We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI, Oracle Essbase, and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, SAP and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."If you are not very technical this tool could be very useful."
"It is very well integrated with other Microsoft products, including PowerApps and Excel, as well as Access, so it fits well into our workflow."
"The dashboard features are really valuable, you can connect to multiple data points."
"It offers a lot of information and is very flexible and interactive."
"What I like most is that I can do everything in Power BI that I can do in Excel."
"Users already using Excel can generate new reports and dashboards within minutes."
"What Power BI is, is a whole collection of templates of small amounts of data that can be used to do something for a real world project, that can be easily set up and become the business intelligence environment or a data warehouse for a large amount of data, for a real world customer. That's what is remarkable."
"The solution is easy to set up and implement."
"It helps us fetch specific data sets per users' requirements."
"The solution is scalable."
"I have found the most valuable aspect is the user-friendly environment and current features."
"It is highly efficient and easily scalable, particularly for handling large databases."
"Essbase is extremely stable and low-maintenance."
"The solution can handle a large volume of data."
"Unlike relational, where you're linking together multiple tables, with Essbase, you basically define what the dimensions are beforehand, and you define the hierarchy, and then load the data. This allows you to do a pretty sophisticated analysis so that you can drill into it and slice and dice the data."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"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."
"I have seen improvement in our work after using the solution."
"It can process big volumes of data fast."
"Way of creating reports."
"The planning and dashboarding features have been useful. Additionally, the fixed-format reports are good."
"The common metadata environment means that the entire organisation has the same definition of core measures rather than these being derived in spreadsheets or specific reports."
"It gives you a lot of flexibility in designing your dashboards."
"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."
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"The data source definition is all over the place."
"Integrating it with the physics build model or the engineering model should be included."
"Microsoft BI lacks some of the scheme features. It would be beneficial if there were a way to show how we move values in a different way."
"The solution could improve by having more attractive graphical charts."
"Better mapping capabilities and easier administration access would be beneficial, especially for understanding who has viewed reports."
"The initial installation is difficult."
"It needs more analytic tools."
"Microsoft is behind IBM when it comes to security features."
"I would like to see an integration with application performance management and a version control management tool."
"They should improve the solution's performance."
"There is room for improvement in terms of cost-effectiveness."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"The ability to drive external reporting out for development could be improved."
"Essbase has a programming language, and it has a couple of functions to do forecasting, however, their feature set for that is not that good."
"The initial setup is pretty complex."
"It's an expensive product to use."
"I would like to see their data visualization products enhanced and made more robust and easier to implement."
"Tableau was easier for me to use because the interface is more similar to Excel which I was used to using."
"They could reduce the licensing expenses. There is nothing really wrong with the product in terms of what it does. It works well. If you are a part of BI Launch Pad, then you could run ad hoc reporting, but for the integration, you need access to BI Launch Pad, which is quite expensive. We're an organization with 18,000 employees. It is not really practical to give people access to BI Launch Pad. So, from a customer perspective, in terms of saturating our employee base, we don't really have great saturation because of the expense."
"There is room for improvement in providing more user-friendly and versatile reporting options."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is an outdated solution that is missing many features."
"More thorough testing of Service Packs before release."
"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."
"It needs to be more flexible for the end-user."
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