Item: SAP Analytics Cloud
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

If you have your Data and do your operations through SAP, then SAP Analytics Cloud is one of the best tools in the market for data visualization. The in-built authorization model helps you to directly use your SAP roles defined for every user. It's a huge savings in terms of effort and time with this security model. SAP Analytics Cloud planning provides amazing capabilities for planners to predict and forecast Data easily. After working with other visualization tools, I will highly recommend SAP Analytics Cloud as one of the easiest tools both for developers and users.

Pros and Cons

Reporting
Planning
Prediction
Smart insights
R visualization

More advanced charts
Ability to transpose data while importing
Custom adjustments inside charts

Return on Investment

Ease of data sharing
Interactive dashboards
Concurrent license agreement
Security model

Usability

Have used it for 5 years now, and I have seen how SAP is concentrating on this product and platform. A lot of improvements have come over the years, and the strong commitment by SAP makes it even more interesting. I have seen the product as a baby trying to lift its own head and now how it is running in a race. The journey so far has been very fascinating.

Key Differentiators

Product Features
Product Usability
Product Reputation

Having worked in the area of reporting and analytics for the last 11 years, I can clearly say the difference this product has had in the data visualization market. A few strong points, like the ease of use and auto integration with SAP and the live data features, are some of the excellent points that give SAP Analytics Cloud an advantage over other tools.

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Power BI Embedded

Power BI has some unique selling features like bookmarks and DAX functionality. However, a lot of emphasis has to be given to data security and authorization. One has to manually enable row-based authorization or model-based authorization to share a lot of confidential data, which will add some extra effort before publishing your dashboards in Power BI. The same can be achieved in SAP Analytics Cloud without spending even a second.

Key Insights

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

Other Software Used

Microsoft Power BI, Qlik Sense, TIBCO Spotfire

Likelihood to Recommend

If the backend data is SAP, then SAP Analytics Cloud is the best data visualization tool in the market. Easy to integrate with your SAP systems and a good security model. The blending feature will help you link multiple queries at the front end and can be used in dashboards where we have a lot of data models. If you are importing data into the cloud, and if the data Volume is too high, try doing it via batches by restrictions.

SAP Analytics Cloud for data analytics

Overall Satisfaction with SAP Analytics Cloud