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."One of the most valuable features of SAP BusinessObjects is that it's not a dashboarding solution. It's a real product. You can create operational reports and publish it to anyone. You can create schedules. You can create a Universe, semantic layers. There's also a security configuration. It's a huge product, so if there is a business need, SAP BusinessObjects can cover it."
"BusinessObject's most useful feature is the semantic layer, which offers us the flexibility to go for ad hoc reporting."
"We find the product to be very stable."
"The setup is pretty easy. It's not hard at all."
"The reporting features the solution offers are excellent."
"The common metadata environment means that the entire organisation has the same definition of core measures rather than these being derived in spreadsheets or specific reports."
"The features which the solution has been awesome. The way the data is fetched from the database, and the queries are executed, is unique using the Universe of Business Objects. That makes it unique and we could not find another solution that functions in a similar way. It's has a great way of receiving and executing queries."
"The web intelligence reporting tool and universe designer are the most valuable aspects of the solution."
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"I am looking forward to testing their full graphics that are available, as they looked very interesting in the demo."
"Great capability, performance, flexibility, visuals, and the solution is also very cost effective."
"The interface could be slicker and more user-friendly."
"The SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform has always struggled with dashboarding."
"The calculation engine requires some improvement."
"There is room for improvement in providing more user-friendly and versatile reporting options."
"There should be more integration with other platforms."
"The UI could be updated a bit."
"The solution is not good for self-services, they can improve in this area."
"When we implemented BusinessObjects, the setup was straightforward. After SAP bought BusinessObjects, it gradually became more and more stepwise. There are too many steps, and they take too much time."
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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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