Oracle Analytics Cloud vs SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence comparison

Oracle Analytics Cloud vs. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle Analytics Cloud

Ranking in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools

19th

Ranking in Data Visualization

15th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

SAP BusinessObjects Busines...

Ranking in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools

5th

Ranking in Data Visualization

4th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

114

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the BI (Business Intelligence) Tools category, the mindshare of Oracle Analytics Cloud is 1.4%, down from 2.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence is 2.7%, down from 3.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence	2.7%
Oracle Analytics Cloud	1.4%
Other	95.9%

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Featured Reviews

DavidMalizia

Head Of Data And Ai at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Data projects have grown rapidly and support complex analytics and quick dashboard delivery

Some things that could be improved in Oracle Analytics Cloud is definitely the way it works. In some cases, for example, if you want to create analytic functions such as the percentage of a measure over another, which is a straightforward question you might ask, it appears simple to do, but the result is not what you expect. I would make it more user-friendly in terms of creating new measures. The measure creation feature could be improved. In terms of functionality, there are not many functions that are completely missing. There is one aspect that if you compare it with Power BI from Microsoft, which works completely in memory and therefore puts everything in memory to allow many calculations on the fly on what is in memory, that is missing, but it is architecturally different and would not be possible to ask for something like that. Some time features and time series analysis functions could be improved. Calculating a year ago and previous period functions could definitely work with some improvement.

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TarunKumar7

Senior Data Engineer at LTI LATAM and Toubro Improtech

Data insights have driven faster financial forecasts and improved role-based decision making

The best features SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform offers include cross-enterprise sharing, where sharing insights is easier and seamless across my organization, and creating role-based dashboards. The role-based dashboards help my team and organization by providing information to specific users, allowing them to make decisions more easily, anytime, anywhere, across any device. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform has positively impacted my organization by allowing us to perform financial reporting to make decisions faster. Since we started using SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, we have been able to make faster, data-driven business decisions based on actual data insights and data analysis, which has accelerated our ability to make better decisions for our business productivity.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"This is a stable and scalable solution."

"It has the best feature for data augmentation."

"The features that I find to be the most valuable are the BAS (Business Analytics), the Narrate feature, and the auto-visualization."

"The solution is user-friendly."

"The technical support services are good."

"Data preparation is fantastic and fast. We were able to use multiple data sources and prepare the data quickly."

"It's robust. It has the ability to handle massive amounts. After reporting has been developed, there is an ease of use or a user-friendly interface for a trained workforce."

"Oracle Analytics Cloud is not very user-friendly, however, it is robust and capable of performing a wide range of tasks."

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"The product works well, but is only as good as the servers it uses."

"The development using SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is very good."

"Good, powerful functions in the table format report compared with Microsoft Power BI."

"The initial setup of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform was easy since the solution is user-friendly."

"We want to use HANA and something called SLT, which will cover our replication and allows us to do modeling directly in the cloud, which is a great feature."

"It is the best product for business analysis and help to grow the business."

"It is stable and robust. It has pretty direct integration with SAP ERP. It is easy to use."

"It's a reliable, stable, secure, and mature tool for business intelligence and other functions, like standard reports."

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Cons

"Sharing dataflows is not possible at this time, and the custom chart functionality is not available."

"This product does not support custom charts in the visualization."

