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SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence vs. Tableau Server

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SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence

844 Reviews and Ratings

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878 Reviews and Ratings

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    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 Server

    Score7.6 out of 10
    		N/ATableau Server allows Tableau Desktop users to publish dashboards to a central server to be shared across their organizations. The product is designed to facilitate collaboration across the organization. It can be deployed on a server in the data center, or it can be deployed on a public cloud.

    $12

    Per User Per Month

    Pricing
    SAP BusinessObjects Business IntelligenceTableau Server
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Viewer
    $12.00
    Per User Per Month
    Explorer
    $35.00
    Per User Per Month
    Creator
    $70.00
    Per User Per Month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SAP BusinessObjects Business IntelligenceTableau Server
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    SAP BusinessObjects Business IntelligenceTableau Server
    Considered Both Products
    SAP
    Verified User
    Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    Earlier, I used SAP BW's BEx tools for reporting, but it was challenging to format the report data and export to different formats. SAP BEx tools can access data from limited sources where as SAP BO can access data from most of the datasources which is why I prefer using BO …
    Incentivized
    Tableau
    Verified User
    Chose Tableau Server
    We used and still are using IBM Cognos for business intelligence purposes. It is good for use as a data infrastructure and analytic framework, rather than a BI toolkit, but Tableau is replacing Cognos fast. We used D3.js for a few proofs of concept visualization and …
    Incentivized
    Ilham AB
    Senior Solutions Manager (Enterprise Architect) in Information Technology at 3 (Telecommunications, 501-1000 employees)
    Chose Tableau Server
    Compared to our previous version of software and tool that had been used since the beginning of the company, Tableau is reliable, fast and accurate. Some important features for advanced analytics and data visualization are not available with the previous system. Therefore it …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Tableau Server
    We find Tableau Server much more flexible and powerful for the developer. The resulting dashboard and interactive charts far surpass those of Business Objects. IBM Cognos is much too restrictive in its ability to present data visualizations in a way that is easily integrated …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Tableau Server
    • Tableau is a stable and time tested product which can handle hundreds and thousands of users and a huge amount of content, plus tableau has also introduced a web authoring tool which you can [use to] edit dashboards using your browser.
    • However, the recent introduction of NLP …
    Incentivized
    Elvin Cheng
    IT Specialist in Information Technology at LCY CHEMICAL CORP. (Chemicals, 1001-5000 employees)
    Chose Tableau Server
    Because our big data project team wants to show highly customized visualization for their complex data and analyzed results, only Tableau Desktop can support this target. After we developed many, many dashboards and other views, we wanted to share it with different users. We …
    Incentivized
    Andrew Porter
    Associate Consultant in Information Technology at Pariveda Solutions (Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees)
    Chose Tableau Server
    Tableau Server has many competitors, two primary ones would be SAP Business Objects and Microsoft PowerView through Tabular Analysis Services. I have worked with all three products. First and foremost, in terms of data visualization Tableau is the best by far. However there are …
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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
    SAP BusinessObjects Business IntelligenceTableau Server
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence and Tableau Server
    Feature
    SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    8.2
    51 Ratings
    Tableau Server
    9.5
    94 Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports8.646 Ratings9.129 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards7.747 Ratings9.793 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates8.347 Ratings9.780 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence and Tableau Server
    Feature
    SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    7.8
    48 Ratings
    Tableau Server
    9.1
    94 Ratings
    Drill-down analysis7.147 Ratings8.994 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities8.347 Ratings8.892 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages7.333 Ratings9.058 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.647 Ratings9.888 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence and Tableau Server
    Feature
    SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    7.9
    48 Ratings
    Tableau Server
    8.4
    90 Ratings
    Publish to Web9.040 Ratings9.884 Ratings
    Publish to PDF7.446 Ratings9.783 Ratings
    Report Versioning6.742 Ratings9.169 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.447 Ratings8.376 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers7.726 Ratings5.19 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence and Tableau Server
    Feature
    SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    7.2
    43 Ratings
    Tableau Server
    8.7
    89 Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)6.941 Ratings8.985 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization6.939 Ratings8.984 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics7.938 Ratings8.563 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 Server
    Feature
    SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    9.2
    48 Ratings
    Tableau Server
    8.3
    94 Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)9.048 Ratings8.392 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model9.646 Ratings8.389 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)9.045 Ratings8.391 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control9.62 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)9.029 Ratings8.361 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence and Tableau Server
    Feature
    SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    5.8
    34 Ratings
    Tableau Server
    8.4
    78 Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access6.733 Ratings8.276 Ratings
    Mobile Application3.928 Ratings8.160 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile3.930 Ratings9.067 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence and Tableau Server
    Feature
    SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
    7.1
    24 Ratings
    Tableau Server
    7.2
    45 Ratings
    REST API6.721 Ratings9.039 Ratings
    Javascript API7.319 Ratings9.036 Ratings
    iFrames7.318 Ratings9.039 Ratings
    Java API7.122 Ratings5.57 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)7.321 Ratings6.19 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)6.720 Ratings4.67 Ratings
    User Ratings
    SAP BusinessObjects Business IntelligenceTableau Server
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.7
    (73 ratings)
    8.1
    (110 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.3
    (24 ratings)
    10.0
    (20 ratings)
    Usability
    7.6
    (16 ratings)
    5.2
    (16 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    8.1
    (8 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.6
    (16 ratings)
    3.0
    (18 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    9.1
    (13 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.2
    (45 ratings)
    5.1
    (79 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.3
    (45 ratings)
    6.6
    (82 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)