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June 03, 2020
Digitizing the way business works
With the help of SAP Analytics Cloud, we were able to digitalize the way our organization works. By pulling business data from various sources of our company the tool helped us visualize that information using a number of dashboards. These dashboards were used by various stakeholders to estimate and forecast the resources and the scale of marketing we would need.
- It collects from various data sources without requiring any major changes to the environment.
- It has an intelligent processing algorithm with which usable insights are being generated.
- They offer a 90-day free trial (although with restrictions) that can be used to decide if it meets your requirements.
- Ability to run multiple BI modelers in parallel would have been very useful.
- Support for mobile devices is missing. At Least a lite web version would have been appreciated.
- Complex queries are required to filter down the insights, thus always requiring the help of a skilled IT staff.
SAP Analytics is a system that has been implemented throughout the company. SAP is our main system for analyzing all dynamic data in real-time with high accuracy. An important task that this tool performs in our company is that it helps us reduce costs in resources and allows us to have a very complete performance. In the time that we have been working with SAP, we have been able to obtain an excellent experience since it is a tool of very easy use but with a very complete operation for our company.
- From my professional point of view, I love the SAP interface because, apart from being very easy to work with, it has a very innovative aesthetic design.
- It has excellent data management capabilities.
- Integrates seamlessly with various commercial applications.
- It is a highly customization product to the taste of use of its user.
- Excellent support team and high availability at all times.
- SAP Analytics is available in mobile applications.
- Its integration with Oracle has certain irregularities.
- Sometimes its interface has a slow operation.
- In spite of being an easy to use software, it has complex configurations that require a lot of time to perform them correctly.
June 15, 2020
SAP Analytics Cloud: Hybrid/complete cloud mode
As SAP Solution Providers, our goal is to recommend/Implement solutions to our clients in various areas of SAP. SAP Analytics Cloud is one of our key focus areas where we've proposed the solution to our clients mostly for retail/business planning solutions in the cloud using SAC. Our key focus is to give multiple approaches to the clients to choose the one that best suits their needs. For example, we recommend SAC as a hybrid model or as a complete cloud model.
- Self-discovery mode for users to gain insights with the click of buttons.
- Planning solution in the cloud for SAP BPC/Non-SAP users with seamless collaboration between planners.
- Data integration or wrangling data from SAP, non-SAP data sources with machine learning capabilities that auto-suggest the transformations.
- Use of configurable charts/graphs/geo-maps for visualizations.
- cCustomize the visualizations per customer requirement using analytical applications.
- Time series forecast based on the historical data.
- Natural language processing using the user's own language. You get the results in the form of charts.
- Planners can maintain the private versions and make them public once they are finalized
- Broadcasting functionality to publish the reports would help.
- A data service to connect to AWS cloud RDS.
- Conversation intelligence integration with SAC.
- Write-back to ERP/BPC systems.
SAP Analytics Cloud is in process of being rolled out across the organization. SAP Analytics Cloud will address the business problems of timely access to information through live connections to BW/4HANA, S/4HANA and external data sources. The dashboard-style reports will provide exception-based information in a user-friendly and accessible fashion.
- Live data connections to HANA
- Easy to create simple dashboards
- Access to SAP master data and hierarchies
- Data blending with disparate data sources; improving over time
- Security model integration with SAP role based security
- Multi-key figure models for planning
November 15, 2019
SAP Analytics Cloud, the SAP child that grows and learn fast!
Currently we are using SAP Analytics Cloud in order to analyze new data and get useful insights from the financial point of business view, such as cost analysis for different business units, profitability dashboards, and later on in 2020 we will try the predictive scenarios (what-if analysis).
- It's easy to learn, construct, and communicate relevant information in a single platform.
- It's empowered FP&A users and kept IT involvement at a minimum.
- SAP and Non-SAP datasources.
November 13, 2019
A very promising solution, looking forward seeing its numberous innovations to come
It's being used:
1 - As a SAP BI consultants company, we use it to explore the functionalities and to be able to implement it for our customers
2 - As a BI tool to explore our own SAP Buniess By Design data and some Excel files (Financial data, timesheet)
1 - As a SAP BI consultants company, we use it to explore the functionalities and to be able to implement it for our customers
2 - As a BI tool to explore our own SAP Buniess By Design data and some Excel files (Financial data, timesheet)
- Stories are quite easy to develop witout technical knowledge
- Generating a simple model is very straightforward
- Sharing and collaborating is very convenient
- Updating an existing model is very painful. It's not Agile at all since we need to rebuild it whenever we need to add a new column, for instance.
- Updating a transformation in a model lead to lose the calculated measures.
- It is not possible to update a model if a Public Dimension has been used in it.
