We performed a comparison between SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Yellowfin based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"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."
"It is solid and stable."
"We find the product to be very stable."
"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."
"We find that we can scale it as needed."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is definitely scalable."
"It has got great flexibility. As a reporting tool, it has a great deal of flexibility for numerous data resources that you can bring into it. It allows you to write your SQL query directly within the product. So, it allows you to do server-side joins instead of pulling all the data into Crystal Report to aggregate that data. It has great visualization. For the most part, it operates quite efficiently."
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"It is a central source of up-to-date data and information."
"It is able to create information dashboards for various users' throughout."
"It reduces time to reproduce reports, provides easy access to organisational data, and has the ability to generate a wide range of reports and analysis."
"We would like to see a native version of BusinessObjects and Web Intelligence created for the cloud."
"This product could be improved with Cloud Integrations and Predictive Analytics functions integration."
"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 interface could be slicker and more user-friendly."
"The calculation engine requires some improvement."
"Tableau was easier for me to use because the interface is more similar to Excel which I was used to using."
"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."
"Integrations with things like Active Directory and LDAP tend to be a little complex."
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"It needs more presentation/charting capabilities and integration with GIS."
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SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is ranked 6th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 102 reviews while Yellowfin is ranked 36th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is rated 7.8, while Yellowfin is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform writes "Web intelligence will work with any amount of data even if you have 10 million rows". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Yellowfin writes "Very scalable design and easy to implement. It can reside alongside more complex enterprise systems". SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, IBM Cognos and MicroStrategy, whereas Yellowfin is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Apache Superset, 9 Spokes, Tableau and SAP Crystal Reports.
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