We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"It is low-cost and easy to deploy. It is fully-featured."
"The product is stable."
"The user interface is easy to work with."
"PowerBi is used to import our production data and generate dashboards, then integrates other Excel sheets to provide managers dashboards. This helps them get insights to make better OEE improvement decisions, mainly where to focus resources. We became able to see indicators from any time frame (day, week, month, or year), then could make better decisions."
"Considering that it's Microsoft, it can be integrated with the Power Platform, which is also Microsoft-based, like SharePoint, Power apps, Power Automate, and Power BI, which is the most user-friendly."
"Easy to use and the visualization is valuable."
"The most valuable feature would be the abundance of connectors. It is also easy to use."
"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 setup is pretty easy. It's not hard at all."
"The scheduling and publication features are very useful."
"It has been extremely valuable, to combine data from various data sources."
"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."
"I have seen improvement in our work after using the solution."
"The planning and dashboarding features have been useful. Additionally, the fixed-format reports are good."
"The reporting features the solution offers are excellent."
"We find the product to be very stable."
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"It's very easy to use and users don't need any IT support to access it as the information is right there."
"I love the customization skills that Tableau has, it is not restricted to what is built-in already."
"One of the most valuable features is that the solution allows users to build interactive dashboards. This allows the end user to modify the criteria or the filtering if need be. As far as for my personal use as a QA Engineer, I really value how extensive their API document support has been."
"Tableau is easy to use and it has great predictive features."
"The ability of filtering and segmentation of the data makes it very flexible compared to other tools."
"It is a complete solution allowing a lot of integrations, different graphics, multiple operations and analyzes our date and gives us meaning from it."
"The most valuable feature is the interface, which is user-friendly and intuitive."
"Tableau has data relationships that can be applied to a data source which helps build out a directory which is helpful. Data blending has also been valuable to us."
"It has come a long way in terms of how it was working two years ago, but there are some things that you still can't do with it. For example, permission management and user access management are still a bit limited. It is basically based on the idea that everybody from the organization can see everything or limit the type of data they can see. If I want you to see only one report and the other guy to see another report, I can't do it. There should be a better way to manage permissions and users. It should also support external users much better."
"For someone who is new, I think that Power BI can be a little complicated."
"The UI looks awkward once the graphs have been generated in the console. This is what Microsoft can work on."
"I find the solution to be 70 percent stable."
"Microsoft BI can improve some of the visual level filters or visual functionality, that are available in other BI tools, such as Tableau or Qlik Sense."
"Our expectation is putting BI to work in real-time data collection systems in the maritime environment."
"One of the more difficult things to do is to export some of the data from Power BI to Excel."
"Maybe they can enhance the UI a bit. Right now, it's very basic, I would say, compared to the MicroStrategy or Qlik."
"The dashboard tool is called Lumira and it is very uncomfortable for developers to use. They should improve this in the future."
"I would like to see their data visualization products enhanced and made more robust and easier to implement."
"The admin features for disk space management need work. It's very difficult to manage the disk space by the application; good admin features and not included to allow you to do that. I don't believe that is in the latest version of the product either."
"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."
"This product could be improved with Cloud Integrations and Predictive Analytics functions integration."
"There is still a lot to be done on the mobile side to make Web Intelligence truly seamless between the desktop and mobile versions and I would like to see SAP pay a lot more attention to this."
"The SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform has always struggled with dashboarding."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
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"The price of Tableau is too high."
"Creating empty extracts is not easy."
"I would like them to include the Italian language, as I can see there are other foreign language in the product."
"Some of our clients are looking for better UI when using Tableau as they often work with this solution directly."
"SAP BusinessObjects has some semantic layer designs that give the flexibility to do ad hoc reporting or dashboard designing. If that can be brought into Tableau, it would be great. We have the data in the database, but we should also be able to bring something between the database and the dashboard and do some semantic layer modeling for ad hoc reporting requirements."
"I think Tableau could be improved with cheaper or more flexible licensing, though this is a generic improvement and applies for any product. It would be better if they had more flexible payment and licensing plans so that they could suit small- and mid-sized organizations."
"Tableau support could be improved."
"The product needs to allow for better ways to drill down more effectively on the information at hand."
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