SAP Cloud ERP vs. Tableau Cloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
SAP Cloud ERP
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
SAP Cloud ERP (formerly SAP S/4HANA Cloud) is a modular ERP that enables users to run mission-critical operations in real time from anywhere, introduce new business models in any industry, and expand globally. SAP Cloud ERP is a SaaS product and can also be deployed in a hybrid landscape for quicker time to value.​ ​​ SAP Cloud ERP is a foundational component of theN/A
Tableau Cloud
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Tableau Cloud (formerly Tableau Online) is a self-service analytics platform that is fully hosted in the cloud. Tableau Cloud enables users to publish dashboards and invite colleagues to explore hidden opportunities with interactive visualizations and accurate data, from any browser or mobile device.
$15
per month per user
Pricing
SAP Cloud ERPTableau Cloud
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Tableau Viewer
$15
per month billed annually per user
Enterprise Viewer
$35
per month billed annually per user
Tableau Explorer
$42
per month billed annually per user
Enterprise Explorer
$70
per month billed annually per user
Tableau Creator
$75
per month billed annually per user
Enterprise Creator
$115
per month billed annually per user
Tableau+
Contact Sales
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
SAP Cloud ERPTableau Cloud
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPer user, per month
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Community Pulse
SAP Cloud ERPTableau Cloud
Considered Both Products
SAP Cloud ERP
Chose SAP Cloud ERP
None were evaluated since we were satsfied with SAP ERP and saw SAP S/4HANA Cloud as the next logical step towards an intelligent enterprise solution.
Tableau Cloud

No answer on this topic

Features
SAP Cloud ERPTableau Cloud
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP Cloud ERP
8.1
408 Ratings
10% above category average
Tableau Cloud
-
Ratings
Pay calculation7.8358 Ratings00 Ratings
Benefit plan administration7.9346 Ratings00 Ratings
Direct deposit files7.6345 Ratings00 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
SAP Cloud ERP
7.7
626 Ratings
4% above category average
Tableau Cloud
-
Ratings
API for custom integration7.8600 Ratings00 Ratings
Plug-ins7.6553 Ratings00 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
SAP Cloud ERP
8.3
721 Ratings
1% below category average
Tableau Cloud
-
Ratings
Single sign-on capability8.4678 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-based user permissions8.1710 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
SAP Cloud ERP
7.7
728 Ratings
5% above category average
Tableau Cloud
-
Ratings
Dashboards7.7673 Ratings00 Ratings
Standard reports7.8715 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom reports7.6661 Ratings00 Ratings
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of Product A and Product B
SAP Cloud ERP
8.3
750 Ratings
8% above category average
Tableau Cloud
-
Ratings
Accounts payable8.2729 Ratings00 Ratings
Accounts receivable8.2694 Ratings00 Ratings
Global Financial Support7.9247 Ratings00 Ratings
Primary and Secondary Ledgers8.0260 Ratings00 Ratings
Journals and Reconciliations8.0279 Ratings00 Ratings
Configurable Accounting8.0255 Ratings00 Ratings
Standardized Processes8.3287 Ratings00 Ratings
Inventory Management
Comparison of Inventory Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP Cloud ERP
8.3
628 Ratings
5% above category average
Tableau Cloud
-
Ratings
Inventory tracking8.3614 Ratings00 Ratings
Automatic reordering7.9532 Ratings00 Ratings
Location management7.9507 Ratings00 Ratings
Order Management
Comparison of Order Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP Cloud ERP
8.2
640 Ratings
5% above category average
Tableau Cloud
-
Ratings
Pricing8.0610 Ratings00 Ratings
Order entry8.0620 Ratings00 Ratings
Credit card processing9.024 Ratings00 Ratings
Cost of goods sold8.2585 Ratings00 Ratings
Order Orchestration7.9209 Ratings00 Ratings
Subledger and Financial Process
Comparison of Subledger and Financial Process features of Product A and Product B
SAP Cloud ERP
8.5
273 Ratings
13% above category average
Tableau Cloud
-
Ratings
Billing Management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Cash and Asset Management7.9246 Ratings00 Ratings
Travel & Expense Management10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting7.5208 Ratings00 Ratings
Period Close8.0267 Ratings00 Ratings
Project Execution Management
Comparison of Project Execution Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP Cloud ERP
9.3
1 Ratings
28% above category average
Tableau Cloud
-
Ratings
Project Planning and Scheduling10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Task Insight for Project Managers8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Project Mobile Functionality10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Definable Resource Pools9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Grants Management
Comparison of Grants Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP Cloud ERP
8.1
115 Ratings
9% above category average
Tableau Cloud
-
Ratings
Award Lifecycle Management8.1115 Ratings00 Ratings
Procurement
Comparison of Procurement features of Product A and Product B
SAP Cloud ERP
7.9
226 Ratings
12% above category average
Tableau Cloud
-
Ratings
Bids Analyzed and Compared7.8155 Ratings00 Ratings
Contract Authoring7.9159 Ratings00 Ratings
Contract Repository7.7154 Ratings00 Ratings
Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated8.1202 Ratings00 Ratings
Supplier Management8.0200 Ratings00 Ratings
Risk Management
Comparison of Risk Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP Cloud ERP
9.8
1 Ratings
39% above category average
Tableau Cloud
-
Ratings
Risk Repository10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Control Management10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Control Efficiency Assessments10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue Detection9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Remediation and Certification10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Logistics
Comparison of Logistics features of Product A and Product B
SAP Cloud ERP
8.0
182 Ratings
15% above category average
Tableau Cloud
-
Ratings
Transportation Planning and Optimization8.1160 Ratings00 Ratings
