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SAP Analytics Cloud

Overview

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…

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7 out of 10
January 09, 2024
Incentivized
IT WAS A GOOD SOFTWARE VERY EASY TO USE AND ACCEESS. WE USED TO ULOAD OUR CLOUD DOCS ON THE web and download it later from cloud, comuting …
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Popular Features

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  • KPIs (261)
    8.3
    83%
  • Management reporting (265)
    8.3
    83%
  • Personalized dashboards (270)
    8.2
    82%
  • Color-coded scorecards (255)
    8.1
    81%

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Pricing

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SAP Analytics Cloud for Business Intelligence

$36.00

Cloud
per month per user

SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning

Price upon request

Cloud
per month per user

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.sap.com/products/cloud…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $36 per month per user
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Features

BI Standard Reporting

Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.

7.9
Avg 8.0

Ad-hoc Reporting

Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.

7.9
Avg 8.3

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

8
Avg 8.2

Data Discovery and Visualization

Data Discovery and Visualization is the analysis of multiple data sources in a search for patterns and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.

7.8
Avg 7.6

Access Control and Security

Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.

8.2
Avg 8.7

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

8
Avg 8.0

Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting

These activities are designed to assist with both data-driven operational, short-term planning and strategic long term planning

7.8
Avg 8.3

Consolidation and Close

Consolidation of data from multiple entities with currency management, reporting and audit trails.

7.6
Avg 8.0

Financial Reporting and Compliance

Financial statements and regulatory filings

8
Avg 8.2

Analytics and Reporting

Dashboards and scorecards for KPI monitoring and benchmarking

8.2
Avg 8.0

Integration

Ability to integrate with external applications.

7.6
Avg 8.3
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Product Details

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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SAP Analytics Cloud Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS
Supported LanguagesCzech, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

Frequently Asked Questions

SAP Analytics Cloud starts at $36.

Microsoft Power BI and Qlik Analytics Platform are common alternatives for SAP Analytics Cloud.

Reviewers rate Single Sign-On (SSO) highest, with a score of 8.6.

The most common users of SAP Analytics Cloud are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Aravindhan Tamilselvam | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As a cloud tool SAC is useful to many organisations to avoid physical storage of servers and it's related administration.
To upgrade the most intensive financial planning from an excel base to a cloud platform tool with many planning features enabled.
Capex Planning based on different planning cycles will helps the users maintain the planning routine easily
  • UI which makes both the developer and end user easy to use
  • Various analytics features inbuilt with several on the fly events
  • Planning capabilities
  • Integrated AI features like smart insights and many more
  • Threshold option should be included in new measure based hybrid model as like in the classic account based model
  • Ranking functions should be given on hybrid model
  • Some more chart types will be more usefull in different scenarios for graphical representation
As it has many integrated features of development like stories and as well with on demand application development it well suits to my skill set
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It was a great experience with SAP Analytics Cloud. I even compared with other vendors as well. SAP Analytics Cloud is an amazing solutions for data visualization. SAP Analytics Cloud helped me to analyze my data and built in correct model. Cloud space safety smoothness saving time reassuring to person. Great Product for Analysis within the SAP Environment.
  • Easy to use
  • Best Dashboards models
  • Data Visualization
  • Strong Service Expertise
  • Value for Money
  • Data Source Compatibility
  • GPS Mapping
  • Customization should be there
It is really good in data visualization and dashboard models; SAP Analytics Cloud will help you in so many things, good in analytics. It is really nice tool and support is always there. Unlimited dashboard and reporting.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SAP Analytics Cloud is being used for reporting and planning at my company. We bring in SAP and non-SAP data and report on it. In planning, we find it challenging to implement complex logic that is there in BPC and data access security. We implemented the classic model when SAP Analytics Cloud was released, and now it is challenging to move from the classic model to the advanced model. Usage statistics reports delivered by SAP Analytics Cloud are not working, and SAP is working on this. We had challenges scheduling jobs and maintaining connections as only the owner of the jobs can schedule the jobs. If the passwords expire, jobs would start failing, and others do not have the ability to run the jobs, and in production, this is a risk.
  • Supports multiple data bases
  • Dashboard and story creation is intuitive
  • Security design
  • Connection and job scheduling maintenance
It works well to report on multiple data bases, for planning scenarios.
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It almost 5 years, we are using SAP Analytics Cloud to innovate and give our customers a new BI user experience, but unluckily the tool doesn't always support the innovation. On the marketing side, everything is there, and actually, in the tool, you have a lot of functionalities, but when you are going to use it, in the reality, there are too many limitations, and you are not able to use any of that. Commenting, import connection, smart insight, explorer view, limitation on waterfall chart, etc... All these key functionalities have had several limitations for years, and they are known to SAP, but they are never implemented.
  • Integration with BW
  • Story telling creation
  • User-friendly analysis
  • Commenting
  • Performance
  • Charts limitations
  • Import connection
It's good for a small amount of data already aggregated or with a small number of dimensions or when the model in the backend is already a keyfigures model.
Not good for a big Finance landscape based on accounts definitions, where dimensions and details levels go to accounts. This will include that import connection will be challenging due to the number of records and limitations in the import.
November 17, 2022

