We performed a comparison between SAP Analytics Cloud and XLCubed based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two BI (Business Intelligence) Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The reporting, dashboards, KPIs, and visualization are the most valuable."
"I have found that the feature to drag and drop widgets based on the data source, and import them into stories to be valuable. This way it helps the end user to create stories themselves."
"I like the connectivity the solution provides with other products."
"The tool's most valuable features are the BI and planning functionalities. I value being able to integrate smart planning with BI for analysis. The solution is user-friendly."
"The solution is quite effective for collaborative planning."
"SAP Analytics Cloud is easy to create charts with, and is a stable business intelligence platform. Easy to set up solution."
"I would recommend this solution for companies that are SAP dependent with users working in this environment."
"The features that are most valuable in SAP Analytics Cloud are the planning feature and the predictive analytics feature, though the planning feature needs to be more efficient."
"I am looking forward to testing their full graphics that are available, as they looked very interesting in the demo."
"Great capability, performance, flexibility, visuals, and the solution is also very cost effective."
"In the live connection model, we can't create calculated dimensions, however, in the import model we can create them."
"One potential improvement is how we can transpose data. With SAP, if you have data from one system with a declared data type and a different system with another data type, the transfer is tricky."
"The solution should include other scripting languages as well, such as Python."
"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."
"Could have more tabular reporting capabilities."
"One area for improvement in SAP Analytics Cloud is incorporating Python into the coding. That functionality is available, but it's not as efficient, and it's a bit difficult sometimes to do it, so that could be improved."
"Some of the standard visualizations, such as a speedometer or a goal chart, are not there and should be added."
"They need a better scalability rate."
"Would like the ability to be able to benchmark."
"There should be a better or an easier way to establish that connection to external sources."
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SAP Analytics Cloud is ranked 5th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 61 reviews while XLCubed is ranked 26th in Reporting. SAP Analytics Cloud is rated 8.0, while XLCubed is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of SAP Analytics Cloud writes "Good for reporting but needs to improve its predictive analytics features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of XLCubed writes "Cost effective with great capability, performance, flexibility and visuals". SAP Analytics Cloud is most compared with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Tableau, IBM Planning Analytics, Microsoft Power BI and Anaplan, whereas XLCubed is most compared with Microsoft Power BI and Tableau. See our SAP Analytics Cloud vs. XLCubed report.
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