We performed a comparison between SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Zoho Analytics 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."If I were to compare it with Power BI and I wanted to build proper well-formatted reports, BusinessObjects Business Intelligence does that much better. Power BI is just getting into that space. They've concentrated more on visualization, which is what the SAP Lumira does. With Web Intelligence, you are able to build reports that users can interact with. They can also do a lot of querying themselves. It is robust in terms of security and integration. It is also quite scalable."
"It gives you a lot of flexibility in designing your dashboards."
"What I like the most about SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform is that it has significantly improved our decision-making process."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is definitely scalable."
"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."
"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."
"Has features that can be leveraged to scale out and scale up."
"The platform uses a lot of Java technologies so the performance and system-level management are tricky because it needs a lot of resources."
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"It's a very strong analytics tool."
"Zoho Analytics's most valuable feature is the ability to provide excellent analytics through a single platform."
"The solution’s dashboard is very good."
"I like the way I can share dashboards and embed dashboards. I normally use embedding. So, I create a dashboard, and I embed it into specific websites. Sharing of the dashboard is seamless, and it is easier than any other visualization platform, even Tableau."
"The front end of this solution including the graph generation using SQL has been most useful."
"Ask Zia is a great feature that I use to quickly decide what improvements I need to make in order to present the data that I want to show."
"The integration interface is very easy to use and allows you to directly connect to a variety of APIs."
"The most valuable feature of Zoho Analytics is its connectivity with ERP systems and the functionality to set up different fields for leads."
"There is room for improvement in providing more user-friendly and versatile reporting options."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is lacking dashboards and this would be the only reason we are looking for another solution."
"I really want SAP to focus on the dashboarding side. Based on what I have seen in the past 10 years, dashboarding has captured a lot of markets. Executives at the top-level want data that is summarized, looks good, and tells you a story. That's where Tableau, Qlik, and Power BI have an upper edge. It doesn't mean SAP doesn't give you dashboarding. They do have a dashboarding solution, but Tableau, Qlik, and Power BI are more intuitive and more attractive. I would like SAP to capture the dashboarding market as well, wherein they give at least some competition to other competitors. Presently, Tableau, Qlik, and Power BI are leading the market."
"The solution could be less expensive. It's a bit pricey now."
"This solution is complex to configure and administer."
"The combination of Lumira along with Design Studio merger last year still needs development from a visualization standpoint."
"We would like to see a native version of BusinessObjects and Web Intelligence created for the cloud."
"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."
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"The customer service and support for this solution could be improved by faster response times."
"There is a limitation that we cannot create more than 300 columns in a worksheet on Zoho Analytics."
"I like the solution's Query Table feature which helps me write SQL queries. We can get data from different tables and then use it to create reports."
"The platform's pricing needs improvement."
"There should be more types of graphics available for use in the reports."
"They should provide white labeling with a cheaper option. I know they have a white labeling feature in which I can white label Zoho Analytics with my company theme, logo, and URL, but it seems a little expensive. If they can make it cheaper, it would be great. The same is applicable to Tableau."
"The hourly pricing needs improvement."
"It would be great to have more user input fields which can be used on dashboards."
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SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is ranked 6th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 102 reviews while Zoho Analytics is ranked 12th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 24 reviews. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is rated 7.8, while Zoho Analytics is rated 8.2. 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 Zoho Analytics writes "An easy-to-set up solution that helps in the scheduling of reports and dashboards". SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, IBM Cognos and MicroStrategy, whereas Zoho Analytics is most compared with Apache Superset, Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Looker and Qlik Sense. See our SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform vs. Zoho Analytics report.
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