SAC for SAP investment
March 25, 2022

SAC for SAP investment

Adarsh Ashwath, PMP® | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SAP Analytics Cloud

We use SAP Analytics Cloud for all of our Dashboarding needs. Use it for Planning and Predictive Analytics. This is also for Financial planning and Sales forecasting. Before this, we were lacking a web-based front-end tool for Planning. We did not have any dashboarding tool before this. So most of our reports excel based. Since this tool does not have any desktop deployment, it makes it so much easy to roll out updates. With SAP BW backend, setting up security for user access is seamless.

Pros

  • The best to create charts in dashboards
  • easy integration with other SAP systems
  • Regular updates

Cons

  • Integration with non-SAP systems can be improved
  • Visualization needs to still catch up with Power BI
  • More live data connections are required
  • 30% time saving in achieving desired Visualization
  • 12% ROI achieved
  • Several levels of improvement in strategic reporting investments
Power BI has a lot more connectors for several databases. SAP Analytics Cloud is very good for the SAP backend. It needs a lot more improvement with non SAP database connections. Power BI also has more visualization-like charts. SAP Analytics Cloud is good too. Power BI is better. SAP Analytics Cloud is better than Tableau in many ways.

Do you think SAP Analytics Cloud delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with SAP Analytics Cloud's feature set?

Yes

Did SAP Analytics Cloud live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of SAP Analytics Cloud go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy SAP Analytics Cloud again?

Yes

SAP Analytics Cloud is very very strong and stable for what it offers. We have experienced hardly any crashes, whether it is connected to an SAP Source or non-SAP Source. It is pretty robust with live data connections and import methods as well. Works just fine even if there are huge calculations on live connections.
SAP's support can be tricky at various levels whether it is for SAP Analytics Cloud or be it other SAP products. They need to improve on this quite a bit. Their call center or help desk or service center need better trained professionals. They can do better to provide round the clock support.
SAC is logically the best investment for a SaaS-based BI solution for an enterprise that has already invested heavily in other SAP products. Great at user self-service reporting / Adhoc reporting. SAC is probably less appropriate for an organization that does not use SAP at all. There are a lot of other BI visualization tools that can deliver better visualization for a cheaper price.

SAP Analytics Cloud Feature Ratings

7.8
Long-term financial planning
8
Financial budgeting
8
Forecasting
8
Scenario modeling
6
Management reporting
9
7.0
Detailed Audit Trails
7
6.2
Financial Statement Reporting
7
Management Reporting
6
Excel-based Reporting
8
Automated board and financial reporting
6
XBRL support for regulatory filing
4
8.8
Personalized dashboards
8
Color-coded scorecards
9
KPIs
9
Cost and profitability analysis
9
Key Performance Indicator setting
9
Benchmarking with external data
9
6.7
Flat file integration
8
Excel data integration
8
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
4
7.7
Pixel Perfect reports
7
Customizable dashboards
8
Report Formatting Templates
8
8.3
Drill-down analysis
8
Formatting capabilities
9
Integration with R or other statistical packages
6
Report sharing and collaboration
10
8.5
Publish to Web
9
Publish to PDF
9
Report Versioning
8
Report Delivery Scheduling
8
7.7
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
8
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
8
Predictive Analytics
7
8.3
Multi-User Support (named login)
9
Role-Based Security Model
8
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
8
Single Sign-On (SSO)
8
8.0
Responsive Design for Web Access
8
Mobile Application
8
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
8

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