We performed a comparison between Qlik Sense and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Visualization solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The drag-and-drop dashboard builder is an intuitive interface for building dashboards from source reports."
"It has improved our organization by providing data to decision-makers in a safe visual environment."
"The extensibility of the Platform with either internally created extensions or the use of third-party provided items really opens the platform up."
"Qlik Sense has a modern look and feel and a very intuitive UI, so non-technical users find it very user friendly."
"The number of visualizations that are present in Qlik is very useful for our developers to help our business partners tell stories with their data. Qlik continues to add to and enhance these visualizations with each release. We are also very excited to leverage the integration between Qlik Sense and Qlik Catalog as we roll that out soon."
"This tool not only allows for consumption of the data in a visual way, but also allows the user to modify the question to get new answers."
"For a deployment scenario, Qlik Sense is also very easy to use. I can start development from any platform, on-premise or cloud, and continue from where I left off."
"The product responds fast for data analysis."
"BusinessObject's most useful feature is the semantic layer, which offers us the flexibility to go for ad hoc reporting."
"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."
"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."
"We find the product to be very stable."
"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."
"BusinessObjects can handle a lot of usage on the front end, and many users can view these reports. It's a relatively stable and secure tool."
"I have seen improvement in our work after using the solution."
"Has features that can be leveraged to scale out and scale up."
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"Areas for improvement include user-friendliness, self-service, and some of the visualization options for generating reports."
"Dates. My goodness, working with dates in set analysis can be a nightmare! Much room for improvement."
"Performing data transformations required a lot of programming, which is something that should be made easier."
"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."
"The management console appearance needs improvement to its look."
"The only thing I would say that comes up is that sometimes it can be a bit buggy."
"The product could be less expensive."
"It's going to take 20 to 30 minutes to refresh sometimes."
"It needs to be more flexible for the end-user."
"The solution could be less expensive. It's a bit pricey now."
"Integrations with things like Active Directory and LDAP tend to be a little complex."
"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."
"I would like to see their data visualization products enhanced and made more robust and easier to implement."
"They could reduce the licensing expenses. There is nothing really wrong with the product in terms of what it does. It works well. If you are a part of BI Launch Pad, then you could run ad hoc reporting, but for the integration, you need access to BI Launch Pad, which is quite expensive. We're an organization with 18,000 employees. It is not really practical to give people access to BI Launch Pad. So, from a customer perspective, in terms of saturating our employee base, we don't really have great saturation because of the expense."
"Recently, it's become less stable if I am working on Citrix."
"The SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform has always struggled with dashboarding."
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Qlik Sense is ranked 2nd in Data Visualization with 112 reviews while SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is ranked 6th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 102 reviews. Qlik Sense is rated 8.6, while SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Qlik Sense writes "Customizable with good ROI and a quick learning curve". 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". Qlik Sense is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, Microsoft Power BI, Apache Superset and Databricks, whereas SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, IBM Cognos and Tableau. See our Qlik Sense vs. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform report.
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