SAP Analytics Cloud

Score8.1 out of 10

994 Reviews and Ratings

What is SAP Analytics Cloud?

The SAP Analytics Cloud solution brings together analytics and planning with integration to SAP applications and access to heterogenous data sources. As the analytics and planning solution within SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP Analytics Cloud supports trusted insights and integrated planning processes enterprise-wide to help make decisions without doubt.

Categories & Use Cases

Single Sign-On (SSO)
Allows users to use one set of login credentials to access multiple applications
Category average: 8.7
Multi-User Support (named login)
Named model access means that users have access based on name and password.
Category average: 8.3
Report sharing and collaboration
Report sharing and collaboration is the ability to easily share reports with others.
Category average: 8.1

Mobile Application
A dedicated app for iOS and/or Android.
Category average: 7.2
Delivery to Remote Servers
Ability to deliver reports to remote servers
Category average: 7.9
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
A customizable, open source API Gateway is a fast and scalable type of API
Category average: 8

#1 most frequent

Manufacturing

30.6%

857 installations of 2,801

“SAP Analytics Cloud helps slice and dice data in graphical way to our customers to take key business decisions.”
— Manager IT, Thermo Fisher Scientific (10,001+ employees)

#2 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

17.0%

477 installations of 2,801

“In our organization, we use SAP Analytics Cloud To build dashboards and excel based reports”
— BI Lead, IPG (10,001+ employees)

#3 most frequent

Information

5.6%

157 installations of 2,801

“We use SAC for Dashboards & Planning.<br>SAC helped us to cut down our monthly Outlook process by 50%.”
— Specialist, BT (10,001+ employees)

Natalio Pluzzer

AI Financial Solution architect in Finance and Accounting at Allianz SE (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use SAC for financial planning and consolidation. The product does not address well tracing capabilities to track calculations problems which are highly important and does not allow users to get information on how values are calculated. Also the platform does note yet allow to build AI-driven financial planning workflows.

Pros

Reporting capabilities
Calculations enhancements are up to standards
Ease for building quick frontend stories

Cons

Integration with other platforms
AI driven workflows for building complete financial planning solutions
Some features included in SAP BPC are not even here yet
Decision to detach from excel files seemed to be an error

Return on Investment

We built our financial solution based on this platform and we could replace our outdate platform with SAC

Usability

Peter Chen View profile

Director of Enterprise Architecture in Information Technology at Stericycle (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

Browser-based technology, no client setup needed.
Great story and data modeling capability.
Ease of setup and great UI through Digital Boardroom.

Cons

Feature parity with more mature BI products like WEBI.
Performance issues from time to time.
Scripting capabilities in the planning area.

Other Software Used

Tableau Desktop, Qlik Sense

Ömer Çetin

Maintenance Planning and Outsourcing Manager in Engineering at SOCAR TURKIYE (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I work in the Asset Maintenance Department, and we use to show our KPIs for Maintenance activities.

Pros

Online KPI shown from SAP ECC.

Cons

Non-user-friendly.
The visuals are not impressive.
As a business Unit, we can not set up KPI visualization ourselves, and we need the IT department.
It could be integrated wit AI and provide assistance with global KPI examples.

Return on Investment

None

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Excel

Other Software Used

Microsoft Excel

john wachira

Group IT Mgr in Information Technology at safalgroup (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use SAC for business Dashboards and business-end-of-month financial reports. The product has helped the executive team make decisions more quickly, and we plan to expand its capabilities by using AI and natural language processing.

Pros

Development of the dashboard.
Publishing of reports.
Auto schedules.

Cons

Easier interface for end user currently this has proved difficult.
The product is many time having outages.

Return on Investment

Better insights.
Faster decision-making.

Usability

Samarpan Jena

Senior Manager in Customer Service at KPMG (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Provides agility to build planning and forecasting solutions at pace. Love the interface, love the upgrades. It is still one of my favorites for modelling

Pros

Planning models

Cons

Logic scripting or AI enablement to do calculation logic scripting

Return on Investment

Helped digitise planning

Usability

Anaplan Predictive Insights (Mintigo) (discontinued - merged with Anaplan)

Microsoft Power BI

Qlik Analytics Platform (QAP), on Qlik Sense

SAP Analytics Cloud

What is SAP Analytics Cloud?

Categories & Use Cases

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Top Performing Features

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Multi-User Support (named login)

Report sharing and collaboration

Areas for Improvement

Mobile Application

Delivery to Remote Servers

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

Most Frequent Users

Manufacturing

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

Information

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