We performed a comparison between SAP Analytics Cloud vs SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: SAP Analytics Cloud has the winning edge in this comparison. Customers were more satisfied with SAP Analytics Cloud’s pricing and robust features.
"I like the predictive features of SAP. It's easy to use tools for an end-user."
"SAP Analytics Cloud is easy to create charts with, and is a stable business intelligence platform. Easy to set up solution."
"The features that I have found most valuable with SAP ERP products are their good user interface, stability, functionality, and good interface options."
"Provides rich features for developing automated reports and dashboards."
"One feature I've found most valuable is discovery."
"The visualizations have been the most valuable feature."
"The visualization feature is the most valuable. SAP Analytics Cloud is also very easy to use."
"The SKU, the story build all are user- friendly. For the story build one just has to drag and drop it. And for the table, you just need some sort of selections and everything there."
"Ease of report development is a key feature."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is definitely scalable."
"We are using SAP BusinessObjects because its scheduling capabilities are more powerful than those of other tools."
"The reporting features the solution offers are excellent."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"What I like the most about SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform is that it has significantly improved our decision-making process."
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"Statistical analysis should be a bit more profound than it is."
"It's lacking a bit in maturity and we find we can't run our business off it until it's improved."
"SAP Analytics Cloud should improve the dashboard."
"Pricing is fine for the BI license, but when it comes to client license, that fee is a bit high."
"It still lacks a lot of functionalities as compared to other tools such as Power BI or Tableau. Sorting is not working as well as it works in Tableau. A lot of other things are also not at the same level. Their technical support is not perfect and could be better. It takes a lot of time to have lacking functionalities implemented. Its integration with the BW backend should be better. Both solutions are from the same vendor. They position SAP Analytics Cloud as a reporting tool on top of the BW environment, but the integration between both is not yet 100%. For example, user management is still not synchronized."
"Currently only one data modeler can work at a time."
"The scope is limited to a few accounts."
"SAC, which is the cloud version, lost some good features from the previous planning product, like BPC or BPS."
"The solution can improve by having more analytical features."
"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."
"Over the years, the product tends to rename and rebrand itself and change its direction. This is a deficit of the solution."
"Technical support may not always be timely or effective."
"The calculation engine requires some improvement."
"This solution is complex to configure and administer."
"Most of the Apps right now are into dashboarding. This tool, for the Crystal Reports in the phase I'm primarily working on, does not have those dashboarding capabilities, like in the other advanced tools like Power BI or ClickView, and compared to them the dashboard generation is not that great."
"Integrations with things like Active Directory and LDAP tend to be a little complex."
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SAP Analytics Cloud is ranked 5th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 60 reviews while SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is ranked 6th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 103 reviews. SAP Analytics Cloud is rated 8.0, while SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of SAP Analytics Cloud writes "Good for reporting but needs to improve its predictive analytics features". On the other hand, 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". SAP Analytics Cloud is most compared with Tableau, IBM Planning Analytics, Microsoft Power BI, Anaplan and IBM Cognos, whereas SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, IBM Cognos, Oracle Essbase and Looker. See our SAP Analytics Cloud vs. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform report.
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