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SAP Analytics Cloud

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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

8.1
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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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 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
At our organisation SAP analytics cloud is a gamechanger. It helps us keep tabs on how well our startups are doing tracking things like customer acquisition and growth live. We can easily evaluate performance of any employee using experience and knowledge. We use it to keep record of our orders and to anlalyze them easily.
  • It makes it easier yo analyse order and related records easily.
  • We can easily maintain and track the performance of employees in organisation.
  • Can easily track various aspects for the growth of an organisation thus allowing real time analysis and tracking of organisation's growth and performance.
  • User Interface of SAP cloud analytics can be improved more so that it can be made more accessible.
  • User support is not that much good and time consuming.
  • Limited team work and collaboration possible as their are not much collaborative features available, it makes it sometime time consuming.
If you want to track your organizations performance live on regular basis and needs good analytics option you should try this out, it's easy to implement, cost friendly and you can almost track all of organizations processes from just a single place but if there's more team work required on analysis in your organization or you're looking for more collaborative tool with better support it will not work that much good for your usecase.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My team and I use SAP analytics cloud to analyze bulk of CRM data, create segmentation and automated workflows for decision making. With Cloud Analytics, we can generate insights from sales data at a daily, monthly and even quarterly cadence. We can even create the mandates for sales team basis their performance throughout the funnel basis their lead data.
  • Data security
  • Access control
  • Access from anywhere
  • The mobile app could be faster & lighter. Currently it hangs often while loading dashboards.
  • It takes some time to get accustomed to a new peson. The training modules are not very informative.
  • Difficult to integrate with existing legacy systems.
Well suited for distributed access control wherein you need to give a dashboard to individual sales team members, especially for target vs achievement incentivization schemes. The team can see live tracking data on top of custom dashboard to monitor & act at all times.
It is less appropriate for custom querying and aggregation.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As a sponsoring editor, one of my job roles entails analyzing sales data to make financial projections for products in my portfolio. SAP Analytics Cloud helps make forecasts in my business proposals using real world data for accurate projections. It also helps me predict financial outcomes based on decisions taken, as well as create budgets keeping in mind the financials of the department as a whole. As a cloud-based product, I also appreciate that it works seamlessly while I collaborate with colleagues around the world.
  • It uses machine learning to reveal patterns and relationships in data to help make accurate projections.
  • It can support a lot of users which is vital in companies that require input across departments to make financial plans.
  • It works seamlessly over the cloud.
  • It lacks customization features, so it can't be tailored to a company's specific needs.
  • It is highly dependent on other SAP products to unlock its full potential.
  • For first-time users, its environment can get a bit confusing.
SAP Analytics Cloud is well suited in large companies that require input from across departments and markets to create accurate financial plans. Its AI and machine learning features are particularly helpful in making accurate projections. It is also handy if you have to collaborate with colleagues around the world in real-time. However, it would not be appropriate for small or mid-sized companies considering that its full features are unlocked only with other SAP products.
Rajender Singh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In our company, we handle numerous part lists according to client, dimension, region, and company using SAP Analytics Cloud. We oversee additional departmental data as well. We are moving from several outdated ERP systems to a single SAP system.
  • Bom management
  • dashboards, charts, and graphs for forecast trends and patterns
  • Integration with other PLM systems
  • handling large data can be sometimes leads to lagging
  • user manual can be more simpler
  • ticket resolving issue takes time
SAP Analytics Cloud is well suited for creating dashboards, charts, and graphs which helps in understanding trends and forecast and helpful in sorting out data from number of data at a time. Sometime for users with less experience can be hard to understand the interface.
Mayuri Jadhav | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using this to forecast consumer attitudes about goods in order to build on what is planned for the future or to improve customer experience.
This is also, helping us to do better reporting to management. these reports create by transforming data saving more time while taking some decisions.
The option to utilize built-in algorithms or expand using R has real deal.
  • Quick Reporting, You can get quick report by transforming data into insightful reports.
  • Built-in algorithms, there number of built in algorithms which helps to get great results
  • We can use R for more expansions
  • Costing, costly way for low margin/small scale enterprises.
  • With volume of data increase it slows down
  • Adding a sequence on a SAP Predictive Analytics server is quite difficult
Based on experience, this is really helpful for study any data, analysis of data with great reporting.
Large scale organization can afford the pricing as it is on higher side.
with huge volume of data slowness is the issue so, need to consider volume till the time this issue gets resolved.
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 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use SAP Analytics Cloud for financial planning.
  • opecx planning
  • cogs
  • better performance for the volunetery data needed
  • wish it was more user friendly
SAP Analytics Cloud for a planning scenario is well suited, but I not sure about the reporting.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Using SAP Analytics Cloud is helping the customers to understand the real insights. We are majorly using it it our existing Traditional Systems specifically at MFG industries showing them the Procurement things, also showing Supply chain analytics.
  • Real time analytics
  • Easy to understand
  • Interactive dashboards
  • So, Integration can be more smoother
So, it is easily classified in all the areas.
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 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SAP is used to foster standard CDS from S/4HANA, provide insights out of such data, and import data into SAP to model it in accordance with business requirements—no insights into the data naturally from SAP. There is no reporting tool at all for business insights, considering the SAP landscape. Scope: a global tool for regional and global stories/insights.
  • Real time reading out of your data.
  • Data modeling made easy.
  • Planning model made easier for FP&A.
  • Accessibility.
  • Performance
  • Integration with other SAP tools, like BPC, ARIBA, etc.
The data modeling framework is well-rounded. Performance is always challenging.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In my area, we use it for Financial Compliance and Access Control Dashboards.
The pain points we addressed is the limited reporting capabilities from SAP GRC 12.0
  • Nice visuals
  • Good performance
  • Dashboards and reports
  • Authorization concept
  • Access Management
November 10, 2023

