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

14th

Ranking in Data Visualization

11th

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

6th

Ranking in Data Visualization

5th

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 May 2026, in the BI (Business Intelligence) Tools category, the mindshare of Oracle Analytics Cloud is 1.4%, down from 2.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence is 2.6%, down from 3.9% 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	2.6%
Oracle Analytics Cloud	1.4%
Other	96.0%

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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

"The AI/ML enablement is useful, as many reporting tools do not offer machine learning models as of now, without writing customized code."

"Oracle Analytics Cloud's most valuable feature is its visualization."

"We use Analytics because we have a model for it which can be easily customized, and implementation time can be reduced because of this."

"The solution is user-friendly."

"The ability to quickly search for and access relevant data is crucial."

"The technical support is excellent, and they respond quickly."

"Technical support is very fast and accurate."

"The advanced calculations by the tool are highly effective"

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"The most valuable feature we have found to be the SAP BW, which is a warehouse tool. Additionally, it is an easy tool to use."

"The platform is a complete enterprise-level tool where everything is integrated to suffice your requirement."

"I have been involved in the implementation of complex BI solutions on the SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise platform in major USA and Canadian companies across different industries."

"Semantic layer is their main heart of SAP Business Objects."

"Has features that can be leveraged to scale out and scale up."

"First of all, visualization tools, productivity, and predictive forecasting are mature."

"It allows the analysis of business data and enables decisions based on the analysis."

"I have seen improvement in our work after using the solution."

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Cons

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

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

"It's not a failure of the product; it's just an architectural choice. It has to do with data modeling. I'm comparing this to another product, which is Oracle's developer client and probably called Oracle BI Developer Client Tool. The data modeler, which is cloud-based, and Oracle BI Developer Client Tool, which is local or on-premises-based, both can do the same thing in data modeling. However, the cloud tool does not have as many features as the Oracle BI Developer Client Tool, which is closest to the OBIEE Administration Tool with full feature data modeling, metadata development, and so forth. In a complex environment or implementation, that is the capability that you need."

"One of the major issues is that Oracle Analytics Cloud is not user-friendly, requiring skilled people with proper certifications to work with it successfully."

"It is expensive."

"As with most BI tools, the visualizations can be made much nicer. Currently, it has standard visualizations. They've been adding new visualizations, but we see animated visualizations from other vendors. It would be nice to have similar visualizations, such as the swarming visualizations, which are fairly new and very popular at the moment. I haven't seen that with Oracle. That would be nice."

"They could improve the ease of developing the dashboard and interacting with it."

"Analytics Cloud allows you to merge various data types and structure data from multiple sources."

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"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is an outdated solution that is missing many features."

"Yes, sometimes the services didn't work well, generating a decreasing of performance."

"It is too expensive, charging by user and if you have hundreds of them you won’t be able to get ROI not even in many years."

"The foreground handling is disastrous."

"The biggest area for improvement would be the dashboarding capabilities due to the recent change from Xcelsius to Dashboard Designer."

"Technical support may not always be timely or effective."

"Recently, it's become less stable if I am working on Citrix."

"Lumira is also a promising tool, but at this point still feels inferior to Tableau."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

"The product’s pricing is expensive. However, feature-wise, it fits the requirements of enterprise customers."

"It is an expensive platform."

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

"Oracle Analytics Cloud's pricing is generally higher than that of other vendors."

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

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

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"I have always found SAP BI to be expensive. It is expensive even when you compare SAP BI Cloud with Microsoft Power BI. Power BI is probably around $9.99 per month, and the cheapest SAP BI is around $20, which is double. In terms of price, Power BI is definitely a lot better. If you have budget issues, you may want to go for Power BI."

"We purchase licenses through Epic. So, we get an Epic price as opposed to the SAP price. If we were going to use other products like Webby that they offer or exclusively use BI Launch Pad, it would cost a lot because half of our employees would touch it in some fashion. So, we use Epic-Crystal integration to keep the licensing cost down. I believe the BI Launch Pad licensing is something like $800 for each, and the Crystal Report licensing is something like $500 for each, but that's not what we pay."

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

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

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

"We are satisfied with the solution, but we are not satisfied with the licensing cost which SAP offers. They offer one lumpsum licensing which does everything. That is not the right strategy, because sometimes you don't have power users, they are only viewers, but we need to buy the full license for them. This is not something we want to continue with."

"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."

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

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BI Expert at a transportation company with 51-200 employees

May 25, 2013

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

10%

Government

10%

Manufacturing Company

University

Financial Services Firm

11%

Construction Company

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

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

Which Oracle product is better - OBIEE or Analytics Cloud?

Oracle OBIEE is designed to be relatively easy to set up and has a helpful customer support staff at the ready to assist customers. These are two attributes that make this system quite valuable. OB...

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?

Seeking lightweight open source BI software

There are many...It would rather depend what System BI architecture or Enterprise legacy you have at your end...I would recommend as follows: 1) If you have legacies of SAP, Oracle - look for SAP...

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

Both tools have their positives and negatives. First, I should mention that I am relatively new to Tableau. I have been working on and off Tableau for about a year, but getting to work on it consta...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform?

SAP BTP is an expensive solution.

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Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

Oracle OBIEE vs SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence

Compared 4% of the time

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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