SAP Analytics Cloud

Score8.1 out of 10

1,002 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

Single Sign-On (SSO)
Allows users to use one set of login credentials to access multiple applications
Category average: 8.7
Multi-User Support (named login)
Named model access means that users have access based on name and password.
Category average: 8.3
Report-Level Access Control
Report-level access control means that the type of report determines who has access to it.
Category average: 8.1

Mobile Application
A dedicated app for iOS and/or Android.
Category average: 7.1
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
A customizable, open source API Gateway is a fast and scalable type of API
Category average: 8
Delivery to Remote Servers
Ability to deliver reports to remote servers
Category average: 7.9

#1 most frequent

Manufacturing

30.5%

1,148 installations of 3,768

“Dashboard management”
— Chapter Lead, Astellas Pharma (10,001+ employees)

#2 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

18.2%

684 installations of 3,768

“In our organization, We use SAP Analytics Cloud in majorly in all the SAP transformation programs to help our customers perform seamless reporting and planning activities of their SAP data.”
— Manager, PwC (501-1000 employees)

#3 most frequent

Finance and Insurance

6.2%

232 installations of 3,768

“For Planning, Forecasting and Analysis.”
— SAC Solution Architect, Fisher Investments (5001-10,000 employees)

Suraj Varma View profile

Sr. Network Security Engineer in Information Technology at DigitalTrack Solutions Pvt Ltd (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We do use SAP Analytics Cloud as a centralized platform for reporting, dashboarding, and business planning across departments. This helps us to bring data from different systems into a single view, making it easier for management and business teams to monitor performance.

Pros

Solution provides complex business data into easy-to-understand dashboards and visual reports.
Finance & IT teams can create budgets, perform what-if analyses, and adjust forecasts based on changing business conditions. This improves collaboration and helps ensure that planning is based on real-time data.
The solution's built-in AI helps with predictive analytics and helps identify patterns, forecast future outcomes, and highlight key drivers behind business performance.

Cons

Data integration with non-SAP systems could be simplified.
Initial setup could need an expert to streamline. A simpler and more user-friendly setup process would make deployment easier and faster.

Return on Investment

The solution has provided a positive return on investment by improving decision-making, reducing manual reporting, and increasing visibility into the business. Before this, teams spent significant time collecting data from systems and manually preparing reports. With automated dashboards and centralized reporting, report preparation time has been really reduced by approximately 50–60%.

Usability

Other Software Used

AlgoSec, One Identity Identity Manager, Microsoft Intune, OneLogin by One Identity, Safeguard for Privileged Passwords by One Identity

Natalio Pluzzer

AI Financial Solution architect in Finance and Accounting at Allianz SE (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use SAC for financial planning and consolidation. The product does not address well tracing capabilities to track calculations problems which are highly important and does not allow users to get information on how values are calculated. Also the platform does note yet allow to build AI-driven financial planning workflows.

Pros

Reporting capabilities
Calculations enhancements are up to standards
Ease for building quick frontend stories

Cons

Integration with other platforms
AI driven workflows for building complete financial planning solutions
Some features included in SAP BPC are not even here yet
Decision to detach from excel files seemed to be an error

Return on Investment

We built our financial solution based on this platform and we could replace our outdate platform with SAC

Usability

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

Ömer Çetin

Maintenance Planning and Outsourcing Manager in Engineering at SOCAR TURKIYE (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I work in the Asset Maintenance Department, and we use to show our KPIs for Maintenance activities.

Pros

Online KPI shown from SAP ECC.

Cons

Non-user-friendly.
The visuals are not impressive.
As a business Unit, we can not set up KPI visualization ourselves, and we need the IT department.
It could be integrated wit AI and provide assistance with global KPI examples.

Return on Investment

None

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Excel

Other Software Used

Microsoft Excel

john wachira

Group IT Mgr in Information Technology at safalgroup (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use SAC for business Dashboards and business-end-of-month financial reports. The product has helped the executive team make decisions more quickly, and we plan to expand its capabilities by using AI and natural language processing.

Pros

Development of the dashboard.
Publishing of reports.
Auto schedules.

Cons

Easier interface for end user currently this has proved difficult.
The product is many time having outages.

Return on Investment

Better insights.
Faster decision-making.

Usability

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Categories & Use Cases