We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI, Qlik Sense, 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."The most valuable features are the easy creation of reports, dashboards, and the ability to perform analysis. It is important for us to create reports because we have some operations during certain hours and we can use this tool to track the information."
"The DAX coding language is good for creating formulae."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"It's quite flexible, and it's easy to create reports using this system. It is very graphic and very user friendly."
"Microsoft BI's dashboards are helpful."
"The data can be accessed from anywhere."
"The use of graphics to show and view the data indicators is the most valuable feature. It is also very stable."
"The product can go easily go and extract data and it can put it into any format."
"It automates recurring processes to save time and money."
"It is extremely clean to view, easy to use, and intuitive to develop with. There are a host of online resources to provide assistance to new users."
"From siloed reports, we went to a centralized knowledge hub, combining cross-functional data, and helping decision-makers see the data as a whole, therefore making more informed decisions."
"The most valuable features of Qlik Sense are its speed and seamless development of web technologies."
"The changes in a dashboard are very easy."
"Self-service use of the desktop version with the ability to port applications into the server environment."
"The most valuable features are that Qlik has a very strong ATL available and the capacity to handle large volumes of data."
"The most valuable features of Qlik Sense are the integration and panel for reports. The integration is very fast even though we process a lot of information."
"The ability to merge dimensions in a report is great."
"BusinessObject's most useful feature is the semantic layer, which offers us the flexibility to go for ad hoc reporting."
"It allows the analysis of business data and enables decisions based on the analysis."
"The initial setup of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform was easy since the solution is user-friendly."
"It gives you a lot of flexibility in designing your dashboards."
"To share a metadata service layer, you don't need to add a user or write a SQL query. Instead, you can present a raw database to your end user."
"Enables us to present data with Smart Objects that can be embedded within presentations and which automatically update when the presentations are run."
"We find that we can scale it as needed."
More SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform Pros →
"I would like to see better, undisturbed stability without any interruptions."
"Adding paginated reports to this tool could be of great help for users who want to move away from SSRS."
"Compared to other applications, like Tableau, Microsoft BI doesn't have as many functions that allow you to do more in-depth analysis and represent the findings."
"The integration with third-party products could be more stable."
"I would prefer that the solution not be shared. I'm concerned that if we make a mistake we could reveal information to people who shouldn't see it. I would like to have my own on-prem server, to buy my own server and have my own infrastructure for Microsoft BI, with only with my data."
"I'm not overly technical, and so I can't really speak to any shortcomings from a technical standpoint."
"It's not user-friendly; more tutorials, training, and better documentation would be helpful."
"The default parameters of the prompt could be improved by including a dynamic option."
"Moving forward I would like to see more features that are currently available in QlikView, such as being able to better customize coloring within charts. I would also like to see the ability to add calculated dimensions to the selections tool in the page."
"The on-demand report generation button in Qlik Sense currently doesn't work if NPrinting requires Okta verification, which our company uses."
"I would like to see improvements in the Qlik Sense SaaS version, particularly in the front-end capabilities."
"They need to keep it as simple as possible but include as much advanced functionality as possible by positioning all the objects on the page, changing colors for all the objects, improving sheets actions, etc."
"Performing data transformations required a lot of programming, which is something that should be made easier."
"It would be nice to have more native features from QlikView built into Qlik Sense."
"I would like to see more types of visual elements and better configuration options for additional flexibility when developing charts."
"Qlik has a fast learning curve due to great online training resources (Qlik continuous classroom), but those are lacking the advance features like building extensions and using the API."
"This solution is complex to configure and administer."
"We're an Epic shop, and Epic is moving away from Crystal. It would be nice if it had tighter integration with products like Epic. It would be awesome to have better integration with third-party products."
"It needs to be more flexible for the end-user."
"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."
"More thorough testing of Service Packs before release."
"The calculation engine requires some improvement."
"The performance could be improved, like when we extract a large amount of data."
"The self-service area, or dashboard, needs some improvement. While the reporting itself is great, the dashboard and Analytics Cloud are not user friendly."
More SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform Cons →
More SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform Pricing and Cost Advice →