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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    SAP Analytics Cloud

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/AThe 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.

    $36

    per month per user

    Tableau Desktop

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ATableau Desktop is a data visualization product from Tableau. It connects to a variety of data sources for combining disparate data sources without coding. It provides tools for discovering patterns and insights, data calculations, forecasts, and statistical summaries and visual storytelling.

    $75

    per month

    Pricing
    SAP Analytics CloudTableau Desktop
    Editions & Modules
    SAP Analytics Cloud for Business Intelligence
    $36.00
    per month per user
    SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning
    Price upon request
    per month per user
    Tableau
    $75
    per month per user
    Tableau Enterprise
    $115
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SAP Analytics CloudTableau Desktop
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsA 30-day trial with SAP Analytics Cloud is available, supporting analytics enterprise-wide. A trial can be extended up to 90 days on request.All pricing plans are billed annually.
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    Community Pulse
    SAP Analytics CloudTableau Desktop
    Considered Both Products
    SAP
    Chose SAP Analytics Cloud
    SAC is a full-featured analytics platform, it offers AP, CPM and PA unlike Tableau which doesn’t encompass corporate performance management tools.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Analytics Cloud
    Positives and negatives to both, Tableau is the best visually but not as strong on integration. Power Bi is very customization but is very ungoverned.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Analytics Cloud
    SAP Analytics Cloud is competitive and has huge potential to get to the top. It should also learn from the market leaders in cloud and analytics, be it, AWS, GCP, Azure, Databricks, Tableau, etc., and should incorporate the missing features.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Analytics Cloud
    SAC is a strong solution that offers a high degree of flexibility in its usage. The ability to incorporate excel type based logic and functionality, as well as a myriad of supported models makes SAC a solid choice. Other systems like BI and Tableau have better UI interfaces …
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Analytics Cloud
    SAP Analytics Cloud stacks better with SAP ERP and this has improved its workability and accuracy.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Analytics Cloud
    It was a corporate decision that will serve all hubs in the world to gain scalability. Once a gain, one fits all.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Analytics Cloud
    SAP Analytics Cloud has the largest user base in the manufacturing field because of its service.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Analytics Cloud
    SAC includes predictive analytics features, allowing users to perform advanced analytics and forecast future trends. This can be a valuable asset for organizations seeking predictive modeling capabilities.

    It has an integration with the SAP landscape, seek a unified platform for …
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Analytics Cloud
    More integrated to our landscape SAP based
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Analytics Cloud
    SAP Integration
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Analytics Cloud
    I preferred SAC since it had a lot of tools unlike some alternatives which were missing some capabilities such as CPM on Ms Power BI.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Analytics Cloud
    Easy integration with the ERP
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Analytics Cloud
    Perfect integration with SAP BW, live connectivity
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Analytics Cloud
    SAP Analytics Cloud has better visuals.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Analytics Cloud
    End to end seamless integration with other SAP products in the eco system.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Analytics Cloud
    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, …
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Analytics Cloud
    Since we are IT software Selling organisation we need to review data of the deals that are closed new project coming so we can plan our resources. SAP Analytics helps us to analyse the data and plan our deals and projects. Obviously, there are manual decisions taken post …
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Analytics Cloud
    Firstly the support is much much better than the other platform used by me. The interactive and user-friendliness and also the fact it is a product from one of the leading software companies is a key reason to recommend this tool. The tool, I'm sure will evolve and be …
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Analytics Cloud
    As compared to Lumira and design studio SAC is installation free software which offers multiple features on cloud platform with live and import data conectivity features within one product.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Analytics Cloud
    Similar visualization options, but SAP Analytics Cloud has better integration to SAP backend data.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Analytics Cloud
    SAP Analytics Cloud is the only tool with all of these features: solid visualizations, ability to perform planning, predictive AI/ML, and mobile capability.
    Incentivized
    Tableau
    Chose Tableau Desktop
    Well, Tableau has a nicer UI compared to Spotfire. But the main reason why Tableau stacked against the other was the pricing.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    SAP Analytics CloudTableau Desktop
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of SAP Analytics Cloud and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    SAP Analytics Cloud
    8.0
    247 Ratings
    Tableau Desktop
    8.3
    167 Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports8.0204 Ratings8.8139 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards8.1242 Ratings8.4166 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.9220 Ratings7.8145 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of SAP Analytics Cloud and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    SAP Analytics Cloud
    7.9
    257 Ratings
    Tableau Desktop
    8.7
    164 Ratings
    Drill-down analysis8.1248 Ratings8.6159 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities8.1245 Ratings9.2162 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages7.7190 Ratings7.7122 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration7.8235 Ratings9.2157 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of SAP Analytics Cloud and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    SAP Analytics Cloud
    8.0
    242 Ratings
    Tableau Desktop
    8.1
    158 Ratings
    Publish to Web8.0208 Ratings7.3149 Ratings
    Publish to PDF8.4233 Ratings7.9149 Ratings
    Report Versioning8.1202 Ratings8.2116 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling7.7194 Ratings9.2123 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings8.073 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of SAP Analytics Cloud and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    SAP Analytics Cloud
    8.0
    250 Ratings
    Tableau Desktop
    8.4
    156 Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.7239 Ratings9.0154 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.7232 Ratings8.2149 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics8.3236 Ratings8.6126 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining8.234 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of SAP Analytics Cloud and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    SAP Analytics Cloud
    8.1
    256 Ratings
    Tableau Desktop
    8.7
    142 Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)8.1235 Ratings9.0139 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model8.1242 Ratings8.0119 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)7.8233 Ratings8.8129 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control8.245 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)8.5236 Ratings8.877 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of SAP Analytics Cloud and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    SAP Analytics Cloud
    7.9
    219 Ratings
    Tableau Desktop
    8.0
    135 Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access7.7208 Ratings8.2124 Ratings
    Mobile Application7.5180 Ratings7.097 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile8.0203 Ratings8.8117 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of SAP Analytics Cloud and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    SAP Analytics Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Tableau Desktop
    9.0
    64 Ratings
    REST API00 Ratings9.256 Ratings
    Javascript API00 Ratings9.051 Ratings
    iFrames00 Ratings9.249 Ratings
    Java API00 Ratings10.046 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings8.453 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings8.446 Ratings
    User Ratings
    SAP Analytics CloudTableau Desktop
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (297 ratings)
    8.7
    (194 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.8
    (7 ratings)
    8.9
    (39 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (219 ratings)
    8.6
    (63 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (10 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.1
    (9 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.6
    (75 ratings)
    7.0
    (56 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.4
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    2.0
    (6 ratings)
    8.0
    (34 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.1
    (2 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.0
    (61 ratings)
    8.4
    (115 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.1
    (61 ratings)
    7.9
    (115 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)