We performed a comparison between QlikView, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"I had the option to prepare data myself instead of always having to depend on the data team."
"It has user-friendly data visualization features, supporting our decision-making process with its business intelligence capabilities"
"The most valuable aspect is its extensive library on Microsoft, providing a robust framework for implementation."
"It is a stable product."
"The user interface and dashboards are very good."
"Our Qlikview applications help us to get a good idea of our Client Base Performance and assist us in the decision making for Seasonal Specials. On the other hand QlikView helps us to get a grasp on our Suppliers and helps us to negotiate pricing with them."
"Easy to analyze data by click-through."
"We find that we can scale it as needed."
"One of the most valuable features of SAP BusinessObjects is that it's not a dashboarding solution. It's a real product. You can create operational reports and publish it to anyone. You can create schedules. You can create a Universe, semantic layers. There's also a security configuration. It's a huge product, so if there is a business need, SAP BusinessObjects can cover it."
"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 solution's user security is extremely effective. You can profile very well. All the users and all the functionality is protected and that includes information and data segregation."
"There are two tools inside BusinessObjects' schematic layout called the Universal Design Tool and Information Design Tool. These are the most powerful tools that set BusinessObjects' reporting from other solutions. If my organization has 300 or 400 tables, I can combine all of them into one universe, and everyone can use that. It is just a schematic layout that does not hold any data but the table relationships."
"It is solid and stable."
"Enables us to present data with Smart Objects that can be embedded within presentations and which automatically update when the presentations are run."
"What I like the most about SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform is that it has significantly improved our decision-making process."
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"When compared to Power BI, Tableau has more readily available resources."
"There is a lot of APIs available, which means that Tableau can be customized to a large extent."
"Scheduled extract and the multiple connectors are fantastic!"
"It is a complete solution allowing a lot of integrations, different graphics, multiple operations and analyzes our date and gives us meaning from it."
"I have found Tableau easy to use and the features are superb."
"Tableau is easy to use."
"It's very easy to set everything up."
"Compared to other products, visualization features are really good."
"They could provide a user-friendly analysis process rather than specialized IT resource code."
"The user interface is old."
"For me, it is important to have a mix, what is the "view" and what is the "sense", Qlik Sense. They have two tools, but for me it is important to have only one tool, which combines the functions that we have from one side and the other side."
"I would like to see more advanced features from Qlik Sense integrated into QlikView to keep it competitive and up-to-date."
"The only thing I would improve about it is the fact that it refreshes all the time, and when it does that, it just deletes all the options you had, all the filters that you had selected, so you need to select them from the beginning."
"They could improve the update time."
"Although Qliktech's road map clearly states that QlikView has a long way to go, most of the R&D effort seems to be benefiting Qlik Sense."
"Sometimes the filters are disappearing, and I'm not sure why this is happening."
"They could reduce the licensing expenses. There is nothing really wrong with the product in terms of what it does. It works well. If you are a part of BI Launch Pad, then you could run ad hoc reporting, but for the integration, you need access to BI Launch Pad, which is quite expensive. We're an organization with 18,000 employees. It is not really practical to give people access to BI Launch Pad. So, from a customer perspective, in terms of saturating our employee base, we don't really have great saturation because of the expense."
"This product could be improved with Cloud Integrations and Predictive Analytics functions integration."
"The combination of Lumira along with Design Studio merger last year still needs development from a visualization standpoint."
"The dashboard tool is called Lumira and it is very uncomfortable for developers to use. They should improve this in the future."
"The calculation engine requires some improvement."
"The SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform has always struggled with dashboarding."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"I don't like the fact that I have to use two tools. Web Intelligence is good for reporting and all kinds of stuff, but I would rather have one product. All the reporting features of Web Intelligence should be developed within Lumira. A lot of predictive abilities have been brought into the cloud version of SAP Analytics. It would be nice to see a lot of newer technologies and AI. Predictive capabilities are becoming a little more standard. Instead of having to get another model, we are just looking for one solution to deal with analytics including predictive."
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"Tableau's data modeling, mining, and AI library features need improvement."
"The forecasting feature in Tableau in my view is too limited because it must have dates but I should be able to predict the outcome of an event without having a date as part of the input."
"The development part should be better. We are putting a lot of effort in during development, so if we face any struggles, we have to find workaround solutions on the internet."
"With performance tuning, it generates a pretty complex query when it is not required."
"It would be nice to include more features on each dashboard."
"Its documentation can be improved so that a user can get a good hands-on experience. Tableau is well documented, and on their website, there are a lot of tutorials that are available for free. I started my learning process through those tutorials, but there are certain loopholes in those tutorials, which only got filled through a couple of good YouTube channels that talk about Tableau. YouTube helped me a lot. So, the documentation could be better, I understand that it is evolving day by day, and with more usage, there would be more such documentation."
"I would like Tableau to handle geospatial data better in terms of multiple layers and shapefiles."
"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."
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