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“Powerful analytics platform with strong live connectivity capabilities, but inconsistent feature delivery, limited transparency in patching and costly migration gaps”
“SAP Analytics Cloud Offers Strong SAP Connections But Administration Remains Challenging”
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SAP was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Walldorf, Germany. The company employs over 105,000 people globally and develops software solutions for enterprise resource planning (ERP) and related business functions. SAP’s early products, SAP R/2 and SAP R/3, were widely adopted for managing core business processes. Its current ERP platform, SAP S/4HANA, uses in-memory computing to support data-intensive operations and integrates capabilities such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. SAP offers a portfolio of software applications that support various business functions across industries. These applications are designed to operate on a unified digital platform. As of 2025, SAP reports over 230 million cloud users and provides more than 100 solutions. The company’s offerings are used by organizations to manage finance, human resources, procurement, supply chain, and other operational areas.
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Strong improvements in live data processing and performance optimization in recent releases. The strategic direction towards Datasphere integration and unified semantic modeling. Good alignment with SAP's broader ecosystem and security model.
Connection to SAP data sources is very strong and generally easy to set up. Data modelling capabilities are robust enough to handle many common use cases. Report design can easily be enhanced with isolated scripting, a feature not offered in most other visualisation tools.
I really like the performance - if you setup the models behind the stories in a proper way you won't have issues with the stories after that. Also I appreciate the fact that creating measures or accounts is super easy with SAC (not the case with some other tools).
Inconsistent feature delivery & decommissioning. Lack of Patch visibility and communication. Migration Gap: BW Live to Datasphere (especially the lack of a built-in method to replace BW live data models with Datasphere models. Missing capabilities (Initial view concept, control over processing groups, multiple startup events: on variable initialization/On Startup/On background processing/On before prompt submit, etc.)
Complex modelling and analytical cases are not easy to achieve; joining of multiple data sets, especially non-SAP data will generally require jumping into another tool. Role and access management and data access controls are shockingly poor, requiring a high degree of manual effort and often unclear / unexplained options. File and access management feels like old-school Windows file access, breaks easily, and has no overview of who has access to what / which users have access to a given object or folder. Administration is very challenging, with changing paradigms offering incomplete experiences that lack in practical use cases or end-to-end usability. Product feels like it is still in early stages of active development.
I understand that SAC is for more overall view but a lot of users would like to get to a detailed view and here comes a lot of limitations - you can save 1m records in a dimension, you can load only 800k records at once in a model and etc.
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- BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ARCHITECT50M-1B USDManufacturingReview Source
SAP Analytics Cloud Offers Strong SAP Connections But Administration Remains Challenging
SAP Analytics Cloud is a browser-based data tool with a focus on visualisation and planning. Data modelling capabilities are limited and overlap with other tools. Report creation functionality is in continual development and the user and consumption experience keeps changing -- generally for the better, but it does not feel like a stable, reliable product, and build time is not always very fast. The solution requires the presentation of data in reports for analysis rather than supplying direct analytical capabilities, making it a strong but limited tool that is difficult to use in isolation. - Technology Specialist - SAP Analytics Cl10B+ USDBankingReview Source
Powerful analytics platform with strong live connectivity capabilities, but inconsistent feature delivery, limited transparency in patching and costly migration gaps
Overall, I am satisfied with the product as a strategic analytics platform. The solution continues to improve, especially around live data handling. However, the product development lifecycle often feels inconsistent: features are introduced without full coverage, later reworked, and sometimes partially or fully deprecated. This results in avoidable rework, uncertainty and additional testing efforts for teams who rely on SAC in a business-critical environment - SAP Analytic Cloud Specialist50M-1B USDBankingReview Source
SAP Analytics Cloud Offers Easy Dashboards But Faces Data Volume Limitations
I am happily using SAP Analytics Cloud already for 5 years. What I like about the tool is that you can easily make charts and dashboards and take informed decisions afterwards. What I don't like too much is that some features which don't look too complex are not available - like adding more than one line in a table or deleting multiple comments. - IT Associate10B+ USDHealthcare and BiotechReview Source
A powerful and integrated Analytics platform that unlocks real value, especially for SAP-centric environments.
Our experience has been largely positive. SAC has become our go-to for interactive dashboards and has really improved our planning cycles. Being able to connect directly to our live SAP data has saved us a ton of time and made the reports much more reliable. - SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT MANAGER10B+ USDMiscellaneousReview Source
Predictive Analysis and Integration Improve Data Insights With SAP Analytics Cloud
The overall experience with Analytics Cloud from SAP. We are an agri organization and Data is key that is split across multiple warehouses and processes within and outside SAP. This tool was able to bring intelligence from multiple sources together