We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, and SAS Visual Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."Microsoft BI is easy to use and to design. I found Microsoft BI a lot easier than Tableau."
"We can see that it's really improved the way end users can do their own graphs and pick their own fields of information and present that in a nice way."
"The good part of it is that you can do whatever you want with it when it comes to building BI. In terms of languages, it supports Python, and it also natively supports R."
"The visualization part and its inclusion in a cloud-based application are valuable features."
"Premium features that used to cost $5,000 per company per month recently became a lot more accessible. Microsoft recently implemented a per user feature in Power BI Premium; it's $20 per month."
"The ease of integration and connectivity stands out as the most critical aspect, followed closely by the flexibility to customize reports and dashboards."
"The solution is quite scalable."
"The virtualization of Microsoft BI is very good."
"It is more user-friendly and easier to work with the report creation part, creating reports out of an established universe. Maybe a business person could liberate the existing universe and create a report on top of it, as well. So that's one cool feature."
"The setup is pretty easy. It's not hard at all."
"The report development tool called SAP Web Intelligence under the BI Launch Pad portal has been the most valuable feature."
"It is solid and stable."
"Through the use of Business Intelligence reporting and scheduling features, reports are generated and automatically sent according to a schedule. This has freed up countless hours spent performing the same tasks, month over month."
"The initial setup of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform was easy since the solution is user-friendly."
"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."
"Provides autonomy for all the business users to develop their own reports."
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"Simplifies report designs and quickly displays tables and graphs."
"It provided the capability to visualize a bunch of data in an organized way."
"Great for handling complex data models."
"It's relatively simple to create basic dashboards and reports."
"The speed to display charts and react to users' choices is great."
"It's a stable, reliable product."
"Quick deployment to dashboards and analytics features (using SAS Visual Statistics and Enterprise Guide). Easy to create a simple forecast and discover business insights using segmentation tools."
"The most solution's notable aspect, in my view, is the ability to integrate various data sources and harness advanced technologies such as machine learning and artificial intelligence. This helps with quality assurance processes."
"BI is scalable, but there are some problems with limited online storage."
"It needs an AI which can choose the appropriate connection strings and provide options for connections."
"The solution could use a faster speed on certain interactions and a refresh of the dashboards."
"Integration with products that are not Microsoft could be more improved."
"Its setup and support should be improved. We would like to see more material for developers that provides clear explanations about how we can do data mining by using Microsoft BI. It would also be good if we can connect a feature to other customized machine learning solutions."
"It would be better if they had some video tutorials. Most people from an Excel background may struggle with measures in Microsoft BI."
"This solution needs integration with SAS and more deep analysis functionality."
"Power BI could be improved by implementing more options for data integration. Nowadays, the cloud takes care of scalability and security. As we all know, data sources are increasing, so we get data from a variety of streams. But if we could get the downstream data into the database and update the reports more easily, Power BI would be better."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform should be made easier for the end-users and the performance could be improved."
"It could be a lighter solution."
"Most of the Apps right now are into dashboarding. This tool, for the Crystal Reports in the phase I'm primarily working on, does not have those dashboarding capabilities, like in the other advanced tools like Power BI or ClickView, and compared to them the dashboard generation is not that great."
"We would like to see a native version of BusinessObjects and Web Intelligence created for the cloud."
"The financial area in the solution has certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"The self-service area, or dashboard, needs some improvement. While the reporting itself is great, the dashboard and Analytics Cloud are not user friendly."
"Currently, we can use Explore to do data discovering, but cannot generate charts."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
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"Colours used on report objects"
"It is not as mature as competitors such as Tableau and QlikView."
"The installation process can be a bit complex."
"Better connectivity with other data origins, better visualization, and the ability to create KPIs directly would all help."
"There are a few little things that are predefined and can be done out of the box immediately. There is no business intelligence application that is predefined, which is something some customers or prospects would love to have. Small and mid-sized companies would struggle with it because they prefer something standard that has been predefined by somebody else."
"The solution is a little weak at the front end."
"There is room for improvement in anti-money laundering prevention and operation monitoring, as well as operation monitoring surveillance."
"The charts and tables could use better sorting, primarily using other variables than the ones on the figure. If they could implement views like in the older version (previous to Viya), it would be very nice."
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