SAP Analytics Cloud Roambi for Pc

I thought this would be a perfect app for my business, but I simply couldn't get it to work. The website is HORRIBLE! Even the videos don't explain clearly what you're supposed to do. I tried to download a small to average sized excel file, but I was never able to get it to work in the tab visualizer and I couldn't even figure out how to try doing it in any of the other visualizers. I've contacted "support". I'll update when/if they respond. So I got fantastic personal help from RoamBi and now it's working just great (it did not work with the beta version of the latest Safari). I'm really happy with this product and it really makes working with my excel files much easier (I think Microsoft could learn a thing or two from them). Great product and great support.

Basically, you upload your data document to the Roambi server, which formats it according to one of its templates, and then sends it to your iPhone all nice and pretty. There are some small things that need working on, though. Large Excel spread sheets upload fine, but there is no quick find feature, meaning you have to scroll like crazy to get to the end. If you use the Go To feature, it does not go directly to your goal, bur rather scrolls automatically, taking just as much time as you would have to do it yourself. So for large data files, it's impractical. I would love to use it for an important spreadsheet I have with 1000+ entries and multiple columns. The columns work out fine, but the inability to go quickly to the end, and then back, makes it hard to use. (Also, if you have confidential data, you have to trust their privacy policy since you're basically running your data through their server.)

Roambi gets mobility. The user experience is driven by the various visualizations, and the choice of a "view" or report is determined by the use case. For example, there are views that allow me to drill down levels of a path so I can see how my products are performing then drill to the sales regions within those products. For me, I found it's better to start by looking at the various "views"and figuring out what I want on the iPad instead of trying to figure out how to replicate current reports - it's just so different!

Very excited at the stunning visualizations and the idea of seeing my own data appear I downloaded this app. After playing around with the sample data I tried going to their website on my iPad only to discover that it's in Flash. Flash isn't supported on the iPad or iPhone so that was a bit disappointing. Undaunted, I went to the site on my laptop and created a free account. I think this is an example of a really great and potentially powerful idea that didn't follow through well on execution. The flashed site elements are kind of pretty, but they aren't functionally done well. Button hotspots don't line up with the actual buttons, so you sit there and move the mouse around until you get a cursor - then you click. And, even though I downloaded their template for the pie charts and replaced the data in the worksheet with some dummy data, the web interface wouldn't display the data as a report. Whoever recommended that they use Flash for this though - that person really torpedoed RoamBI and clearly did not understand the impact of the decision - it renders the product pretty useless to iPad/iPhone users. This product has a lot of potential, we'd love to use it - but it needs some serious repairs first.