Skip to main content
TrustRadius
SAP Analytics Cloud

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…

Read more
Recent Reviews

Review

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 …
Continue reading
Read all reviews

Awards

Products that are considered exceptional by their customers based on a variety of criteria win TrustRadius awards. Learn more about the types of TrustRadius awards to make the best purchase decision. More about TrustRadius Awards

Popular Features

View all 49 features
  • KPIs (261)
    8.3
    83%
  • Management reporting (265)
    8.3
    83%
  • Personalized dashboards (270)
    8.2
    82%
  • Color-coded scorecards (255)
    8.1
    81%

Reviewer Pros & Cons

View all pros & cons

Video Reviews

1 video

SAP Analytics Cloud Provides Accurate Data Automation to Cut Down on Manual Work: Product Review
04:53
Return to navigation

Pricing

View all pricing

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
Return to navigation

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
Return to navigation

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.

SAP Analytics Cloud Competitors

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).
Return to navigation

Comparisons

View all alternatives
Return to navigation

Reviews and Ratings

(798)

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

(1-25 of 82)
Companies can't remove reviews or game the system. Here's why
January 09, 2024

Review

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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 use. also we sent pictures to intereseted customers of the product through this service. it was easy effcient and helpul for both sides.
  • Commuting
  • Data Visulization
  • Mobile Accessibility
  • Security and Compliance
  • Performance Optimization
  • Cost Transparency
  • Integration Challenges
SAP Ecosystem Integration:For businesses already using other SAP solutions such as SAP BW or SAP HANA, SAP Analytics Cloud is a natural fit. It integrates well with the broader SAP ecosystem, providing a cohesive analytics experience for users familiar with SAP technologies.Predictive Analytics Use Cases:Companies seeking to incorporate predictive analytics into their decision-making processes can leverage SAP Analytics Cloud. Its built-in predictive features enable users to create models and gain insights into future trends based on historical data.
Amit Goregaonkar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
In our organization, SAP Analytics Cloud serves as a pivotal tool for data-driven decision-making. We harness its capabilities for comprehensive business intelligence, utilizing interactive dashboards to analyze and visually present insights from diverse data sources. SAC facilitates collaborative planning and forecasting processes, enabling real-time simulations and fostering team collaboration. The platform's predictive analytics feature empowers us to anticipate trends and identify opportunities, while its seamless integration with both SAP and non-SAP systems ensures a holistic approach to data consolidation. SAC's mobile analytics support keeps decision-makers informed on-the-go, and the self-service analytics feature empowers business users to perform ad-hoc analysis, enhancing agility. The scope of our SAC use extends across various departments, including finance, sales, marketing, and operations, ensuring a unified and responsive analytics environment to address a multitude of business challenges.
  • Data Visualization
  • Planning and Forecasting
  • Integration with SAP and Non-SAP Systems
  • Pricing Transparency
  • Offline Access
  • Customization Options
  • Performance and Speed in case of large data set
SAP Analytics Cloud is great for big companies that want advanced data analysis and planning, especially when they need to work together in real-time or when people need to access data on their phones. It's like a super tool for predicting future trends in industries like retail or finance. SAC also works well for companies that use different types of computer systems because it can easily connect them. But, for small businesses that only need basic reports or don't have a lot of technical resources, a simpler tool might be better. If a company doesn't always have a good internet connection or if they're just starting with analytics, there might be other tools that work better.
Breno Fukuda de Almeida | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Enhance my knowledge base: I can stay up-to-date on the latest business trends and insights by analyzing data from SAP Analytics CloudGenerate reports and dashboards: I can use the data from SAP Analytics Cloud to create custom reports and dashboardsAutomate tasks: I can automate some of the data analysis tasks that you would normally do in SAP Analytics Cloud. This can save you time and effort, allowing you to focus on more strategic work.Answer your questions: I can answer your questions about your business by accessing and analyzing data from SAP Analytics Cloud. This includes questions about sales, marketing, finance, and operations.Overall, while I don't directly use SAP Analytics Cloud as a user, I can leverage its data and functionality to provide you with a variety of valuable services.
  • Dashboards
  • Answer Business questions
  • Easy to use it
  • Support. Internal support must be quickly
  • Gamefication content to improve our knowledge level
  • Explore more connections ETF
Dashboard and update information is so important to drive our decision based on facts, this is important to save, time money and improdutivo meeting without any data or decision to make. sometimes the dashboard update is so slow and require a minimal logic to get the information that we need to our business.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) plays a pivotal role in optimizing our operations and delivering value to our portfolio of startups. The platform is instrumental in addressing several key business challenges and aligns with our broader goals of fostering growth and innovation.

