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.
"The most valuable feature of the tool is machine learning."
"The user interface is quite good for developing reports out of models."
"Easy to use."
"The most valuable features are on the application side, where you can design applications into your analytics on the platform."
"In the data warehouse, you're free to make changes. You can make everything text, meaning it's always a string. Even numbers appear as text, giving you the flexibility to work with all columns."
"Its user-friendliness is valuable. It is a product for end-users and not for IT, which is an advantage."
"Provides rich features for developing automated reports and dashboards."
"The features that are most valuable in SAP Analytics Cloud are the planning feature and the predictive analytics feature, though the planning feature needs to be more efficient."
"Through the use of Business Intelligence reporting and scheduling features, reports are generated and automatically sent according to a schedule. This has freed up countless hours spent performing the same tasks, month over month."
"Ease of report development is a key feature."
"It can process big volumes of data fast."
"Provides autonomy for all the business users to develop their own reports."
"The reports are most valuable. If it is a single-source universe, based on only one database, the performance, and the reporting tool is user-friendly, and users are very familiar with the tool and are comfortable using it."
"It is a very good product, stable, and has good technical capabilities."
"It is solid and stable."
"We use it to identify critical KPIs to senior management."
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"The scope is limited to a few accounts."
"I think it would be easier if there was another module created to retrieve only data."
"I am not happy with the predictive analytics features and smart features offered by the product, making them areas where improvements are required."
"An additional feature that needs to be added to SAP Analytics Cloud is exporting because right now, you can only export to PDF and PowerPoint. It would be good to have multiple export options, for example, to Excel and other apps. Pricing is an area for improvement in SAP Analytics Cloud, apart from exporting."
"The business intelligence features should be improved because there is a lack of functionality regarding that part."
"Technical support could be more helpful and responsive."
"They need more support for more languages, Python for example."
"We are currently working on connectivity with S/4HANA, but we would like to have better connectivity with our legacy systems."
"We would like to see a native version of BusinessObjects and Web Intelligence created for the cloud."
"There should be more integration with other platforms."
"Integrations with things like Active Directory and LDAP tend to be a little complex."
"It is limited for us because SAP is shifting toward the cloud, and we can't use a cloud solution for SAP BusinessObjects. SAP introduced a product called PlusTimes one or two years ago and another one that I believe was called Automatic BI. This tool is more powerful than BusinessObjects and other tools because it's provided in the cloud."
"Over the years, the product tends to rename and rebrand itself and change its direction. This is a deficit of the solution."
"I would like to see their data visualization products enhanced and made more robust and easier to implement."
"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."
"The admin features for disk space management need work. It's very difficult to manage the disk space by the application; good admin features and not included to allow you to do that. I don't believe that is in the latest version of the product either."
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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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