- Comparing with other BI Solutions, I think we need more formulas in Transformations Area and Stories Developments.
Analytics Cloud is used at Cascades to address the new Cloud Eco-System offered by SAP. It is also interesting that this all in one BI Tools for all types of users allows us also to use smart technologies to gives us good insights.
- Various connections.
- Very intuitive interface.
- Smart capabilities.
- Planning and predictive features.
- Modeling is hard for end-users.
Planning and Management Reporting. It enables us to perform integrated planning and set drivers used for both plan and actual management accounting, and reporting.
- Driver Setting, including automation and dis-aggregation across multiple dimensions.
- It's improved user experiences for planning users.
- Dashboards, calculations, and allocation to enable the useful presentation of KPI's and metrics used in business decision making. They also provide for automated integration of plan versions and actual results.
- The data connectivity needs work. We have had to use a complex BPC solution as middleware to integrate with Profitability and Performance management. There's still no direct integration with BW/4 HANA and PAPM.
- More flexibility in setting drivers and dis-aggregating data.
- Pricing.
Currently, I am responsible for developing a POC on why my organization implements SAP. Our analytics platform is a bit outdated and we would like to have a more modern approach to analytics and dashboarding.
- Certain operations are very simple to do, like reference numbers on the graphs and comparisons between years.
- Visually simple and clean
- Very intuitive and quite complete in features that are most requested on our day to day.
- Lots of standard features that in other tools can only be achieved by customized actions.
- From a user experience perspective, there are some cases where there was a lag on the system and it was not clear if the operation was actually being executed or not.
- There were some little hiccups in the system which I think will be solved with some more maturity.
- Some limitations with comments on live scenarios. Can't wait for the release that will improve this.
SAC is currently being used for various POCs across production, HR, and IT. The tool is helping us to investigate data for decision making as well as provide visual KPIs. Currently, IT staff has been doing most of the POC development, but we hope to use SAC for business end-user reporting as well.
- Multiple visualization options.
- Data insights.
- Easy to get started with file data uploads.
- Pixel perfect formatting is difficult.
- Viewing all data imported in a simple tabular format is difficult for data checking.
- The tool is in rapid flux as it’s quite new.
September 24, 2019
SAP Analytics Cloud Review
We recently completed a proof of concept of SAC Planning for one of our finance teams. The POC was completed in partnership with SAP and a partner and successfully fulfilled all the features and functionality it was aiming to serve. We are currently working with the AE to start the next pilot phase contingent upon commercial discussions.
- Simple data Input and light planning scenarios.
- Collecting data via a web browser within a small work unit with ready built-in workflow and validation.
- Simple reporting and visualizations.
- Richer graphics and visualization capabilities.
- Robust SQL interface for advanced power user querying.
- More seamless integration with HANA 2.0 XSA based development.
September 24, 2019
SAP Analytics Cloud for Best Financial Reporting
It is being used for reporting the data out of our BW system. It is being used by the Finance department. It makes it very easy for users to run the reports. Being on cloud, the administration for my team is also easy. Also, the live data makes it very useful.
- Reporting of the live data
- Connection to the on-premise system
- User and security administration
- The process of connectivity
December 13, 2019
We Have Next Level Reporting By Using Sap Analytics Cloud
In our organization a key reason to move to SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) is because you can seamlessly integrate a wide variety of cloud and on-premise data sources into one cloud solution. Our SAC demo has a live data connection that can connect to a remote system S4/HANA 1809.
- Increased analytical capabilities
- Simple use for ad hoc reports and analysis.
- Use SAP Analytics Hub as the only access point in the analysis with many sources of information
- A problem we have is split queries because the limit is 800,000 lines.
- Increase the sources of information from other databases or systems
- More clarity in the security of the system, roles and users
We currently have BO and BEx analyzer but we are planning to move to the Analytics Cloud.
- Cloud-based.
- Frequent updates.
- SAP bids and investments.
- AFO integration.
- Non-SAP sources need better and easier integration.
November 22, 2019
SAP Analytics Cloud, many data sources in one tool
Cloud helps us centralize all the dashboards in a single tool.
- In finance, it helps us keep track of costs compared to budgets.
- We analyze budget deviations.
- Simple integration into the end-users of finance, purchasing and sales.
- Users make their own reports.
SAC is SaaS product which provides BI planning, predictive analytics, and more recently integrated S/4HANA capabilty as well.
- Planning
- Business intelligence
- Predictive
- Reporting
- Scheduling
- Offline reporting
We have completed Analytics Cloud assessments, plan to use SAC Story to develop reports. It's easy to connect and develop reports, share with other team members. Coming to a problem - SAC Analytic Application is used to develop IT dashboards but it's missing some features compared to other tools. But we can clearly see in the SAC Road Map. And also I'd request SAP to check on SAC Analytic Application performance and improve in the release.
