We performed a comparison between SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and XLCubed 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."The reporting features the solution offers are excellent."
"It gives you a lot of flexibility in designing your dashboards."
"Provides autonomy for all the business users to develop their own reports."
"It has been extremely valuable, to combine data from various data sources."
"I have seen improvement in our work after using the solution."
"This reporting and broadcasting solution has a lot of flexibilities and can connect to multiple source systems."
"We use it to identify critical KPIs to senior management."
"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."
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"Great capability, performance, flexibility, visuals, and the solution is also very cost effective."
"I am looking forward to testing their full graphics that are available, as they looked very interesting in the demo."
"It would be good if they could integrate the possibility for end users to create end models for themselves that they can use, especially for site operators, and if they could provide the end user not only the self-service BI, but also the self-service analytics, based on a predefined model, the same way that Oracle did."
"The calculation engine requires some improvement."
"The solution can improve by having more analytical features."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform has to be improved performance-wise. The look and feel of this application, its scalability, setup, and technical support also need improvement."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform should be made easier for the end-users and the performance could be improved."
"The solution is not good for self-services, they can improve in this area."
"The financial area in the solution has certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"Its price should be better. It is expensive and not cost-effective. It should also be improved in terms of end-user experience. It requires further improvements for usability and ease of use. It should have more dashboarding metrics and much faster integration with ERP so that when you double click, you can instantly see the scenario-based result."
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"Would like the ability to be able to benchmark."
"There should be a better or an easier way to establish that connection to external sources."
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SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is ranked 6th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 102 reviews while XLCubed is ranked 26th in Reporting. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is rated 7.8, while XLCubed is rated 7.6. 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 XLCubed writes "Cost effective with great capability, performance, flexibility and visuals". SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, IBM Cognos and MicroStrategy, whereas XLCubed is most compared with Microsoft Power BI and Tableau. See our SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform vs. XLCubed report.
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