We performed a comparison between Alteryx and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Predictive Analytics solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Automation is the most valuable aspect for us. The ability to wrap business logic around the data is very helpful."
"The GUI is simple and it integrates with Python."
"It has everything that one needs. Whatever you want to do with the data can be done with Alteryx."
"The most valuable feature of Alteryx is its performance. It is a powerful solution."
"Geo features have made spatial mapping large retail universes possible."
"I like the solution's velocity, the speed with which it processes data, and its ease of use."
"The solution has a very strong community that is involved in the product. It helps make the usage easier and helps us find answers to our questions."
"It is one of the most complete and great customer service that I experienced with a software company/ecosystem."
"Through the use of Business Intelligence reporting and scheduling features, reports are generated and automatically sent according to a schedule. This has freed up countless hours spent performing the same tasks, month over month."
"The most important feature of BusinessObjects is its integration with the SAP ERP system. If an organization is using SAP as its ERP system, and they want to do business intelligence, reporting, or analysis, SAP BusinessObjects is the only tool that I see doing that quite efficiently. That's because of the fact it is tightly integrated, and it gives a good user experience in terms of faster reporting. Its integration is the feature that I have found most valuable, but there are also other factors."
"It allows the analysis of business data and enables decisions based on the analysis."
"Provides autonomy for all the business users to develop their own reports."
"It can process big volumes of data fast."
"It gives you a lot of flexibility in designing your dashboards."
"We use it to identify critical KPIs to senior management."
"The development using SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is very good."
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"I think they should really work on integrating or have a capacity to integrate some algorithmic code. I think that's one of the most important things they need to be doing."
"From a commercial standpoint, more options should be available for pricing. The licensing model needs to be specific."
"When a process completes there is a notification, but the notification does not include the process's name."
"I honestly can't think of anything that needs to be improved."
"The principal problem is the pricing. They're expensive products."
"The price of the solution could improve by being lower."
"Its most valuable feature lies in its functionality."
"The screen when you are looking into your workflows and your ETL processes needs to be improved. You cannot manage it very well."
"There should be more integration with other platforms."
"Currently, we can use Explore to do data discovering, but cannot generate charts."
"This product could be improved with Cloud Integrations and Predictive Analytics functions integration."
"The integration could be improved. The SAP suite has some integration problems and it has some huge development needs. For example, when you use Power BI, if you publish a dataset to the web, there is no issue in seeing the data with the report. The data and report are integrated automatically. Or when you use QlikView, when you publish the QVD file, the report is integrated with QVD. Also, with Tableau, when you publish the data, it's in the hyper database, in the memory, and the dashboard with data is integrated seamlessly. In the SAP side, it's not easy. There are lots of business layers. There are also some performance issues in the SAP BusinessObjects suite. They should focus on the technologies. We are partners and every step of the way, SAP asks us for money. If you want to see the products, the PDFs, if you want to learn the product, online training, etc., everything has a cost on the SAP site. Because of this, partners try to get to know the products on their own. SAP only focuses on the sales side—only money is important for SAP, not the quality. In that way, the operation is not easy on the SAP side. As a suggestion, they should focus on customers first instead of money."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform has to be improved performance-wise. The look and feel of this application, its scalability, setup, and technical support also need improvement."
"Its price should be better. It is expensive and not cost-effective. It should also be improved in terms of end-user experience. It requires further improvements for usability and ease of use. It should have more dashboarding metrics and much faster integration with ERP so that when you double click, you can instantly see the scenario-based result."
"Its data visualization tool is not as good as Power BI and Tableau. Currently, for data visualization, you need to spend more money to buy another solution such as Power BI or Tableau. It is also very hard to integrate it with other third-party solutions. Its integration with other solutions should be improved."
"Technical support may not always be timely or effective."
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Alteryx is ranked 1st in Predictive Analytics with 74 reviews while SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is ranked 6th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 103 reviews. Alteryx is rated 8.4, while SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Alteryx writes "Feature-rich ETL that condenses a number of functions into one tool". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform writes "Visualization is better than other tools, offers good dashboard and analytics features but it is not easy to adapt to the product". Alteryx is most compared with KNIME, Dataiku, Databricks, RapidMiner and Tableau, whereas SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, IBM Cognos and Looker. See our Alteryx vs. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform report.
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