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SAP Analytics Cloud

Score8.2 out of 10

958 Reviews and Ratings

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What is SAP Analytics Cloud?

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.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features SAP Analytics Cloud has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 958 ratings of SAP Analytics Cloud's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Report sharing and collaboration

    Report sharing and collaboration is the ability to easily share reports with others.

    Category average: 8.1

  • Single Sign-On (SSO)

    Allows users to use one set of login credentials to access multiple applications

    Category average: 8.6

  • Customizable dashboards

    Customizable dashboards are dashboards providing the builder some degree of control over the look and feel and display options.

    Category average: 8.3

Areas for Improvement

  • Java API

    A Java application programming interface (API) is a list of all classes that are part of the Java development kit (JDK)

    Category average: 7.8

  • Mobile Application

    A dedicated app for iOS and/or Android.

    Category average: 7.2

  • Customizable Platform (Open Source)

    A customizable, open source API Gateway is a fast and scalable type of API

    Category average: 8

Reviews

What users are saying about SAP Analytics Cloud.
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A great SaaS BI tool

Incentivized
Peter ChenView profile
Director of Enterprise Architecture in Information Technology at Stericycle (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Browser-based technology, no client setup needed.
  • Great story and data modeling capability.
  • Ease of setup and great UI through Digital Boardroom.

Cons

  • Feature parity with more mature BI products like WEBI.
  • Performance issues from time to time.
  • Scripting capabilities in the planning area.

Other Software Used

Tableau Desktop, Qlik Sense

SAP Analytics Cloud review

Incentivized
Srikantha Kalkura
Manager IT in Information Technology at Thermo Fisher Scientific (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SAP Analytics Cloud helps slice and dice data in graphical way to our customers to take key business decisions. It helps our business users to understand the complex and huge volume of data in a better graphical format so that they can understand and take actions on the same. It helps our business to check top performers, slice and dice data based various characteristics so that business users can narrow down further to take key business decisions. Main use case that we are solving here is showing the data based on different characteristics and narrow down data based on particular filter at any bar chart or pie chart.

Pros

  • Graphical representation of data
  • Slicing and dicing the data based on different characteristics
  • Arrange complex and huge volume of data in a graphical way to analyze better
  • Narrow down data based on specific filters

Cons

  • Better report drill down to detailed view and download into excel feature needs improvement
  • Competitive licence cost
  • Better AI features

Return on Investment

  • High licensing cost when compared to other visualization tool
  • Great tool for detailed visualization with better end user friendly features
  • Tight integration with backend d SAP systems which makes more reliable tool

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Power BI

Other Software Used

SAP BW/4HANA, SAP S/4HANA Cloud

SAP Analytics Cloud has been phenomenal product

Incentivized
Gopi Krishna Gummadi
Specialist in Information Technology at BT (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use SAC for Dashboards & Planning.

SAC helped us to cut down our monthly Outlook process by 50%.

Now users are using SAC excel add-in for slice & dicing the data models.

Pros

  • Augemented Dashboards
  • Planning
  • Better through put while running business logics

Cons

  • Alternate hierarchies/rollups should be enabled in a single hierarchy
  • Robustness for users to use out of the box ML models for predictive forecasting

Return on Investment

  • SAC has created a positive impact b reducing monthly Outlook process by 50%

Usability

SAP Analytics Cloud - Hub for Planning Analytics

Incentivized
Sankalp Kumar NayakView profile
Chapter Lead in Information Technology at Astellas Pharma (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SAP Analytics Cloud is our go to Dashboarding tool for all our reporting needs.

We get analytics requirements from different departments such as finance, MDG, SCM & HR to create and maintain the respective dashboards.

Pros

  • Dashboard management
  • Security via Roles and Teams
  • publication
  • Advanced Scripting
  • Planning

Cons

  • Response time of Dashboards based on SAP BW sources
  • Need more powerful data blending

Return on Investment

  • Supports quick decision making based on live data from S4. Keeps us ahead of competitors
  • With scheduling we have automation which saves our time

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Power BI, Tableau Public and ClickView

Other Software Used

Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, SAP Business Warehouse, SAP Datasphere

SAP Analytics Cloud Product for SAP users

Incentivized
Prakash Kunte
Sr. Manager IT in Information Technology at Chromewell Engg Pvt Ltd (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We started with using SAP Analytics Cloud and it was giving good results. but for some of our requirements it was not supporting with SAP Hana 2020 version so now stopped the implementation process in between and now decided to go with upgrade the SAP version from 2020 to 2023. Once it is done, we can check again with SAP Analytics Cloud for those requirements. Thank you.

Pros

  • Many analytical reports can be generated
  • multiple visual graphs
  • predictive analysis is also possible

Cons

  • Production planning requires more dynamic and easy solution in totality
  • Finance management and reporting for multiple years with parameters should be easy to generated

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Power BI

Other Software Used

Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued), CATIA, SOLIDWORKS

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