It enables us to track key performance indicators (KPIs) for each startup in our portfolio. This includes monitoring metrics related to customer acquisition, revenue growth, and operational efficiency. The real-time analytics provided by SAC empower us to gauge the success of each startup and identify areas for improvement.
  • Portfolio Health Analysis
  • Performance Tracking and KPI Monitoring
  • Resource Allocation and Planning
  • Complexity in Data Modeling
  • SAC supports various data sources, but improvements in the ease of connecting to and integrating with certain data repositories, especially non-SAP databases, would enhance the platform's versatility and integration capabilities.
  • An offline mode for SAC could be valuable for users who need to access and analyze data without an internet connection. Additionally, optimizing performance for large datasets and complex visualizations would contribute to a smoother user experience.
SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) excels in scenarios where organizations require comprehensive analytics and reporting capabilities across various business functions. For instance, in financial planning and analysis, SAC's robust data modeling and visualization features enable finance teams to create dynamic dashboards, perform scenario analysis, and generate insightful reports for strategic decision-making. Additionally, SAC is well-suited for executive-level reporting, offering intuitive and visually appealing presentations that provide leaders with a consolidated view of key performance indicators. In sales and marketing, SAC's ability to integrate data from multiple sources facilitates in-depth analysis of sales trends, customer behavior, and campaign effectiveness, empowering teams to make data-driven decisions. Moreover, SAC's collaborative features make it suitable for cross-functional teams, fostering communication and knowledge-sharing through interactive data exploration.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have two tenants for SAP Analytics Cloud, import based on live based connection, on live models, we have certain performance limitations when we perform data blending.
  • Role inheritance
  • Security
  • Analytic designer
  • Data blending
  • Edit model is locked to enhance new fields in import based connection
  • Live connection with cloud centric azure and GCP
To replace lumira generic analysis template and webi self-service.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have been investigating it to use it for month end closing reporting in the Finance area.
  • Easy to get figures with live connection and existing queries
  • Quite easy to create nice looking reports
  • Quite fast even with live connection
  • Sharing of reports for non SAP Analytics Cloud users
  • No possibility to print report to Excel
  • Easier publishing of reports to other users
It is easy to get a nice report done with a live data connection, but it comes with downside as well. Not all functionality is available for live data connection.
Anne Helin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are piloting the use in finance department. Use cases relate to month end closing and we use live connection in order to have real time data. Stories and easy to build and I like to have same models in AFO - Fiori & SAC. There is no need for reconciliations because the data the same as in familiar GUI.
  • Visualization
  • Clear
  • Intuitive
  • I would like to send reports as e.g. excel
Visualization of month end data, creating tresholds to identify figures that need attention
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it for management reporting & analysis, planning and forecasting. Integrating it with other systems for KPI reporting for drilldown analysis. We provide standardized reports but also let users create their own stories according to their needs.
  • Easy to get started with
  • Linked analysis
  • Easy data entry for planning
  • Copying own measures to other stories
  • Linking own models with live connections
  • Guiding you through best practices while building stories
Really good for linking tables and graphs and creating own stories. Just started on using SAC planning and that is also very easy as a user to get started on. Very intuitive.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Planning and reporting within Finance and HR
  • Financial Planning
  • Dashboarding
  • Live data connection to SAP backend systems
  • Data wrangling
  • Automation of data (file) uploads
Live data reporting from S/4HANA or BW/4HANA
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As the platform for user created stories and dashboards. In part replacing the old Java portal
  • Visualizations
  • BW Integration
  • Data wrangling, in particular on BW Live connections
  • Possibility to reduce white space and make the layouts more compact
  • Clearly show how the datasources are used and linked to each chart
User created dashboards where the data is readily available.
Deep stories where a broad data source is explored and visualized in many different layouts.\
November 12, 2023

Ease of Doing Business

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using it mainly in Fp&A area where we are also using BTP. SAP Analytics Cloud, we are trying to use the Planning features.
  • Connecting back end data with Live and other connections options
  • Creating graphs with explanation
  • Using Live link in MS 365 specially in outlook and Power Point
  • Enabling Alerting features
  • Sending email alerts to Higher management so that they can login when there is a need to login
  • Some more graphics features
Converting business Objects reports to SAP Analytics Cloud
Connecting existing Universe and Webi reports and create the KPIs
Able to connect non-SAP areas to build different Dashboards.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SAP Analytics Cloud has helped us to get the information for decision making faster and and with rich display. In the past, the IT team had to get all the data for reporting, now the end users are enabled to get and present their data themselves. So we have saved time, effort, support and empowered our users.
  • Nice presentations, Dashboards
  • Live Data Models
  • Merge multiple models
  • Live connections to other sources then SAP
  • When adding a new measure in CDS consumption view the SAP Analytics Cloud model gets disrupted. So you can only add a measure at the end
  • Connections to SQL, MySQL live
It’s a pretty nice solution for SAP exporting. I do think SAP could improve by enabling non-SAP sources connections, live ones. This could bring new customers.
July 12, 2023

