We performed a comparison between Alteryx and SAP Analytics Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Predictive Analytics solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of Alteryx is its performance. It is a powerful solution."
"The most valuable feature for me is integration."
"The most valuable feature is user-friendliness, as Alteryx can be used by those without any coding experience or experienced data scientists as it has the functionality to embed R and Python scripts."
"It helps clean messy data and provides spatial analysis."
"Alteryx has made us more agile and increased the speed and effectiveness of decision making."
"Good data transformation."
"The product's Macros probably are one of the most useful aspects."
"It's super easy to learn how to use it — the learning curve is very small."
"Visualization is quite seamless and awesome. Once the data messaging is set up, it's straightforward and simple to select how it should be displayed. So, that's another advantage of SAP."
"Offers both business intelligence as well as inbuilt AI and machine learning capabilities."
"The new Application Design option offers lots of customization options by being able to script in Typescript (similar to Javascript)."
"Data integration is very good."
"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."
"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."
"Easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of SAP Analytics Cloud is its integration with SAP."
"When a process completes there is a notification, but the notification does not include the process's name."
"The scalability worries me a lot at the moment because the cost of the solution is high and it is not growing considerably. Unfortunately, we started during early COVID times and because of the economic downturn, all the cost cuttings, and everything, it is not growing as expected."
"I think sometimes the solution doesn't load properly or takes so much time for the workflows. Though the workflow runs and completes the file in Excel, if you use the same formula, it's a bit slow. Also, the image processing is not so good because I tried to do some image processing and they were like, sometimes they put two to eight. In the document, it was two, but the OCR predicted it as eight."
"There have been some issues with licensing, particularly with the increased prices. This has led some companies, including ours, to consider reducing the number of licenses or potentially discontinuing their use of Alteryx."
"There are no ready models to use in analytics."
"The technical support could have a little bit of improvement."
"The only weakness I would say is on the visualization side of having that dynamic incapability."
"Alteryx can improve in data science. They have to have more features and components in the data science aspect because they claim to be a data science tool. However, in order to be more competitive, they have to improve on their data science propositions. Thre are other solutions on the market, such as other players in the market, Data2Go or DataIQ, and Alteryx needs to catch up."
"Some algorithms are complex and can't be processed by just tagging the data and expecting results."
"Live Data Models are very slow and the setup can be improved, with tools such as Cloud Connector being inbuilt into SAP Analytics Cloud. Likewise, we need to write application code from scratch, rather than tweaking existing code, as we might with Excel macros. Moreover, when using responsive pages, the widgets get adjusted according to the mobile screen. As a result, when I place two or three KPI tiles, they can only be viewed tile-by-tile. We want to see the full dashboard on the mobile screen and zoom in to click on a particular section of the dashboard and go further into that. But displaying tile-by-tile makes it very annoying and the upper management using this dashboard might not be aware there are any more tiles to view."
"I would like to see reporting to the Analytics cloud directly."
"Technical support could be more helpful and responsive."
"We need to know that we are using the latest and greatest, and SAP appears as if it has lost some credit in the market."
"However, there are areas of improvement, particularly in terms of visualization. The front-end interface of SAP Analytics Cloud is not as impressive as Tableau and Power BI. The charts in other solutions have a more visually appealing and customizable look, while in SAP Analytics Cloud, there's a lack of alignment between numbers and charts. This graphical aspect, especially concerning charts, is not as satisfactory in SAP Analytics Cloud compared to its counterparts."
"SAP Analytics Cloud requires a lot of coding and I would like the coding to be somewhat minimal."
"Connection and integration with other applications have a lot of restrictions at the moment."
Alteryx is ranked 1st in Predictive Analytics with 74 reviews while SAP Analytics Cloud is ranked 2nd in Predictive Analytics with 61 reviews. Alteryx is rated 8.4, while SAP Analytics Cloud is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Alteryx writes "Feature-rich ETL that condenses a number of functions into one tool". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Analytics Cloud writes "Good for reporting but needs to improve its predictive analytics features". Alteryx is most compared with KNIME, Dataiku, Databricks and RapidMiner, whereas SAP Analytics Cloud is most compared with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Tableau, IBM Planning Analytics, Microsoft Power BI and Board. See our Alteryx vs. SAP Analytics Cloud report.
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