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Find out what your peers are saying about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform vs. Teradata Vantage and other solutions. Updated: November 2019. 383,444 professionals have used our research since 2012. |
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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. Reporting from SAP Business Objects Web Intelligence is amazing, and gives users the ability to quickly access data from existing universes and/or relevant data sources, without the need to involve a functional business analyst or financial analyst. | I like writing preformance queries for preprocessing on AWS Cloud. It is quick, secure, and has less hassles because we don't have to involve our networking team, infrastructure, etc. It is very easy to deploy and make market ready. |
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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. This product could be improved with Cloud Integrations and Predictive Analytics functions integration. | I would like more security and speed. I would like more security and speed. |
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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. It is not an expensive platform. The licensing is for a package of users starting at 10 users. It has an option of a Cloud Platform (SAP Analytics Cloud) which has a lower price than the on-premise platform, and you can buy individual licences per user. | We had a lot of parties involved when purchasing from the AWS Marketplace. They are very flexible and aggressive in trying to close the deal. They are good at what they have to offer and listening to the customer. It's a two-way street. In this day and age, we want to get things done quickly. So, we go to the AWS Marketplace. |
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Views 15,369 Comparisons 12,538 Reviews 9 Average Words per Review 488 Avg. Rating 8.3 | Views 1,058 Comparisons 315 Reviews 2 Average Words per Review 631 Avg. Rating 8.0 |
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Compared 18% of the time. Compared 17% of the time. Compared 14% of the time. | Compared 81% of the time. Compared 13% of the time. Compared 5% of the time. |
Also Known As | |
SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform, SAP BusinessObjects, Business Objects | |
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Overview | |
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. | Vantage is the platform for Pervasive Data Intelligence. The only software of its kind, capable of managing all of the data, all of the time. So, you can analyze anything, deploy anywhere, and deliver analytics that matter. Vantage offers full integration with your favorite tools and languages, leading analytic engines, and new sources of data to deliver the answers you need to create better business outcomes. |
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Sample Customers | |
SRAM, Kennametal, Fairfax Water, British American Tobacco, Velux, and FedEx. | Information Not Available |
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Energy/Utilities Company13% Manufacturing Company13% Healthcare Company13% Consumer Goods10% Software R&D Company32% Manufacturing Company9% Government9% Comms Service Provider9% | No Data Available |
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