We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, 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."We have found the solution to be stable."
"What I like about Power BI is how fast you are able to create dashboards and how fast you are able to fetch the data. You can connect to the database or data source, and then you can design your dashboards very easily."
"The solution is easy to set up and implement."
"SSRS and the Tabular server/Vertipaq engine/DAX are probably the two most valuable components."
"What I like most is that I can do everything in Power BI that I can do in Excel."
"We have a lot of servers and applications from which we want reports, and it allows us to create reports from an SQL source or some other source."
"They find Power BI's data pull mechanism to be sufficient and cost-effective, especially considering the stability it provides. In comparison with other solutions, Power BI stands out as a fantastic choice. Therefore, I would definitely recommend sticking with the Pro license."
"The amount of customization that you can do is good, and it's relatively straightforward to do."
"We have scheduled reports delivered automatically to our business users using enterprise features."
"Its robustness is most valuable. It can handle massive amounts of data quickly. If it's properly configured and tuned, it can handle massive amounts of data very quickly to produce results. That to me is the number one feature."
"Can utilize SQL queries to generate reports directly."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the various scenarios the product offers and its stability."
"For me, it makes the difference is in terms of our users being able to take advantage of a product which allows you to get access to data, reports, make decisions quickly, and have better insights regarding operations."
"A great feature of the solution is its stability."
"The solution offers a wide range of software tools to meet various needs, such as those concerning reports, developer solutions like APEX and the integration of data."
"It has helped to consolidate data and report on a single version of the truth."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The development using SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is very good."
"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."
"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."
"Way of creating reports."
"The scheduling and publication features are very useful."
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"I cannot comment on the stability as we haven't yet used it for a big project."
"The integration with third-party products could be more stable."
"I would like to see some AI incorporated into this solution in the future."
"Actionable insights could be better."
"Microsoft BI lacks integration capabilities, so it needs to consider increasing its integration capabilities."
"It has limited performance capabilities in terms of connecting to large transactional databases, but it is fine for simple and quick queries from Excel spreadsheets or one table. The premium level is going to be more applicable for the higher transaction-level databases."
"Things can slow down if you create too many pages."
"When you go to the cloud, its licensing is not intuitive. It is a little bit complex. When you have to purchase a new license, it is difficult to understand on their website what exactly you need to pay and how you can group. It is something that is applicable to all Microsoft products. They're not always so simple and clear when it comes to licensing. Their support can also be better in terms of explaining how they resolved an issue and what steps they took to resolve it. They are able to resolve the issue, but they can be better at explaining the approach they took to resolve the issue. It could have something in the direction of machine learning. It can have some kind of integration with machine learning where you can ask for some reports with natural language."
"They should make the dashboard more intuitive."
"For a beginner, this is a product that is difficult to learn. You cannot learn it quickly."
"I would like to see Machine Learning included in this solution."
"OBIEE doesn't have audit logs."
"The solution needs to be easier to scale."
"It needs a better security management system."
"Expanding beyond pure data reporting and into analytics, or expanding data science, would be areas for improvement."
"Particularly on the Cloud, a lot of functionality has yet to be ported."
"Factoring in total implementation and maintenance costs, SAP BusinessObjects is too expensive. If you deal with a huge amount of data, you can go with BusinessObjects. However, if you are a medium-sized company with a modest amount of data, you can opt for another solution."
"I would like to see their data visualization products enhanced and made more robust and easier to implement."
"There should be more integration with other platforms."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is lacking dashboards and this would be the only reason we are looking for another solution."
"This solution is complex to configure and administer."
"The performance could be improved, like when we extract a large amount of data."
"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."
"The dashboard tool is called Lumira and it is very uncomfortable for developers to use. They should improve this in the future."
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