We performed a comparison between QlikView and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Reporting solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"The most valuable feature of QlikView is the integration with other third-party tools."
"The scalability is there."
"On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL."
"The integration with Salesforce has helped us gain access to crucial sales data in real-time."
"QlikView is a scalable solution that multiple users can easily use."
"Data transforming with scripting, and the associative model that lets users browse data in an easy way, are the most valuable features."
"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to view the entire data available for analysis."
"It's pretty easy to deploy."
"It is solid and stable."
"The ability to merge dimensions in a report is great."
"It is more user-friendly and easier to work with the report creation part, creating reports out of an established universe. Maybe a business person could liberate the existing universe and create a report on top of it, as well. So that's one cool feature."
"The setup is pretty easy. It's not hard at all."
"The platform is a complete enterprise-level tool where everything is integrated to suffice your requirement."
"I have seen improvement in our work after using the solution."
"One of the most valuable features of SAP BusinessObjects is that it's not a dashboarding solution. It's a real product. You can create operational reports and publish it to anyone. You can create schedules. You can create a Universe, semantic layers. There's also a security configuration. It's a huge product, so if there is a business need, SAP BusinessObjects can cover it."
"Business analytics are the most valuable features of this solution; I don't have experience with the other functional features offered."
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"There is no automation or drag and drop functionality."
"Enhancing user-friendliness would be highly beneficial."
"Installation and deployment could be made easier and quicker."
"Sometimes, dealing with complex reports requires more effort, which could be really improved."
"If a user wanted to see something not included in the application the new object had to be created by a power user or developer because Qlik view's scripting has somewhat of a learning curve."
"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of a feature that would allow us to add a common library of (our) commands used in load scripts and expressions, so with a keyword, we would get a drop down to select the command we are looking for, as opposed to the generic help."
"Scalability really depends on the size of your data and QlikView server architecture. For the biggest data sets, it could become an issue at some point."
"Error handling."
"When we implemented BusinessObjects, the setup was straightforward. After SAP bought BusinessObjects, it gradually became more and more stepwise. There are too many steps, and they take too much time."
"The platform should be a bit more user-friendly."
"The dashboard tool is called Lumira and it is very uncomfortable for developers to use. They should improve this in the future."
"There is still a lot to be done on the mobile side to make Web Intelligence truly seamless between the desktop and mobile versions and I would like to see SAP pay a lot more attention to this."
"The self-service area, or dashboard, needs some improvement. While the reporting itself is great, the dashboard and Analytics Cloud are not user friendly."
"The biggest area for improvement would be the dashboarding capabilities due to the recent change from Xcelsius to Dashboard Designer. This has created a gigantic ripple in many companies because the skill sets required are drastically different."
"Recently, it's become less stable if I am working on Citrix."
"I really want SAP to focus on the dashboarding side. Based on what I have seen in the past 10 years, dashboarding has captured a lot of markets. Executives at the top-level want data that is summarized, looks good, and tells you a story. That's where Tableau, Qlik, and Power BI have an upper edge. It doesn't mean SAP doesn't give you dashboarding. They do have a dashboarding solution, but Tableau, Qlik, and Power BI are more intuitive and more attractive. I would like SAP to capture the dashboarding market as well, wherein they give at least some competition to other competitors. Presently, Tableau, Qlik, and Power BI are leading the market."
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QlikView is ranked 5th in Reporting with 158 reviews while SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is ranked 6th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 102 reviews. QlikView is rated 8.2, while SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of QlikView writes "Useful for data visualization and business intelligence". 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". QlikView is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, SQL Server and TIBCO Spotfire, whereas SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, IBM Cognos and MicroStrategy. See our QlikView vs. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform report.
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