We performed a comparison between Oracle OBIEE, Qlik Sense, 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."The most valuable feature is the ability to set up the automated delivery of reports."
"It is a stable and scalable solution."
"The centralized metadata model component is most valuable."
"It has helped to consolidate data and report on a single version of the truth."
"The solution is easy to use and very flexible."
"Provides good data visualization features, and provides a lot of visualization reports from various data sources."
"For me, it makes the difference is in terms of our users being able to take advantage of a product which allows you to get access to data, reports, make decisions quickly, and have better insights regarding operations."
"It can be used with any type of data models, such as relational lines and dimensional lines."
"The solution is scalable."
"Set analysis is great for its power user capabilities such as performing an IF on an aggregated column. The ability to create custom coloring expressions based on values is also a good idea although not as easy as I wished it was."
"The most valuable feature is flexibility."
"The most valuable feature is the interface for the end-user."
"Qlik has a powerful load script that uses an enhanced SQL language which is excellent for loading and transforming the data."
"The data is incredibly easy to share with colleagues."
"It allows you to create a new column using split on a current column, which we find very useful."
"It automates recurring processes to save time and money."
"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."
"It has been extremely valuable, to combine data from various data sources."
"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."
"Reporting from SAP Business Objects Web Intelligence is amazing, and gives users the ability to quickly access data from existing universes and/or relevant data sources, without the need to involve a functional business analyst or financial analyst."
"BusinessObject's most useful feature is the semantic layer, which offers us the flexibility to go for ad hoc reporting."
"The platform is a complete enterprise-level tool where everything is integrated to suffice your requirement."
"It is stable and robust. It has pretty direct integration with SAP ERP. It is easy to use."
"This reporting and broadcasting solution has a lot of flexibilities and can connect to multiple source systems."
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"They should make the dashboard more intuitive."
"Oracle OBIEE is a product that is not easy to implement. The product is also not easy to use."
"The solution is too expensive for small firms."
"Oracle OBIEE only displays KPIs, but it does not include strategic objectives or display risk in a strategic map."
"I would like to see enhancements in tracking, debugging, and flexibility."
"The pricing model could be improved. Right now, it's quite confusing. Many customers have this feeling that it's a super-expensive option."
"Its overall organization as an analytical tool, the layout of OBIEE, is not very good."
"There are times we have slowness when processing the reports with Oracle OBIEE. Improving the performance would be beneficial."
"Performing data transformations required a lot of programming, which is something that should be made easier."
"The navigation is quite clunky and outdated."
"As we are a very process-oriented company, we would like to see more extensions maintained from Qlik, because it's a huge budget problem to choose the right one."
"The next version should include more standard integrations."
"More focus needs to be on data streaming/real-time data reporting."
"The solution needs to make improvements to the licensing model. They need to make it more affordable at scale, and to make it more affordable for those companies at the low end of the market as well."
"Currently, we are not very happy with the iPad or iPhone app because it is not working as we want."
"Reload time is a limit since everyone wants real-time data."
"More thorough testing of Service Packs before release."
"Factoring in total implementation and maintenance costs, SAP BusinessObjects is too expensive. If you deal with a huge amount of data, you can go with BusinessObjects. However, if you are a medium-sized company with a modest amount of data, you can opt for another solution."
"The integration could be improved. The SAP suite has some integration problems and it has some huge development needs. For example, when you use Power BI, if you publish a dataset to the web, there is no issue in seeing the data with the report. The data and report are integrated automatically. Or when you use QlikView, when you publish the QVD file, the report is integrated with QVD. Also, with Tableau, when you publish the data, it's in the hyper database, in the memory, and the dashboard with data is integrated seamlessly. In the SAP side, it's not easy. There are lots of business layers. There are also some performance issues in the SAP BusinessObjects suite. They should focus on the technologies. We are partners and every step of the way, SAP asks us for money. If you want to see the products, the PDFs, if you want to learn the product, online training, etc., everything has a cost on the SAP site. Because of this, partners try to get to know the products on their own. SAP only focuses on the sales side—only money is important for SAP, not the quality. In that way, the operation is not easy on the SAP side. As a suggestion, they should focus on customers first instead of money."
"The user interface should be easier to use and navigate."
"The dashboard tool is called Lumira and it is very uncomfortable for developers to use. They should improve this in the future."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in providing more user-friendly and versatile reporting options."
"The UI could be updated a bit."
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