We performed a comparison between SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Tableau, and TIBCO Spotfire based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."BusinessObjects can handle a lot of usage on the front end, and many users can view these reports. It's a relatively stable and secure tool."
"The report development tool called SAP Web Intelligence under the BI Launch Pad portal has been the most valuable feature."
"The setup is pretty easy. It's not hard at all."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that we are able to build all dashboards with self-service BI and are able to provide our business users with self-service BI. We are building a repository on top of our data warehouse and building all the dashboards and KPIs."
"What I like the most about SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform is that it has significantly improved our decision-making process."
"We find the product to be very stable."
"The feature that allows pivot users to create the report dashboards and run them when they want with a lot of flexibility with the drill-downs is very useful. The drill-down features are very good because, in other solutions, such as Excel, you have to create separate pivot tables and a lot of other operations to do drill-downs. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform tool does the drill-downs automatically. Overall the solution is user-friendly and has a lot of drag and drop features."
"We find that we can scale it as needed."
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"Tableau has many different connectors for different databases. It's very easy to connect to MySQL, SQL Server, Amazon EMR, Presto, Redshift, BigQuery, and so on."
"I consider Tableau to be the best analytical tool available. It's really handy to use and can be used by non-technical people."
"The ability to deploy is the added ability to centralise the Tableau repository for all Tableau Developers."
"Good data flow and management."
"It is an excellent tool for data capture, processing, and visualization."
"Very user friendly."
"The most valuable feature is the user experience."
"It has been the best tool to work with from a self-service point of view."
"I appreciate Spotfire's range of visualization options, advanced analytics features, and seamless integration with other TIBCO products."
"One of the main features is integrated statistical analysis."
"The solution is an affordable one."
"The ability to create a real-time data mark, using just one piece of software, is the best feature of this product."
"Spotfire is excellent for scientific applications, especially because of its integration with RNG."
"The out-of-the-box features are simple and easy to use across the board."
"Data discovery is very simple."
"The two features that I have found most valuable are its ability to customize the dashboards when it comes to the evaluation. The second feature is its ability to handle a large amount of data, which is also something very unique about it."
"Over the years, the product tends to rename and rebrand itself and change its direction. This is a deficit of the solution."
"There should be more integration with other platforms."
"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."
"It needs to be more flexible for the end-user."
"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."
"The interface could be slicker and more user-friendly."
"Integrations with things like Active Directory and LDAP tend to be a little complex."
"Its data visualization tool is not as good as Power BI and Tableau. Currently, for data visualization, you need to spend more money to buy another solution such as Power BI or Tableau. It is also very hard to integrate it with other third-party solutions. Its integration with other solutions should be improved."
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"When I've done presentations in the past, I've had issues with uploading the cartography."
"Whenever it comes to specialized visualization, Tableau is an absolute failure."
"With Tableau, there is a gap in its ability to handle very large-scale data."
"The customization requires a lot of effort and should be simplified. The performance could be better."
"The cost of owning the solutions from Tableau is much higher compared to any other analytical solutions."
"I would like to be able to set the parameters in a more specific manner."
"I would like Tableau Prep to be integrated with Tableau Desktop. I would also like more customizations for tables."
"The charts need to be improved. The drawings and the visualization need to be more accurate."
"We would like an easier way to get the product to the cloud. Right now, we have the on-premise version, and we would like to find a way to make it easier to migrate it over to the cloud."
"The initial setup of TIBCO Spotfire is in the middle range of difficulty. The initial setup of Power BI is easier."
"When it comes to data manipulation, there are features which are good, but one of the features which has really been missing in Spotfire is an offline ability for data manipulation."
"The design of the UI could be improved."
"One aspect where Spotfire could improve is its global recognition, especially in terms of support."
"The number of charts available out of the box in Spotfire can be enhanced."
"We encountered difficulties connecting the special data sets, as the post data set did not contain any shared columns, making it difficult to establish a connection between the data sets."
"Personalising Spotfire, as a whole, is painful and is something that could be made easier."
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