Item: SAP Analytics Cloud
Rating: 7
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are primarily using SAC for dashboards showing long-term trends, especially sales, inventory, AR etc.

Pros and Cons

Small dashboards with live connection. Larger volumes of data in import mode.
dashboards with small widgets and requiring small amounts of data.
Navigation features in tabular format.

Maximizing the usage of screen real estate.
Better performance with multiple widgets.
Ability to handle larger volume.
Ability to paginate charts and tables showing only top entries.
Ability to connect stores to different data models and ability to change the source for a data model. Without this, every time the dashboard needs to be rebuilt when the backend view needs to be changed.

Return on Investment

Good for reporting and analytics dashboards. End-user adoption is not easy compared to the competition.
Not mature enough for financial planning, especially handling large volumes of data.
Easier to enable and render dashboards on mobiles. Business executives like the tool and have a very positive impact.

SAC lacks some of the prominent features found in other tools. But a fully functional tool. The way live connections work with SAC and better integration with SAP back-end products makes SAC a preferred choice.

Key Insights

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

Not sure

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

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

Did implementation of SAP Analytics Cloud go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy SAP Analytics Cloud again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Microsoft Power BI, Qlik Analytics Platform, Tableau Desktop

Usability

The product is still evolving and more usability and sustainability features need to be added to the product. Performance optimizations are required. Better managing the real estate on dashboards is required.

Support Rating

SAP is very slow in addressing critical feature requests.

Likelihood to Recommend

The tool still needs a lot of improvements to match the competition. More usability feature needs to be added to the tool. Flexibility to develop and move to a different source is not there currently. Charts should show the top entries and then provide the ability to see the next page. Automatically scaling the display to different screen sizes needs improvement.

SAC for Reporting & Analytics

Overall Satisfaction with SAP Analytics Cloud