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Red Hat Insights vs SAP Analytics Cloud comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 6, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Red Hat Insights
Ranking in Predictive Analytics
6th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
3.4
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
SAP Analytics Cloud
Ranking in Predictive Analytics
2nd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
71
Ranking in other categories
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Predictive Analytics category, the mindshare of Red Hat Insights is 2.5%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP Analytics Cloud is 12.7%, down from 13.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Predictive Analytics Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
SAP Analytics Cloud12.7%
Red Hat Insights2.5%
Other84.8%
Predictive Analytics
 

Featured Reviews

Shabab Ali - PeerSpot reviewer
They've made significant improvements in storage compared to previous releases
Red Hat Enterprise Linux has made significant improvements in terms of storage. You can mount an 18 terabyte file system. It also supports NFS shares and the SIP share for the photos. There have been many features added since RHEL 6. It's more user-friendly and graphical. We use Ansible as a go-to for provisioning and hardening the servers. It's so much easier with Ansible because we used scripts in the past. We had to log into each server as such, and it took a long time. With Ansible, we just run one playbook, and it takes care of everything. I used Leapp for my upgrade from RHEL 7 to 8. It's an excellent utility tool. When I run the Leapp script, it tells me everything I need to take care of before I run a migration. Red Hat Insight is good because it tells you about the future patches available. We use Red Hat Enterprise Linux image builder. Our golden image is a real image. We harden it, and it's our golden server. When we need a new VM, we can just make a snapshot of that. If it's a physical server, then I have to do it manually.
RamasamyTelungupalayam - PeerSpot reviewer
Seamless integration, collaborative features, and enhances data exploration
There are several areas for improvement in SAP Analytics Cloud. Firstly, features available in SAP Lumira are missing in SAP Analytics Cloud. Secondly, the predictive analytics functions, although promising, are currently only suitable for Proof of Concepts (POCs) and not for industrial-scale use. Lastly, the pricing model for the planning functionality is quite high and presents an entry barrier.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It identifies bugs and security vulnerabilities."
"RHEL is the most reliable Linux flavor in terms of enterprise governance. I prefer it for its code stability, support, and integration. The lifecycle management features help us maintain compliance and keep the components updated."
"The most valuable features of Red Hat Enterprise Linux are the mobile applications and getting real-time notifications."
"The most valuable feature of Red Hat Insights that I have found is the proactive information on issues that you don't see but are possibly going to happen in the environment."
"I have seen a return on investment, especially considering the time taken to resolve the problem where we bought some support from Red Hat."
"We use this product's built-in tracing and monitoring tools such as syslog and SAR (system activity reporter) to provide us with greater insight and visibility into what's going on."
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux has made significant improvements in terms of storage. You can mount an 18 terabyte file system. It also supports NFS shares and the SIP share for the photos. There have been many features added since RHEL 6. It's more user-friendly and graphical."
"The tool is simple and easy to use. It has good support and doesn't have many outages due to the OS."
"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."
"The ability to collaborate and plan together is great."
"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."
"If 85-90% of your data comes from SAP, then it's the best solution."
"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."
"The Smart Predict, Smart Insights, and Smart Discovery predictive analysis features are quite good."
"The solution is quite effective for collaborative planning."
"The most valuable features are the visualization and user-friendliness."
 

Cons

"There is potential for improvement when it comes to ease of use. It has become easier to use over the years but could be better still. Linux, in general, has never been a simple solution. It's usually a more complex solution than something like Windows. If there is a downside, it's that it is more complex than some of the other solutions."
"The cockpit server doesn't work and is useless. I don't like the images shown in GCP. I prefer the ones in AWS. It seems like the solution is in tune with what we deploy on the private cloud."
"A lot of improvement is required to get security compliance, especially with the privacy of the data, managing it, and storing it."
"All resources should be available on the website."
"What could be improved dramatically is the ability to have it used by an enterprise, which means to interlock with Ansible Automation Platform first."
"The improvements, in my opinion, have to be done in the infrastructure of the Red Hat Satellite, it is very complex."
"I would like to see improvements made to the subscriptions and management of them."
"Sometimes, the product has outages that affect the site's ability."
"An additional feature that needs to be added to SAP Analytics Cloud is exporting because right now, you can only export to PDF and PowerPoint. It would be good to have multiple export options, for example, to Excel and other apps. Pricing is an area for improvement in SAP Analytics Cloud, apart from exporting."
"SAC, which is the cloud version, lost some good features from the previous planning product, like BPC or BPS."
"The budget management could be better."
"Sometimes we have difficulty connecting to a SharePoint list."
"SAP has always had one problem with its products, they make them very closed systems that are difficult to integrate."
"The predictive analytics functions, although promising, are currently only suitable for Proof of Concepts (POCs) and not for industrial-scale use."
"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."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"If you have a subscription to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Insights is free."
"Regarding the prices, the new changes are actually not bad as it works for enterprise solutions."
"This is not a cheap solution but it gets you the support if you ever need it."
"The prices are comparable, and good for what is being provided."
"RHEL is expensive. We have changed the cloud provider's subscription to a pay-as-you-go model."
"SAP Analytics Cloud is expensive. The price is a big issue if you compare it with other solutions from different vendors."
"It's not that costly as such for the time being."
"The pricing is based on an annual license and is rated a four out of ten."
"The pricing of this product is reasonable."
"Its price is slightly on the higher side."
"SAP Analytics Cloud can be quite expensive."
"The product is expensive."
"Compute and storage features should be sold separately."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
No data available
Manufacturing Company
18%
Computer Software Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Retailer
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise9
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business23
Midsize Enterprise13
Large Enterprise39
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Red Hat Insights?
I have not utilized the automation capabilities for remediation tasks within Red Hat Insights. The point is that we have a detached environment, so it is not really applicable. Here, what could be ...
What is your primary use case for Red Hat Insights?
My usual use case for Red Hat Insights is to get the most useful information regarding proactive information to promptly fix issues beforehand. That's the first one and more important. Let's stick ...
What advice do you have for others considering Red Hat Insights?
We do not use Red Hat as our cloud provider; we have everything on-premise. Red Hat Insights is embedded in my offer with RHEL for sure, so it's something that is already given, at least for us. Fo...
Which would you choose - Tableau or SAP Analytics Cloud?
Tableau is easy to set up and maintain. In about a day it is possible for the entire platform to be deployed for use. This relatively short amount of time can make all the difference for companies ...
What do you like most about SAP Analytics Cloud?
In the data warehouse, you're free to make changes. You can make everything text, meaning it's always a string. Even numbers appear as text, giving you the flexibility to work with all columns.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAP Analytics Cloud?
I normally do not deal with the commercials, so I am not aware of the pricing part of it.
 

Also Known As

No data available
SAP BusinessObjects Cloud
 

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Sample Customers

Cerner, Government of Nova Scotia
Live Oak Bank
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