"The migration of older dash tools from the classic interface of Oracle BI prior to OAS launch to the newer Data Visualization and Oracle Analytics Cloud interfaces, including dashboards and metadata, is currently a cumbersome process. Improvements in this area would be highly beneficial. Additionally, the administration of the cloud, particularly the startup of services and linking of the WebLogic server and integrated components, takes longer than desired. In today's enterprise landscape, waiting forty minutes for the server to be operational is quite lengthy; ideally, this process should take a maximum of four minutes. It would be excellent to incorporate metadata management as an integral part of the Oracle Analytics Cloud. When dealing with integrated data from various sources, tracking data lineage and the entire data life cycle, from sources to report development and the mapping of reports to specific dashboards, should be seamlessly managed within the Oracle Analytics Cloud. This would eliminate the need for additional tools. Drawing a comparison, tools like Tableau have a feature enabling metadata management, making it easier to trace the complete data lineage of reports. Managing over seven hundred and thirty-six business dashboards, the metadata management capability within Tableau simplified the process of understanding how reports were developed, including details like associated tables, users, linked views, materialized views, data segmentations, ETL jobs, and the data warehouse stages. Enhancing metadata tracking within the Oracle Analytics Cloud layout would facilitate easy and practical management of the complete data life cycle, encompassing user accessibility and report permissions."

"The product could benefit from increased flexibility compared to other vendors."

"At this time, dataflows cannot be shared, but I think that this should be enhanced."

"When you implement the product on a small scale, it doesn't generate any ROI."

"The interfaces could be improved and some in-memory operations could be built into Oracle Analytics."

"It is less scalable than Snowflake."

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"The SAP BOBJ suite needs to be more stable and seamlessly integrated with SAP BW and SAP HANA (one-time variable creation, etc.)."

"The product lacks the ability to manage universal connectivity, so it needs to be made better for users."

"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."

"I would like to see their data visualization products enhanced and made more robust and easier to implement."

"ROI for the reporting product alone, as a component in a whole stack of things contributing to ROI, is in my view a minor contributor."

"We would like to see a native version of BusinessObjects and Web Intelligence created for the cloud."

"I don't like the fact that I have to use two tools. Web Intelligence is good for reporting and all kinds of stuff, but I would rather have one product. All the reporting features of Web Intelligence should be developed within Lumira. A lot of predictive abilities have been brought into the cloud version of SAP Analytics. It would be nice to see a lot of newer technologies and AI. Predictive capabilities are becoming a little more standard. Instead of having to get another model, we are just looking for one solution to deal with analytics including predictive."

"We regret that versions that are initially released do not seem to be well finished (a lot of bugs), and that a lot of patching is necessary to get to a stable version (our experience for BOXIR3, BI4 and so on)."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate the product's pricing a nine on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive."

"The tool's pricing is not unreasonable or non-competitive."

"The price is reasonable; it's quite a bit lower than Tableau and Spotfire."

"Bottom line, the cost is really, really cheap compared to other solutions. Oracle has made a huge effort on the pricing."

"I would rate it a five out of five in terms of the value received for the price charge."

"I don't know the exact cost, but its pricing was good. Its pricing was competitive. I would rate it a three out of five in terms of pricing."

"We pay on a monthly basis and it is $10 per user each month."

"A highly cost-effective solution"

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"It has an option of a Cloud Platform (SAP Analytics Cloud) which has a lower price than the on-premise platform, and you can buy individual licences per user."

"Depending on your size, try to stick with SAP BusinessObjects BI Edge. Most people tend to overthink the licensing. Remember that one concurrent user means that one person can be performing a task at a given time. That does not mean that only one user can be on the system at a time, it means that only one person can be refreshing a report or designing a dashboard. There are tons of ways you can access your data or reports without consuming a license. I've seen cases where five concurrent licenses support thousands of users."

"Just work with SAP to make sure you have enough licenses but don't go overboard."

"It is not a subscription model, but you must purchase a perpetual license for this."

"The product's pricing falls on the spectrum's cheaper side, excluding its licensing cost. The product's pricing is good compared to other tools in the market. My company makes payments towards the licensing costs of the product on a yearly basis."

"The SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform has to improve its licensing cost."

"It is not cost-effective. It is expensive."

"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is an expensive application."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

Government

Construction Company

University

Construction Company

11%

Outsourcing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	13
Midsize Enterprise	7
Large Enterprise	11

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	34
Midsize Enterprise	20
Large Enterprise	67

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Analytics Cloud?

