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…
SAP Analytics Cloud Review
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SAP Analytics Cloud - future of SAP Analytics
Good enough and deliver good insights
Fantastic easy to use and implement cloud analytics platform.
Use it anywhere CRM analytics!
SAP Analytics Cloud: Unlock the Power of AI for Accurate Projections
Experience on SAP Analytics Cloud for mechanical manufacturing field
SAC - Driving 360 degree Analytical need of Industry
Excellent software for accurate analysis
SAC Accelerating Business Intelligence and Collaboration
SAP Analytics Cloud is good but opportunity to improve
SAP Analytics Cloud Review
Must use for Analytics use cases
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Popular Features
- KPIs (261)8.383%
- Management reporting (265)8.383%
- Personalized dashboards (270)8.282%
- Color-coded scorecards (255)8.181%
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Pricing
SAP Analytics Cloud for Business Intelligence
$36.00
SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning
Price upon request
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Starting price (does not include set up fee)
- $36 per month per user
Features
BI Standard Reporting
Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.
- 7.8Pixel Perfect reports(204) Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports are highly-formatted reports with graphics and ability to preview the report before printing.
- 8.1Customizable dashboards(242) Ratings
Customizable dashboards are dashboards providing the builder some degree of control over the look and feel and display options.
- 7.9Report Formatting Templates(220) Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.
- 8Drill-down analysis(248) Ratings
Drill down analysis is the ability to get to a further level of detail by going deeper into the hierarchy.
- 7.9Formatting capabilities(245) Ratings
Ability to format output e.g. conditional formatting, lines, headers, footers.
- 7.8Integration with R or other statistical packages(190) Ratings
Integration with the open-source R predictive modeling environment.
- 7.9Report sharing and collaboration(235) Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration is the ability to easily share reports with others.
Report Output and Scheduling
Ability to schedule and manager report output.
- 8.1Publish to Web(208) Ratings
- 8.2Publish to PDF(233) Ratings
- 8.1Report Versioning(202) Ratings
Report versioning is the assignment of version numbers to each version of a report to help in tracking.
- 7.9Report Delivery Scheduling(194) Ratings
Report Delivery Schedule is the ability to have reports delivered to a destination at a specific data and time.
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.
- 7.8Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)(239) Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats are canned visualization types that can be selected to visualize different kinds of data.
- 7.8Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization(232) Ratings
Location analytics is the visualization of geographical or spatial data.
- 7.9Predictive Analytics(236) Ratings
Predictive Analytics is the ability to build forecasting models based on existing data sets.
- 7.8Pattern Recognition and Data Mining(34) Ratings
Pattern recognition and data mining mean the ability to recognize hidden patterns in large quantities of data.
Access Control and Security
Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.
- 8.1Multi-User Support (named login)(235) Ratings
Named model access means that users have access based on name and password.
- 8.1Role-Based Security Model(242) Ratings
Role-based access means that access to data is determined by job or position in the corporation.
- 8Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)(233) Ratings
Multiple access permission levels means that different levels of users have different rights.
- 8.1Report-Level Access Control(45) Ratings
Report-level access control means that the type of report determines who has access to it.
- 8.6Single Sign-On (SSO)(236) Ratings
Allows users to use one set of login credentials to access multiple applications
Mobile Capabilities
Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.
- 7.9Responsive Design for Web Access(208) Ratings
Web design aimed at producing easy-to-read sites across a range of different devices.
- 7.8Mobile Application(180) Ratings
A dedicated app for iOS and/or Android.
- 8Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile(203) Ratings
In-app dashboard reports and data visualization.
Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
These activities are designed to assist with both data-driven operational, short-term planning and strategic long term planning
- 7.6Long-term financial planning(233) Ratings
3-5 year financial plan with cashflow.
- 7.8Financial budgeting(239) Ratings
Annual budget for revenue and operating expenses, headcount/compensation, capital expenses, projects, etc.
- 7.9Forecasting(246) Ratings
Combining actuals and budgets, rolling forecasts, driver-based models.
- 7.5Scenario modeling(237) Ratings
Financial or operational modeling of alternate future states and planning for each.
- 8.3Management reporting(265) Ratings
Budget vs. actual or forecast, P&L’s, performance over time, between products etc.
Consolidation and Close
Consolidation of data from multiple entities with currency management, reporting and audit trails.
