SAP Analytics Cloud

Score7.9 out of 10

813 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: 8.5
Publish to PDF
Category average: 8.5
Predictive Analytics
Predictive Analytics is the ability to build forecasting models based on existing data sets.
Category average: 7.8

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
Location analytics is the visualization of geographical or spatial data.
Category average: 8
Responsive Design for Web Access
Web design aimed at producing easy-to-read sites across a range of different devices.
Category average: 7.9
Mobile Application
A dedicated app for iOS and/or Android.
Category average: 7.4

peter reuschlein

SAP Platform Lead in Information Technology at Wuerth IT (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use SAP Analytics Cloud as a frontend to our local bi services. we role out the sac dashboards across departments. the further business cases are data visualisation of nonsap backend systems we do have so this makes it more easy for us to deliver informational Dashboards. we extend our scope time by time to provide better solutions to our customers

Pros

dashboard and story integration with local data
meta framework to build tool sets for our external customers
have a meta model to only store the framework informations and not data

Cons

user management is sometimes a hastle
cors frameworks makes it sometimes hard for administrators to analyse issues
browser based issues with versions are sometimes a hazle

Return on Investment

faster implementation of reports
ability to get a mobile application with live data to management
send our data reports to a large base without another tool

Usability

Patrice Zanoni

BI & SCM domain manager in Information Technology at ArcelorMittal (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SAP Analytics Cloud is mostly used for Planning purposes this year. A community of more than 100 persons are collaborating to build the Budget, MRF and MYP for the marketing department. Close to that, we developed various stories for the service ticket review. Our main source is the BW system where a consolidation of multiple SAP and non SAP systems is taking place.

Pros

Aggregation and de aggregation of information to facilitate the planning
Live connection to SAP models to have real time dashboards
Nice visual presentations

Cons

Simplify the access for resources related to adoption of solution (they exists but maybe to be improved)

Return on Investment

collaborative planning is a must with SAP Analytics Cloud Planning

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Power BI

matias ausina

Senior consultant BA in Finance and Accounting at Deloitte (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I created several SAP Analytics Cloud Review dashboards in my carreer. Many analítics and few planning. Not problems but some performance challenges, sometimes the data ingestion if we are using many sources and specially non sap sources. I work cross departments but focus in finance today. Overall y noticed that in each release there are many new features and improvements

Pros

Data governance
Analítics view (maps, charts, etc)
Drivers, reallocations
Data sharing

Cons

Undo option
Security
Data model complexity

Return on Investment

Data in real time
Scalability
Expensive but worth it

Usability

Alternatives Considered

SAP HANA Cloud, SAP BW/4HANA and SAP Business Warehouse

Other Software Used

Microsoft Power BI, Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, AWS Certificate Manager

Maik Spindeler

Solution Architect in Information Technology at ALK (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We visualize data from SAB BW via SAP Analytics Cloud Review and want to try planning. SAC makes it easy to show the data in a nice visual way and we make our IT strategy scenarios easily comparable. Another use case is supplier data in the procurement area. We use it in headquarter and plan to roll it out in Finance Planning and Forecasting as well.

Pros

Visualize
Data Analyzer for deep dive
show hierarcies

Cons

Speed
Speed
Speed

Return on Investment

Speed
Auto Scale of Fonts
Speed

Usability

Alternatives Considered

SAP Datasphere

Other Software Used

SAP Datasphere, SAP Business Warehouse, Azure Databricks

Kumar Anurag

Senior Security Architect at Pandora (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am working as SAP Security Architect in my organization and using SAP S/4HANA but unfortunately there is no direct reports available for security purposes, hence we have used to SAP Analytics cloud to build the reports for Security areas, Currently we are using many reports on SAC and its helping end users in many ways as technical understanding is normally difficult for business users and SAC is helping us in overcoming those.

Pros

We can create Stories and Dashboard in very quick and easy way
SAC can run on live data, and it helps in real time analysis
Using SAC either we can model data in SAC itself or we can also use data model from other systems

Cons

Better Transport and Change Management so that our changes should be moved from DEV to production environment
Currently their Role management is challenging and confusing either they should move to Team or Role any one
Future Road-map is not clear for many customer after BDC came into picture

Return on Investment

It reduces our ROI by 20% due to its easy to use platform and End user developed their own reports

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Power BI

Other Software Used

Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Excel

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Single Sign-On (SSO)

Publish to PDF

Predictive Analytics

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Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Responsive Design for Web Access

Mobile Application

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