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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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Recent Reviews

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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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Comparisons

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Reviews and Ratings

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Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using for specific few departments, source data is SAP BW. Business team needs dashboard to be created to analyse the data more effectively. We are planning to implement Planning model for finance team.
  • User friendly like Tableau.
  • Comparative features offered by Tableau, Power BI.
  • Business feel more comfortable to use Power BI.
  • Strong integration with HANA, what about other data sources and columnar storage.
  • Available on web. All operations (create, modify, share stories) are done on web.
  • SAC out of the box connections available for SAP specific source systems only.
  • Power BI out of the box connections available for wide range of data sources.
  • Power BI will maintain authorization/roles of source systems (Checked specifically for SAP BW).
  • Power BI Available SAP Sources: SAP BW, SAP HANA.
  • SAC Search is not available using Bex description. Search can be done only through technical name.
  • SAC Prompt Difficulty in using select all or Not equal to option.
  • SAC Smart Insights and Smart discovery not available with Live connections to SAP BW. Works well with offline excels.
  • SAC New calculations - with live connection new calculations can be created while creating charts. It is not available at modeling level.
  • SAC Local and Global Query Elements supported.
  • SAC Forecast in line charts.
Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting (5)
84%
8.4
Long-term financial planning
80%
8.0
Financial budgeting
100%
10.0
Forecasting
80%
8.0
Scenario modeling
80%
8.0
Management reporting
80%
8.0
Consolidation and Close (7)
70%
7.0
Financial data consolidation
70%
7.0
Journal entries and reports
70%
7.0
Multi-currency management
70%
7.0
Intercompany Eliminations
70%
7.0
Minority Ownership
70%
7.0
Local and consolidated reporting
70%
7.0
Detailed Audit Trails
70%
7.0
Financial Reporting and Compliance (5)
82%
8.2
Financial Statement Reporting
80%
8.0
Management Reporting
80%
8.0
Excel-based Reporting
90%
9.0
Automated board and financial reporting
80%
8.0
XBRL support for regulatory filing
80%
8.0
Analytics and Reporting (6)
81.66666666666666%
8.2
Personalized dashboards
80%
8.0
Color-coded scorecards
80%
8.0
KPIs
90%
9.0
Cost and profitability analysis
80%
8.0
Key Performance Indicator setting
80%
8.0
Benchmarking with external data
80%
8.0
Integration (3)
80%
8.0
Flat file integration
80%
8.0
Excel data integration
80%
8.0
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
80%
8.0
BI Standard Reporting (3)
83.33333333333334%
8.3
Pixel Perfect reports
90%
9.0
Customizable dashboards
80%
8.0
Report Formatting Templates
80%
8.0
Ad-hoc Reporting (4)
80%
8.0
Drill-down analysis
80%
8.0
Formatting capabilities
80%
8.0
Integration with R or other statistical packages
80%
8.0
Report sharing and collaboration
80%
8.0
Report Output and Scheduling (4)
80%
8.0
Publish to Web
80%
8.0
Publish to PDF
80%
8.0
Report Versioning
80%
8.0
Report Delivery Scheduling
80%
8.0
Data Discovery and Visualization (3)
80%
8.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
80%
8.0
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
80%
8.0
Predictive Analytics
80%
8.0
Access Control and Security (4)
87.5%
8.8
Multi-User Support (named login)
80%
8.0
Role-Based Security Model
90%
9.0
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
80%
8.0
Single Sign-On (SSO)
100%
10.0
Mobile Capabilities (3)
86.66666666666666%
8.7
Responsive Design for Web Access
90%
9.0
Mobile Application
80%
8.0
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
90%
9.0
  • Strong integration with SAP source
  • Acquire Data/Import from excel/csv files
  • Bit difficult
  • No option to exclude Top N rows.
Lower price compared to competition, user adoption and sustainability, features enhancement.
I've been working with SAP Analytics for 15+ yrs, feel sad when people leave SAP and go towards Modern BI tools.
1000
Infrastructure Management Services.
50
Upskill resource with SAC training.
  • License cost.
  • Adoption.
  • Rich features.
  • Analytical reports.
No
  • Product Usability
  • Vendor Reputation
  • Existing Relationship with the Vendor
Price.
Product features.
Product usability.
Product reputation.
  • Implemented in-house
Yes
Wave 1 -50 users/EMEA user1.
Wave 2 -100 users/EMEA user2.
Wave 3 -50 users/EMEA user3.
Change management was minimal
Code versioning, backup, restore.
  • SAP support timely response.
SAP Analytics Cloud combined features of analytics and cloud offering.
  • in-person training
Good videos and reference material available in SAP Portal.
Yes
SAP Platinum partner. We implement latest features, upgrades for our customers' seamless experience.
No
Resolved queries we logged.
  • Augmented analytics.
  • Automated machine learning.
  • Conversational analytics.
  • Data science for all.
  • Intelligent predictive analytics.
  • Non SAP data source integration.
Yes
With the mobile app, you can connect to your SAP Analytics Cloud tenant and view a list of stories created with responsive layout (that you have permissions to view). This includes stories based on both live and acquired data connections supported in the SAC Mobile app. You can sort the list of stories by Name and Last Changed date or apply predefined filters to the list like ‘Shared with Me’ or ‘Favorites’. If you know the name of the story you wish to view, you can also search for it using the search bar.
Yes
Yet to implement and experience.
  • Live Connection/Direct Query (out of the box integrations with SAP Sources).
  • Mobile app integration.
  • Mobile integration.
  • Service Pack features.
No
No
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