We performed a comparison between Knowage and Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in Reporting."The embedding feature is great."
"We can easily do our own customizations."
"The concept of engines is quite powerful allowing the user to work with report authoring/provisioning tools of their choice."
"I can't name the features the way the Knowage community calls them because I still don't know the lingo. However, I can describe them. I like the ability to join more than one report, set all fields on one end, and replicate that on the other reports. I like that a lot. I think it's one of the features that got me using Knowage. They have tables, and I like that too. They took SQL scripts and many other scripts and enabled them to even correlate with Python. That's also one of the best things about Knowage. You could also decide to get information per user role, and this is also a feature that I like in Knowage."
"The SQL Server Reporting Services makes it very easy to get the data whenever we need it."
"In Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, the installation and configuration are easy."
"It is scalable."
"The solution's features are all just wrapped up in one nice easy package. I don't need a lot of toolsets to get everything I need done."
"We get good support from Microsoft."
"The initial setup is easy."
"I am impressed with the product's seamless integration. It can work with different databases like Oracle."
"I like Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services' automated reporting feature."
"The dashboard components could be better."
"It would be better if more resources were available to help us learn how to use it. I wanted to use Knowage for a more extended period, but learning materials around the product were not really available and were not really straightforward. I've also seen inconsistencies between versions. For example, under the tools, especially in the cockpit, the way you create reports is now different. You will also find some configurations within a particular state, like a line chart, which differs from version to version. I think consistency is an essential feature in a product, especially for business intelligence products."
"The only challenge here is that it's a Java-based platform. It requires very high technical skills."
"Development of SpagoBI has now been moved to Knowage. Users interested in further developments of the platform will have to look there."
"In this solution, the cost should be reduced for the enterprise edition."
"The solution's interface is old."
"I would like the solution to add the scheduling feature for reports."
"It doesn't have quite the flexibility of a Tableau or something like that. Many users are more comfortable with Tableau and I'm not quite sure why that is right now, but it seems to be the case."
"We encounter some barriers while trying to build a report."
"Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services needs to improve performance."
"Sometimes, we need to make sure that the configuration stays consistent across the reporting instances. They all connect to the same database. So, it shares that same backend, but the reporting services itself can also be configured. On the application level, for reporting level. And it is, based on my own experience, it is a manual effort to make sure that the reporting servers are configured the same across the environment."
"The setup is difficult because you have to install different servers."
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Knowage is ranked 23rd in Reporting while Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is ranked 8th in Reporting with 14 reviews. Knowage is rated 7.6, while Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Knowage writes "Easy to customize, cross-platform capable, and very stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services writes "Offers useful templates but needs to improve the connectivity offered". Knowage is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Pentaho Business Analytics and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, whereas Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, TIBCO Jaspersoft, Tableau, SAP Crystal Reports and Oracle OBIEE.
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