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 Microsoft Power BI app is very good. It's also very flexible."
"It seems stable. I haven't heard of any difficulties from my clients that utilize Power BI."
"This product has a lot of features and most of them are user-friendly."
"It is a little easier at buildings charts and graphs than Tableau."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The visuals are great and make everything look very professional. We can change the look and feel or manipulate the data according to our requirements. It's extremely flexible."
"There is continual improvement year-over-year."
"The visualization part and its inclusion in a cloud-based application are valuable features."
"SAP Analytics Cloud allows you to quickly perform various tasks in terms of virtualization. CyberArk itself requires some enhancements to better connect with other technologies. While it's easy to connect with SAP, using analytics tools may sometimes necessitate sourcing information from different platforms. You might need data from SAP or other technologies/platforms to access specific information not available within SAP. SAP is effective for managing storage and enhancing virtualization capabilities."
"All of the modules that we used to have separately in our on-premises solution are now integrated into one platform."
"The solution is quite effective for collaborative planning."
"There is a really nice insight feature that I enjoy using."
"It offers good backup capabilities."
"I like the connectivity the solution provides with other products."
"The most useful feature of SAP Analytics Cloud is planning because it helps users with making predictions and forecasts. Clients can forecast, make data allocations, and other actions. The solution is useful for planning."
"I would recommend this solution for companies that are SAP dependent with users working in this environment."
"It should be more user-friendly and simple."
"The only concern I have faced with Microsoft BI is the time it takes to find out an issue and rectify it."
"I would like to see some AI incorporated into this solution in the future."
"Defining a relationship was very confusing. There were circular directions for which I had to do a lot of adjustments in the data. They can do something to make it easier."
"The challenge of this product is in truncating the table data."
"Real-time updating needs improvement."
"The orchestration module for refreshing data flows is something that is missing and we have to do it manually."
"Not having to login again after a mobile app upgrade. A simple login on mobile would be great."
"The scope is limited to a few accounts."
"The budget management could be better."
"Its integration or connectivity with non-SAP systems, big data, and social media, such as YouTube, LinkedIn, et cetera, can be improved. This is where SAP has limited features as compared to other solutions."
"I would also like to have more advanced features for predictive analytics."
"They need more support for more languages, Python for example."
"What should be improved in SAP Analytics Cloud is the speed of importing information and data, e.g. from SAP S/4HANA. Gathering the data from the main database takes a bit of time."
"SAC, which is the cloud version, lost some good features from the previous planning product, like BPC or BPS."
"Statistical analysis should be a bit more profound than it is."
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 60 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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