We performed a comparison between SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."Technical support is helpful."
"It's many features make it the best in the market."
"I like the connectivity the solution provides with other products."
"The SKU, the story build all are user- friendly. For the story build one just has to drag and drop it. And for the table, you just need some sort of selections and everything there."
"Its user-friendliness is valuable. It is a product for end-users and not for IT, which is an advantage."
"The features that are most valuable in SAP Analytics Cloud are the planning feature and the predictive analytics feature, though the planning feature needs to be more efficient."
"It is a comprehensive BI solution that provides reporting, planning, and predictive analytics in one solution. You don't have to buy three different products. It is very flexible. It can be implemented very quickly. It has a lot of out-of-the-box scenarios that you can use for quick deployment."
"The most valuable features are the analytical application and the user story."
"The ability to merge dimensions in a report is great."
"The scheduling and publication features are very useful."
"The web intelligence reporting tool and universe designer are the most valuable aspects of the solution."
"Provides autonomy for all the business users to develop their own reports."
"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."
"We find that we can scale it as needed."
"The solution can scale."
"It is a very good product, stable, and has good technical capabilities."
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"It provides business users with a tool, so they are not dependent on IT."
"The most important feature in Tableau is visual analytics."
"The most valuable features are the visualizations, the way they show the combination charts."
"While using this solution I have found the valuable features to be ease of use and the visualization. It is a complete solution."
"Tableau is easy to use."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the permission management and the user management."
"The most valuable feature is the richness of its visualization and from a self-service standpoint, the ease of use."
"It's very easy to visualize data with this product. The visualization maps of and frames that we have been able to cross-reference has been excellent."
"The connection works only for importing data. Currently, there is no real-time integration between SAP Analytics Cloud and CRM. There are some features present in the classic but not in the optimized version. If I need to create something specific, I often have to switch the versions. It would be more convenient to have a single product that incorporates all the necessary features."
"One potential improvement is how we can transpose data. With SAP, if you have data from one system with a declared data type and a different system with another data type, the transfer is tricky."
"Technical support could be more helpful and responsive."
"The business intelligence features should be improved because there is a lack of functionality regarding that part."
"Currently only one data modeler can work at a time."
"Sometimes there are speed issues with big deletion data."
"They need a better scalability rate."
"Sometimes we have difficulty connecting to a SharePoint list."
"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 could be a lighter solution."
"Currently, we can use Explore to do data discovering, but cannot generate charts."
"It is limited for us because SAP is shifting toward the cloud, and we can't use a cloud solution for SAP BusinessObjects. SAP introduced a product called PlusTimes one or two years ago and another one that I believe was called Automatic BI. This tool is more powerful than BusinessObjects and other tools because it's provided in the cloud."
"Recently, it's become less stable if I am working on Citrix."
"More thorough testing of Service Packs before release."
"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."
"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."
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"With Tableau, there is a gap in its ability to handle very large-scale data."
"Include forecasting on table calculation fields."
"Tableau support could be improved."
"If they could add global filters in the stories, more chart types, and default colours, it would help."
"Provide additional enhancements in any business process: Operations, Marketing and Sales, Finance, Human Resources, Logistics, etc."
"I would like to be able to set the parameters in a more specific manner."
"Overall, the only major frustration that I have had so far is with Tableau Public. I first used Tableau Public when I was building capacity, and when there was a later release to download and you wanted to upgrade, all your work would have to be manually re-entered."
"Other tools are more competitively priced."
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