We performed a comparison between SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Tableau, Qlik, Splunk and others in Data Visualization."It includes valuable features like a dashboard, reporting, visualization, etc."
"One of the most valuable features of Tableau is that it's a visual analytics solution, not just a dashboarding solution. Compared to Power BI, which is a dashboarding solution, there are no limitations with Tableau. For example, when you add a chart or a map to Power BI, it has a 3,000-point limitation. When you try to track your whole vehicle on the map, you only see the first 3,000 rows on the map, and Power BI doesn't tell you which part of the data is shown on the map. But Tableau doesn't have any limitations, which means that you can see five million data points on a map. It starts the project by creating the visuals that directly converts to SQLs. In that way, all the components have no limitations. When we compared Tableau to Power BI, we also found Tableau to be more fancy. Fancy means you can create more visual graphics and more visual dashboards. With Power BI, this isn't so—it's just some tables and some simple charts together. Tableau is more for business users who want to analyze data. Tableau can directly connect the analytics systems, like R or Titan, and get the results in screen, so it's a good solution for analytics scientists. It has some predefined capabilities to understand the data."
"It is definitely easy to use. It is intuitive, and more or less, everything can be done from the front end. As such, there is no concept of metadata. You can just take data from a database and start building your own stuff, such as OLAP data warehouse. You don't need extensive metadata modeling like Oracle BI."
"It is an excellent tool for data capture, processing, and visualization."
"The best part about Tableau is the visualization."
"The most valuable feature is the drag and drop, then the simplicity to build dashboards which allows us to provide more usable data to our customers."
"Its dashboarding is the most valuable. It is easy to create visualizations and dashboards and import Excel sheets and ESP files in Tableau as compared to other tools."
"You can create attractive dashboards that inform users using Tableau."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the permission management and the user management."
"The platform's pricing needs improvement."
"We have products like Tableau, Power BI, Cognos, and QlikView in the data visualization segment. Compared to those, Tableau is quite costly."
"SAP BusinessObjects has some semantic layer designs that give the flexibility to do ad hoc reporting or dashboard designing. If that can be brought into Tableau, it would be great. We have the data in the database, but we should also be able to bring something between the database and the dashboard and do some semantic layer modeling for ad hoc reporting requirements."
"The ability to use it on MAC machines. As far as I know, this is not possible."
"It would be nice if we could export more raw data. Currently, there is a limit as to how much data you can export."
"The solution does have scalability issues."
"There should be more GIS features, such as location analysis, which is quite limited. There are very few location-based functionalities."
"When I've done presentations in the past, I've had issues with uploading the cartography."
"Maybe the price could be a bit cheaper, especially if you're a personal developer that uses Tableau just to explore smaller data sets and you're not a company or something like that."
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SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio is ranked 22nd in Data Visualization with 1 review while Tableau is ranked 1st in Data Visualization with 293 reviews. SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio is rated 8.0, while Tableau is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio writes "Comprehensive product with valuable dashboard and reporting features ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tableau writes "Provides fast data access with in-memory extracts, makes it easy to create visualizations, and saves time". SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio is most compared with SAP Lumira, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Domo, Amazon QuickSight, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks.
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