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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    SAP Profitability and Performance Management

    Score6 out of 10
    N/ASAP Profitability and Performance Management promises to help optimize business performance and improve the bottom line. The vendor says key capabilities include: Build, maintain, and utilize sophisticated business and financial models that support multiple allocation methods for costs and revenue, for superior profitability modelling and optimization. Empower finance and business teams with actionable insights from sophisticated models such as profitability and cost…N/A

    Sisense

    Score6.9 out of 10
    N/ASisense is a BI software and analytics platform. With what the vendor calls their In-Chip™ and Single Stack™ technologies, users have access to a comprehensive tool to analyze and visualize large, disparate data sets without IT resources.N/A
    Pricing
    SAP Profitability and Performance ManagementSisense
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SAP Profitability and Performance ManagementSisense
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Must contact sales team for pricing.
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    Features
    SAP Profitability and Performance ManagementSisense
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of SAP Profitability and Performance Management and Sisense
    Feature
    SAP Profitability and Performance Management
    9.7
    1 Ratings
    25% above category average
    Sisense
    9.7
    47 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Pixel Perfect reports10.01 Ratings10.037 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards10.01 Ratings10.047 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates9.01 Ratings9.033 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of SAP Profitability and Performance Management and Sisense
    Feature
    SAP Profitability and Performance Management
    9.5
    2 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Sisense
    8.8
    47 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Drill-down analysis10.02 Ratings10.047 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities9.02 Ratings9.047 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages10.01 Ratings9.027 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration9.01 Ratings7.33 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of SAP Profitability and Performance Management and Sisense
    Feature
    SAP Profitability and Performance Management
    9.3
    1 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Sisense
    10.0
    46 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Publish to Web10.01 Ratings10.036 Ratings
    Publish to PDF9.01 Ratings10.046 Ratings
    Report Versioning9.01 Ratings10.024 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling9.01 Ratings10.039 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of SAP Profitability and Performance Management and Sisense
    Feature
    SAP Profitability and Performance Management
    9.7
    2 Ratings
    28% above category average
    Sisense
    9.5
    45 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)10.02 Ratings10.045 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization9.02 Ratings9.042 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics10.01 Ratings9.029 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of SAP Profitability and Performance Management and Sisense
    Feature
    SAP Profitability and Performance Management
    9.7
    2 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Sisense
    10.0
    45 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)10.02 Ratings10.045 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model9.02 Ratings10.044 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)10.02 Ratings10.045 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of SAP Profitability and Performance Management and Sisense
    Feature
    SAP Profitability and Performance Management
    9.8
    1 Ratings
    29% above category average
    Sisense
    9.7
    40 Ratings
    22% above category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access10.01 Ratings10.040 Ratings
    Mobile Application9.01 Ratings10.025 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile10.01 Ratings10.034 Ratings
    Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
    Comparison of Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting features of SAP Profitability and Performance Management and Sisense
    Feature
    SAP Profitability and Performance Management
    9.8
    2 Ratings
    19% above category average
    Sisense
    -
    Ratings
    Long-term financial planning10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Financial budgeting10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Forecasting10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scenario modeling9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management reporting10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Consolidation and Close
    Comparison of Consolidation and Close features of SAP Profitability and Performance Management and Sisense
    Feature
    SAP Profitability and Performance Management
    9.7
    2 Ratings
    22% above category average
    Sisense
    -
    Ratings
    Financial data consolidation10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Journal entries and reports9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-currency management10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Intercompany Eliminations10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Minority Ownership10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Local and consolidated reporting10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Detailed Audit Trails9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Financial Reporting and Compliance
    Comparison of Financial Reporting and Compliance features of SAP Profitability and Performance Management and Sisense
    Feature
    SAP Profitability and Performance Management
    9.4
    2 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Sisense
    -
    Ratings
    Financial Statement Reporting10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management Reporting9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Excel-based Reporting9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated board and financial reporting10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    XBRL support for regulatory filing9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Analytics and Reporting
    Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of SAP Profitability and Performance Management and Sisense
    Feature
    SAP Profitability and Performance Management
    9.7
    2 Ratings
    25% above category average
    Sisense
    -
    Ratings
    Personalized dashboards10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Color-coded scorecards9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    KPIs10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cost and profitability analysis10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Key Performance Indicator setting9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Benchmarking with external data10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration
    Comparison of Integration features of SAP Profitability and Performance Management and Sisense
    Feature
    SAP Profitability and Performance Management
    9.7
    2 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Sisense
    -
    Ratings
    Flat file integration9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Excel data integration10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Direct links to 3rd-party data sources10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    SAP Profitability and Performance ManagementSisense
    Small Businesses
    No answers on this topic
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Planning Analytics
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
    Score7.1 out of 10
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    SAP Profitability and Performance ManagementSisense
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (58 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.9
    (14 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.1