Transportation Execution Management7.9155 Ratings00 Ratings
Trade and Customs Management7.7143 Ratings00 Ratings
Fulfillment Management8.2146 Ratings00 Ratings
Warehouse Workforce Management8.0147 Ratings00 Ratings
Manufacturing
Comparison of Manufacturing features of Product A and Product B
SAP Cloud ERP
8.2
177 Ratings
10% above category average
Tableau Cloud
-
Ratings
Production Process Design8.2160 Ratings00 Ratings
Production Management8.3162 Ratings00 Ratings
Configuration Management8.2152 Ratings00 Ratings
Work Execution8.1157 Ratings00 Ratings
Manufacturing Costs8.1157 Ratings00 Ratings
Supply Chain
Comparison of Supply Chain features of Product A and Product B
SAP Cloud ERP
7.8
213 Ratings
9% above category average
Tableau Cloud
-
Ratings
Forecasting7.7189 Ratings00 Ratings
Inventory Planning8.0204 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance Monitoring7.7193 Ratings00 Ratings
Product Lifecycle Management
Comparison of Product Lifecycle Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP Cloud ERP
9.0
194 Ratings
22% above category average
Tableau Cloud
-
Ratings
Proposal Management10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Product Master Data Management8.0194 Ratings00 Ratings
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
SAP Cloud ERP
-
Ratings
Tableau Cloud
7.6
74 Ratings
7% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings7.756 Ratings
Customizable dashboards00 Ratings8.774 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings6.563 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
SAP Cloud ERP
-
Ratings
Tableau Cloud
7.6
74 Ratings
6% below category average
Drill-down analysis00 Ratings8.674 Ratings
Formatting capabilities00 Ratings7.271 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings6.247 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings8.672 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
SAP Cloud ERP
-
Ratings
Tableau Cloud
7.8
72 Ratings
5% below category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings8.568 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings7.567 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings7.655 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.559 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings6.538 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
SAP Cloud ERP
-
Ratings
Tableau Cloud
7.8
70 Ratings
2% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings8.267 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings8.266 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings7.757 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings7.26 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
SAP Cloud ERP
-
Ratings
Tableau Cloud
8.4
69 Ratings
1% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings8.363 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings7.756 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings8.559 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings8.77 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings8.654 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
SAP Cloud ERP
-
Ratings
Tableau Cloud
7.5
59 Ratings
3% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings7.457 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings7.744 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings7.851 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
SAP Cloud ERP
-
Ratings
Tableau Cloud
6.9
41 Ratings
11% below category average
REST API00 Ratings7.836 Ratings
Javascript API00 Ratings7.234 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings6.833 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings5.629 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings6.735 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings7.232 Ratings
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User Ratings
SAP Cloud ERPTableau Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(706 ratings)
9.3
(75 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.5
(17 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(604 ratings)
8.8
(28 ratings)
Availability
9.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
6.6
(78 ratings)
8.7
(20 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.5
(9 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
8.3
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
4.7
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
6.6
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
7.1
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
SAP Cloud ERPTableau Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
SAP
Does well Manufacturing companies - E2E integration. Product Costing integration with manufacturing. Order to Cash - E2E integration, Joule, and openness to integrating third-party products. Less appropriate AI capabilities - competition is moving faster. E2E professional services business as business is evolving faster, and new ideas are coming in at a fast pace.
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Tableau
If you're using Tableau as the primary BI tool, then Tableau Cloud is well suited to publish and share the results with a wide(r) audience. It is well suited for various degrees of self-service proficiency, from pure consumers of analytical work to more advanced users who can use web editing for smaller or larger adjustments, and even for desktop power users who will publish their work to Tableau Cloud. It has many good ways to organize the content and make it easily accessible via search, favorites, folders, collections ("playlists for your data"), or history ("recents"). It might not be ideally suited if there are many on-prem sources to be used (even though there are options to connect them) or if you have very special requirements regarding custom server setup, which is limited in a shared cloud environment like Tableau Cloud.
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Pros
SAP
  • The software helps in forecasting and identifying potential challenges that would affect our organisation in the near future. This enables us to prepare in advance and also adopt practical and viable measures.
  • It enables faster and accurate data processing, which enhances decision-making.
  • It's easily customizable according to specific organizational needs. This promotes overall efficiency and productivity of the organization.
