We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI, SAP Analytics Cloud, 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."Power BI allows you to create user defined charts which is really useful."
"It has greatly improved our reporting capabilities."
"If you are not very technical this tool could be very useful."
"It is easy to use. It has got a desktop where people can develop their own dashboards. Basically, we have figured out how to connect finance contracts and all programs for the government agency. So, they can see everything in a dashboard. So, it is very easy to use from a technical standpoint of view."
"Everything that's in M Query and DAX is the heart of Power BI because with these tools you can make up for a lot of other missing features."
"It offers a lot of information and is very flexible and interactive."
"It's user-friendly and provides data abstracting capabilities. We are also able to share reports with our colleagues very easily."
"Allows business users with a mission to solve their own problems, without an IT person."
"The stories have really been helpful in looking at specific scenarios and analyzing trends over periods of time."
"It offers good backup capabilities."
"Provides rich features for developing automated reports and dashboards."
"The features that are most valuable in SAP Analytics Cloud are the planning feature and the predictive analytics feature, though the planning feature needs to be more efficient."
"I like the predictive features of SAP. It's easy to use tools for an end-user."
"Planning and integration are the most valuable features. It is useful for planning, and it is useful for integrating with on-prem or cloud SAP solutions."
"The new Application Design option offers lots of customization options by being able to script in Typescript (similar to Javascript)."
"The features that I have found most valuable with SAP ERP products are their good user interface, stability, functionality, and good interface options."
"The report development tool called SAP Web Intelligence under the BI Launch Pad portal has been the most valuable feature."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is definitely scalable."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform's most valuable features are it has a great presentation layer. We can develop the presentation layer with drag-and-drop capabilities. For end-users and for our interns in the company can create reports and do their data analysis processes or works by using the objects that we created on the presentation layer by themselves."
"Has features that can be leveraged to scale out and scale up."
"The initial setup of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform was easy since the solution is user-friendly."
"It is stable and robust. It has pretty direct integration with SAP ERP. It is easy to use."
"Business analytics are the most valuable features of this solution; I don't have experience with the other functional features offered."
"I like the fact that we can integrate it seamlessly within our Epic environment, but probably the best thing that Crystal Reports offers is the ability to do visualizations. They're simple to do, and they're catchy. So, it is a really great tool."
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"I would like to be able to use more predicting data science features without having to use R."
"The solution could use a faster speed on certain interactions and a refresh of the dashboards."
"The graphic interface could be better."
"It could have more of a hold on big data. Manipulating big data on this solution complicates things. This needs to be improved."
"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."
"It is too slow. I hope in future it will be a comparable big data tool, such as, for example, Data Lake."
"It is getting better but still, there are opportunity areas in some aspects, especially the Windows OS dependency."
"SSMS & SSRS."
"The connection works only for importing data. Currently, there is no real-time integration between SAP Analytics Cloud and CRM. There are some features present in the classic but not in the optimized version. If I need to create something specific, I often have to switch the versions. It would be more convenient to have a single product that incorporates all the necessary features."
"AI doesn't work as well with SAP live connections."
"The integration with other vendors and solutions could be improved."
"I would like to see reporting to the Analytics cloud directly."
"I expect more integration from SAP Analytics Cloud."
"One potential improvement is how we can transpose data. With SAP, if you have data from one system with a declared data type and a different system with another data type, the transfer is tricky."
"There is no direct connector from SAP to Redshift, so we are required to use a third-party product that was recommended by SAP."
"Improvements are coming quarterly whereas previously it was on a monthly basis."
"The solution could be less expensive. It's a bit pricey now."
"There should be more integration with other platforms."
"The solution can improve by having more analytical features."
"The UI could be updated a bit."
"It is not simple to use."
"We would like to see a native version of BusinessObjects and Web Intelligence created for the cloud."
"Recently, it's become less stable if I am working on Citrix."
"Currently, we can use Explore to do data discovering, but cannot generate charts."
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