Good teaching tool

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it to teach our undergraduate students, under the University Alliance program. A great learning tool! Students learn from the real world system. The SAP Analytics Cloud date also helps students understand the complicated business interrelated relationship in addition to the data, preparing them ready to the real business world!
  • Visualization
  • Data in different business function
  • Real time data
  • None
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.
Syed Fahad Hussain | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using SAP Analytics Cloud for planning and analytics and its help a lot for strategic move and real insight based on SAP master data. It helps us with data exploration and agile data visualization which support sales insight and planning for the next move. This is a complete business-centric solution where our company develops a sales forecast analytics catalog.
  • Rapid result with Data forecast
  • Rich Functionality for users to design dashboard according business requirement
  • Integration with SAP S4 hana
  • Easier for integration area
Well in our organization SAP Analytics Cloud help us on supply chain planning dashboard and sales dashboard where we have all data of Wearhouse and supply chain forecast on our SAP Analytics Cloud Dashboards. Managment will review all data insight from dashboard
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ever since 2019 as Assistance Coordinator, I have using SAP Analytics Cloud at workplace to automate workflow. I am currently relying on SAC since it is the main backbone tool for data modeling, preparation and visualization.
  • Data exploration across multi-cloud and on-premises sources.
  • No coding nor manual process is involved during data visualization.
  • Offers self-service data modeling tools.
  • Pre-integrates services accelerated implementation.
  • It is only available as cloud based and lack mobile apps for iOS and Android systems.
Making business decisions is a bit complex, mainly when doing it manually. SAC gives me the ability to personalize and compose analytics applications which help me move faster from insights to actions.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I thought this was a fantastic resource since it can be modified to fit any situation. Business intelligence, predictive analytics, visualizations, and strategy development. If your company has the means to do so, I strongly suggest you invest in this product.
  • Data mining from many cloud and on-premises storage systems.
  • Data visualization doesn't need any coding skills or human labor.
  • Provides resources for independent data modeling.
  • There are no native mobile applications for iOS or Android, and it's solely offered via the cloud.
Users are able to make quick, well-informed choices with the help of SAP's augmented analytics and corporate planning tools without needing to collaborate with data scientists.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SAP Analytics Cloud helps in bringing together Analytics and Planning along with a major advantage of other SAP applications integration. You can work with multiple different data sources to get an over all better level of insights. There are a variety of Charts and graphs that are intuitive. With SAP environment you can take enterprise wide decisions with ease.
  • Intuitive Charts, graphs and tables preparation
  • Live models creation with help of modeler
  • Data presentation becomes impressive and insightful
  • Models take a lot of time to load
  • If you forget to add a measure or dimension while creatin a model, you have to start all over
  • Drill through metrics should be allowed
You can process huge data sets with millions of data points and perform predictive analytics based on these results. It is a web application, thus it prevents time and cost over runs spent on environment set up and infra costs are cut down. You can connect it with whole ecosystem of SAP applications to get the integrated insights and action points.
Lois M. Green | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use SAP Analytics Cloud to visualize many regular operational reports. Visualizations and tables give users easy access to deep insights into the underlying data sources and also provide the ability to generate predictions. R integration allows for richer visualizations and some advanced statistical models.
  • It has a superb user interface and also performs well with quicker data on slower CPUs.
  • With SAP Analytic Cloud, you can be confident that your data is always available, no matter where you are.
  • It is the best in terms of package, allowing for simpler exploration, visualization, manipulation, optimization, data access management, and data simulation.
  • Nothing, nothing to complain about, it's efficient in every aspect to assist me perform my job; perhaps the pricing can be toggled to provide more bargains to existing users.
It's a fantastic match for KPIs and dashboards, particularly when the user wishes to arrange tiny chunks of data into narrative parts that are then linked via a single dashboard or landing page. It is also appropriate for mobile phone users because it offers mobile responsive page features. SAP Analytics Cloud is useful for summarizing and producing dashboard visuals in order to swiftly demonstrate performance or convey a specific story.
June 23, 2023

SAC Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It takes the data and puts it in a form upper management can understand and report out on.
  • Compiles Data
  • Analyzes data
  • Reporting
  • Could be more user friendly
  • Develop a better AR aging specifically
  • Update more frequently
Compiling the data in an easy to read manner
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