- 7.4Financial data consolidation(183) Ratings
Consolidating data from several entities into a single statement using US GAAP, IFRS or other standards.
- 7.7Journal entries and reports(173) Ratings
Ability to enter journal entry adjustments and produce reports showing all journal entries for a specific period.
- 7.5Multi-currency management(188) Ratings
Ability to handle foreign currency conversions during consolidation.
- 7.4Intercompany Eliminations(143) Ratings
Matching and elimination of intercompany revenue, expenses, and balance sheet accounts.
- 7.5Minority Ownership(129) Ratings
Consolidate financials full or partial ownership of subsidiaries, equity pick-up.
- 8Local and consolidated reporting(180) Ratings
Ability to report against individual business entities and the consolidated umbrella entity.
- 7.6Detailed Audit Trails(170) Ratings
Tracing changes to data and processes that were run.
Financial Reporting and Compliance
Financial statements and regulatory filings
- 7.9Financial Statement Reporting(213) Ratings
Creation and production of balance sheets, income statements, cash flows, other schedules
- 8.3Management Reporting(244) Ratings
Tools facilitating creation of internal ad hoc or standard reports.
- 8Excel-based Reporting(225) Ratings
Ad hoc or formatted reports using MS Excel.
- 8.1Automated board and financial reporting(203) Ratings
Tools to help automate creation of regulatory reports such as SEC filings and board books.
- 7.6XBRL support for regulatory filing(114) Ratings
Support for the XBRL standard reporting format for exchanging financial data.
Analytics and Reporting
Dashboards and scorecards for KPI monitoring and benchmarking
- 8.2Personalized dashboards(270) Ratings
Create custom dashboards and reports without the help of IT or administrators.
- 8.1Color-coded scorecards(255) Ratings
Track and analyze performances with interactive, color-coded balanced scorecards.
- 8.3KPIs(261) Ratings
Select from a library of more than 6,000 key performance indicators, and incorporate KPIs into your planning process.
- 8.3Cost and profitability analysis(243) Ratings
Cost and profitability analysis provides data for business decision making.
- 8.3Key Performance Indicator setting(246) Ratings
Ability to set key performance indicators for measuring progress towards goals.
- 7.6Benchmarking with external data(206) Ratings
CPI, daily exchange rates, industry KPIs. with scheduled data refreshes.
Integration
Ability to integrate with external applications.
- 7.7Flat file integration(244) Ratings
Integration of flat files like text documents and comma separated files
- 7.9Excel data integration(247) Ratings
Ability to integrate directly with Excel data.
- 7.1Direct links to 3rd-party data sources(226) Ratings
Integration with external applications like ERP, CRM, HCM
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What is SAP Analytics Cloud?
SAP Analytics Cloud Competitors
SAP Analytics Cloud Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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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. |
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(51-75 of 298)SAC Review
- Compiles Data
- Analyzes data
- Reporting
- Could be more user friendly
- Develop a better AR aging specifically
- Update more frequently
- Offers self-service data modeling and preparation tools which automates data wrangling when making business decisions.
- Enhances data exploration and visualization in real-time at point making business decisions.
- What-if analysis allows me to simulate any scenario and visualize results of any business decisions.
- I don’t have much to say but they have few charts for formatting assignments for stories.
Reliable Analytics Solution.
- UX/UI easy-to-use interface.
- Real-time analytics and reporting.
- Capabilities to widely share dashboard and data control.
- Few customizing capabilities.
- Large leaning curve.
SAC from a different side
- Budgeting
- Rolling forecast
- Predictive working captital
- Integrating digital data
- Consolidation
SAP Analytics Cloud works
- Visualization
- Consolidation
- Integrating other data
- Ease of integrating external data real time
SAC [SAP Analytics Cloud] review
But we are also thinking to expand to other functional areas, including logistics/SCM.
We had a really interesting use case for identifying our exposure to operations in Russia, following the recent invasion of Ukraine. Our teams were able to come up with a report - for our Finance community - in just 1 week. A real success story for us.
- Financial reporting
- Could also work in other areas, e.g. logistics/SCM
- Fast deployment
- Hard to get started with: technical set-up
- Hard to get started with: not very intuitive for functional resources (many hours need to be invested to start to get results)
Great user experience, with really good looking dynamic dashboards
Use cases are not limited to any functional area (e.g. finance/controlling)
SAC review
- Dashboard
- Visualization
- Connecting data to S4.