Data Analytics

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Testing text analytics to find out sentiment, topics, word extract on Sales order comments and warranty claim comments/corrections/causes.
  • Data analytics and creating models
  • Dashboard
  • Predictive Algorithms
  • Text Analytics
Predictive analytics and report dashboarding
November 16, 2022

SAC review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
good solution to build dashboard in quick time, easy to use. intuitive design and user experience
  • build dashboard
  • generate chart
  • simplify analytics
  • more templates
  • more connectors
  • improve performance
use it when you want to build dashboards with low to medium complexity, might be not enough for complex analytics
November 16, 2022

SAC Feature set review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
get overview into financial KPIs
  • Visualization of Live Data
  • customize application using APP Designer
  • Excel Plugin
  • Planning
  • Handling large volume of data
  • combining models
Planning scenarios where integration between BPC or IBP can be replaced by SAC
November 16, 2022

Very good!!

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our digitalization journey includes SAC with good visualitation opportunities. We will implement this as the management tool to take good decisions in future. With planning capabilities and predictive options.
  • Planning
  • Visiualtation
  • Dashboarding
  • planning on live data in functions
  • import functions working on live data
  • better adhoc options like AFO
dashboarding
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For creating Visual business analysis and predictions for business operations.
  • P&L dashboards.
  • LOB performance overview.
  • Variance analysis.
  • Predictive analytics normalization.
  • BPC planning scenarios.
  • Better integration with on prem BPC functionality.
  • Better Excel integration.
Single point of business overview with the ability to track the details.
November 16, 2022

SAC - The enigma

Piyush Gandhi, PMP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are still at the POC stage, where we are trying to find the right use case for the product. Our intention is to use the product in 3 areas 1. Creating Dash Board for Financial Analytics and Data-driven Reporting 2. Move over our Planning from BPC 11 to SAC if BPC 11 is the end of road platform 3. Provide Predictive Analytics capabilities for Finance Operations and CFO office to drive business decision-making.
  • Model to dashboard integration is good.
  • Ability to integrate directly with S 4HANA on-prem.
  • Dashboarding capabilities.
  • Integration with Non-SAP Platforms.
  • Ease of ingesting data from external sources.
  • Building of Models.
  • Making ETL Capabilities simpler.
I believe its adaptability as an alternative to BPC 11 for Planning is really good as it can easily integrate with SAP applications SAP needs to create a simplified way for integrating non-SAP platforms into SAC. SAP needs to create a good learning path made available for clients embarking on their SAC journey. There are not many resources available in the market that know SAC well, and for the end client, it becomes a frustrating experience to provide value for money.
Adhiyaman Sivakumar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SAP Analytics Cloud is majorly used for live reporting of Procurement data and Spend Analytics globally. The data is read from the backend HANA system on AWS, which is connected through HANA Live Connection. We also inhibit Geo maps functionality in our stories with custom fonts and emoticons. The Analytics tool is majorly used by Site Operation Leads, and Business Leads for Decision making.
  • Customizing the Story.
  • Data Integration.
  • Custom Dashboards.
  • File level Authorization.
SAP Analytics Cloud is one of the best Analytics tool which uses ML/AI for better analytics and allows Business Stakeholders to visualize and plan their predictions.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SAP Analytics Cloud is our Business reporting front-end tool. We use that for Financial reporting, Margin reporting, Sales reporting, etc. stories. SAP Analytic Cloud is based on our SAP BW 4 HANA server using a Live connection. SAP Analytic Cloud reads queries from our SAP BW 4 HANA Composite provider objects.
  • Reporting front end layout.
  • Story design.
  • Powerful editor.
  • Performance analytic and reports.
  • Supporting two structure queries based on Live Connection from SAP BW 4 HANA.
  • More concentrated table layouts like Excel.
  • Integrate DWC.
Well-suited business cases are Management based reporting with a lot of pages, KPIs, dashboards, graphical objects like charts, small tables, simple input controls, etc. Less appropriate business cases are always twisting around some specific group of users, like Controllers that still very rely on Excel reporting with its functionalities.
November 02, 2022