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (47 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.2
    (47 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SAP Profitability and Performance ManagementSisense
    Likelihood to Recommend
    SAP
    SAP Profitability and Performance is well suited in an organization/scenario where it aims to grow their profitability and optimize their business performance. It will offer strong financial analytics that are applicable in modern organizations and it will assure improved performance and enable purposeful marketing of your goods/services at prevailing profitable rate.
    Incentivized
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    Sisense Ltd
    I believe Sisense is perfectly suited for any organization of any size that have access to the proper resources, as the tool is very expensive. The data connectors come in all shapes and sizes out of the box, which allows a great deal of data control within the ElastiCubes. Additionally, while the platform only runs on Windows platforms, the web application can be accessed on any client: mobile, Apple, Windows, etc. This allows a much more flexible user experience, resulting in data and dashboards reaching further than any other tool.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    SAP
    • Data enrichment (complex joins, lookups, and derivations).
    • Complex allocations and calculations.
    • Operates at a very high speed without disrupting the host HANA environment.
    • Connectivity to BW HANA and BPC.
    Incentivized
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    Sisense Ltd
    • Customization - lots of supported and community plugins available. Users can also adjust the look and feel through JavaScript.
    • Innovation - Sisense is continuing to push the envelope by developing new features through Sisense Labs.
    • Customer support - the commitment to excellent customer service and ensuring organizations get the most out of their investment.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    SAP
    • We were forced to train some of our staff a bit as they faced various hurdles before getting familiar with the platform and using it efficiently.
    Incentivized
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    Sisense Ltd
    • The usability of the application on mobile devices needs some improvement, especially navigation and filtering.
    • Dashboards that are created by multiple users can be a bit of a hassle to share by Admins.
    • If you need to embed dashboards into your website, you are require to buy a license separate from the user and platform license. This is a norm on most BI visualization tools, but Sisense can seem a bit on the high side, cost-wide.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Sisense Ltd
    I think the business and myself as a user has come to rely on SiSense as a dashboarding and quick ad-hoc reporting tool. I am hoping to integrate SiSense dashboards into more parts of the business in the future. We have reduced our report turn-around time for the most part from hours/days to minutes and in some cases almost the speed of thought. Reports are also easier on the eye and more easily distributed. I would also like to say that the support and professionalism from the SiSense team has been excellent.
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    Usability
    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Sisense Ltd
    New V5 is ground floor of an exciting collection of possibilities. Weekly Sisense developers come up with new functionality that they share with us in their forums. The move to HTML5 has been pleasing in that widgets auto size themselves into appropriate forms in the board but everyone of them can be popped out to full page size to be looked at in more detail
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    Reliability and Availability
    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Sisense Ltd
    There are very few situations when there is unexpected downtime. Mostly during development, new dashboard implementation and during upgrades. other then that there were very few crashes.
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    Performance
    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Sisense Ltd
    SiSense is usually performing better then other solutions even if going for complex reports/dashboards(of course within reasonable frames). I haven't noticed any bad influence on other systems, usually if something happens it stays within SiSense.
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    Support Rating
    SAP
    We did get excellent support from SAP during our implementation project. We will see about the SAP support over the long term.
    Incentivized
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    Sisense Ltd
    SiSense's support ninjas are very knowledgeable and are exceptionally responsive. So far, all of the issues we ran into were resolved within minimum time. My sense of dealing with the support staff at SiSense is that they are very focused on not just answering your immediate question, but also to delve into the cause of the matter.
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    In-Person Training
    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Sisense Ltd
    Easy and free training that allowed us quickly understand basics in SiSense and start using them. More advanced features requires some browsing through SiSense forums, but there is always support to help, and SiSense support is one of the best whith which I worked so far.
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    Online Training
    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Sisense Ltd
    Many examples, videos and scenarios which you try on your own right away. This combined with in-person training gives you enough to utilize most of SiSense's power.
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    Implementation Rating
    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Sisense Ltd
    Remember to migrate the plugins. The documentation however is pretty straight forward.
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    Alternatives Considered
    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Sisense Ltd
    1) Easy to use, really, there is nothing too much to say. The set up is easy and not confusing. You can use it internally or externally.
    2) Customer Service, having spoken to various product reps from similar industry. Sisense rep provides you with the best support to get started, and it is really appreciated.
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    Scalability
    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Sisense Ltd
    Product is quite easily scalable. The whole installation can be easily moved to stronger machine if needed.
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    Return on Investment
    SAP
    • Helps us make sound decisions that positively impact our future.
    • Has simplified our financial planning process in our organization.
    • Our portfolio has doubled and grown immensely.
    Incentivized
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    Sisense Ltd
    • Report development time is reduced from 2~3 days to 2~3 hours.
    • Report querying time is improved from 0.5~10 mins to 2~30 seconds.
    • A 2-staff team delivers 10 times the BI output that we did on the old system.
    • We were able to deliver BI and data analysis for all business functions instead of a very limited group of users
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    ScreenShots

    SAP Profitability and Performance Management Screenshots

    Screenshot of SAP Profitability and Performance Management offers a user-friendly environment for modeling, analysis and reporting.Screenshot of SAP Profitability and Performance Management Modeling Environment: Allocating Products and Service Costs to Customers.Screenshot of SAP Profitability and Performance Management Modeling Environment: Cost Allocation Flow Diagram.Screenshot of Reporting and Simulation in SAP Profitability and Performance Management: Profitability and Cost Management Report.Screenshot of Reporting dashboard in SAP Profitability and Performance Management.Screenshot of Value and Cost Flow Trace Visualization in SAP Profitability and Performance Management: Value Flow Diagram.