SAP Analytics Cloud

Score8.2 out of 10

968 Reviews and Ratings

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.

Categories & Use Cases

Single Sign-On (SSO)
Allows users to use one set of login credentials to access multiple applications
Category average: 8.6
Report sharing and collaboration
Report sharing and collaboration is the ability to easily share reports with others.
Category average: 8.1
Customizable dashboards
Customizable dashboards are dashboards providing the builder some degree of control over the look and feel and display options.
Category average: 8.3

Javascript API
A Javascript API is a type of API
Category average: 8
Delivery to Remote Servers
Ability to deliver reports to remote servers
Category average: 8
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
A customizable, open source API Gateway is a fast and scalable type of API
Category average: 8

Peter Chen View profile

Director of Enterprise Architecture in Information Technology at Stericycle (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

Browser-based technology, no client setup needed.
Great story and data modeling capability.
Ease of setup and great UI through Digital Boardroom.

Cons

Feature parity with more mature BI products like WEBI.
Performance issues from time to time.
Scripting capabilities in the planning area.

Other Software Used

Tableau Desktop, Qlik Sense

Richa Agarwal

Engineering Manager in Finance and Accounting at Autodesk (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Aiming to use for Reporting in general

Pros

Financial Planning
Reporting
Dashboard

Cons

Needs a middle layer for Data transformation

Return on Investment

It has a positive impact

Usability

Venu Arvinth Nandha Kumar View profile

IT Project Manager in Manufacturing at HILTI ASIA IT SERVICES (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization we use SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC). We created an executive dashboard and also we use it for KPI monitoring. We are also creating SAC reports on top of finance data models, HR data models, and also sales data model. We are using it for storytelling and also for data visualization purposes and we are also exploring the option of planning and also forecasting in terms of project management.

Pros

We have integrated with BDC and also Datasphere
It is easy to connect to SAP Products like BW4HANA, S4HANA, Datasphere
It has capability of real time integration with SAP BW

Cons

It completely dependent on SAP Backend Modeling
Complex data models and large datasets impacts the dashboard performance
Object movement between different systems requires governance and release management

Return on Investment

We have can automated master data loading, also imports can be scheduled
SAC can communicate with external web applications too
We can use the SAC queries for live connections for realtime data from BW

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Power BI

Other Software Used

Microsoft Power BI, Tableau Cloud, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence

Srikantha Kalkura

Manager IT in Information Technology at Thermo Fisher Scientific (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SAP Analytics Cloud helps slice and dice data in graphical way to our customers to take key business decisions. It helps our business users to understand the complex and huge volume of data in a better graphical format so that they can understand and take actions on the same. It helps our business to check top performers, slice and dice data based various characteristics so that business users can narrow down further to take key business decisions. Main use case that we are solving here is showing the data based on different characteristics and narrow down data based on particular filter at any bar chart or pie chart.

Pros

Graphical representation of data
Slicing and dicing the data based on different characteristics
Arrange complex and huge volume of data in a graphical way to analyze better
Narrow down data based on specific filters

Cons

Better report drill down to detailed view and download into excel feature needs improvement
Competitive licence cost
Better AI features

Return on Investment

High licensing cost when compared to other visualization tool
Great tool for detailed visualization with better end user friendly features
Tight integration with backend d SAP systems which makes more reliable tool

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Power BI

Other Software Used

SAP BW/4HANA, SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Gopi Krishna Gummadi

Specialist in Information Technology at BT (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use SAC for Dashboards & Planning.
SAC helped us to cut down our monthly Outlook process by 50%.
Now users are using SAC excel add-in for slice & dicing the data models.

Pros

Augemented Dashboards
Planning
Better through put while running business logics

Cons

Alternate hierarchies/rollups should be enabled in a single hierarchy
Robustness for users to use out of the box ML models for predictive forecasting

Return on Investment

SAC has created a positive impact b reducing monthly Outlook process by 50%

Usability

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Qlik Analytics Platform (QAP), on Qlik Sense

SAP Analytics Cloud

What is SAP Analytics Cloud?

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Single Sign-On (SSO)

Report sharing and collaboration

Customizable dashboards

Areas for Improvement

Javascript API

Delivery to Remote Servers

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

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