Pricing for Oracle Analytics Cloud works with how much you want it to cost. We have clients who have bought large amounts of Oracle and the price per product has gone down massively because they bo...

What needs improvement with Oracle Analytics Cloud?

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Tableau vs. Business Objects - Which is a better solution for visualization and analysis?

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Also Known As

Oracle Analytics Cloud Service, OAC, Oracle Data Visualization, Oracle Data Visualization Cloud Service, ODV

SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform, SAP BusinessObjects, Business Objects, SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards, SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

Overview

Oracle Analytics Cloud offers enterprise-grade dashboarding, visualization, and data integration with machine learning and NLP capabilities. Its cloud infrastructure supports data preparation, predictive analysis, and business analytics, enhancing decision-making for global users.

Oracle Analytics Cloud excels in providing a comprehensive platform for financial, procurement, and HR analytics. It integrates seamlessly with systems like ERP and Primavera, allowing users to develop dashboards for financial status, personal data management, and predictive sales analysis. Known for its ease of use and capacity to handle large data volumes, it supports enterprise-level transactions across financials and logistics, offering stakeholders valuable insights. However, improvements are needed in visualization variety, cost efficiency, and performance speed. Certain areas such as connectors, data modeling features, flexibility, and support resources require enhancement.

What are the most significant features of Oracle Analytics Cloud?

Enterprise-Grade Dashboarding: Offers robust visualization and reporting capabilities.
Data Visualization: Provides intuitive visual tools for data analysis.
Data Integration: Seamlessly connects with ERP, Primavera, and other systems.
Machine Learning: Incorporates ML for smarter analytics and predictions.
Natural Language Processing: Simplifies search and data queries with NLP.
Automatic Dashboards: Generates dashboards through the Explain function.

What are the key benefits and ROI of choosing Oracle Analytics Cloud?

Ease of Use: User-friendly interface simplifies data analysis for teams.
Scalability: Handles large data volumes and grows with business needs.
Fast Performance: Quickly processes and analyzes data to aid decision-making.
Secure Business Analytics: Offers secure data preparation and analysis.

In industries like finance, procurement, and HR analytics, Oracle Analytics Cloud supports decision-making by integrating with existing systems such as ERP and Primavera. Users create dashboards for assessing financial status and predicting sales, aiding business intelligence and enterprise transactions, especially in financials and logistics.

Oracle

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform offers powerful tools for enterprise reporting and data visualization, enhancing strategic decision-making through robust integration and secure analytics capabilities.

Designed for comprehensive enterprise reporting, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform integrates seamlessly with SAP ERP, supporting organizations in creating detailed financial, operational, and academic reports. The platform allows data manipulation across multiple sources using a semantic layer and provides intuitive tools like Web Intelligence and Lumira for user-driven report creation. It features centralized management, versatile connectors, and supports large-scale data analytics critical for business forecasting.

What are the key features of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform?

Integration Capabilities: Seamless connection with SAP ERP and various data sources.
Dynamic Scheduling: Automate report generation for timely insights.
Robust Security: Protects data with stringent security measures.
Semantic Layer: Simplifies data manipulation across sources.
Intuitive Tools: Facilitates user-driven report creation with Web Intelligence and Lumira.

What benefits should be considered in reviews?

Comprehensive Reporting: Enables detailed and accurate enterprise reports.
Decision-Making Support: Enhances strategic decisions with reliable data.
Scalability: Efficiently manages large-scale and complex data analytics.
Versatility in Analysis: Offers flexibility for ad hoc analysis and KPI monitoring.

Organizations across sectors like healthcare, education, insurance, and retail leverage SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform for its capability in facilitating detailed reports and integrating dashboards for key performance indicators. Its extensive reporting features support in-depth analytics vital for business prediction and decision-making processes.

SAP

Sample Customers

Sejong Hospital

SRAM, Kennametal, Fairfax Water, British American Tobacco, Velux, and FedEx.

Oracle Analytics Cloud vs. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence