Board and SAP Analytics Cloud are competitive products in the business intelligence and analytics space. SAP Analytics Cloud appears to hold an edge due to its advanced predictive capabilities and comprehensive feature set.
Features: Board offers strong planning and budgeting capabilities, an integrated environment for multidimensional analyses, and versatility for creating custom processes. SAP Analytics Cloud provides advanced predictive analytics, seamless data integration, and an intuitive user interface with robust visualization tools.
Room for Improvement: Board could improve its data integration capabilities, enhance mobile accessibility, and expand its predictive analytics features. SAP Analytics Cloud might benefit from simplified initial setup processes, increased customization options, and enhanced offline support for its mobile application.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Board is known for its quicker deployment due to its flexible on-premise and cloud options, alongside reliable support. SAP Analytics Cloud operates predominantly in the cloud, allowing seamless updates, though it may require a more complex initial setup. SAP offers thorough customer service.
Pricing and ROI: Board is generally more economical, providing quick ROI due to lower initial costs. SAP Analytics Cloud entails a higher upfront investment, aligning with its extensive features, yet users report a satisfactory ROI.
It's hard for me to gauge the monetary benefits, but the time saved in budgeting and forecasting processes indicates a definite bonus.
As long as I go through my account manager, I receive very good support.
A lot of tools for me as a consultant and for the end user on how to contact SAP support and get issues solved.
I am satisfied with SAP's technical support team; they provide very good support.
We are satisfied with the technical support from SAP because when we reached out, we were able to get very good support from SAP colleagues.
SAP Analytics Cloud can be used by a small company, and it can be used by a large corporate.
I would rate its scalability up to nine on a scale of one to ten.
Board's stability is excellent, with uptime around ninety-nine point nine percent, and I have not experienced any issues.
You have a chance to test it on your test tenant in small increments, so it should not break your productive reports and productive environment.
If the design isn't right, the flexibility of Board can negatively impact performance.
On the other hand, it is perfectly fitting to the SAP environment, with seamless integration to all SAP modules, not only ERP but also SuccessFactors and other tools from the SAP family.
Documentation-wise, we see some gaps when trying to connect different solutions.
Our budgeting and forecasting processes support around three hundred twenty users who would otherwise rely on Excel, making Board invaluable for saving time.
This functionality is very useful, as once connectivity is done, it allows users to easily populate data and generate reports from the system out-of-the-box.
The capabilities of SAP Analytics Cloud that I consider the most valuable are that all three functionalities are in one tool, and because they are, you don't have to buy another tool to make planning.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| SAP Analytics Cloud | 2.2% |
| Board | 1.0% |
| Other | 96.8% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 13 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 12 |
| Large Enterprise | 8 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 24 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 13 |
| Large Enterprise | 39 |
BOARD International - headquartered in Switzerland - is a leading global provider of software for improving business results through better decision making. By unifying Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management into a single product, BOARD enables companies to achieve a shared vision of their performance across the entire organization, and thus a single version of the truth.
BOARD provides seamless solutions for • Reporting & Analysis • Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting • Profitability Modelling & Optimization • Simulation & What-if-Analysis • Scorecarding & Strategy Management • Financial Consolidation. Based on visual modelling, BOARD has enabled global companies to deploy BI and CPM applications without a single line of code in a fraction of the time and cost associated with traditional solutions.
SAP Analytics Cloud is an all-in-one Software-as-a-Service business intelligence tool that provides the key functionalities of an analytics tool to SAP business users. This tool is built on HANA Business Intelligence (BI) platform, providing analytics from data collected from multiple sources, such as ERP, Microsoft SQL, and Salesforce, among other solutions.
You can use SAP Analytics Cloud to compile data and perform ad-hoc reporting and analysis for predictive planning. SAP Analytics Cloud collects and analyzes the raw data from transactional systems into intelligent insights that allow you to make better decisions.
SAP Analytics Cloud uses machine learning to clean up data, identify errors, and issues, and suggest optimization or filtering options. You can use the modeling feature in Analytics Cloud to create hierarchies and get deeper data insights.
The three core functions of SAP Analytics Cloud consist of Planning, Predictive Analysis, and Business Intelligence as a holistic SaaS solution that offers real-time analysis to business leaders.
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Reviews from Real Users
Segun O., SAP HANA Developer at SOA PEOPLE, says that "The most valuable features are on the application side, where you can design applications into your analytics on the platform."
The Head of Finance Enterprise Application at a computer software company adds that "The visualization feature is the most valuable. SAP Analytics Cloud is also very easy to use."
"Its many features make it the best in the market," sums up a Consultor SAP Business Object, Sap Analytics Cloud at a tech services company.
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