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 tools are built-in. You just plug and play, drag and drop, once you understand how to use the tools, it is easy."
"Alteryx has a good UI. We use it frequently in our projects. The tool comes with drag-and-drop features and is easy to understand for business needs. One situation where Alteryx's advanced analytics capabilities were particularly beneficial for us was during a forecasting project. Unlike Python, which requires coding, Alteryx simplifies the process significantly. With Alteryx, users can adjust parameters within the user interface without writing any code."
"Alteryx is a simple and easy-to-use solution."
"All of the data science features in terms of unioning and joining data together are valuable."
"The support is very good."
"The solution offers excellent predicting power. The accuracy and confidence have been great."
"Alteryx's connectivity is essential. We like the ability to connect the solution to multiple sources. It's easier than other data modeling and extraction solutions. It's built on a self-service concept, so it's easy for anyone to open the tool and directly import or export data from it."
"Automation is the most valuable aspect for us. The ability to wrap business logic around the data is very helpful."
"The most valuable feature of the tool is machine learning."
"There is a seamless integration with SAP S4HANA which is really valuable to our organization and its functions. Since the data is stored in the same ecosystem, it creates a simple process of building dashboards, without making the process cumbersome The Analytics Cloud provides standardized templates and storage options, making it easy to plug into existing structures. We're utilizing custom stories that have already been developed, streamlining the development process. It serves as a convenient starting point and contributes to the overall ease of development. Another advantage is that it doesn't provide the same level of calculation power as Power BI and Tableau. SAP Analytics Cloud emphasizes pushing analytics back into the database, recommending data manipulation and preparation outside of the platform. This approach is seen as an advantage, as it allows for more robust data handling."
"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."
"Provides rich features for developing automated reports and dashboards."
"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."
"Offers both business intelligence as well as inbuilt AI and machine learning capabilities."
"The Smart Predict, Smart Insights, and Smart Discovery predictive analysis features are quite good."
"The stories have really been helpful in looking at specific scenarios and analyzing trends over periods of time."
"The solution just lacks in terms of data visualization. That is why we use Tableau and Qlik in our organization. They help to pick up the slack. If data visualization was added, Alteryx would be a very good tool, and much more complete."
"The principal problem is the pricing. They're expensive products."
"The workflow and pipeline need to improve."
"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."
"It would be great to create the final users' visualization within Alteryx."
"The solution is improving continuously. They have, for example, just added automatic insights. If they continue to improve on their overall service offering, that would be ideal."
"The solution can be quite complex in some aspects."
"The event handling, such that the file system watcher, is in need of improvement."
"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."
"Pricing is fine for the BI license, but when it comes to client license, that fee is a bit high."
"SAC, which is the cloud version, lost some good features from the previous planning product, like BPC or BPS."
"SAP has always had one problem with its products, they make them very closed systems that are difficult to integrate."
"I would also like to have more advanced features for predictive analytics."
"There is plenty of room for improvement. They have different products, and you need to integrate all of them to have one functionality. For example, data extraction happens in Datasphere. Then it would be best if you had some connection between the Datasphere and the SAP Analytics Cloud to get the data, as this is causing headaches sometimes. The knowledge base and Jedox also could be more meaningful. I have tried to search for some specific knowledge base and technology base, and I didn't find them. I have learned it by trial and error. There is room to improve the integrations between the different products. The AFS, and the Data action, need improvement. Sometimes they release new tools and updates, but not in my area."
"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."
"SAP Analytics cloud needs better exporting options."
Alteryx is ranked 1st in Predictive Analytics with 74 reviews while SAP Analytics Cloud is ranked 3rd in Predictive Analytics with 60 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, 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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