We performed a comparison between Databricks and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Databricks, Microsoft, Alteryx and others in Data Science Platforms."Databricks integrates well with other solutions."
"Databricks covers end-to-end data analytics workflow in one platform, this is the best feature of the solution."
"The Delta Lake data type has been the most useful part of this solution. Delta Lake is an opensource data type and it was implemented and invented by Databricks."
"Databricks has helped us have a good presence in data."
"This solution offers a lake house data concept that we have found exciting. We are able to have a large amount of data in a data lake and can manage all relational activities."
"We are completely satisfied with the ease of connecting to different sources of data or pocket files in the search"
"We like that this solution can handle a wide variety and velocity of data engineering, either in batch mode or real-time."
"The processing capacity is tremendous in the database."
"The features which the solution has been awesome. The way the data is fetched from the database, and the queries are executed, is unique using the Universe of Business Objects. That makes it unique and we could not find another solution that functions in a similar way. It's has a great way of receiving and executing queries."
"BusinessObjects can handle a lot of usage on the front end, and many users can view these reports. It's a relatively stable and secure tool."
"Business analytics are the most valuable features of this solution; I don't have experience with the other functional features offered."
"The scheduling and publication features are very useful."
"If I were to compare it with Power BI and I wanted to build proper well-formatted reports, BusinessObjects Business Intelligence does that much better. Power BI is just getting into that space. They've concentrated more on visualization, which is what the SAP Lumira does. With Web Intelligence, you are able to build reports that users can interact with. They can also do a lot of querying themselves. It is robust in terms of security and integration. It is also quite scalable."
"The most important feature of BusinessObjects is its integration with the SAP ERP system. If an organization is using SAP as its ERP system, and they want to do business intelligence, reporting, or analysis, SAP BusinessObjects is the only tool that I see doing that quite efficiently. That's because of the fact it is tightly integrated, and it gives a good user experience in terms of faster reporting. Its integration is the feature that I have found most valuable, but there are also other factors."
"The report development tool called SAP Web Intelligence under the BI Launch Pad portal has been the most valuable feature."
"Ease of report development is a key feature."
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"Generative AI is catching up in areas like data governance and enterprise flavor. Hence, these are places where Databricks has to be faster."
"It would be nice to have more guidance on integrations with ETLs and other data quality tools."
"Implementation of Databricks is still very code heavy."
"In the future, I would like to see Data Lake support. That is something that I'm looking forward to."
"Databricks has added some alerts and query functionality into their SQL persona, but the whole SQL persona, which is like a role, needs a lot of development. The alerts are not very flexible, and the query interface itself is not as polished as the notebook interface that is used through the data science and machine learning persona. It is clunky at present."
"Databricks has a lack of debuggers, and it would be good to see more components."
"Databricks would have more collaborative features than it has. It should have some more customization for the jobs."
"Scalability is an area with certain shortcomings. The solution's scalability needs improvement."
"When we implemented BusinessObjects, the setup was straightforward. After SAP bought BusinessObjects, it gradually became more and more stepwise. There are too many steps, and they take too much time."
"The solution could be less expensive. It's a bit pricey now."
"The user interface should be easier to use and navigate."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is an outdated solution that is missing many features."
"Integrations with things like Active Directory and LDAP tend to be a little complex."
"Its price should be better. It is expensive and not cost-effective. It should also be improved in terms of end-user experience. It requires further improvements for usability and ease of use. It should have more dashboarding metrics and much faster integration with ERP so that when you double click, you can instantly see the scenario-based result."
"The solution is not good for self-services, they can improve in this area."
"The solution can improve by having more analytical features."
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Databricks is ranked 1st in Data Science Platforms with 78 reviews while SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is ranked 6th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 103 reviews. Databricks is rated 8.2, while SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Databricks writes "A nice interface with good features for turning off clusters to save on computing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform writes "Web intelligence will work with any amount of data even if you have 10 million rows". Databricks is most compared with Amazon SageMaker, Informatica PowerCenter, Dataiku, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio and Dremio, whereas SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, IBM Cognos and Amazon QuickSight.
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