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Tableau
  • Tableau Online is completely cloud based and that's why the reports and dashboards are accessible even on the go. One doesn't always need to access the office laptop to access the reports.
  • The visualizations are interactive and one can quickly change the level at which they want to view the information. For example, one person might be more interested in looking at the country level performances rather than client level. This is intuitive and one doesn't need to create multiple reports for the same.
  • The feature to ask questions in plain vanilla English language is great and helpful. For quick adhoc fact checks one can simply type what they are looking for and the Natural Language Programming algorithms under the hood parse the query, interpret it and then fetch the results accordingly in a visual form.
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Cons
SAP
  • The beginner's user-friendly UI can help learners learn easily, and it feels a bit complex.
  • Implementation of AI bot on common tasks.
  • There are no offline functionality that users can use remotely.
  • As the scalability of the products grows, they become more expensive.
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Tableau
  • Can be a steep learning curve for new users
  • Modeling and building algorithms aren't always intuitive and take some testing/retesting to ensure it's working as it should
  • Inability to integrate easily with our HRIS platform. Reports are pulled from HRIS at various intervals and uploaded into Tableau
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Likelihood to Renew
SAP
The cost of SAP as an ERP is quite high and the switching costs associated with ERP systems are even higher. That being said moving from one ERP to another only happens once in a great while for large organizations. Those switching costs include retraining, IT hardware requirements, outside consultants and more
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Tableau
No answers on this topic
Usability
SAP
Day to day data insight is more accurate for manufacturing industry to procure as per forecasted from supplier. Supply and fulfillment cycle becomes more easier. I would say more about performance as we are using this new server so we can see clear difference between SAP S/4HANA Cloud and ECC. Also it has customized business extensions for rapid development.
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Tableau
Based on comments from our clients, I awarded it this grade. Non-technical customers frequently compliment us on the ease with which they can utilize Tableau Online. Usability is rarely a source of contention amongst our customers. Few complaints have come from me as a user of our internal products.
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Support Rating
SAP
The support system I find great as whenever I run into problems they rectify them quickly as possible they never reacted late the support is just up to the mark for me. They provide many solutions to the problems I faced the [technical] team support is always amazing they [listen] to mean work accordingly.
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Tableau
I have not had any issues that require customer support from Tableau at this time, which speaks well to Tableau. I have taken an online course with Tableau and it was very professional and well done, so based on that I would assume a similar level of quality for their customer service.
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In-Person Training
SAP
More effective
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Tableau
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
SAP
SAP requires
a lot of internal and external resources to complete its successful
implementation. The cloud version requires a deeper understanding of the
different capabilities of the local systems (hardware) and the connection
towards your local IT team. We found several problems on our systems that we
couldn't foresee before the implementation and roll out.
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Tableau
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
SAP
The platform utilizes advanced predictive analytics to anticipate operational bottlenecks and put them out of commission before the problems become larger. We can proactively develop effective strategies that help keep service quality in the face of unexpected changes in the market, or external disruptions, by continuously analyzing historical performance data as well as elements of the current market
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Tableau
In determining whether to go with Tableau Online versus Alteryx, two important factors stood out in determining our go-to solution. First, while Alteryx is an impressive tool for data cleansing, it did not stack up in terms of data visualization capabilities. Tableau, on the other hand, provided us everything we needed in terms of visualizing our data and analytics. The second factor is cost. Well neither solution would be considered cheap, Tableau was the more cost effective solution for our needs.
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Return on Investment
SAP
  • The financial management part ensures every process is well planned and allocated resources are used efficiently.
  • The development of payroll management ensures that all employees are happily remunerated and, hence, very productive.
  • The creation of solid financial reporting acts as the primary driver in decision-making, which brings more insights into development.
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Tableau
  • When we release new products, we are now able to quickly see data and toggle between current periods and previous to see performance
  • Generating new reports requires less IT time to build
  • Data can be shared across many different device types
  • We now have integration where our customers can extract data from our software more easily-this was a big ask from our customers
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ScreenShots

SAP Cloud ERP Screenshots

Screenshot of the Order to Cash Dashboard - For the management of the order-to-cash process more efficiently across revenue streams and business models - including sales of physical and digital goods, services, subscriptions, projects, and bundles.Screenshot of a Sales Management Overview - Helps ensure sales reps meet their goals with an overview of orders and key sales performance metrics, with status tracking for each order in real time for the early detection of potential issues.Screenshot of the Purchasing Spend Dashboard - For weighing various aspects of purchasing spend through quick access to clear, complete, and real-time data, with less risk, and without opening different reports and transactions.Screenshot of Operational Supplier Evaluation - Provides a transparent overview of suppliers. Users can approve the most reliable vendors and get the right mix to serve business needs while reducing risk.Screenshot of Inventory Management - Provides visibility to manage supply chains, to mitigate risk, avoid unnecessary costs, maximize efficiency, and fulfill customer orders on time.Screenshot of Inventory Processing - Enables real-time supply chain visibility and provides meaningful metrics, with customizable dashboards and reports that display real-time inventory that track the status of inbound and outbound deliveries.