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.

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.

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.

We've evaluated Analytics Cloud and Power BI.

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.

Read gartner to your own detriment

No.

In terms of flexibility and user-friendliness, Tableau is better than BusinessObjects, but if you have ad hoc requirements, then BusinessObjects is better.

I reviewed a whole bunch of them, everything under the sun.

We considered Oracle Discoverer, MS BI, but BO was chosen for its flexibility of usage.

We're currently looking at Power BI and Splunk among other options.

The most comparable product is MicroStrategy, which is frankly a better technical product but has not been as commercially successful outside of large sites.

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.

We are thinking about switching to Power BI. I think we will no longer use SAP BusinessObjects after one or two years.

N/A

I've evaluated other visualization tools, but BOE still has the best out-of-the-box enterprise security.

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.

No

We evaluated Cognos and OBIEE.

I did a partial evaluation as every solution has its pros and cons.

We went with it because my organization already had SAP deployed as the corporate ERP.

• Cognos
• Microsoft SSIS 
• SSRS