We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."I like all the tools in Microsoft BI because they all have different purposes. There are a lot of people using Microsoft BI, and everybody is using it. The users have adapted well to the technology."
"Microsoft B's beneficial features are that it is a Microsoft product and it is well known by the staff here in the company. It suited the available skills."
"The dashboards of Microsoft BI are easy to use."
"The product is easy to use and simple to navigate."
"Most of the clients I am interacting with are looking towards Power BI because of the cost and simplicities. It provides an entire feature set and a complete solution. It has tight integration with Office 365, Dynamics 365, Microsoft Technology Stack, and datatypes like R and Python."
"The use of graphics to show and view the data indicators is the most valuable feature. It is also very stable."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It is a good platform for data analysis, organization, and all of the other interim performances that are necessary."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle OBIEE is interactive reporting because it allows better analysis versus conventional reporting, especially on the data warehouse side."
"Easy to create ad hoc reporting for different solutions."
"It is easy to use...I rate the scalability of the solution a nine out of ten."
"I like that Oracle OBIEE comes with more options. For example, more options with data security, user security, and other security. It's more complicated than Microsoft, but it gives you more options. They also added the part for machine learning, which is good."
"They were reasonable in terms of price."
"It doesn't have many frills and is definitely older technology, but it is undeniably a workhorse."
"The scalability of the product is good."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...The solution's initial setup was straightforward."
"We find that we can scale it as needed."
"The solution can scale."
"The Dynamic HTML (DHTML) client option of Webi has been enhanced adding features that were previously only available with the Java client including conditional formatting and support of XLS as a data provider."
"The reports are most valuable. If it is a single-source universe, based on only one database, the performance, and the reporting tool is user-friendly, and users are very familiar with the tool and are comfortable using it."
"The scheduling and publication features are very useful."
"It gives you a lot of flexibility in designing your dashboards."
"The solution is stable."
"The setup is pretty easy. It's not hard at all."
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"If you look at the new tool, even though they promised that you could do data modeling, that you could do everything from the Power BI side, if your data is really large in volume, sometimes it doesn't work on the Power BI. More feature testing from their side would certainly help users."
"The UI is the main improvement that could be made. Specifically, there is something called DAX, in Power BI, which is complicated compared to calculated fields used in Tableau."
"Power BI shows reports on actual data, not metadata."
"The integration with third-party products could be more stable."
"I am taking a course to be able to use the solution better. Some aspects of the solution are not straightforward."
"In Microsoft Excel, you are able to have tabs. However, in Microsoft BI you do not have this flexibility."
"There is no specific area that I have a problem with. It's just that, with whatever feature you come across, every visual has its own formatting and behavior. What you get in one visual for a feature, you don't seem to get in another."
"Real-time refreshing for SAP BW would be nice. We know its on the radar for the development team at MS. "
"From an improvement perspective, the technical team should be able to provide more accurate answers by taking into consideration the context of the issues faced by users."
"Oracle products have a lot of complications...Oracle has a history of not really providing great support."
"OBIEE doesn't have audit logs."
"From the point of view of strategic management, I would like to have a feature, perhaps a form after we get to the KPI dashboard, to be used to note if something unusual happens in the operations. That way we could record extreme KPI situations, and track why a number is very low or too high."
"It was a little bit tedious to install a new release."
"Retail, Finance, Wholesale"
"The functionality to customize and modify reports has been removed, and it would be beneficial to reinstall it, as it allows greater customization and flexibility in creating reports."
"This solution is weak in the data science perspective. I have past data science experience. And, I find that there is a lot of room for improvement in terms of incorporating more advanced statistical modeling into the product."
"This solution is complex to configure and administer."
"The biggest area for improvement would be the dashboarding capabilities due to the recent change from Xcelsius to Dashboard Designer. This has created a gigantic ripple in many companies because the skill sets required are drastically different."
"We're an Epic shop, and Epic is moving away from Crystal. It would be nice if it had tighter integration with products like Epic. It would be awesome to have better integration with third-party products."
"It could be a lighter solution."
"The SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform has always struggled with dashboarding."
"The calculation engine requires some improvement."
"Its data visualization tool is not as good as Power BI and Tableau. Currently, for data visualization, you need to spend more money to buy another solution such as Power BI or Tableau. It is also very hard to integrate it with other third-party solutions. Its integration with other solutions should be improved."
"It is not simple to use."
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