SAC - A smart solution

Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SAP Analytics Cloud - A complete solution for Prediction Planning and dashboarding!
SAC is one of the complete product that offers prediction planning and dashboarding all in one solution in a single product.
Being on cloud is one of the most benificial part, its installation free software that can be accessed easily.
Strong machine learning and AI capabilities helps to Analyse the results.
  • Analytical Application covers all the usecases that can be scripted to design a dashboard
  • Live connectivity with SAP and Non SAP data sources
  • Augmented Analytics
  • Planning
  • Digital Boardroom
  • Story and Analytical Application Intigration
  • More option to work with bar line graph or bubble charts
  • data preview option for Analytical appliction
In my opinion the SAP Analytics Cloud Stories part have less flexible option to end users to do analysis. Also if some features are not available in story we have to recreate the entire dashboard in Analytical application which is a wast of time for a developer. We we have a toggle where we can switch between story and application it will be easier to work with the tool.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Advanced analytics with high velocity and volume of data from a variety of sources. SAP Analytics Cloud is used for clients by us for generating value across multiple use cases of analytics and data science in the domain of Growth Marketing & Sales for doing Growth Maps analysis, Customer Segmentation analysis, etc.
  • Integrated Planning & Analysis
  • Fast & Reliable Processes
  • Seamless deployment and usage
  • Integration with other cloud solutions
  • More functionality in terms of datalake, etc.
  • More developer options
Majorly depends on the requirements of clients. We also take it forward from our end whenever we see any opportunity gap where SAP Analytics Cloud can fulfill that gap. It is quite competitive when it comes to data exploration and visualization as well as modeling-related stuff, predictive planning, extended planning, and analysis.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SAP Analytics Cloud is aggressively used in the organisation and I believe it eases out alot of problems by integrating and providing a one stop solution for analysis and planning.

