SAP Analytics Cloud Primary Use Case
My VP asked me to work with my plan number to figure out how to increase and support our sales region. On the planning admin, I created a model and then imported actual and forecasted data. From that, I was able to determine the variance. We managed to plan this with small amounts of data.
We created a planning model and enabled it to make a planning checkmark that works with the time category in the tab dimension, in order to bring it down to the lowest granularity, by month, start date, and end date.
We created an organization dimension. A responsible person to monitor each region is required. Then you can drag and drop the region hierarchy from the parent.
Then, we worked on the calculated numbers, for example, the gross margin, which was the total revenue minus COGS. We then divided that number by total revenue times one hundred. From there, we could pull the data from the file and select source actuality to validate it.
We performed all of this using SAP Analytics Cloud.
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reviewer1406058
Consultor SAP Business Object, Sap Analytics Cloud at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We have many use cases. These include the SAP Analytics platform tool and the SAP Analytics Cloud project. Some of the tools these products provide tend to fit the same situation. But other use cases can depend on the clients' resources including on-premise servers, or on-premise application. There are many installation requirements, for example in Cloud connect. We often need consultancy support from SAP to assist us.
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reviewer1709310
Human Resources Consultant - Workforce Reporting at a government with 10,001+ employees
I primarily use the solution for reporting. We talk to people in all different roles and in all different types of companies and organizations. It's just to get a more well-rounded scope.
We use it to build a human capital dashboard and I use it to report on workforce data, hires and exits, movements, and items of that nature.
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reviewer1394568
Analytics Practice Lead at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
We use this solution as part of an embedded analytics use case for an ERP application. SAP are starting to embed Analytics Cloud as a solution within their ERP application, which gives you the options for closed-loop analytics, as you go from insights to action within a single ERP application. It can also be used to bring together multiple data sources, different sources of data from various applications and use the application to blend and trade analytics solutions across different parts of the organization. The product suits small to large enterprise, it supports all user types. We are partners with SAP and I'm an analytics practice lead.
View full review »We use this solution for financial planning and analysis. We definitely plan to expand our usage of this solution.
View full review »I am a developer and I work mostly on the technical side.
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reviewer1429548
Head of Finance Enterprise Application at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use it for publishing financial reports.
View full review »We have our data stored in SAP BW. SAP Analytics Cloud is now the main Reporting Tool from SAP. We are gradually shifting the reporting from BO Webi / BO Lumira / BEx Wad to SAC.
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reviewer1467861
SAP Architect/ Business Analyst BPC, BW , SAC , FI at a educational organization with 10,001+ employees
SAP ERP itself is not a product, it is a suite of products. There are multiple products within SAP ERP or the Business One suit. Analytics for Cloud is one of them. There are multiple other products that we could see if I had different modules. It depends on what module you are.
My primary use for SAP Analytics Cloud Planning is dashboard reporting, forecasting, budgeting, predictive analytics and so on.
SAP ERP products are mainly for business processes improvement.
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GiorgioRossi
CEO at Attiva Spa
We're using SAP Analytics Cloud for analyzing financial and commercial information.
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reviewer1465296
SAP Associate IT Consultant at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We are using this solution for the analysis of the daily sales with this particular project that we are working on.
We also analyze what items are used daily, and how many items there are. We are using this solution to gather this information.
We are also using this for protection.
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reviewer1346667
Finance Manager
We are using SAP Analytics for complete enterprise. We are customers and I am a business analytics manager.
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Jay
BI Lead at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
We primarily use the solution for the dashboards.
View full review »The solution is good for handling projects via dashboards for finishing projects and understanding budgets (if we're over or not), financials, working capital, et cetera.
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reviewer1466862
Manager Finance at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use it for all our reporting right now. Everything is happening in SAP, and all dashboards are there, and all data comes through in real-time. We have thought management there, and Azure Operations Management is dependent upon SAP.
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reviewer1774182
Director & Co-Owner at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
We are using it for enterprise-wide analytics. We have on-prem as well as cloud deployments.
View full review »We use this solution for data visualizations.
View full review »I am an SAP consultant and Analytics Cloud is one of the products that I work with. It is used for business intelligence and planning.
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