"We can easily do our own customizations."
"I can't name the features the way the Knowage community calls them because I still don't know the lingo. However, I can describe them. I like the ability to join more than one report, set all fields on one end, and replicate that on the other reports. I like that a lot. I think it's one of the features that got me using Knowage. They have tables, and I like that too. They took SQL scripts and many other scripts and enabled them to even correlate with Python. That's also one of the best things about Knowage. You could also decide to get information per user role, and this is also a feature that I like in Knowage."
"The embedding feature is great."
"The technical support that Microsoft provides is great."
"The installation was straightforward. We did not have a large installation and it took a couple of weeks to complete."
"SQL Server is very good, it can be used as a transactional database and used to support the data warehouse. Additionally, the ANSI-compliant satisfies our database properties."
"The product can scale if a company needs it to."
"The documentation and manuals are very good."
"The performance is reliable."
"It's great that the database engine is always on."
"The backups are excellent."
"It would be better if more resources were available to help us learn how to use it. I wanted to use Knowage for a more extended period, but learning materials around the product were not really available and were not really straightforward. I've also seen inconsistencies between versions. For example, under the tools, especially in the cockpit, the way you create reports is now different. You will also find some configurations within a particular state, like a line chart, which differs from version to version. I think consistency is an essential feature in a product, especially for business intelligence products."
"The only challenge here is that it's a Java-based platform. It requires very high technical skills."
"The dashboard components could be better."
"It could be more stable."
"If you are a new user then this solution could be difficult, they could improve by making the overall usage easier."
"The remote access aspect needs to be improved in terms of security."
"SQL Server could improve by being more user-friendly, it is still geared towards specialists. Additionally, the monitoring system is difficult to use, not everyone can use it well. The configuration should be able to be done through the GUI."
"The interface integration could be better."
"I would like to see the integration with other platforms improved in the future."
"I would like to see more integration with other platforms."
"I would like Microsoft to evolve SQL Server because stateful databases dying are in a way. We would like to find out if it can absorb Hadoop and other similar things. They should make it useful for data mining. Data is evolving forever, and how we store it is also changing constantly. So, SQL Server also needs to change."
Knowage is ranked 11th in Reporting Tools with 4 reviews while SQL Server is ranked 1st in Relational Databases Tools with 167 reviews. Knowage is rated 7.6, while SQL Server is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Knowage writes "Open-source with great embedding capabilities but the dashboards could be better". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SQL Server writes "Good performance, well-priced, trivial to set up, and helpful support". Knowage is most compared with Microsoft BI, Pentaho Business Analytics, Tableau, TIBCO Jaspersoft and RapidMiner, whereas SQL Server is most compared with SAP HANA, Oracle Database, LocalDB, MariaDB and IBM Db2 Database.
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