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."
"Technical support is helpful."
"There is a really nice insight feature that I enjoy using."
"Planning and integration are the most valuable features. It is useful for planning, and it is useful for integrating with on-prem or cloud SAP solutions."
"It integrates with third-party applications such as Google Drive and Excel,"
"I like the connectivity the solution provides with other products."
"SAP Analytics Cloud allows you to quickly perform various tasks in terms of virtualization. CyberArk itself requires some enhancements to better connect with other technologies. While it's easy to connect with SAP, using analytics tools may sometimes necessitate sourcing information from different platforms. You might need data from SAP or other technologies/platforms to access specific information not available within SAP. SAP is effective for managing storage and enhancing virtualization capabilities."
"The stories have really been helpful in looking at specific scenarios and analyzing trends over periods of time."
"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."
"The most important feature of BusinessObjects is its integration with the SAP ERP system. If an organization is using SAP as its ERP system, and they want to do business intelligence, reporting, or analysis, SAP BusinessObjects is the only tool that I see doing that quite efficiently. That's because of the fact it is tightly integrated, and it gives a good user experience in terms of faster reporting. Its integration is the feature that I have found most valuable, but there are also other factors."
"We find that we can scale it as needed."
"The solution's user security is extremely effective. You can profile very well. All the users and all the functionality is protected and that includes information and data segregation."
"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."
"The initial setup of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform was easy since the solution is user-friendly."
"What I like the most about SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform is that it has significantly improved our decision-making process."
"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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"AI doesn't work as well with SAP live connections."
"We are currently working on connectivity with S/4HANA, but we would like to have better connectivity with our legacy systems."
"Statistical analysis should be a bit more profound than it is."
"It's lacking a bit in maturity and we find we can't run our business off it until it's improved."
"The customizations need to be better."
"SAP Analytics cloud needs better exporting options."
"Custom visuals is another area of improvement. There are also some mobile features that are missing. There are features that aren't available on the mobile."
"However, there are areas of improvement, particularly in terms of visualization. The front-end interface of SAP Analytics Cloud is not as impressive as Tableau and Power BI. The charts in other solutions have a more visually appealing and customizable look, while in SAP Analytics Cloud, there's a lack of alignment between numbers and charts. This graphical aspect, especially concerning charts, is not as satisfactory in SAP Analytics Cloud compared to its counterparts."
"The dashboard tool is called Lumira and it is very uncomfortable for developers to use. They should improve this in the future."
"It could be a lighter solution."
"Currently, we can use Explore to do data discovering, but cannot generate charts."
"The platform should be a bit more user-friendly."
"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."
"Integrations with things like Active Directory and LDAP tend to be a little complex."
"It is not simple to use."
"Recently, it's become less stable if I am working on Citrix."
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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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