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"The setup isn't too difficult."
"A great feature of the solution is its stability."
"There are a lot of functions in the product, including a drill-down functionality and level-based hierarchies that are very attractive."
"It has a lot workaround in order to do the report. data blending, and getting information from big data sources."
"I like the cloud deployment feature. There are about 20 new features, and they are available on mobile and more. I haven't used any of them, but these features are highly attractive."
"It has helped to consolidate data and report on a single version of the truth."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the various scenarios the product offers and its stability."
"It provides excellent stability."
"It gives you a lot of flexibility in designing your dashboards."
"Enables us to present data with Smart Objects that can be embedded within presentations and which automatically update when the presentations are run."
"We use it to identify critical KPIs to senior management."
"It has been extremely valuable, to combine data from various data sources."
"The platform is a complete enterprise-level tool where everything is integrated to suffice your requirement."
"The Dynamic HTML (DHTML) client option of Webi has been enhanced adding features that were previously only available with the Java client including conditional formatting and support of XLS as a data provider."
"Ease of report development is a key feature."
"We are using SAP BusinessObjects because its scheduling capabilities are more powerful than those of other tools."
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"The speed to display charts and react to users' choices is great."
"We've found the product to be stable and reliable."
"I believe that the possibilities for exploring data and formulating visual results are quite good because it allows the business analyst to have different perspectives on the data."
"Great for handling complex data models."
"It's relatively simple to create basic dashboards and reports."
"It integrates well with SAS, making it simple and quick for developers."
"The alert generation feature also helps in sending out ad hoc messages to the business users if business thresholds have been crossed."
"It's quite easy to learn and to progress with SAS from an end-user perspective."
"Setup and migration are very complex. Technically, Oracle accessory is extremely complex. These days, the industry demands a kind of Excel analysis, which is very easy to install, set up, and it's very developer-friendly as well as end-user friendly. OBIEE lacks all those features."
"The performance could improve and in a future release, they could provide more virtualization options."
"The platform's data visualization features need improvement."
"The main problem we face is migrating all of the reports into the solution."
"Implementation is cumbersome and requires expertise."
"While it is a user-friendly, data-driven tool, the data modeling should be easier to use."
"I would like to see enhancements in tracking, debugging, and flexibility."
"In the on-premises version, the feature for connecting and selecting the data between the databases looks a bit cumbersome, but I am not sure. The person who is using it takes a lot of time to design a data warehouse. When I ask him why is it taking this long, I get a response that this is something that he has to design, and there are different tools that are available. He has to write the ETL and design the warehouse according to the customer's requirement, which takes a lot of time. Its visualization should be enhanced, and there should be a feature where you can easily create your custom data warehouse."
"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."
"The solution is not good for self-services, they can improve in this area."
"We would like to see a native version of BusinessObjects and Web Intelligence created for the cloud."
"It could be a lighter solution."
"The financial area in the solution has certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"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."
"Its price should be better. It is expensive and not cost-effective. It should also be improved in terms of end-user experience. It requires further improvements for usability and ease of use. It should have more dashboarding metrics and much faster integration with ERP so that when you double click, you can instantly see the scenario-based result."
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"There are a few little things that are predefined and can be done out of the box immediately. There is no business intelligence application that is predefined, which is something some customers or prospects would love to have. Small and mid-sized companies would struggle with it because they prefer something standard that has been predefined by somebody else."
"It is not as mature as competitors such as Tableau and QlikView."
"The product is expensive and needs the integration of more languages."
"The installation process can be a bit complex."
"The charts and tables could use better sorting, primarily using other variables than the ones on the figure. If they could implement views like in the older version (previous to Viya), it would be very nice."
"The reason we haven't rolled it out across the board is due to the fact that the licensing is so expensive."
"Colours used on report objects"
"The visualization should be better in SAS Visual Analytics. It is easy to use but when compared to other solutions it is lacking and the support is not very good."
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