A very promising solution, looking forward seeing its numberous innovations to come
November 13, 2019

A very promising solution, looking forward seeing its numberous innovations to come

Radouane Sbaa | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller

Overall Satisfaction with SAP Analytics Cloud

It's being used:

1 - As a SAP BI consultants company, we use it to explore the functionalities and to be able to implement it for our customers
2 - As a BI tool to explore our own SAP Buniess By Design data and some Excel files (Financial data, timesheet)

Pros

  • Stories are quite easy to develop witout technical knowledge
  • Generating a simple model is very straightforward
  • Sharing and collaborating is very convenient

Cons

  • Updating an existing model is very painful. It's not Agile at all since we need to rebuild it whenever we need to add a new column, for instance.
  • Updating a transformation in a model lead to lose the calculated measures.
  • It is not possible to update a model if a Public Dimension has been used in it.
  • Comparing with other BI Solutions, I think we need more formulas in Transformations Area and Stories Developments.
SAC BI Reporting is affordable, especially for companies with a limited IT budget. It is "easy" to integrate it with the ERP.
It is well suited for simple design, stable models, business needs already defined with few changes to be process. It is not convenient for complex rules because of the lack of formulas or if the model needs a lot of transformation and frequent changes or if the business rules are going to change frequently.

SAP Analytics Cloud Feature Ratings

Not Rated
Long-term financial planning
Not Rated
Financial budgeting
Not Rated
Forecasting
Not Rated
Scenario modeling
Not Rated
Management reporting
Not Rated
Not Rated
Financial data consolidation
Not Rated
Journal entries and reports
Not Rated
Multi-currency management
Not Rated
Intercompany Eliminations
Not Rated
Minority Ownership
Not Rated
Local and consolidated reporting
Not Rated
Detailed Audit Trails
Not Rated
7.5
Financial Statement Reporting
Not Rated
Management Reporting
Not Rated
Excel-based Reporting
8
Automated board and financial reporting
7
XBRL support for regulatory filing
Not Rated
9.0
Personalized dashboards
Not Rated
Color-coded scorecards
Not Rated
KPIs
9
Cost and profitability analysis
Not Rated
Key Performance Indicator setting
Not Rated
Benchmarking with external data
Not Rated
7.3
Flat file integration
8
Excel data integration
8
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
6
10.0
Pixel Perfect reports
10
Customizable dashboards
Not Rated
Report Formatting Templates
Not Rated
8.7
Drill-down analysis
9
Formatting capabilities
7
Integration with R or other statistical packages
Not Rated
Report sharing and collaboration
10
10.0
Publish to Web
10
Publish to PDF
Not Rated
Report Versioning
Not Rated
Report Delivery Scheduling
Not Rated
8.3
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
7
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
10
Predictive Analytics
8
10.0
Multi-User Support (named login)
10
Role-Based Security Model
Not Rated
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
10
Single Sign-On (SSO)
10
Not Rated
Responsive Design for Web Access
Not Rated
Mobile Application
Not Rated
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Not Rated

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