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."It allows for manipulation and automation, which has greatly reduced the amount of time required per project."
"The most valuable feature of Alteryx is its stand-alone version that we do not have to download dependencies for loads. Additionally, the scan is useful for beginners."
"The filtering is fast, and it provides a search tool that is great."
"The cloud deployment ensures it scales easily."
"My primary focus is creating numerous data pulls, and Alteryx Server handles the automation well."
"I believe that the ability to leverage the gallery for scalability, as well as the general data blending functionality, is most beneficial to our core-based users."
"This is a drag-and-drop tool which is easy-to-use and yet can be customized by creating your own components."
"The initial setup is easy."
"There is a really nice insight feature that I enjoy using."
"The most valuable feature of SAP Analytics Cloud is its integration with SAP."
"One feature I've found most valuable is discovery."
"The features that I have found most valuable with SAP ERP products are their good user interface, stability, functionality, and good interface options."
"We mainly use Analytics Cloud because it integrates with other SAP solutions. Our ERP is an SAP product, and our back-end is SAP Business Warehouse, so integration is an essential factor."
"SAP Analytics Cloud is a very good tool. The feature that's most useful for me is the reporting as it can be done via Google Chrome. The solution is also very nice, user-friendly, and easy to build. It's very easy to use the features of SAP Analytics Cloud."
"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."
"What my customers like best about SAP Analytics Cloud is the dashboard because it's pretty good."
"The principal problem is the pricing. They're expensive products."
"They can provide some pre-built tools for predictive analytics instead of us having to build all the tools. It should also be improved from the visualization aspect. It should have better visualization capabilities. There are tools out there that have better visualization capabilities, which Alteryx is lacking currently."
"They should make the solution user-friendly for nontechnical people by giving specific names to the options."
"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."
"I honestly can't think of anything that needs to be improved."
"It's a technical product and those that don't have proper training will have to deal with a steep learning curve."
"It is a little bit pricey."
"The data integration component could most likely be improved to increase enterprise scalability."
"Some of the standard visualizations, such as a speedometer or a goal chart, are not there and should be added."
"Could have more tabular reporting capabilities."
"SAP could add more templates to the platform."
"There should be more features for the time series charts."
"Pricing is fine for the BI license, but when it comes to client license, that fee is a bit high."
"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."
"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."
"They need a better scalability rate."
Alteryx is ranked 1st in Predictive Analytics with 74 reviews while SAP Analytics Cloud is ranked 3rd in Predictive Analytics with 58 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, Databricks, Dataiku Data Science Studio, RapidMiner and Amazon QuickSight, whereas SAP Analytics Cloud is most compared with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Tableau, IBM Planning Analytics, Microsoft Power BI and MicroStrategy. See our Alteryx vs. SAP Analytics Cloud report.
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