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."I had the option to prepare data myself instead of always having to depend on the data team."
"Once you open it up, you see everything that you can do."
"The scalability is there."
"Scripting as per a customer's need, which is a pretty cool feature and not available in other tools."
"We can scale it if we need to."
"The solution is fast."
"QlikView is a scalable solution that multiple users can easily use."
"The initial setup is not very complex."
"To share a metadata service layer, you don't need to add a user or write a SQL query. Instead, you can present a raw database to your end user."
"It gives you a lot of flexibility in designing your dashboards."
"It can process big volumes of data fast."
"The most valuable feature we have found to be the SAP BW, which is a warehouse tool. Additionally, it is an easy tool to use."
"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."
"We use it to identify critical KPIs to senior management."
"It has been extremely valuable, to combine data from various data sources."
"BusinessObjects can handle a lot of usage on the front end, and many users can view these reports. It's a relatively stable and secure tool."
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"Although Qliktech's road map clearly states that QlikView has a long way to go, most of the R&D effort seems to be benefiting Qlik Sense."
"There could be a feature to analyze the sales and accounting data of the client."
"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."
"They could improve the update time."
"It needs work with visualization."
"Improvement in collaboration, between that and publishing of reports and publishing of models."
"The user interface and ease of use takes a bit of a learning curve to pick up."
"It is really old. We are moving towards converting everything into a Power BI environment. We want to have a self-service type of BI environment where different levels of users in organizations can log onto a portal and retrieve the data they need or get the necessary insights for decision-making that's important for them or their business unit. They have built a new version of QlikView called QlikSense, which probably competes with newer BI tools, such as Power BI, but they are far behind. That's why we are moving towards a newer tool that's easier to use and has more visualizations to represent the data."
"Technical support may not always be timely or effective."
"The user interface should be easier to use and navigate."
"The SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform has always struggled with dashboarding."
"Most of the Apps right now are into dashboarding. This tool, for the Crystal Reports in the phase I'm primarily working on, does not have those dashboarding capabilities, like in the other advanced tools like Power BI or ClickView, and compared to them the dashboard generation is not that great."
"The dashboard tool is called Lumira and it is very uncomfortable for developers to use. They should improve this in the future."
"We would like to see a native version of BusinessObjects and Web Intelligence created for the cloud."
"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."
"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."
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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 Oracle Essbase. See our QlikView vs. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform report.
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