- Performance optimization of live data connection.
- Executive Dashboards.
- Self-service models for super users.
- Planning capabilities with in reporting platform.
- Competing with other peers in expanding footprint in non-SAP platforms.
- Shaped up well in the last three years, advanced capabilities in AI/ML play a major role.
- Simplify SAC connectivity with non-SAP peers.
SAC
- Easy to use.
- Dashboard overview.
- Modeling
- Better Ai integration.
- Better layout option support.
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- Analytics
- Reporting
- Planning
- Predictive
- Predictive
- Planning
- Live connectivity to SAB BW
- Using all BW features out of the box (hierarchies, objects attributes...)
- Ability to widely share dashboards due to data access control coming from the source (BW)
- Available visualizations (very limited since the start)
- Mobile application, allowing side by side widgets
- Not providing anymore concurrent session license model
Particularly for Finance, sales and marketing, all types of corporate reporting.
It is not appropriate if external data sets need to be linked to data exposed from BW.
- Nice Dashboards
- Self Service creation of reports
- Good way to simplify access to data for F executives
- Performance is still an issue
- Query capabilities are limited
- Adhoc analysis
Planning scenarios with SAC planning
Great Visuals
- Analytics
- Visuals
- Data
- More help documents
SAC Easy to Use
- Visually display data
- Makes data easy to understand
- Simplifies data
- Tells a story
- Beginner users may be overwhelmed
- Sometimes graphical display can be too busy
SAC basic review
- Visual Interface
- User experience
- capability
- Integration with BW
- federation
Insights in data using SAP Analytics Cloud
- Digital board room
- dashboarding
- Smart insights
- technical feature of charts
- query change for model
- ease to create Apps
SAP Analytics Cloud Best FP&A Innovative Cloud Solution
- Currency conversion automation
- Solid planning and scenarios creation analysis
- Standardized CFO reporting
- Availability of ECC connections with the new model
- Grandtotal function aggregation
Reporting of Net Sales with Analytics (charts, graph etc)
Liquidity planning automation (scenarios basis)
Great tool for planning
- Planning
- Connections to SAP sources
- Connections to non SAP sources
- Message server or load balancer options for SAP connections is not available
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- Dashboards
- Report Creation
- Planning
- Key Driver Planning
- SAP Analytics Cloud can be daunting for new users, plus the unfamiliar user interface behind the designer panel can be daunting for new users or users who've predominantly only used one system previously.
- The timing of how long it can take to pull reports from large data bases.
- There is currently no line item commenting that can be done to specific measures that will remain in place. Such as Budget line item planning in BPC AO
It is also very expensive, twice as much a Microsoft's visualization products. So comparing the two just for visualization, Microsoft wins hands down for cost and intuitive use. That is not a winning combination. We had to back away from the product because of thee challenges that SAP was not in a position to help us will.
- Connection to SAP, therefore a much more secure and SOX compliant tool
- Master data is aligned and less data cleansing is required.
- Hierarchies come from the HANA system and are intuitive and prebuilt
- Too expensive. Twice the cost of Microsoft
- Not able to one click into a report. Requires too much set up and replacement when updated.
- A more intuitive interface, there were a lot of gotchas when building a model from scratch.
Hierarchies required - excellent
Detailed modeling - hard to do
Inputting new data - hard to do.
SAP Analytics Cloud serve our reporting need
- The menu is well organized for our team to use.
- I would like to see a community of online support to recommend solution--such as FAQ
SAC Dashboards and Planning
From development point of view, creating a dashboard is fairly easy. Controls around accessing certain types of data are also straightforward. End-users will get a consistent look and feel between different dashboards, which is great.
- Consistent look and feel, regardless of the type or content of the dashboard
- Planning capabilities
- the way to implement complex calculations and filtering accross tabs/tables is not intuitive in the beginning
using the analytics slice-and-dice is less intuitive, but that is more getting used to how to use the tooling.
SAC delivers on what's promised.
SAC is fun
- Visualization
- Aggregation
- Aggregation
Great visualization tool
- Easily create visualizations
- Apply master data properties to transactional data
- Upload data from multiple data sources
- Enhanced modeling capabilities
- Blending data from multiple models
- Accessing live data via Excel
Easy to use and great scalabilities
- easy to use
- intuitive
- integration capabilities
- Cloud based
- leverage previous products, such as SAP Business Objects