We performed a comparison between QlikView and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Reporting solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL."
"E-T-L, The Extract, Transform, and Loading capabilities of QlikView make it a highly sophisticated self-service business intelligence tool for developers and analysts."
"This is a very cool application with endless options of creativity and visuals."
"Easy to analyze data by click-through."
"The user interface and dashboards are very good."
"Once you open it up, you see everything that you can do."
"The initial setup is not very complex."
"If you correctly use the product for your use cases, it provides value for money."
"It is stable and robust. It has pretty direct integration with SAP ERP. It is easy to use."
"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 initial setup of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform was easy since the solution is user-friendly."
"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."
"What I like the most about SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform is that it has significantly improved our decision-making process."
"The report development tool called SAP Web Intelligence under the BI Launch Pad portal has been the most valuable feature."
"BusinessObject's most useful feature is the semantic layer, which offers us the flexibility to go for ad hoc reporting."
"It has been extremely valuable, to combine data from various data sources."
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"I really wish the application was easier to use in the development phase."
"There is no automation or drag and drop functionality."
"Enhancing user-friendliness would be highly beneficial."
"It would be nice if QlikView could be plugged in into the company's website or an online portal such as QlikSense is capable of. There are ways around but it takes enormous time to develop."
"I would like to see more advanced features from Qlik Sense integrated into QlikView to keep it competitive and up-to-date."
"The user interface and ease of use takes a bit of a learning curve to pick up."
"If a user wanted to see something not included in the application the new object had to be created by a power user or developer because Qlik view's scripting has somewhat of a learning curve."
"Improvement in collaboration, between that and publishing of reports and publishing of models."
"Integrations with things like Active Directory and LDAP tend to be a little complex."
"The solution could be less expensive. It's a bit pricey now."
"The dashboard tool is called Lumira and it is very uncomfortable for developers to use. They should improve this in the future."
"It is not simple to use."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is an outdated solution that is missing many features."
"The financial area in the solution has certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"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."
"The user interface should be easier to use and navigate."
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QlikView is ranked 5th in Reporting with 158 reviews while SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is ranked 6th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 102 reviews. QlikView is rated 8.2, while SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of QlikView writes "Useful for data visualization and business intelligence". 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". QlikView is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, SQL Server and TIBCO Spotfire, whereas SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, IBM Cognos and Oracle Essbase. See our QlikView vs. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform report.
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