We performed a comparison between SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Sisense based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two BI (Business Intelligence) Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It has got great flexibility. As a reporting tool, it has a great deal of flexibility for numerous data resources that you can bring into it. It allows you to write your SQL query directly within the product. So, it allows you to do server-side joins instead of pulling all the data into Crystal Report to aggregate that data. It has great visualization. For the most part, it operates quite efficiently."
"The planning and dashboarding features have been useful. Additionally, the fixed-format reports are good."
"The Dynamic HTML (DHTML) client option of Webi has been enhanced adding features that were previously only available with the Java client including conditional formatting and support of XLS as a data provider."
"We use it to identify critical KPIs to senior management."
"The development using SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is very good."
"Business analytics are the most valuable features of this solution; I don't have experience with the other functional features offered."
"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."
"We find that we can scale it as needed."
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"Allows users to build their own solutions without as much reliance on technology staff."
"The best part about this solution is how easy it is to mash up the data from many sources. Sisense is fast compared to other solutions."
"It has allowed me to move my data to the cloud."
"We like that this solution allows us to use data cubes to set up specific visualizations."
"No issues with stability. It is a very stable solution."
"This solution is easy to learn how to use."
"Support is very responsive and clearly one of the strengths of Sisense. I have always received a fast response and the staff is very helpful."
"There are many built-in connectors, which allow us to easily add new sources of data, often in minutes."
"The SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform has always struggled with dashboarding."
"Integrations with things like Active Directory and LDAP tend to be a little complex."
"The combination of Lumira along with Design Studio merger last year still needs development from a visualization standpoint."
"The performance could be improved, like when we extract a large amount of data."
"I would like to see their data visualization products enhanced and made more robust and easier to implement."
"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."
"It needs to be more flexible for the end-user."
"We're an Epic shop, and Epic is moving away from Crystal. It would be nice if it had tighter integration with products like Epic. It would be awesome to have better integration with third-party products."
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"I would like Sisense to improve its performance, particularly when we are dealing with large-scale data."
"At present there are additional costs involved if we wish to share our data queues within this solution, which we would like to see removed."
"I would love to have more customization capabilities for building dashboards, especially in creating custom widget sizes."
"This solution does not have tabs. In order to have tabs, you have to download an add-on to mimic the tabs. They should be integrated to improve the solution."
"They should improve the filters to create downloaded data by moving them to the top of the dashboard."
"The solution's setup process could be easier."
"I would also like to be able to run a bursts of reports based on different field values with PDF output right in the tool, rather than filtering on each field value and generating each PDF manually."
"Larger datasets will sometimes give a "Accumulated logs" error when trying to make minor changes. T"
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SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is ranked 6th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 102 reviews while Sisense is ranked 17th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 39 reviews. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is rated 7.8, while Sisense is rated 8.8. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sisense writes "Business intelligence solution that has improved automation and provided meaningful insights". SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, IBM Cognos and MicroStrategy, whereas Sisense is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Apache Superset, Qlik Sense and Amazon QuickSight. See our SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform vs. Sisense report.
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