SAP Analytics Cloud

Score8.2 out of 10

958 Reviews and Ratings

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.

Categories & Use Cases

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

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

Peter Chen View 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

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

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

Sankalp Kumar Nayak View 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

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

Anaplan Predictive Insights (Mintigo) (discontinued - merged with Anaplan)

Microsoft Power BI

Qlik Analytics Platform (QAP), on Qlik Sense

SAP Analytics Cloud

What is SAP Analytics Cloud?

Categories & Use Cases

Key Features

Top Performing Features

Report sharing and collaboration

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Customizable dashboards

Areas for Improvement

Java API

Mobile Application

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

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