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Analytics Cloud in SAP Business Data Cloud

bySAP
in
4.3
Market Presence: Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms, Financial Planning Software

Overview

Product Information on Analytics Cloud in SAP Business Data Cloud

Updated 19th December 2023

What is Analytics Cloud in SAP Business Data Cloud?

The SAP Analytics Cloud solution let data and analytics leaders and practitioners in organizations running enterprise applications from SAP unlock the potential of all their investments in mission-critical business applications and valuable data sources. It brings together analytics, business intelligence (BI), and planning augmented with the power of artificial intelligence (AI), data science (DS), and machine learning (ML). It connects live at the point of decision and action without moving data from their SAP enterprise applications to keep the complete business context. The built-in planning engine enables them to go beyond simple visualizations, they can run simulations and forecasts, and collaborate for decision-making. Over 300 packages of industry best practices for AI-infused analytics and BI enable them to de-risk their projects and accelerate business outcomes.

Analytics Cloud in SAP Business Data Cloud Pricing

The SAP Analytics Cloud solution is available as software as a service (SaaS) in the public from the cloud provider of your choice on a user subscription basis. Flexible subscription options are available for business intelligence and augmented analytics only or combined with enterprise planning to meet all your organization’s needs.

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Overall experience with Analytics Cloud in SAP Business Data Cloud

Technology Specialist - SAP Analytics Cl
10B - 30B USD, Banking
FAVORABLE

“Powerful analytics platform with strong live connectivity capabilities, but inconsistent feature delivery, limited transparency in patching and costly migration gaps”

4.0
Dec 12, 2025
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
Business Intelligence Manager
<50M USD, Consumer Goods
CRITICAL

“SAP Analytics Cloud Prioritizes SAP Data Integration Over Other Data Sources”

3.0
Jul 23, 2025
Basically this product can visualize data in the same way that competitive products can. The main difference is that SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) is built to use (live) data from SAP and not really from other sources. This means that all data that is not directly fed from SAP should either be directed to SAP or put into SAC manually. A way around this is the use of a data platform, but that eliminates the one thing SAC does well, which is connecting to SAP. Another disadvantage is that there is fewer users and therefore fewer information to be gathered from forums than would be the case with other visualization products.

About Company

Company Description

Updated 13th August 2025

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.

Company Details

Updated 13th August 2025
Company type
Public
Year Founded
1972
Head office location
Walldorf, Germany
Number of employees
10001+
Annual Revenue
30B+ USD
Website
http://www.sap.com

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Analytics Cloud in SAP Business Data Cloud Likes & Dislikes

Like

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.

Like

I like the ease of use, the analytics part (how much are dashboards actually used?), and the way it allows for sending out reports via e-mail.

Like

The seamless integration with our existing SAP data sources is a huge advantage, as it gives us trusted, live data without complex connections. We also really value how it combines analytics and planning in a single platform, which has significantly streamlined our budgeting and forecasting cycles.

Dislike

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.)

Dislike

The star shaped data model as opposed to the spider's web data model of other products, the difficulty of finding solutions to practical issues, and the new layout of the builder and styling panels without colors that stand out.

Dislike

We would love to see even better performance and saclability which dealing with our very largest datasets

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Analytics Cloud in SAP Business Data Cloud Reviews and Ratings

Showing data for 317 ratings and reviews for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms market. View all 576 ratings and reviews across markets for a complete picture.

4.3

(317 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
38%
4 Star
48%
3 Star
12%
2 Star
1%
1 Star
1%
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Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.3

Integration & Deployment

4.3

Service & Support

4.2

Product Capabilities

4.3

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  • Technology Specialist - SAP Analytics Cl
    10B+ USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Powerful analytics platform with strong live connectivity capabilities, but inconsistent feature delivery, limited transparency in patching and costly migration gaps

    4.0
    Dec 12, 2025
    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
  • IT Associate
    10B+ USD
    Healthcare and Biotech
    Review Source

    A powerful and integrated Analytics platform that unlocks real value, especially for SAP-centric environments.

    5.0
    Nov 6, 2025
    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 MANAGER
    10B+ USD
    Miscellaneous
    Review Source

    Predictive Analysis and Integration Improve Data Insights With SAP Analytics Cloud

    5.0
    Oct 31, 2025
    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
  • LEAD ENGINEER
    1B-10B USD
    Manufacturing
    Review Source

    Business Data Cloud Offers Intuitive SAP Experience easy to adopt all SAP systems

    5.0
    Oct 13, 2025
    We have migrated Sap Analytics Cloud and Datasphere to Business Data Cloud. It is institutive experience, over all very satisfied with the product.
  • DATA AND ANALYTICS MANAGER
    50M-1B USD
    Manufacturing
    Review Source

    Comprehensive SaaS Solution with Built-in AI and Predictive Models Offered

    5.0
    Oct 23, 2025
    SAP has helped us with the sizing of this product to our organization's preference. The pricing is straight forward and affordable compared to other competitors especially when your data is in SAP ERP
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