We performed a comparison between Looker and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Tableau, Qlik, MicroStrategy and others in Embedded BI."It's quite effortless to navigate through various applications and review their updated data in real-time."
"The product is easy to use."
"We can centralize all our data models."
"I would rate the stability a ten out of ten. I didn't face any issues with stability."
"The stability of Looker has been good since I have been using it. However, it depends on what components are being used."
"With Looker, I have experienced benefits in terms of usability and shareability."
"It is a pretty stable solution because it is a cloud-based product."
"From a developer's perspective, the way the functionality's being handled is great."
"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 platform uses a lot of Java technologies so the performance and system-level management are tricky because it needs a lot of resources."
"The setup is pretty easy. It's not hard at all."
"The report development tool called SAP Web Intelligence under the BI Launch Pad portal has been the most valuable feature."
"It can process big volumes of data fast."
"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."
"I like the fact that we can integrate it seamlessly within our Epic environment, but probably the best thing that Crystal Reports offers is the ability to do visualizations. They're simple to do, and they're catchy. So, it is a really great tool."
"The development using SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is very good."
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"The integration with different databases must be improved."
"It needs to be more user-friendly."
"Stability needs improvement."
"The product does not have documented material."
"The visualization capability of the product is limited."
"The main area of concern in Looker is probably related to blending the data from the different sources, including the data present internally in the company and on the cloud."
"Looker doesn't connect to Excel, which is a huge disappointment because a lot of data is presented in Excel. Also, it can't consume data directly from REST APIs, which is necessary. Looker needs to expand its horizons when it comes to data sources. The inability to connect to different data sources is hampering our use cases. Currently, it only has an ODBC connection that connects to a database. It needs to connect to other data sources, such as Excel, APIs, and different platforms."
"Integrations with other BI tools could be better."
"The solution could be less expensive. It's a bit pricey now."
"The dashboard tool is called Lumira and it is very uncomfortable for developers to use. They should improve this in the future."
"The UI could be updated a bit."
"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."
"This product could be improved with Cloud Integrations and Predictive Analytics functions integration."
"The solution can improve by having more analytical features."
"The financial area in the solution has certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform should be made easier for the end-users and the performance could be improved."
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Looker is ranked 5th in Embedded BI with 19 reviews while SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is ranked 6th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 102 reviews. Looker is rated 8.0, while SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Looker writes "The APIs are exposed at every level, so it's highly modular". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform writes "Web intelligence will work with any amount of data even if you have 10 million rows". Looker is most compared with Amazon QuickSight, Tableau, Google Data Studio, Databricks and ThoughtSpot, whereas SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, IBM Cognos and MicroStrategy.
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