Item: SAP Analytics Cloud
Rating: 9
Author: Pawan Rajani

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

For data modeling and preparation, data wrangling, etc. can be done quickly without any external tools or software. For data visualization, analytics, dashboards, and mainly for simulation to better visualize the decision effects or changed things effects on sales or production. For better predictive planning to keep agile and accurate forecasting to meet demand and scenario planning.

Pros and Cons

What-if Simulation for effects analysis after some changes
Rapid setup and results by managing proper KPI's models and data flows
Flexible in designs for planning and analytics solutions

For its implementation, you need some IT support for better understanding.
Visualization can be more effective.

Return on Investment

Better forecasting gives you demand-oriented plans that mean less inventory more cash and direct benefit to company profits.
Optimization of inventories, raw materials, and finished goods for proper management.
Great ROI as per using from past years and its profitable deal that makes it better.

Usability

Overall, usability is good as discussed. All the features, like data exploration, visualization, simulation, predictive planning, collaboration, and scenario planning, are great. Its flexible design and business-centric solutions give more benefits to the company. A simplified starting point for your individual scenarios providing high application developer productivity. Its rapid setup and results make this software more reliable and usable for future purposes.

Key Differentiators

Product Features
Product Usability
Prior Experience with the Product

Its product features have a very high impact on the company's term, like easy presentation, visualization, and Dashboards for management, and getting hands-on with each and every minute of data. This gives you confidence for better use of your valuable data and its effect on decisions. We have great previous experiences with this application and other versions, as its usability is impactful and reliable.

Alternatives Considered

Tableau Desktop

It's very advanced as compared to any other software and its usability is effective with its data usage power to give effective results from that data as well as profitable from the company's perspective, and you can do work in clicks, which are mainly for data inputs, validation, analysis, and output.

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

Tableau Desktop, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Excel

Likelihood to Recommend

Our consumer goods industry is too volatile so you need perfect forecasting data for better sales and less inventory, also for visualization purposes for presenting sales data, BPR, and trends. For analytics and to get better data understanding to get important things out of that data so that will be used for business expansions. Simulation to get some idea if things will change and what effect it will create on your processes.

SAP Analytics Cloud: Robust Designed Application

Overall Satisfaction with SAP Analytics Cloud