We performed a comparison between SAP Analytics Cloud vs SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: SAP Analytics Cloud has the winning edge in this comparison. Customers were more satisfied with SAP Analytics Cloud’s pricing and robust features.
"Provides rich features for developing automated reports and dashboards."
"The solution is stable."
"In the data warehouse, you're free to make changes. You can make everything text, meaning it's always a string. Even numbers appear as text, giving you the flexibility to work with all columns."
"Real-time data makes for a single version of the truth."
"The stories have really been helpful in looking at specific scenarios and analyzing trends over periods of time."
"It integrates with third-party applications such as Google Drive and Excel,"
"The ease of use of the solution is its most valuable feature. We haven't tried all of the features yet. The graphing and the ease of using the analytics tools have been great. It's all drag and drop; you don't need to code anything."
"I like the connectivity the solution provides with other products."
"We use it to identify critical KPIs to senior management."
"We are using SAP BusinessObjects because its scheduling capabilities are more powerful than those of other tools."
"I have seen improvement in our work after using the solution."
"Ease of report development is a key feature."
"What I like the most about SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform is that it has significantly improved our decision-making process."
"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."
"There are two tools inside BusinessObjects' schematic layout called the Universal Design Tool and Information Design Tool. These are the most powerful tools that set BusinessObjects' reporting from other solutions. If my organization has 300 or 400 tables, I can combine all of them into one universe, and everyone can use that. It is just a schematic layout that does not hold any data but the table relationships."
"The common metadata environment means that the entire organisation has the same definition of core measures rather than these being derived in spreadsheets or specific reports."
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"There should be more features for the time series charts."
"There is no direct connector from SAP to Redshift, so we are required to use a third-party product that was recommended by SAP."
"The connection works only for importing data. Currently, there is no real-time integration between SAP Analytics Cloud and CRM. There are some features present in the classic but not in the optimized version. If I need to create something specific, I often have to switch the versions. It would be more convenient to have a single product that incorporates all the necessary features."
"They need more support for more languages, Python for example."
"SAP Analytics Cloud requires a lot of coding and I would like the coding to be somewhat minimal."
"Some of the standard visualizations, such as a speedometer or a goal chart, are not there and should be added."
"It still lacks a lot of functionalities as compared to other tools such as Power BI or Tableau. Sorting is not working as well as it works in Tableau. A lot of other things are also not at the same level. Their technical support is not perfect and could be better. It takes a lot of time to have lacking functionalities implemented. Its integration with the BW backend should be better. Both solutions are from the same vendor. They position SAP Analytics Cloud as a reporting tool on top of the BW environment, but the integration between both is not yet 100%. For example, user management is still not synchronized."
"I expect more integration from SAP Analytics Cloud."
"The interface could be slicker and more user-friendly."
"The calculation engine requires some improvement."
"The user interface should be easier to use and navigate."
"The combination of Lumira along with Design Studio merger last year still needs development from a visualization standpoint."
"Recently, it's become less stable if I am working on Citrix."
"The solution can improve by having more analytical features."
"The performance could be improved, like when we extract a large amount of data."
"The solution could be less expensive. It's a bit pricey now."
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SAP Analytics Cloud is ranked 5th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 60 reviews while SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is ranked 6th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 103 reviews. SAP Analytics Cloud is rated 8.0, while SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of SAP Analytics Cloud writes "Good for reporting but needs to improve its predictive analytics features". On the other hand, 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". SAP Analytics Cloud is most compared with Tableau, IBM Planning Analytics, Microsoft Power BI, Anaplan and IBM Cognos, whereas SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, IBM Cognos, Oracle Essbase and Looker. See our SAP Analytics Cloud vs. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform report.
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