joepeters 
(BOB member since 2002-08-29)
NycPriya (BOB member since 2010-11-04)
Well, at least we’re a contender. 
Maybe it’s time to learn Tableau.
MichaelWelter 
(BOB member since 2002-08-08)
20 vendors ranked on the basis of about 10 responses for each vendor - meaningless!
As it says itself: “A quick reminder. The G2 Crowd results have plenty of room for interpretation especially since rankings can be based on as few as 10 user reviews.”
anorak 
(BOB member since 2002-09-13)
And the survey says…
Mak 1 
(BOB member since 2005-01-06)
Comparison with Gartner BI Magic Quadrant 2015 - attached.
Not quite apples for apples, just for the S&G’s.
mcnelson 
(BOB member since 2008-10-09)
I cant take any survey that rates Oracle BI, a truly horrible product.
Apart from that, people always seem to be liking / rating the new sexy techs Qlikview, Tableau etc.
What often (nearly always) happens is they find they need a traditional BI reporting tool, as well as cubes, dashboards etc.
Mak 1 (BOB member since 2005-01-06)
To emphasize that point:
Last week I had a customer sold on DesignStudio against SAP BW.
I showed them Webi against SAP BW (4.1), liver demo using their Systems! And they really, really seemed to love the fast and easy way one can create reports against SAP BW with a nice outcome/ nice, modern looking charts, loads of easy possibilities to change the layout, etc.
Andreas 
(BOB member since 2002-06-20)
If this means OBIEE, then I agree 100%!
anorak (BOB member since 2002-09-13)
Soooo BAD. The users absolutely hated it too, was not just me 
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Mak 1 (BOB member since 2005-01-06)
SAP need to work better with there customers and be more polished with there interactions, seems to be a problem specific to SAP as after having most of the other vendors in and demo’s etc SAP have been rather poor.
This isn’t recent problem but I remeber some 8-9 years back, had all the vendors in again SAP very poor client ended up with OBIEE. I am seeing it again now Tableau in particular is getting a strong foot, BO in most cases is still only there because of legacy issues and work involved rebuilding reports, new projects who don’t have these issues are tending to go for Tableau with Tableau trying to be more enterprise reporting these days, I found Tableau very easy to pick up.
Rich (BOB member since 2002-10-04)
I’m surprised that cost isn’t a consideration. SAP is pricing itself out of the market for all but the big boys.
Debbie
Debbie (BOB member since 2005-03-01)
I concur with you there re: OBIEE, I had the displeasure of learning it 2 years ago and was amazed to find things that BO has been doing since the dawn of time that OBIEE didnt have a concept of. Its only redeeming feature was it`s ‘integratedness’ at the front end.
What you say is true about the use cases for these tools, Qlik, Tableau, Spotfire, SAS VA etc etc etc they are all great for creating engaging data discoveries and dashboards (better than SAP to be honest) but fail when it comes to reporting, which is still highly in demand as it`s ‘meat and spuds’ of BI and MI. However lots of people just see BI tool and think they are all like for like comparative.
The only tool I`ve worked with that actually does things differently is LogiAnalytics which can do some amazing stuff. Only issue is you pretty much have to be a web developer and SQL genius to get the best out of it.
On the pricing thing, SAP BI doesnt have to be expensive, you can get EDGE which pretty much does everything youd want for no a ton of money up to a good amount of CALS. It only gets expensive when you start going to BI SUITE. So you have a pretty big potential SME market out there. I mean I work with some commercial open source stuff that is more expensive that SAP BI EDGE!
ABILtd (BOB member since 2006-02-08)
Pretty much says it all really 
R.E. Edge pricing - Yes, sometimes SAP does get poor press that is undeserved.
The point Rich makes about poor SAP demos / selling do hold water 
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Mak 1 (BOB member since 2005-01-06)
On the selling thing, I find the multitude of front ends doesn`t help, specially when there is crossover with what the tools can do, also the stunted conversions on how Design Studio with replace SAP Dashboards (yeah right, when, in 2018, and the whole world learns javascript to build a dashboard)
ABILtd (BOB member since 2006-02-08)
True.
Mak 1 (BOB member since 2005-01-06)