Not usable product for many use cases like cockpits or reports - connectivity is also bad, many features are restricted
September 30, 2022

Not usable product for many use cases like cockpits or reports - connectivity is also bad, many features are restricted

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review

Overall Satisfaction with SAP Analytics Cloud

The client decided for the tool. It was disregarded that SAP Analytics Cloud is not a Cockpit machine. SAP Analytics Cloud is ticking like an explorative BI frontend, but partly does not support depended filtering on a BW Live Connection. In my experience, here and there, there are so many missing features especially with a Live Connection, that in future i cannot advise clients to buy into that tool, since it is very complicated to connect to the landscape, does not offer real benefits in Live Connectivity and just pitfalls that you can step into like in a lifecycle. In my opinion, it is UNTHINKABLE SAP did not yet implement a function to exchange Livemodels on widgets/Stories. I think the adminsitration is just horror. So many things missing. And as a normal developer you are not able to delete private files from others that have them in private folder - well good this is fine - but then it cannot be, that objects are relevant to each other and dependent.... etc.
  • exploration
  • nothing
  • nothing
  • IBCS/ formatting charts
  • Cockpit functionality
  • lifecycle and live-model improvements
  • not same functionality split in cloud and on-premise with 1000 expceptions
  • the tool needs the correct usecase - for cockpits and reports it is not useable.
  • only usable for explorative analysis - but why use and extra $ frontend for this
i would not use it again if asked
  • Product Features
the decision was made by illusionated department heads

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

No

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

No

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

No

Did implementation of SAP Analytics Cloud go as expected?

No

Would you buy SAP Analytics Cloud again?

No

Explorative Dashboards - OK. If you wanna find out stuff fast and CAN do it.
If you expect a report done by someone else and pixelperfext - NO.

SAP Analytics Cloud Feature Ratings

Long-term financial planning
1
Financial budgeting
1
Forecasting
1
Scenario modeling
1
Management reporting
1
Financial data consolidation
1
Journal entries and reports
1
Multi-currency management
1
Intercompany Eliminations
1
Minority Ownership
1
Local and consolidated reporting
1
Detailed Audit Trails
1
Financial Statement Reporting
1
Management Reporting
1
Excel-based Reporting
10
Automated board and financial reporting
1
XBRL support for regulatory filing
1
Personalized dashboards
5
Color-coded scorecards
1
KPIs
1
Cost and profitability analysis
1
Key Performance Indicator setting
1
Benchmarking with external data
1
Flat file integration
1
Excel data integration
1
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
1
Pixel Perfect reports
1
Customizable dashboards
1
Report Formatting Templates
1
Drill-down analysis
1
Formatting capabilities
1
Integration with R or other statistical packages
1
Report sharing and collaboration
1
Publish to Web
1
Publish to PDF
3
Report Versioning
1
Report Delivery Scheduling
1
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
1
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
1
Predictive Analytics
1
Multi-User Support (named login)
1
Role-Based Security Model
1
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
1
Single Sign-On (SSO)
1
Responsive Design for Web Access
1
Mobile Application
1
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
1