SAC Review

Bob Ogryzek | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SAC for dashboards connected to ERP (live via HanaViews) and SAC Planning implementation.
  • SAP connection
  • Presentation views
  • Ease of use
  • Ease of use compared to other presentation tools (Tableau)
  • Content Library
SAP Data presentation from ERP. Needs to have better connectivity to Snowflake database.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Top level sales reporting. various dashboards showing different slices of the sales data, by product, market segment, portfolio, region etc.
  • Visualization
  • Consolidation
  • Integrating other data
  • Ease of integrating external data real time
Our best challenge is real time datafrom non native databases
May 20, 2023

SAC review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use for group reporting.
  • Dashboard
  • Visualization
  • Connecting data to S4.
  • Performance optimization of live data connection.
If the reports are not volume intense and require visualization with slice-and-dice options at the user's discretion, SAC is good.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SAP Analytics Cloud is an innovative and solid product to improve FP&A, Analytics and consolidation cloud-based business transformation processes.
  • Currency conversion automation
  • Solid planning and scenarios creation analysis
  • Standardized CFO reporting
  • Availability of ECC connections with the new model
  • Grandtotal function aggregation
Automating Income Statement
Reporting of Net Sales with Analytics (charts, graph etc)
Liquidity planning automation (scenarios basis)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use SAP Analytics Cloud for CapEx and OpEx planning and building stories.
  • Planning
  • Connections to SAP sources
  • Connections to non SAP sources
  • Message server or load balancer options for SAP connections is not available
SAP Analytics Cloud is a great tool for planning and works seamlessly with the cloud connectors connecting to the backend system and hardly with any maintenance efforts.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is a challenging product to use. First it is complicated and not intuitive. If you don't have a model in mind the tool is not going to work well no matter how well intentioned you are. That may not be SAP's fault but an important prerequisite that the marketing team ignores because they will not sell the product if that is acknowledged up front. From a business perspective, SAP is to blame even if the model is weak.
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.
A SOX compliant report - excellent
Hierarchies required - excellent

Detailed modeling - hard to do
Inputting new data - hard to do.
March 22, 2023

Easy user experience

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SAP Analytics Cloud is mainly used for direct S4 reporting.
  • Direct connection to S4
  • Same data models (CDS views) available in SAP Analytics Cloud as in Fiori
  • Easy to use
  • Difficult to keep track what is recommended way to create reports
  • Some slowness topics when using direct connection
  • Difficult to troubleshoot where problem exists
We have 2 S4 systems where we wanted to merge the data. That was useful and easy. For some quick reports where visualization is needed, it has been useful as well.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My overall experience with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) is amazing. In my opinion, SAC is a great software for standard reporting created by the central team for many (hundreds/thousands) users. If you want to keep data consistency, apply a common, shared security/data access framework (inherited from the source system) and build consistent reporting for core business areas, then SAP Analitycs Cloud with live connection is the right choice. SAC is extraordinary. The central team can manage security and data access, KPIs definitions, master data, hierarchies, currency conversion, translation etc. This is the reason I like the Sap Analytics cloud.
  • hierarchies
  • currency conversions
  • common security & data access framework
  • somewhere basic design improvements
Suppose you want to keep data consistency, apply a common, shared security/data access framework (inherited from the source system) and build consistent reporting for core business areas. In that case, SAP Analitycs Cloud with a live connection is the right choice.
December 30, 2022

Retail Boon Cloud

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SAP Analytics has been used to create dashboards/reports from a complex set of data. It has been used widely to make predictions of sales and marketing a fast moving retail world. It helps the organization in a way to get more and more reliable data driven decisions. The performance can be increased if third party apps can be utilized.
  • Placing order with supplier
  • Visualization of Data
  • Data Modelling
  • Making communication more efficient
  • Allowing more integration from 3rd party app
  • Allowing more enhancement in cloud system
  • Speeding up the data load
Real-time collection and display of the data. The chards can be made according on your requirements. no technological background is necessary. It acts as a powerful excel with added features and powerful analysis tools like unit conversion.

It needs to improve its system when connected to different databases and speed up the process.
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.
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.
Return to navigation