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Andy Pan
BusinessObject Delivery Dev. at a government with 10,001+ employees
We also use Tableau and Power BI alongside BusinessObjects, but we have been using BusinessObjects the longest. In my job, I have been confused when working with some other type of tool, like Microsoft Power BI and some other type of non-structured data. This type of tool is okay, but it's not smart. It has too many steps. And at a given stage, you might make a mistake. It's not really scalable.
I evaluated different options based on your company's requirements, and some people preferred SAP, while others preferred Tableau. And because SAP BusinessObjects is primarily used for reporting and Tableau for dashboarding, users didn't want to use both products for their respective functions. It ultimately depends on the specific needs of the company and its users.
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reviewer1664400
Data Science Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
We checked Oracle. It used to be OBIEE back then, and in 2010 and 2005 it was not as good as today. Now, Oracle has worked a lot on their product, especially with Oracle Analytic Server. But back then, when we made the decision, it was Oracle OBIEE and it was very limited. It had bad dashboards, they were not appealing to the end users.
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reviewer1414839
EAM Executive at a educational organization with 5,001-10,000 employees
I am interested in SAP for the cloud because where I work, we have SAP ERP on the HANA Cloud. Currently, we don't have a license for SAP Analytics Cloud. That's why I'm exploring different methods to implement it. Currently, Business Warehouse is on-premise but I am planning to upgrade it to the cloud.
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reviewer1789389
BI/BO Hana Application Consultant at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
We've evaluated Analytics Cloud and Power BI.
View full review »It is dependent on our customer needs/requirements, and specific version with specific features were available. We also evaluated Tableau for its technical features, as per business user requirements, pricing, and licensing for choosing the product and also based on outcome of the Proof of Concept.
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BI | Analytics | Insights | Leadership | Digital | Visualization Composer| Strategy | Design Language | BI Rehab
Read gartner to your own detriment
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RanvijayKumar
Application Development Assoc Manager at Eccenture
In terms of flexibility and user-friendliness, Tableau is better than BusinessObjects, but if you have ad hoc requirements, then BusinessObjects is better.
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David Hudgins
Senior Business Intelligence Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
I reviewed a whole bunch of them, everything under the sun.
View full review »We considered Oracle Discoverer, MS BI, but BO was chosen for its flexibility of usage.
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reviewer1621293
Global Product Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
We're currently looking at Power BI and Splunk among other options.
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Paul Kellett
Software Engineer at KIS Ltd
The most comparable product is MicroStrategy, which is frankly a better technical product but has not been as commercially successful outside of large sites.
View full review »Microstrategy and Web Focus were also considered back in 2010 when SAP bought and promoted the product for use with BW (replacing Web application designer). At the time none of the products were determined robust enough to use with BW as an enterprise level reporting tool.
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reviewer1128492
System Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
We are thinking about switching to Power BI. I think we will no longer use SAP BusinessObjects after one or two years.
View full review »I've evaluated other visualization tools, but BOE still has the best out-of-the-box enterprise security.
View full review »Over the years, we have reviewed other BI products, such as IBM Cognos and Tableau. Some of them are also in use along with the SAP BI products.
View full review »We evaluated Cognos and OBIEE.
View full review »I did a partial evaluation as every solution has its pros and cons.
View full review »We went with it because my organization already had SAP deployed as the corporate ERP.
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I was not involved in the decision-making process.
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- Microsoft SSIS
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SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform
March 2024
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