SAP Analytics Cloud review
Updated December 09, 2025

SAP Analytics Cloud review

Srikantha Kalkura | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SAP Analytics Cloud

SAP Analytics Cloud helps slice and dice data in graphical way to our customers to take key business decisions. It helps our business users to understand the complex and huge volume of data in a better graphical format so that they can understand and take actions on the same. It helps our business to check top performers, slice and dice data based various characteristics so that business users can narrow down further to take key business decisions. Main use case that we are solving here is showing the data based on different characteristics and narrow down data based on particular filter at any bar chart or pie chart.

Pros

  • Graphical representation of data
  • Slicing and dicing the data based on different characteristics
  • Arrange complex and huge volume of data in a graphical way to analyze better
  • Narrow down data based on specific filters

Cons

  • Better report drill down to detailed view and download into excel feature needs improvement
  • Competitive licence cost
  • Better AI features
  • High licensing cost when compared to other visualization tool
  • Great tool for detailed visualization with better end user friendly features
  • Tight integration with backend d SAP systems which makes more reliable tool
Easy to login using SSO, Easy to navigate and self-service tool
Integrated business Planning

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

Tight integration with backend SAP systems, better visualization features loaded with AI features

SAP Analytics Cloud Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
7.0
Pixel Perfect reports
Not Rated
Customizable dashboards
8
Report Formatting Templates
6
6.0
Drill-down analysis
6
Formatting capabilities
6
Integration with R or other statistical packages
Not Rated
Report sharing and collaboration
6
8.0
Publish to Web
8
Publish to PDF
Not Rated
Report Versioning
Not Rated
Report Delivery Scheduling
Not Rated
Delivery to Remote Servers
Not Rated
7.5
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
8
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
7
Predictive Analytics
Not Rated
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
Not Rated
7.0
Multi-User Support (named login)
7
Role-Based Security Model
7
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
7
Report-Level Access Control
6
Single Sign-On (SSO)
8
Not Rated
Responsive Design for Web Access
Not Rated
Mobile Application
Not Rated
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Not Rated
Not Rated
REST API
Not Rated
Javascript API
Not Rated
iFrames
Not Rated
Java API
Not Rated
Themeable User Interface (UI)
Not Rated
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
Not Rated

Using SAP Analytics Cloud

21 - The key business users who uses SAP Analytics Cloud ( SAC) are from Pharmaceutical division who generally runs couple of Dashboards from Sales & Distribution, Material Management including Inventory trending dashboards to take their key business decisions. They will refresh teh dashboards on adhoc basis and drill down to see the graphs and charts data. They are using the tool on Self service basis.
2 - SAC Developer
SAC Admin
  • Inventory Trending Dashboard
  • Sales 360 analysis
  • Bookings reporting analysis
  • Use of RRI
  • Level based hierarchy
  • Planning features
  • Smart Predict
  • Robust data integration
  • Collaboration tools
We have excited with Planning features

Evaluating SAP Analytics Cloud and Competitors

  • Cloud Solutions
  • Scalability
  • Ease of Use
Planning features and Joule integration with SAC which will helps both developers and also business users
Planning features and Joule integration with SAC which will helps both developers and also business users

SAP Analytics Cloud Implementation

Not involved
  • Implemented in-house
Change management was minimal
  • data quality and integration
  • performance optimization
  • governance and scope management
  • user adoption and change management

SAP Analytics Cloud Support

We have raised few SAP tickets and received good feedback from SAP
ProsCons
Quick Resolution
Knowledgeable team
Kept well informed
Immediate help available
Support cares about my success
Poor followup
Problems left unsolved
Escalation required
Need to explain problems multiple times
Slow Initial Response
Yes
During Jan 2025

Using SAP Analytics Cloud

ProsCons
Like to use
Easy to use
Well integrated
Quick to learn
Feel confident using
Unnecessarily complex
Requires technical support
Inconsistent
Cumbersome
Lots to learn
  • Data Visualization and Dashboarding
  • Self-Service Business Intelligence
  • Real-Time Collaboration
  • real-time data integration
  • real-time data integration
  • deep legacy system connections
Yes - We havent used yet

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