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.
"I have found the most valuable feature of this solution is the Natural Language tool."
"I like how the Query Editor lets me manipulate the data, and the available visuals are good. You can do everything using the UI."
"Easy to use and the visualization is valuable."
"The solution has a good toggling feature."
"The most valuable feature of Power BI is its ability to provide customized visualizations and insights tailored to specific business needs."
"The DAX coding language is good for creating formulae."
"The product can go easily go and extract data and it can put it into any format."
"It is more user-friendly compared to SSRS."
"The most valuable feature of SAP Analytics Cloud is its integration with SAP."
"The reporting, dashboards, KPIs, and visualization are the most valuable."
"I like the predictive features of SAP. It's easy to use tools for an end-user."
"Technical support is helpful."
"Provides rich features for developing automated reports and dashboards."
"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."
"It is scalable."
"One feature I've found most valuable is discovery."
"When it comes to improvement, I would say there could be more tutorials for students in universities who are just learning it. And it wouldn't have to be just for students in universities. It might also be for the people who use it in the real world."
"Power BI's administration could use some work, and the user experience needs to improve because it is a client-based tool. If you want to generate a model or report, you need to use client tools, but client tools are limited for end-users who don't have enough hardware. For example, maybe a client lacks enough memory or CPU power for report generators. If you use a model that requires a massive amount of data, your client will face several problems."
"It has limited performance capabilities in terms of connecting to large transactional databases, but it is fine for simple and quick queries from Excel spreadsheets or one table. The premium level is going to be more applicable for the higher transaction-level databases."
"It needs a wizard that covers all its options."
"I would like to see some AI incorporated into this solution in the future."
"The solution could improve the mobile application design. It is difficult to use compared to the desktop version."
"Areas of Power BI that could be improved are the learning curve for developers who come from non-technical backgrounds."
"Drill-down in dashboards needs to improved. The capability only works in Power BI Desktop today. We need to have an alternative approach today."
"Custom visuals is another area of improvement. There are also some mobile features that are missing. There are features that aren't available on the mobile."
"When it comes to planning there is a concern about the ability to match the exact requirements of the customer with what the product offers."
"SAC, which is the cloud version, lost some good features from the previous planning product, like BPC or BPS."
"The connection works only for importing data. Currently, there is no real-time integration between SAP Analytics Cloud and CRM. There are some features present in the classic but not in the optimized version. If I need to create something specific, I often have to switch the versions. It would be more convenient to have a single product that incorporates all the necessary features."
"Connection and integration with other applications have a lot of restrictions at the moment."
"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."
"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."
"An area for improvement in SAP Analytics Cloud is its planning feature because it's not that efficient when compared to BPC. Another area for improvement in the solution is the difficulty in building reports or dashboards, particularly if you don't have proper knowledge of the BI system. SAP Analytics Cloud technical support also needs improvement."
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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