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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Microsoft Power BI

    Score8.6 out of 10
    		N/AMicrosoft Power BI is a visualization and data discovery tool from Microsoft. It allows users to convert data into visuals and graphics, visually explore and analyze data, collaborate on interactive dashboards and reports, and scale across their organization with built-in governance and security.

    $10

    per month per user

    SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence

    Score6.5 out of 10
    		N/AThe SAP® BusinessObjects™ Business Intelligence Platform provides users with ad hoc queries, reporting, data visualizations, and analysis tools. Its integrated, unified infrastructure aims to offer scalability from one-to-many tools and interfaces on-premise, in the cloud, or as a hybrid approach.N/A
    Pricing
    Microsoft Power BISAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    Microsoft Power BISAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Microsoft Power BISAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
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    Microsoft
    Nagaraj C
    Senior Software Engineer in Corporate at KPMG (Investment Management, 10,001+ employees)
    Chose Microsoft Power BI
    It has more than 200 plus visuals in-store and is very easy to access. It has a great user community to help each other with an ample amount of responses. Almost all kinds of data sources are available to use and develop the reports Easy to use and learn with a lot of training …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Microsoft Power BI
    [Microsoft] Power BI was really the natural choice at Microsoft technology based organizations I have worked for. The cost and integration into existing Microsoft technologies was the primary driver.
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Microsoft Power BI
    Microsoft Power BI is part of the MS product family, and since we are a Microsoft shop (Office365, Azure, SQL DB) it fits into our environment with centralized management/administration. This alone justified additional costs (licensing). Tableau and SAP Business Objects are …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Microsoft Power BI
    Microsoft Power BI was a cheaper alternative to Tableau. It is part of the Office 365 universe, so easier connectivity to all Microsoft apps.
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Microsoft Power BI
    MS Power BI has that nice feeling as it is a product of Microsoft family, the adaptation period of your organization will be easier. You can use your knowledge on Excel, and enjoy better data visualization, graphs, charts, data calculation capabilities. You can find more free …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Microsoft Power BI
    Webi reports in SAP BusinessObjects are harder to develop and not easy to maintain as Microsoft Power BI. Though we can easily assign report models to different datasets. I would say Microsoft Power BI can be deployed to business key users with a predefined and fully tested …
    Incentivized
    jim paroly
    Freelance Photographer in Research & Development at j. paroly photo (Graphic Design, 1-10 employees)
    Chose Microsoft Power BI
    Microsoft's Power BI is what Excel graphing and pivoting should have been like. Power BI has much better ways to look at your data visually than you can with Excel's own tools. You can select from many built-in graph types or you can use the growing number of add-ons to get …
    Incentivized
    SAP
    Verified User
    Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    Even though all these tools are very similar to each other, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform does have better integration with the database than other competitors such as Microsoft Power BI. On the side of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    SAP BO BI is very similar to Microsoft Power BI. However, SAP BO BI is much stronger in terms of analytics and document management while Power bI is stronger in data visualization and big data integration. SAP BO BI is a great tool within its ally, which is performance analysis …
    Incentivized
    irfan shaik
    Technical Consultant in Information Technology at Numeric technologies inc (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees)
    Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    This has the biggest drawback of handling the large data volume which I feel is needed as this is time-consuming and making decisions at the right time is getting harder and we have decided to move to this platform considering the time taken to process the data.
    Incentivized
    Gaurav Pandey - PMP,ITIL,CSM
    SAP Application Manager in Information Technology at Flynn Restaurant Group (Restaurants, 10,001+ employees)
    Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    Microsoft's Power BI has certainly gained a lot of attention and became a leader in Gartner's magic quadrant. This is certainly a good product for average data volume which can be handled in the cloud, however, SAP BI is capable of handling much more data with complex reporting …
    Incentivized
    Dharmesh Shah
    Associate Principal in Information Technology at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech (Banking, 10,001+ employees)
    Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    MicroStrategy Analytics and IBM Cognos Analytics is costlier compared to SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform stacks. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform stacks is user friendly, easy to adapt, easy to train resources and get them …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    There is no special differentiation point. My companies were using SAP as their main ERP and therefore using the SAP BO BI for reporting and analysis purposes. Some reports were defined to be released periodically but these reports were needed for day to day information. We …
    Incentivized
    David Angers
    Senior Business Intelligence Developer in Information Technology at Sierra Nevada Corporation (Defense & Space, 1001-5000 employees)
    Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    Crystal was part of the platform prior to my tenure. Explorer has always had a limited use case. I helped drive the conversation for Visual Intelligence and by the time we acted, it turned into Lumira which can't hold a candle to Tableau or Power BI.
