SAP Analytics Cloud vs SPS Analytics
SAP Analytics Cloud
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| Figure | SAP Analytics Cloud | SPS Analytics |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $36/mo | — |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 2 | 3 |
| Spec score · Business Intelligence Tools | 9.2 (#2) | 7.8 (#50) |
| Deployment | hybrid | cloud |
| Founded | 1972 | 2001 |
| Headquarters | Walldorf, Germany | Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States |
| Limit: performance | Reviewers report latency or slower performance with heavy data loads and high-volume models. | G2 reviewers mention sluggish performance on large datasets or peak-load queries. |
| Rating on G2 | 4.2 out of 5 from 908 reviews | 4.5 out of 5 from 27 reviews |
| Rating on GetApp | 4.4 out of 5 from 119 reviews | 4.2 out of 5 from 528 reviews |
| Security | The product supports user, role, and access administration, and its help documentation describes single sign-on and folder access and privacy settings. | SPS’s Trust Center describes its data protection program and lists controls including audit logging, role-based access control, backups, and encryption at rest. |
| Support | SAP identifies partner specialists, SAP experts, and its extended developer community as support resources for deployment and questions. | Analytics support is offered by email and phone in the US, Europe and Australia; SPS also advertises 24/7/365 global support for its products. |
| What it does | SAP Analytics Cloud is a SaaS product combining business intelligence, planning, predictive analytics, reporting, and collaboration. | SPS Analytics, now presented as Decision Intelligence, connects retail sales, inventory and item-performance data so suppliers can make operational decisions. |
Plans
SAP Analytics Cloud
- Business Intelligence$36 a month
- SAP Analytics CloudPriced on request
SPS Analytics
- Decision IntelligencePriced on request
- SPS Analytics PlusPriced on request
- SPS Analytics SelectPriced on request
In their own words
SAP Analytics Cloud
SAP Analytics Cloud brings business intelligence, analytics and enterprise planning together in a cloud service. It supports financial, supply chain and operational planning, with real-time data refresh, scheduled reports, embedded analytics, natural-language queries and row-level security. Joule can automate reports, model scenarios, surface insights and handle analytics and planning tasks through conversation. More than 100 prebuilt business content packages are available across lines of business. Named data sources include SAP HANA, SAP S/4HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, SAP BusinessObjects, SQL, OData and Google BigQuery. Live connections analyze data at its source without replication; import connections bring data in for modeling. The service offers web, iOS and Android access and hybrid deployment. Mobile apps require an SAP Analytics Cloud account and mobile services enabled by the user's IT department. Pricing is on request, and there is no free plan. A no-cost 30-day trial uses sample data on a shared tenant and excludes some administration, customization, master data management and integration capabilities.
SPS Analytics
SPS Analytics is a cloud, web-based Decision Intelligence platform from SPS Analytics in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It connects retail sales, inventory, and item-performance data for supplier decisions. SKU- and location-level sales across retailers and channels are linked with sell-through and inventory information to support forecasting, replenishment, and allocation. Users can monitor days of supply, distribution gaps, and performance changes while working to rebalance inventory, reduce excess stock, prevent stockouts, and avoid markdowns. SPS retrieves, validates, and standardizes data from trading partners, then matches enriched performance data to a supplier’s catalog. Results can appear in dashboards, scheduled reports, files, or cloud integrations with business-intelligence and planning systems. Customers using Snowflake or Databricks can receive validated retail data in those environments. Refreshes are daily where retailers provide daily data and weekly for many others; store-level and margin visibility depend on available data. Implementation varies by data sources and scope, with structured onboarding. Pricing is on request.