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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Tableau Public

    Score9.7 out of 10
    N/ATableau Public is a free edition of the Desktop product. With this edition, data can only be published to the Tableau public website and does not allow work to be saved or exported locally.

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    Pricing
    SAP BusinessObjects Business IntelligenceTableau Public
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SAP BusinessObjects Business IntelligenceTableau Public
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Community Pulse
    SAP BusinessObjects Business IntelligenceTableau Public
    Considered Both Products
    SAP
    Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    I have worked on different BI tools in the market and could not find any other tool that was better and more powerful than SAP BusinessObjects.
    Incentivized
    Tableau
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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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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    SAP BusinessObjects Business IntelligenceTableau Public
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence and Tableau Public
    Feature
    SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    8.2
    51 Ratings
    Tableau Public
    9.8
    12 Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports8.646 Ratings9.710 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards7.747 Ratings10.012 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates8.347 Ratings9.712 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence and Tableau Public
    Feature
    SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    7.8
    48 Ratings
    Tableau Public
    9.7
    12 Ratings
    Drill-down analysis7.147 Ratings9.812 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities8.347 Ratings9.712 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages7.333 Ratings9.59 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.647 Ratings9.811 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence and Tableau Public
    Feature
    SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    7.9
    48 Ratings
    Tableau Public
    9.5
    11 Ratings
    Publish to Web9.040 Ratings10.011 Ratings
    Publish to PDF7.446 Ratings10.09 Ratings
    Report Versioning6.742 Ratings9.89 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.447 Ratings9.69 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers7.726 Ratings8.17 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence and Tableau Public
    Feature
    SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    7.2
    43 Ratings
    Tableau Public
    9.8
    11 Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)6.941 Ratings9.811 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization6.939 Ratings9.811 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics7.938 Ratings9.79 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining7.32 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence and Tableau Public
    Feature
    SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    9.2
    48 Ratings
    Tableau Public
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    Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)9.048 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model9.646 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)9.045 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control9.62 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)9.029 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence and Tableau Public
    Feature
    SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    5.8
    34 Ratings
    Tableau Public
    -
    Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access6.733 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Application3.928 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile3.930 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence and Tableau Public
    Feature
    SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    7.1
    24 Ratings
    Tableau Public
    -
    Ratings
    REST API6.721 Ratings00 Ratings
    Javascript API7.319 Ratings00 Ratings
    iFrames7.318 Ratings00 Ratings
    Java API7.122 Ratings00 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)7.321 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)6.720 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Ratings
    SAP BusinessObjects Business IntelligenceTableau Public
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.7
    (73 ratings)
    8.5
    (14 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.3
    (24 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    7.6
    (16 ratings)
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.6
    (16 ratings)
    9.6
    (6 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.2
    (45 ratings)
    8.2
    (9 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.3
    (45 ratings)
    8.8
    (9 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)