We performed a comparison between Databricks and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Databricks, Microsoft, Alteryx and others in Data Science Platforms."I work in the data science field and I found Databricks to be very useful."
"The ability to stream data and the windowing feature are valuable."
"Databricks has improved my organization by allowing us to transform data from sources to a different format and feed that to the analytics, business intelligence, and reporting teams. This tool makes it easy to do those kinds of things."
"I like cloud scalability and data access for any type of user."
"The processing capacity is tremendous in the database."
"In the manufacturing industry, Databricks can be beneficial to use because of machine learning. It is useful for tasks, such as product analysis or predictive maintenance."
"Easy to use and requires minimal coding and customizations."
"The simplicity of development is the most valuable feature."
"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."
"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."
"Way of creating reports."
"The solution can scale."
"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."
"We use it to identify critical KPIs to senior management."
"BusinessObjects can handle a lot of usage on the front end, and many users can view these reports. It's a relatively stable and secure tool."
"The web intelligence reporting tool and universe designer are the most valuable aspects of the solution."
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"The query plan is not easy with Databrick's job level. If I want to tune any of the code, it is not easily available in the blogs as well."
"Databricks may not be as easy to use as other tools, but if you simplify a tool too much, it won't have the flexibility to go in-depth. Databricks is completely in the programmer's hands. I prefer flexibility rather than simplicity."
"I would like it if Databricks made it easier to set up a project."
"Pricing is one of the things that could be improved."
"Databricks' performance when serving the data to an analytics tool isn't as good as Snowflake's."
"When I used the support, I had communication problems because of the language barrier with the agent. The accent was difficult to understand."
"Some of the error messages that we receive are too vague, saying things like "unknown exception", and these should be improved to make it easier for developers to debug problems."
"I would like to see more documentation in terms of how an end-user could use it, and users like me can easily try it and implement use cases."
"This solution is complex to configure and administer."
"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."
"We would like to see a native version of BusinessObjects and Web Intelligence created for the cloud."
"It could be a lighter solution."
"It is not simple to use."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is an outdated solution that is missing many features."
"The dashboard tool is called Lumira and it is very uncomfortable for developers to use. They should improve this in the future."
"The interface could be slicker and more user-friendly."
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Databricks is ranked 1st in Data Science Platforms with 78 reviews while SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is ranked 6th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 103 reviews. Databricks is rated 8.2, while SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Databricks writes "A nice interface with good features for turning off clusters to save on computing". 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". Databricks is most compared with Amazon SageMaker, Informatica PowerCenter, Dataiku, Dremio and Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio, whereas SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, IBM Cognos and Amazon QuickSight.
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