Digitizing the way business works
June 04, 2020

Digitizing the way business works

Samuel Johnson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SAP Analytics Cloud

With the help of SAP Analytics Cloud, we were able to digitalize the way our organization works. By pulling business data from various sources of our company the tool helped us visualize that information using a number of dashboards. These dashboards were used by various stakeholders to estimate and forecast the resources and the scale of marketing we would need.

Pros

  • It collects from various data sources without requiring any major changes to the environment.
  • It has an intelligent processing algorithm with which usable insights are being generated.
  • They offer a 90-day free trial (although with restrictions) that can be used to decide if it meets your requirements.

Cons

  • Ability to run multiple BI modelers in parallel would have been very useful.
  • Support for mobile devices is missing. At Least a lite web version would have been appreciated.
  • Complex queries are required to filter down the insights, thus always requiring the help of a skilled IT staff.
In addition to the data flow from cloud application, it also supports data sources from local files such as CSVs and also live connections from servers. Cloud apps integrated with third-party ones are rather limited and it works best with other SAP products. The initial process is time-consuming. At first, it requires set up so that it knows which data to pull from the source.
Once the insights are generated and filtered down to the required instance it can be shared instantaneously within the organization given that the user to whom the report is shared already has access to the particular domain, this secures us from sharing the data with users out of the security scope.
We had been using the tool dominantly for managing resources and marketing purposes. With resource management, it effectively collects the data from process workflows and recommends use case probabilities during recruitment based on current and forecast data. Similarly, with marketing, it recommends use case probabilities within our campaigns, but it does not take into account the data interaction from the customer. As a result, we have had to use an additional third party tool along with the insights from SAP Analytics Cloud.

SAP Analytics Cloud Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
9
Customizable dashboards
10
Report Formatting Templates
9
Drill-down analysis
7
Formatting capabilities
8
Integration with R or other statistical packages
8
Report sharing and collaboration
9
Publish to Web
10
Publish to PDF
10
Report Versioning
8
Report Delivery Scheduling
8
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
10
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
7
Predictive Analytics
8
Multi-User Support (named login)
9
Role-Based Security Model
9
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
9
Single Sign-On (SSO)
10

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