We performed a comparison between SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and TIBCO Spotfire based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two BI (Business Intelligence) Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."BusinessObject's most useful feature is the semantic layer, which offers us the flexibility to go for ad hoc reporting."
"The setup is pretty easy. It's not hard at all."
"Enables us to present data with Smart Objects that can be embedded within presentations and which automatically update when the presentations are run."
"It is stable and robust. It has pretty direct integration with SAP ERP. It is easy to use."
"It can process big volumes of data fast."
"The web intelligence reporting tool and universe designer are the most valuable aspects of 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."
"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."
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"We used it pretty heavily in gathering data, which goes to our VPs. They are able to base their next revenue planning based on this metric. So, it has been invaluable."
"One of the main features is integrated statistical analysis."
"We particularly like the data angling feature of this solution. This gives us the ability to work on data transformations, join files, and carry out other data preparation tasks all in a single tool."
"Live Query data on demand, R and Python integration, and the ability to write HTML and JavaScript text areas are all valuable features."
"From a scalability standpoint, I would say it's pretty fantastic."
"The ability to create a real-time data mark, using just one piece of software, is the best feature of this product."
"It’s stable and straightforward."
"The most valuable features of TIBCO Spotfire are visualization. It's very nice, clear, and, flexible. You can analyze many data types and the user interface is very good."
"The performance could be improved, like when we extract a large amount of data."
"We would like to see a native version of BusinessObjects and Web Intelligence created for the cloud."
"SAP BusinessObjects is actually losing popularity within our company because people find the user interface and the way things are set up not to be as easy as many other tools that are on the market, like Qlik and things like that."
"I would like to see their data visualization products enhanced and made more robust and easier to implement."
"This solution is complex to configure and administer."
"Technical support may not always be timely or effective."
"It would be good if they could integrate the possibility for end users to create end models for themselves that they can use, especially for site operators, and if they could provide the end user not only the self-service BI, but also the self-service analytics, based on a predefined model, the same way that Oracle did."
"The user interface should be easier to use and navigate."
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"The design of the UI could be improved."
"The number of charts available out of the box in Spotfire can be enhanced."
"The initial setup of TIBCO Spotfire is in the middle range of difficulty. The initial setup of Power BI is easier."
"Compared to competitors, the UI is quite dated."
"When you do the data loading, it is slow."
"We would like to see some improvement in the default properties of the solution, so that there is less need for us to spend our time coding."
"The initial setup can be difficult."
"Print capability and trigger-based events."
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SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is ranked 6th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 102 reviews while TIBCO Spotfire is ranked 10th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 66 reviews. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is rated 7.8, while TIBCO Spotfire is rated 8.2. 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 TIBCO Spotfire writes "A robust BI tool, with good dashboard features and adverse event tracking". SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, IBM Cognos and Oracle Essbase, whereas TIBCO Spotfire is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, QlikView, Qlik Sense and Amazon QuickSight. See our SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform vs. TIBCO Spotfire report.
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