Compare Google Data Studio vs. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform
Google Data Studio is ranked 22nd in Business Intelligence (BI) Tools with 3 reviews while SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is ranked 8th in Business Intelligence (BI) Tools with 9 reviews. Google Data Studio is rated 8.0, while SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Google Data Studio writes "Valuable features include advanced integrated analysis and easy implementation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform writes "Once you are stable on a BusinessObjects release, it is worth staying there for a while". Google Data Studio is most compared with Microsoft BI, Tableau and Amazon QuickSight, whereas SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Microsoft BI and Oracle OBIEE. See our Google Data Studio vs. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform report.
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This has improved our organization by allowing people to see their data and develop visualizations themselves. The ability to integrate with a great variety of data sources. The ability to design complex data models and equations. Valuable features include advanced integrated analysis and easy implementation. | 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. It is solid and stable. It gives you a lot of flexibility in designing your dashboards. We use it to identify critical KPIs to senior management. It has been extremely valuable, to combine data from various data sources. It can process big volumes of data fast. Through the use of Business Intelligence reporting and scheduling features, reports are generated and automatically sent according to a schedule. This has freed up countless hours spent performing the same tasks, month over month. Enables us to present data with Smart Objects that can be embedded within presentations and which automatically update when the presentations are run. |
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There is a significant degree of sophistication required to compete with Tableau or Cognos. Insisting on forums, blogs and community outreach in communications, and posting videos on an established calendar would be useful. Panels are not as easy to use as other data extraction UIs. It's not yet a replacement for a complete BI tool. | This solution is complex to configure and administer. Over the years, the product tends to rename and rebrand itself and change its direction. This is a deficit of the solution. The combination of Lumira along with Design Studio merger last year still needs development from a visualization standpoint. SAP BusinessObjects is actually losing popularity within our company because people find the user interface and the way things are set up not to be as easy as many other tools that are on the market, like Qlik and things like that. 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. Currently, we can use Explore to do data discovering, but cannot generate charts. The biggest area for improvement would be the dashboarding capabilities due to the recent change from Xcelsius to Dashboard Designer. This has created a gigantic ripple in many companies because the skill sets required are drastically different. |
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Information Not Available | Depending on your size, try to stick with SAP BusinessObjects BI Edge. Most people tend to overthink the licensing. Remember that one concurrent user means that one person can be performing a task at a given time. That does not mean that only one user can be on the system at a time, it means that only one person can be refreshing a report or designing a dashboard. There are tons of ways you can access your data or reports without consuming a license. I've seen cases where five concurrent licenses support thousands of users. There's no additional charge for a Development environment license, so build an additional development server. |
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| Data Studio | SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform, SAP BusinessObjects, Business Objects |
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| Google | SAP |
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Google Data Studio (beta) turns your data into informative dashboards and reports that are easy to read, easy to share, and fully customizable. Dashboarding allows you to tell great data stories to support better business decisions. | The SAP® BusinessObjects™ Business Intelligence (BI) platform is a flexible, scalable information infrastructure that helps you more easily discover and share insights for better business decisions. The integrated, unified infrastructure enables scalability from one to many tools and interfaces on premise, in the cloud, or as a hybrid approach. |
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Learn more about Google Data Studio | Learn more about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform |
Sample Customers | |
Information Not Available | SRAM, Kennametal, Fairfax Water, British American Tobacco, Velux, and FedEx. |
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Software R&D Company24% Media Company13% Comms Service Provider12% Retailer8% | Energy/Utilities Company13% Manufacturing Company13% Healthcare Company13% Consumer Goods10% Software R&D Company31% Comms Service Provider13% Government10% Manufacturing Company9% |
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