We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI, QlikView, and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."Microsoft BI's initial setup is very straightforward."
"We found the initial setup to be straightforward."
"With the out-of-the-box Data Platform and Business Intelligence ecosystem, you get the entire platform with a single license."
"The stability is great and continues to get better and better."
"The good part of it is that you can do whatever you want with it when it comes to building BI. In terms of languages, it supports Python, and it also natively supports R."
"The advantages of Microsoft Power BI stem from the fact that it is really easy to use. The drag and drop facilities provided by the product are good."
"It is easy to use. It has got a desktop where people can develop their own dashboards. Basically, we have figured out how to connect finance contracts and all programs for the government agency. So, they can see everything in a dashboard. So, it is very easy to use from a technical standpoint of view."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is real-time report tracking."
"This is a very cool application with endless options of creativity and visuals."
"Once you open it up, you see everything that you can do."
"We use QlikView for its cost-effectiveness and ease of integration with databases."
"The search feature: ability to see the related data."
"Scripting as per a customer's need, which is a pretty cool feature and not available in other tools."
"QlikView is one of the strongest tools, I would say. Also, it has a very vast capability to process the data"
"One of the good thing is that you can integrate different data source technologies. So you can model your environment without having any of our views running."
"A well designed app brings freedom of inquiry to meetings, allowing me to answer questions in real time and this has transformed progress and outputs of our monthly group meeting."
"It has been extremely valuable, to combine data from various data sources."
"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."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform's most valuable features are it has a great presentation layer. We can develop the presentation layer with drag-and-drop capabilities. For end-users and for our interns in the company can create reports and do their data analysis processes or works by using the objects that we created on the presentation layer by themselves."
"Way of creating reports."
"BusinessObject's most useful feature is the semantic layer, which offers us the flexibility to go for ad hoc reporting."
"The reporting features the solution offers are excellent."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that we are able to build all dashboards with self-service BI and are able to provide our business users with self-service BI. We are building a repository on top of our data warehouse and building all the dashboards and KPIs."
"Has features that can be leveraged to scale out and scale up."
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"Power BI shows reports on actual data, not metadata."
"The handling of the workspaces can be made more granular for user access rights. It can be managed a little bit better in terms of the connection to Active Directory so that we have more granular access rights. I am not sure if this is really possible or if we can solve it differently, but we need a lot of workspaces, and we are not sure how we can deal with it from the access rights perspective."
"The data source definition is all over the place."
"The performance of Microsoft BI could improve for large datasets and it would be beneficial to have more visualization features."
"Integrating it with the physics build model or the engineering model should be included."
"Lacks the ability to copy data from BI into PowerPoint."
"When there are large amounts of data being processed there are additional tools needed to handle it."
"It needs more graphics and overlays."
"Installation and deployment could be made easier and quicker."
"There is a challenge on the frontend when it comes to browsing data through QlikView, as it isn't entirely compatible with other platforms we use."
"Though the initial setup phase is simple, when it comes to the integration with the custom systems, the configuration and the compatibility sometimes take some more time."
"The only thing I would improve about it is the fact that it refreshes all the time, and when it does that, it just deletes all the options you had, all the filters that you had selected, so you need to select them from the beginning."
"The user interface and ease of use takes a bit of a learning curve to pick up."
"They should offer the capability to directly access data from SaaS environments, as it would simplify the migration process, and while it may seem like a minor enhancement, it would be beneficial to our clients."
"The solution should be mobile-responsive. It should also include drag-and-drop and slice-and-dice features."
"They could provide a user-friendly analysis process rather than specialized IT resource code."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"The financial area in the solution has certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform has to be improved performance-wise. The look and feel of this application, its scalability, setup, and technical support also need improvement."
"Integrations with things like Active Directory and LDAP tend to be a little complex."
"The solution is not good for self-services, they can improve in this area."
"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."
"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."
"Currently, we can use Explore to do data discovering, but cannot generate charts."
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