 Ratings
Automatic reordering00 Ratings7.211 Ratings
Location management00 Ratings6.710 Ratings
Order Management
Comparison of Order Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP Analytics Cloud
-
Ratings
Workday Financial Management
7.1
11 Ratings
11% below category average
Credit card processing00 Ratings7.111 Ratings
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User Ratings
SAP Analytics CloudWorkday Financial Management
Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
(382 ratings)
8.4
(27 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.7
(22 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
7.7
(307 ratings)
9.0
(10 ratings)
Availability
5.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
4.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
6.3
(73 ratings)
10.0
(5 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
5.3
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.5
(9 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
5.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
6.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
SAP Analytics CloudWorkday Financial Management
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Workday
Workday is well suited for managing employees throughout their full life cycle. It excels at housing employee data from the start of their time with the company through their departure. Workday is less suited to payroll functions, which could be more robust.
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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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Workday
  • The flexibility of going beyond handling the accounts, where we can handle cash, assets, and accounting simultaneously for the customer.
  • The single platform offers grants management where you can organize the lifecycle of the grants and synchronize it with any criteria of grant closing out scheme.
  • I personally liked Project billing with the essence of evaluating project revenue and nice reporting templates that can be shared with the customer at any stage of the project while having the flexibility of auditing the reported cost.
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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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Workday
  • Some of the Workday updates last till like 10 in the morning which prevents employees to clock in and check their times and some cases their schedules
  • Workday can work on opening documents quicker instead of taking couple of minutes or notifying the user when they are ready to download
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Likelihood to Renew
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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Workday
No answers on this topic
Usability
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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Workday
Workday is easy enough navigate, as long as it is properly set up. With that said, it can be put together in a modular fashion as well, allowing for a very high degree of flexibility in terms of design and process delegation. Finally, it makes consolidation achievable in times previously unthinkable.
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Reliability and Availability
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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Workday
No answers on this topic
Performance
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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Workday
No answers on this topic
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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Workday
Our support team has been awesome. They are extremely knowledgeable and have been able to guide us through all of the challenges we have faced. Workday's community online is also extremely helpful with many trainings and help topics that can be reviewed at your convenience.
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In-Person Training
SAP
Good videos and reference material available in SAP Portal.
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Workday
No answers on this topic
Online Training
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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Workday
No answers on this topic
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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Workday
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Alternatives Considered
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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Workday
Despite Airtable also being easier to use one thing that differentiates and put forth Workday Financial Management tool above is it's key features and better suited functionality for handling confidential data. The other positive note where Workday Financial Management performs high is it key analytics tool that's easier to use and representation of information into insightful dashboards.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
SAP
unit pricing
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Workday
No answers on this topic
Scalability
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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Workday
No answers on this topic
Professional Services
SAP
very simple
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Workday
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Return on Investment
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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Workday
  • We were able to combine 4 different HR modules into one system.
  • We reduced data breach incidents by 95% after shifting to Workday. One of our legacy softwares had vulnerabilities.
  • The initial learning curve was higher than projected. We spent about a week to 10 days extra time deploying it, which affected the profit center that year.
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