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MashZone NextGen Business Analytics vs SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 3, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

MashZone NextGen Business A...
Ranking in Data Visualization
35th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
SAP BusinessObjects Busines...
Ranking in Data Visualization
4th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
114
Ranking in other categories
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Data Visualization category, the mindshare of MashZone NextGen Business Analytics is 0.7%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence is 3.8%, up from 2.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Visualization Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence3.8%
MashZone NextGen Business Analytics0.7%
Other95.5%
Data Visualization
 

Featured Reviews

it_user1417119 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Better than any of the competition for ease-of-use but it is slow and not good with big data
Within the last month, Software AG sent us a new version of MashZone. Some of the features in MashZone have been modified and there are two new functionalities that are quite interesting to us. But we are still in the testing stage so there is not much to say about the new version yet and if they have resolved some things that are currently issues for us. The interface is good. It is very simple. It may not have many functions, but it is enough for process analysis. By comparison, Qlik and Tableau have many, many more functions. Statistical analysis is impossible in MashZone, but for process analysis, it is enough. MashZone is the best for process analysis. It is a very solid system. It is not as good for BI (Business Intelligence) because when you have big data, you have a problem. When we start to aggregate data and we have a source of something like one million rows, we have a big problem with MashZone because it is a very slow system.
TarunKumar7 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Data Engineer at LTI LATAM and Toubro Improtech
Data insights have driven faster financial forecasts and improved role-based decision making
The best features SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform offers include cross-enterprise sharing, where sharing insights is easier and seamless across my organization, and creating role-based dashboards. The role-based dashboards help my team and organization by providing information to specific users, allowing them to make decisions more easily, anytime, anywhere, across any device. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform has positively impacted my organization by allowing us to perform financial reporting to make decisions faster. Since we started using SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, we have been able to make faster, data-driven business decisions based on actual data insights and data analysis, which has accelerated our ability to make better decisions for our business productivity.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Mashzone is the best product on the market for process analysis."
"The most valuable features are real-time data, introspective data, and input data, and the interface is also very easy to use."
"This solution is made to be easy-to-use. If you can use Excel, you can use MashZone."
"The technical support from Germany is very good."
"It's the best product in the market when it comes to reporting technology."
"We are using SAP BusinessObjects because its scheduling capabilities are more powerful than those of other tools."
"The solution can scale."
"Business users manual data-entry load has decreased, and data between different systems are consistent in almost-real time."
"The platform is a complete enterprise-level tool where everything is integrated to suffice your requirement."
"The most valuable SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform feature are metadata service layers."
"We have used all the business objects tools, but this one satisfies all of the business requirements in an optimized way."
"During the first of the 10 years we used it, it was a very valuable reporting product."
 

Cons

"MashZone is not very good to use with big data, statistical analysis, or financial analysis. This is not what it is built to do."
"If I try to analyze big data in MashZone, it is just impossible."
"MashZone could be faster and provide more support for IoT platforms."
"Lumira is also a promising tool, but at this point still feels inferior to Tableau."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is lacking dashboards and this would be the only reason we are looking for another solution."
"I would like to see their data visualization products enhanced and made more robust and easier to implement."
"We feel that the tool is very complex in terms of implementing the dashboard; lots of coding and performance issues, and we require particular skillsets and resources as regular users cannot understand it."
"Currently, we can use Explore to do data discovering, but cannot generate charts."
"Reports/Dashboards on RDBMS cannot handle or scale the demands of the latest data analytics solutions."
"Its price should be better. It is expensive and not cost-effective."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform can be improved in that the user interface needs much improvement, as not everyone has a complete understanding of the components."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"​It is not an expensive platform. The licensing is for a package of users starting at 10 users."
"I have always found SAP BI to be expensive. It is expensive even when you compare SAP BI Cloud with Microsoft Power BI. Power BI is probably around $9.99 per month, and the cheapest SAP BI is around $20, which is double. In terms of price, Power BI is definitely a lot better. If you have budget issues, you may want to go for Power BI."
"Just work with SAP to make sure you have enough licenses but don't go overboard."
"We are satisfied with the solution, but we are not satisfied with the licensing cost which SAP offers. They offer one lumpsum licensing which does everything. That is not the right strategy, because sometimes you don't have power users, they are only viewers, but we need to buy the full license for them. This is not something we want to continue with."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is an expensive application."
"It has an option of a Cloud Platform (SAP Analytics Cloud) which has a lower price than the on-premise platform, and you can buy individual licences per user.​"
"Its price is fair."
"There is an annual license to use SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform."
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Comparison Review

it_user6663 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Expert at a transportation company with 51-200 employees
May 25, 2013
SAP Business Objects vs. Microsoft BI
A quick look at the whole idea on another weblogs gives you a sense that all of them just talked about very brief things like report refresh feature in BO or cube feature in MS Analysis Service. I choose MS BI and I want to share my reasons and opinions on why I choose it and give you another quick…
 

Top Industries

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Construction Company
12%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
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Small Business34
Midsize Enterprise20
Large Enterprise67
 

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Also Known As

MashZone NextGen
SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform, SAP BusinessObjects, Business Objects, SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards, SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
 

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Sample Customers

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SRAM, Kennametal, Fairfax Water, British American Tobacco, Velux, and FedEx.
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