- SAC - in one product have all analytics applications
- SAC Analytic Application performance (SAC on BW and HANA)
POC at this time, we have a strong amount of content that will find it's way to EOL, and are looking at migration path options.
- Visualization
- What-If Analysis
- Intuitive engine for creating visualization of data
- Lack of Query/Analysis, need to include WebI into SAC.
- Unclear about Administration of content. CMC in SAC?
- Migration of Dashboard content to SAC is limited to rebuild only in new tool.
SAP Analytics Cloud is used in the organization to cater to the needs of internal customers building interactive dashboards and stories for easy decision making.
- Live connection with SAP BW in terms of performance
- Building models and transforming the data into suitable stories
- Capable of handling massive data numbers. This was not there in Lumira designer
- In terms of data dimension, it does not allow for the custom values. This needs to be corrected
- In terms of data, it does not consider the raw data while building models. It checks the integrated data which is sometimes not suitable as most of the time we have customized data sets.
Oil and gas companies are streamlining and simplifying operations by creating intelligent enterprises based on industrialized and intelligent cloud services that enable innovative technologies such as robotic process automation (RPA). Most of the analytics are run on SAP Cloud platforms.
We have leveraged these process to all our departments to get the enhanced results and automatic transformation.
We have leveraged these process to all our departments to get the enhanced results and automatic transformation.
- Faster
- Secure
- Reliable
- Connectivity
- Support
- Small business needs cheaper [pricing]
October 15, 2019
SAC evolves to be everywhere in SAP portfolio of Cloud apps
[It's being used for] Corporate reporting. Project for M&S was the first implementation but more business functions will be adopting it in the coming months.
- Simplicity for self-service scenarios
- Connectivity
- Nice design
- Some features available in Lumira Designer/Design Studio are not available yet
- Mobile app only available for IOS devices - Should be a native app also for Android
- It should support multiple IdPs since the beginning (planned in roadmap for future)
October 10, 2019
SAP Analytics for Office Planning
Is is used across the whole organization but we started with departments. We use it for reporting and planning.
- Replacing Excel for planning with an application.
- Calculate plans on a granular level without losing details, so we are able to regroup and report different views.
- Combining reporting and planning
- Planning: Data locking
- Planning: Powerful calculations
- Planning: Protocol function for executing data actions
September 26, 2019
Feedback on SAP Analytics Cloud
We are planning on using this product for our digital boardroom within the financial accounting team. SAP Analytics Cloud helps with our financial reporting.
- Story telling
- Data connectivity
- Inbuilt machine learning capability that was showcased in the beta version
- Data connectivity with live connection
- Performance impact when connected to huge volumes through live connection
September 25, 2019
A modern platform for the intelligent enterprise
We use SAP Analytics Cloud for our client data and to provide valuable information to them. We use SAC across all kinds of industries and departments.
- Provide predictive information easily.
- Connect to multiple sources, either on-premise or cloud.
- Easy to build visualizations without the need for coding.
- Improvements in export options.
- Improvements for integration with SAP BI on-premise.
- Scheduling options.
We are using SAC for analytics and for predictions of financial and client data.
- Smart insights.
- Smart predict.
- Not all features are available for a live connection.
- Hard to use securely when connecting to outside applications.
SAP Analytics Cloud Scorecard Summary
Feature Scorecard Summary
About SAP Analytics Cloud
The platform provides data connectors to a wide range of data sources, including SAP Business Warehouse, SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform, SAP SuccessFactors, Salesforce, and other sources. Visualization capabilities are enriched by geo-enriched data, and the SAP HANA engine contains an in-memory calculation engine to perform numerous calculations in real-time.
Categories: Business Intelligence (BI), Predictive Analytics, Corporate Performance Management (CPM)
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SAP Analytics Cloud Competitors
Microsoft Power BI, Qlik Analytics Platform, Anaplan Predictive Insights (Mintigo)
Pricing
- Has featureFree Trial Available?Yes
- Does not have featureFree or Freemium Version Available?No
- Does not have featurePremium Consulting/Integration Services Available?No
- Entry-level set up fee?No
| Edition | Pricing Details | Terms |
|---|---|---|
| Business | $21 | per user, per seat |
| Enterprise | Custom | Unlimited users |
SAP Analytics Cloud Support Options
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SAP Analytics Cloud Technical Details
| Deployment Types: | SaaS |
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| Operating Systems: | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application: | Apple iOS |
| Supported Languages: | Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. |