We performed a comparison between Alteryx and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Predictive Analytics solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Its initial setup is easy."
"Alteryx has helped us spend more time identifying results instead of performing analysis manually. It has helped us in our loading process, including scrubbing data and identifying data elements that need to be corrected. It enables us to understand our data sets a lot better."
"This is a drag-and-drop tool which is easy-to-use and yet can be customized by creating your own components."
"The most valuable feature of Alteryx is its performance. It is a powerful solution."
"The drag-and-drop features are useful for data scientists who do not like to code because it is already in the system."
"Good data transformation."
"Alteryx has made us more agile and increased the speed and effectiveness of decision making."
"It allows for manipulation and automation, which has greatly reduced the amount of time required per project."
"The features which the solution has been awesome. The way the data is fetched from the database, and the queries are executed, is unique using the Universe of Business Objects. That makes it unique and we could not find another solution that functions in a similar way. It's has a great way of receiving and executing queries."
"It allows the analysis of business data and enables decisions based on the analysis."
"The platform uses a lot of Java technologies so the performance and system-level management are tricky because it needs a lot of resources."
"The report development tool called SAP Web Intelligence under the BI Launch Pad portal has been the most valuable feature."
"It is a very good product, stable, and has good technical capabilities."
"Ease of report development is a key feature."
"It is stable and robust. It has pretty direct integration with SAP ERP. It is easy to use."
"It is solid and stable."
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"The event handling, such that the file system watcher, is in need of improvement."
"They should work on its pricing."
"The screen when you are looking into your workflows and your ETL processes needs to be improved. You cannot manage it very well."
"When a process completes there is a notification, but the notification does not include the process's name."
"Mastering Alteryx, a comprehensive solution, takes time. However, once you have gained proficiency with its layout and how to drag, drop, and connect components, it becomes remarkably easy, yet still thorough."
"In the database, it should be more functional and connect to more big data, especially using IPI."
"There is currently no cloud solution and this would be valuable for many clients."
"The server is too expensive for what you get and it really a designer desktop on a server."
"The performance could be improved, like when we extract a large amount of data."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is an outdated solution that is missing many features."
"The self-service area, or dashboard, needs some improvement. While the reporting itself is great, the dashboard and Analytics Cloud are not user friendly."
"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."
"The dashboard tool is called Lumira and it is very uncomfortable for developers to use. They should improve this in the future."
"The financial area in the solution has certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"The solution is not good for self-services, they can improve in this area."
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Alteryx is ranked 1st in Predictive Analytics with 74 reviews while SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is ranked 6th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 102 reviews. Alteryx is rated 8.4, while SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Alteryx writes "Feature-rich ETL that condenses a number of functions into one tool". 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". Alteryx is most compared with KNIME, Databricks, Dataiku Data Science Studio, RapidMiner and Microsoft Power BI, whereas SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, IBM Cognos and Oracle Essbase. See our Alteryx vs. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform report.
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