Every category where a model named SAP Analytics Cloud for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Corporate performance management	Planning and analysis	0%	30 of 95	27%	11	criticized challenger
FP&A platforms	Planning and analysis	0%	47 of 52	50%	2	under 10 labels · led by Vena at 15%
Financial consolidation	Accounting and close	0%	62 of 96	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Prophix at 19%
Financial modeling and scenario planning	Planning and analysis	0%	85 of 114	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Datarails at 19%
Financial reporting and dashboards	Planning and analysis	0%	91 of 133	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Sage Intacct at 27%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for SAP Analytics Cloud yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated SAP Analytics Cloud across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	2	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	2	2
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	0	1
Mistral Small	0	3	0	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	1	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	2	0	0	2
Kimi K2	0	0	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	0	1

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct14 labels1

Paraphrase9 labelsNone

Comparative34 labelsNone

Budget-constrained8 labels1

Scale-constrained7 labelsNone

Negative15 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative87 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 2 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Choose SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning if you are already in the SAP ecosystem” Perplexity Sonar · Corporate performance ma · comparative prompt · alternative

“Choose Oracle or SAP if you are a large multinational already using their ERPs” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Corporate performance ma · comparative prompt · alternative

“Best For: Companies running SAP S/4HANA.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Financial consolidation · comparative prompt · alternative

“Best for: SAP-centric organizations” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Corporate performance ma · comparative prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) is frequently criticized for being rigid, clunky, and difficult for actual finance professionals to navigate” Gemini 3.5 Flash · FP&A platforms · negative prompt · hard negative

“Who should avoid it: Non-SAP customers. If you're not running SAP ERP, this tool will fight you at every turn.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Corporate performance ma · negative prompt · hard negative

“Verdict: Avoid unless deeply committed to SAP stack.” Kimi K2 · Corporate performance ma · negative prompt · hard negative

“integrating and pulling data into SAC can be incredibly complex, slow, and frustrating” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Corporate performance ma · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as SAP Analytics Cloud, over the 87 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and SAP Analytics Cloud was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Anaplan72 of 8715Not in the top three

Workday Adaptive Planning67 of 873Not in the top three

OneStream62 of 8714Not in the top three

Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM38 of 8710Not in the top three

Pigment35 of 878Not in the top three

Vena34 of 873Not in the top three

Board29 of 871Not in the top three

IBM Planning Analytics29 of 870Not in the top three

Planful28 of 871Not in the top three

Oracle Cloud EPM24 of 870Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named SAP Analytics Cloud. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 64 of the 87 answers that named SAP Analytics Cloud and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

drivetrain.ai38

cfoshortlist.com32

board.com28

worldmetrics.org24

viewpointanalysis.com21

gartner.com20

gitnux.org18

golimelight.com17

getaleph.com15

onestream.com15

228 of the 228 domain citations in answers naming SAP Analytics Cloud came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

board.com/guide/best-fpa-software-for-enterprises25

drivetrain.ai/solutions/enterprise-performance-management-software25

cfoshortlist.com/reports/best-fpa-software-202615

viewpointanalysis.com/post/financial-planning-and-analysis-software-options-202615

board.com/guide/best-fpa-software14

gbhackers.com/best-epm-tools-compared-214

getaleph.com/answers/top-fpa-software-202613

financecopilothq.com/best-fpa-software11

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as SAP Analytics Cloud

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as SAP Analytics Cloud; a claim can dispute any of them.

SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) 4SAP Analytics 1SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) / BPC 1SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) for EPM 1SAP Analytics Cloud - SAC 1SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning 1

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