We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI, SAP Analytics Cloud, 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."Technical support has been great."
"Provides good data flow related to the container and control flow."
"The visualization and reporting are the most valuable features of this solution."
"It gives you an edge if you are on the Microsoft platform. If you have been using Microsoft products for a long time or if you have the Microsoft infrastructure, this is the right tool for you. It has seamless integration with Microsoft SQL Server and other sources, and you get the best of the three things (SSIS, SSAS, and SSRS) in one suite."
"PowerBI – Self-service BI."
"Technical support is quite good."
"The user interface is easy to work with."
"Microsoft BI is scalable."
"I have found that the feature to drag and drop widgets based on the data source, and import them into stories to be valuable. This way it helps the end user to create stories themselves."
"Real-time data makes for a single version of the truth."
"The visualization feature is the most valuable. SAP Analytics Cloud is also very easy to use."
"Technical support is helpful."
"Considering the reporting part, I rate the tool a nine out of ten."
"The ease of use of the solution is its most valuable feature. We haven't tried all of the features yet. The graphing and the ease of using the analytics tools have been great. It's all drag and drop; you don't need to code anything."
"The most valuable features are on the application side, where you can design applications into your analytics on the platform."
"I would recommend this solution for companies that are SAP dependent with users working in this environment."
"The reports are most valuable. If it is a single-source universe, based on only one database, the performance, and the reporting tool is user-friendly, and users are very familiar with the tool and are comfortable using it."
"It can process big volumes of data fast."
"The report development tool called SAP Web Intelligence under the BI Launch Pad portal has been the most valuable feature."
"Ease of report development is a key 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 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."
"BusinessObject's most useful feature is the semantic layer, which offers us the flexibility to go for ad hoc reporting."
"Business analytics are the most valuable features of this solution; I don't have experience with the other functional features offered."
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"It is too slow. I hope in future it will be a comparable big data tool, such as, for example, Data Lake."
"I'm not overly technical, and so I can't really speak to any shortcomings from a technical standpoint."
"Their technical support can be better. They normally take too long to escalate and resolve a case."
"BI is scalable, but there are some problems with limited online storage."
"Adding paginated reports to this tool could be of great help for users who want to move away from SSRS."
"It should be easier to use when there are multiple system sources."
"Microsoft BI's visualization could be better. Though Power BI's visualization has steadily improved over the years, it's not on the level tools like Tableau and SAS or some of the more expensive products on the market."
"The solution is somewhat costly in comparison with MSBI tools."
"Sometimes we have difficulty connecting to a SharePoint list."
"One area for improvement in SAP Analytics Cloud is incorporating Python into the coding. That functionality is available, but it's not as efficient, and it's a bit difficult sometimes to do it, so that could be improved."
"Connection and integration with other applications have a lot of restrictions at the moment."
"The integration with other vendors and solutions could be improved."
"Some of the standard visualizations, such as a speedometer or a goal chart, are not there and should be added."
"We are currently working on connectivity with S/4HANA, but we would like to have better connectivity with our legacy systems."
"The general management of this solution could be improved. The graphics or icons could also be improved to allow them to integrate with other environments on the web."
"It still lacks a lot of functionalities as compared to other tools such as Power BI or Tableau. Sorting is not working as well as it works in Tableau. A lot of other things are also not at the same level. Their technical support is not perfect and could be better. It takes a lot of time to have lacking functionalities implemented. Its integration with the BW backend should be better. Both solutions are from the same vendor. They position SAP Analytics Cloud as a reporting tool on top of the BW environment, but the integration between both is not yet 100%. For example, user management is still not synchronized."
"Technical support may not always be timely or effective."
"This product could be improved with Cloud Integrations and Predictive Analytics functions integration."
"The admin features for disk space management need work. It's very difficult to manage the disk space by the application; good admin features and not included to allow you to do that. I don't believe that is in the latest version of the product either."
"The platform should be a bit more user-friendly."
"The combination of Lumira along with Design Studio merger last year still needs development from a visualization standpoint."
"Tableau was easier for me to use because the interface is more similar to Excel which I was used to using."
"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."
"The user interface should be easier to use and navigate."
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