Bringing all the data together solves for the data management problem and hence the data management is extremely helpful. The scope of use is not limited to some specific data but SAP Analytics help integrate the entire business data under one roof.
  • Integration of data
  • Business Intelligence
  • Specialised Analytics
  • Bringing more AI based analysis
  • Improving interface
  • Better data cleansing system
SAP analytics is best suited to help different business requirements and quickly reaching a crisp analysis where a specialised and formatted data is required. Given the data availability for quick analysis and quicker deployments, it eases out the process to convert this data into meaningful insights and thus providing timely solutions.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We used Sap Analytics Cloud as a reporting tool for several IT projects. The system is very simple to use, even for end users, easy to configure and gives an excellent result in terms of user experience. The advantage of being a Software As A Service is enormous because it is available in a very short time and is scalable in size and number of users.
  • Reporting
  • Dashboarding
  • Planning
  • Mobile reporting.
  • Story translation service.
  • Static image.
  • Planning models on Excel.
SAP Analytics Cloud is well suited when you need a very fast reporting system where is present an easy-to-understand interface that makes it easy for users. Users will like something that is visually good. So that people will not be lazy when they have to deal with SAC every time. Well, things like this are understood by SAC so that they prepare the appearance of the application as attractive and easy as possible.
Sastry Lssv | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SAP Analytics Cloud is the only reporting tool we use to present Business information Dashboard to our Management Community users in order to take the right decision. SAP Analytics tools came up with Analytical Application, Linked Analysis, Time series chart, Smart discovery and Planning features which helps end users to Integrate all the necessary information in a single Interactive dashboard with easy scripting and navigation to use SAP Analytics Cloud instead of presenting required information in several static pdf's are the main scope.
  • Analytical Application : We can manipulate the data as we like using Scripting.
  • Smart Discovery: Easy way to present a dashboard with more insights in a single click.
  • Linked Analysis and Linked Dimension: Best feature to integrate similar dimensions from different models and to filter the chart data via a single click using linked analysis.
  • Time series and Forecasting: For the data dimension data the time series chart gives the best projection along with forecasted scenarios.
  • Tab Script: Best Feature to present multi charts in segregated format with aligned via a single tab-like feature.
  • Performance Analysis tool: The tool will predict and present the blockers in the application.
  • Optimization: Provided with an Optimization feature to present the dashboard in a better performance way.
  • Optimization: Optimization features in the Application are not enabled with Mobile devices.
  • Canvas and Grid pages: When the story is created in Canvas it is not enabled with Mobile devices.
  • Tool tips: Tool tips are not supported with mobile devices.
  • Variance Charts: Few charts are not supported with mobile enable.
  • Dropdowns: Few dropdown menus and single selection choice is missing with the story as in the application.
  • I would like undo and redo in applications.
  • Auto is mandatory in choosing width and height.
  • Story 2.0: I am still waiting for good update on the story 2.0 with more enhanced features.
  • I would like to see more integration with stories and applications.
It is well suited to present all the different information in a single dashboard where you can manipulate data as you like using Scripting. Linked feature to filter different charts from the dimension you choose. A few missing features, like Mobile, enable optimization for the application giving less preference to use the dashboard by business users. Dropdowns and single selections from stories will give good visualization insights to the dashboard.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My organization uses SAC for various dashboarding of various reports of various teams. Usually any company generates a lot of data and my company was no exception. There is lot of data which needs to be visualized by the business for easy understanding an insights of the data. I used SAC to create various dashboards and did some data modeling on it so that business users can login and simply have a look at the data for which they are authorized.
  • Analytics
  • Visualiaazations
  • Data Modelling
  • Documentation
  • User Interface
  • Connecting to Various Data stores
Sap Analytics Cloud is well suited when you have a lot of data maybe in your SQL data base which you want to visualize and draw insights from. You can then connect your database to SAC and have a cronjob set up to sync both the database and SAC to pull up data and visualise it at a timely manner.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
we use the sap anaytics cloud for our budget planning and as a frontend for our planning. The controllers can determine plan values ​​and make predictions. The cloud makes sense for us, especially for financial controlling during the year. Furthermore, we use the SAP Analytics Cloud for our dashboards regarding key figures and KPIs
  • Planning
  • Live Connection
  • data actions
  • Planning with Live Connection
  • Cloudhosting for Public Service (Arvato Cloud)
the SAP Analytics Cloud is very user-friendly and has a great user interface. Furthermore, permissions can be queried in stories and models. This allows users and developers to work together in an agile manner and create stories and models based on live data. The new model and story are very clear and can be used by modelers
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
The client decided for the tool. It was disregarded that SAP Analytics Cloud is not a Cockpit machine. SAP Analytics Cloud is ticking like an explorative BI frontend, but partly does not support depended filtering on a BW Live Connection. In my experience, here and there, there are so many missing features especially with a Live Connection, that in future i cannot advise clients to buy into that tool, since it is very complicated to connect to the landscape, does not offer real benefits in Live Connectivity and just pitfalls that you can step into like in a lifecycle. In my opinion, it is UNTHINKABLE SAP did not yet implement a function to exchange Livemodels on widgets/Stories. I think the adminsitration is just horror. So many things missing. And as a normal developer you are not able to delete private files from others that have them in private folder - well good this is fine - but then it cannot be, that objects are relevant to each other and dependent.... etc.
  • exploration
  • nothing
  • nothing
  • IBCS/ formatting charts
  • Cockpit functionality
  • lifecycle and live-model improvements
  • not same functionality split in cloud and on-premise with 1000 expceptions
Explorative Dashboards - OK. If you wanna find out stuff fast and CAN do it.
If you expect a report done by someone else and pixelperfext - NO.
Pradeep Panwar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I like SAP Analytics Cloud is very user friendly which provides a lot of in-built features like smart insights, explorer view, predictive and ML capabilities and also forecasting thus making this tool the best and most powerful services reporting tool for SAP. I like how the real-time data modelling using the Live connections.
I also like the rich in-built templetes, which are great for creating interactive Dashboards and Visualizations for end users, serving them with detailed information while maintaining simplicity to make this tool the best business monitoring tool. I also like the wide range of standard content which is very user-friendly and helpful.
  • I like how this tool provides a detailed analysis of business intelligence (BI) data that helps us during creation of multipurpose dashboards and support for our business monitoring.
  • I like the in-built templetes and real-time data modelling capabilities that helps us in our business analysis and data based decisions.
  • Seamless Integrations with SAP suite of applications.
  • Ready to use analytics and other ML models.
  • Not so compatible with data sources.
  • So much limitations in terms of formatting tables/charts/calculations and many more.
What I like the most it's live connectivity with SAP with the real-time data update which is an essential feature for our business. I like the simplicity of the story's and the ease of building it. I also like how this tool connect with different data sources and it's compatible with all SAP Data Source and establishing a Live Data Connection which is very easy to use.
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