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    As we have been using SAP ERP, having SAP BI was one of the key factors in our choice. Also design efficiency, variety of data sources' integration and document versioning gave better advantages to SAP BI over others. Also adding SAP BI during the SAP ERP rollout provided …
    Incentivized
    Tim Dorscher
    Product Specialist - Walls Product Line Management in Product Management at Haworth (Construction, 1001-5000 employees)
    Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    I use the platform as it is all that is available to me. I have no ability to query the warehouse directly probably for good reason. I have been using PowerBI and I know it can connect to the warehouse and do the query and visualization in real time. However, our admins will …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    That was the best alternative that could connect to our ERP instances. The availability of SAP Rapid Marts that could be leveraged to pull data models for specific SAP areas such as Sales tables, Production, Maintenance, and others was also a very important differentiation. …
    Incentivized
    Bryan Arroyo Fernandez
    Supplier Quality Engineer in Quality Assurance at KATERRA (Construction, 1001-5000 employees)
    Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    SAP BusinessObjects is the only system of its kind that I've tried.
    Incentivized
    Viktor Mulac
    Senior Consultant in Information Technology at A.T. Kearney (Management Consulting, 1001-5000 employees)
    Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    On a different company level, we have been using the MS PowerBI platform, a package with a great usability - quickly deployable and easy to use from the beginning. Used the Azure cloud option (needless to say that in a paid version). The main difference would be a scale of …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
    Microsoft Power BISAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Microsoft Power BI and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    Feature
    Microsoft Power BI
    8.8
    140 Ratings
    SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    8.2
    51 Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports8.5120 Ratings8.646 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards10.0140 Ratings7.747 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates8.0128 Ratings8.347 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Microsoft Power BI and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    Feature
    Microsoft Power BI
    8.2
    140 Ratings
    SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    7.8
    48 Ratings
    Drill-down analysis7.0139 Ratings7.147 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities9.0138 Ratings8.347 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages8.0103 Ratings7.333 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration9.0135 Ratings8.647 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Microsoft Power BI and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    Feature
    Microsoft Power BI
    8.6
    134 Ratings
    SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    7.9
    48 Ratings
    Publish to Web8.0129 Ratings9.040 Ratings
    Publish to PDF9.0122 Ratings7.446 Ratings
    Report Versioning9.0102 Ratings6.742 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.0104 Ratings8.447 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers9.074 Ratings7.726 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Microsoft Power BI and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    Feature
    Microsoft Power BI
    8.7
    136 Ratings
    SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    7.2
    43 Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)9.0131 Ratings6.941 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.0122 Ratings6.939 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics9.0102 Ratings7.938 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining9.01 Ratings7.32 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Microsoft Power BI and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    Feature
    Microsoft Power BI
    8.6
    127 Ratings
    SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    9.2
    48 Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)9.0121 Ratings9.048 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model9.0102 Ratings9.646 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)10.0111 Ratings9.045 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control7.01 Ratings9.62 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)8.394 Ratings9.029 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Microsoft Power BI and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    Feature
    Microsoft Power BI
    8.0
    117 Ratings
    SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    5.8
    34 Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access8.0111 Ratings6.733 Ratings
    Mobile Application7.793 Ratings3.928 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.7112 Ratings3.930 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Microsoft Power BI and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    Feature
    Microsoft Power BI
    8.4
    80 Ratings
    SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    7.1
    24 Ratings
    REST API8.072 Ratings6.721 Ratings
    Javascript API9.956 Ratings7.319 Ratings
    iFrames8.055 Ratings7.318 Ratings
    Java API8.046 Ratings7.122 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)8.163 Ratings7.321 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)8.444 Ratings6.720 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Microsoft Power BISAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (142 ratings)
    7.7
    (73 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.3
    (24 ratings)
    Usability
    7.9
    (58 ratings)
    7.6
    (16 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (53 ratings)
    8.6
    (16 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.5
    (82 ratings)
    8.2
    (45 ratings)
    Data Sources
    9.0
    (81 ratings)
    8.3
    (45 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)