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"We find the product to be very stable."
"We use it to identify critical KPIs to senior management."
"What I like the most about SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform is that it has significantly improved our decision-making process."
"Ease of report development is a key feature."
"If I were to compare it with Power BI and I wanted to build proper well-formatted reports, BusinessObjects Business Intelligence does that much better. Power BI is just getting into that space. They've concentrated more on visualization, which is what the SAP Lumira does. With Web Intelligence, you are able to build reports that users can interact with. They can also do a lot of querying themselves. It is robust in terms of security and integration. It is also quite scalable."
"Business analytics are the most valuable features of this solution; I don't have experience with the other functional features offered."
"The solution can scale."
"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."
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"The initial setup is quick and easy and you don't need special outside assistance to set everything up."
"Tableau is highly scalable. Now that they've introduced Hyper, you can create an extract of more than 5 million rows in minutes and then do your analysis."
"I have found many of the self-service features valuable."
"Tableau is a fantastic tool that provides impressive dashboards and customized reports."
"Data handling, visualizations, and aesthetics of it are the most valuable features."
"The product’s performance is better than other tools."
"The most valuable feature is the richness of its visualization and from a self-service standpoint, the ease of use."
"The most valuable features are the visualizations, the way they show the combination charts."
"The end-user reporting is very handy and the standard reports that can be achieved by using Jaspersoft Studio are quite impressive."
"The solution is standalone with the flexibility to use visualize.js to embed within the application."
"I give the stability of the solution a nine out of ten."
"We can set any property dynamically."
"With the online view, it's easier to create Ad Hoc reports. It has inbuilt reports so we can easily get data from the system and customize the fields."
"You can do quite a lot with it in terms of automated reports and dashboards."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten...The deployment process of TIBCO Jaspersoft is easy."
"We find the access restrictions on different user groups valuable."
"The platform should be a bit more user-friendly."
"The user interface should be easier to use and navigate."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"Its price should be better. It is expensive and not cost-effective. It should also be improved in terms of end-user experience. It requires further improvements for usability and ease of use. It should have more dashboarding metrics and much faster integration with ERP so that when you double click, you can instantly see the scenario-based result."
"We're an Epic shop, and Epic is moving away from Crystal. It would be nice if it had tighter integration with products like Epic. It would be awesome to have better integration with third-party products."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform has to be improved performance-wise. The look and feel of this application, its scalability, setup, and technical support also need improvement."
"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 combination of Lumira along with Design Studio merger last year still needs development from a visualization standpoint."
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"With Tableau, when you're dealing with very large datasets, it can be slow so the performance is an area that can be improved."
"An area needing improvement involves the complexity of the product should you need to alter a lot of parameters. If you have technical servers, much interface, different providers and more serious processes, that will be time consuming."
"The solution could improve the scalability, it is difficult to make changes."
"If I have to develop any, for example, pie charts, I can develop them just fine. However, if I have to develop a donut chart, that I cannot do it in a simple way. There are tricks that I need to use if I have to design a donut chart. It should be more flexible and provide more visualization options."
"They need a write-back; that is what is missing. If they get the write back to the database, they will be fully automated, but for the time being, they are not."
"The pricing is a bit higher than the competition. They'll need to lower it to stay competitive."
"The customization requires a lot of effort and should be simplified. The performance could be better."
"When you're working on a dashboard, you can't select multiple components at a time and align them, so you have to go one by one. This is very cumbersome."
"We'd like to see the community version offer a little bit more support and better documentation and we'd like the enterprise edition to have better pricing."
"I would like to see better support for big data."
"The stability of TIBCO Jaspersoft needs improvement."
"The reporting templates have room for improvement."
"Customization is an area with certain shortcomings in the solution that needs improvement."
"Currently, JSON format is the main format we use, however, in TIBCO Jaspersoft, XML format is the default and JSON did not work because TIBCO did not fix it."
"I would like to see some analysis done prior to data extraction. The data extraction itself could also be improved."
"The Ad Hoc Report Writer does not include as many features as Tableau and needs to be improved to meet expectations."
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