SAP Analytics Cloud: Hybrid/complete cloud mode
June 15, 2020

SAP Analytics Cloud: Hybrid/complete cloud mode

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SAP Analytics Cloud

As SAP Solution Providers, our goal is to recommend/Implement solutions to our clients in various areas of SAP. SAP Analytics Cloud is one of our key focus areas where we've proposed the solution to our clients mostly for retail/business planning solutions in the cloud using SAC. Our key focus is to give multiple approaches to the clients to choose the one that best suits their needs. For example, we recommend SAC as a hybrid model or as a complete cloud model.
  • Self-discovery mode for users to gain insights with the click of buttons.
  • Planning solution in the cloud for SAP BPC/Non-SAP users with seamless collaboration between planners.
  • Data integration or wrangling data from SAP, non-SAP data sources with machine learning capabilities that auto-suggest the transformations.
  • Use of configurable charts/graphs/geo-maps for visualizations.
  • cCustomize the visualizations per customer requirement using analytical applications.
  • Time series forecast based on the historical data.
  • Natural language processing using the user's own language. You get the results in the form of charts.
  • Planners can maintain the private versions and make them public once they are finalized
  • Broadcasting functionality to publish the reports would help.
  • A data service to connect to AWS cloud RDS.
  • Conversation intelligence integration with SAC.
  • Write-back to ERP/BPC systems.
If SAP Analytics cloud had mobile capability for Android devices it would be great compared to other products like Power BI/Tableau.
1. Well suited for planning solutions to integrate SAP BPC/Non-SAP data. Planners can collaborate seamlessly.
2. Time-series forecasting where you can leverage historical data for forecasting.
3. Customize visualizations using analytical applications.
4. Geo-maps to view data based on the locations.
5. Good to have SAC mobile capability for Android devices.

SAP Analytics Cloud Feature Ratings

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