We performed a comparison between Microsoft BI and SAP Analytics Cloud based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Microsoft BI is the winner in this comparison. Its users give it higher marks in the customer support category. SAP Analytics users are happier with the pricing, however.
"The initial setup is simple to do."
"I like Microsoft BI's drill-down feature and its overall ease of use."
"The product is intuitive and user-friendly."
"We like the drag and drop interactability visualization. We really like that. It's user-friendly."
"I have found the most valuable feature of this solution is the Natural Language tool."
"It's quite flexible, and it's easy to create reports using this system. It is very graphic and very user friendly."
"In my experience the scalability is good. You are able to increase users and add more data."
"The solution is easy to use and flexible."
"One of the most outstanding features is being able to use the dashboard with a touch screen."
"Technical support is helpful."
"The SKU, the story build all are user- friendly. For the story build one just has to drag and drop it. And for the table, you just need some sort of selections and everything there."
"SAP Analytics Cloud is easy to create charts with, and is a stable business intelligence platform. Easy to set up solution."
"Offers both business intelligence as well as inbuilt AI and machine learning capabilities."
"The features that I have found most valuable with SAP ERP products are their good user interface, stability, functionality, and good interface options."
"Planning is the most valuable feature of the product because it's integrated and that means we don't need to rely on an independent planning environment."
"Planning and integration are the most valuable features. It is useful for planning, and it is useful for integrating with on-prem or cloud SAP solutions."
"If you look at the new tool, even though they promised that you could do data modeling, that you could do everything from the Power BI side, if your data is really large in volume, sometimes it doesn't work on the Power BI. More feature testing from their side would certainly help users."
"I would like to see integration with Excel."
"It's not user-friendly; more tutorials, training, and better documentation would be helpful."
"The solution doesn't integrate well with third-party tools."
"Real-time refreshing for SAP BW would be nice. We know its on the radar for the development team at MS. "
"The one thing that I noticed specifically was the graphical features, and some of the analytical features. They were stronger on the Tableau side."
"It would be better if they had some video tutorials. Most people from an Excel background may struggle with measures in Microsoft BI."
"There are certain features that are only available in the cloud version. It would be beneficial if they could be brought down to the on-premise version without the necessity of using the enterprise SQL database, as that can be very costly. We need more cost-effective features that are available in the cloud to be accessible on-premise."
"SAC, which is the cloud version, lost some good features from the previous planning product, like BPC or BPS."
"The customizations need to be better."
"Improvements are coming quarterly whereas previously it was on a monthly basis."
"They need more support for more languages, Python for example."
"Currently only one data modeler can work at a time."
"I am not happy with the predictive analytics features and smart features offered by the product, making them areas where improvements are required."
"Technical support could be more helpful and responsive."
"The general management of this solution could be improved. The graphics or icons could also be improved to allow them to integrate with other environments on the web."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews while SAP Analytics Cloud is ranked 5th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 58 reviews. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while SAP Analytics Cloud is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Power BI writes "A complete ecosystem with an builtin ETL tool, good integrations with python and R, and support of DAX and Power Query (M languages)". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Analytics Cloud writes "Good for reporting but needs to improve its predictive analytics features". Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle Essbase, whereas SAP Analytics Cloud is most compared with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Tableau, IBM Planning Analytics, Anaplan and IBM Cognos. See our Microsoft Power BI vs. SAP Analytics Cloud report.
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