We performed a comparison between Oracle OBIEE and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two BI (Business Intelligence) Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We have scheduled reports delivered automatically to our business users using enterprise features."
"Can utilize SQL queries to generate reports directly."
"The solution is easy to use and very flexible."
"I have found the most valuable features are business intelligence and reporting."
"The security is good. For example, we can implement column-level security."
"The most valuable feature is the visualization."
"The “Business Model & Mapping” layer in the Administration Tool, because the maintenance and evolution processes are greatly facilitated."
"The most valuable feature is the openness of the solution. It helps us integrate some of our clients."
"It is a very good product, stable, and has good technical capabilities."
"To share a metadata service layer, you don't need to add a user or write a SQL query. Instead, you can present a raw database to your end user."
"I like the fact that we can integrate it seamlessly within our Epic environment, but probably the best thing that Crystal Reports offers is the ability to do visualizations. They're simple to do, and they're catchy. So, it is a really great tool."
"It is more user-friendly and easier to work with the report creation part, creating reports out of an established universe. Maybe a business person could liberate the existing universe and create a report on top of it, as well. So that's one cool feature."
"This reporting and broadcasting solution has a lot of flexibilities and can connect to multiple source systems."
"The ability to merge dimensions in a report is great."
"Ease of report development is a key feature."
"The web intelligence reporting tool and universe designer are the most valuable aspects of the solution."
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"This solution is weak in the data science perspective. I have past data science experience. And, I find that there is a lot of room for improvement in terms of incorporating more advanced statistical modeling into the product."
"Oracle OBIEEE's performance and licensing costs could be improved."
"Retail, Finance, Wholesale"
"One significant improvement is the need for simplification. The set up could be more intuitive. An enterprise setup with HA and DR are pretty complex and to get a robust solution one has to play around with Real Application Cluster data sources and FAN notifications as well as WebLogic clustering and external load balancers. SSO also is not that simple to set up especially if you want all your Oracle systems to use the same SSO solution, i.e., no cheating with direct LDAP connectivity."
"I would like to see enhancements in tracking, debugging, and flexibility."
"We needed some technical expertise during setup."
"Supply chain and finance."
"One feature I would definitely like to see is the ability to provide the in-memory data. Oracle might have some plugins but, as of now, that feature isn't available out-of-the-box. You might have to purchase that feature."
"The calculation engine requires some improvement."
"There should be more integration with other platforms."
"Recently, it's become less stable if I am working on Citrix."
"It is limited for us because SAP is shifting toward the cloud, and we can't use a cloud solution for SAP BusinessObjects. SAP introduced a product called PlusTimes one or two years ago and another one that I believe was called Automatic BI. This tool is more powerful than BusinessObjects and other tools because it's provided in the cloud."
"The dashboard tool is called Lumira and it is very uncomfortable for developers to use. They should improve this in the future."
"The admin features for disk space management need work. It's very difficult to manage the disk space by the application; good admin features and not included to allow you to do that. I don't believe that is in the latest version of the product either."
"Tableau was easier for me to use because the interface is more similar to Excel which I was used to using."
"We're an Epic shop, and Epic is moving away from Crystal. It would be nice if it had tighter integration with products like Epic. It would be awesome to have better integration with third-party products."
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Oracle OBIEE is ranked 3rd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 154 reviews while SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is ranked 6th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 102 reviews. Oracle OBIEE is rated 7.8, while SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Oracle OBIEE writes "A solution that is easily accessible, scalable and requires a straightforward initial setup process to get started". 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". Oracle OBIEE is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, IBM Cognos, Tableau, Oracle Analytics Cloud and Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, whereas SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, IBM Cognos, MicroStrategy and Looker. See our Oracle OBIEE vs. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform report.
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