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Business Objects Vs Qlik View
Business Objects Vs Qlik View
QlikView
A comparative study
Choosing the best business intelligence tool can be a confusing process. There are dozens of
vendors of business intelligence and Big Data analytics solutions whose marketing messages all
sound alike
Business Objects
QlikView
Informations
Product
Applications
Technology
Feature Comparison
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Business Reporting
Business reporting or enterprise reporting is "the public reporting of operating and financial data
by a business enterprise," or "the regular provision of information to decision-makers within an
organization to support them in their work."
Reporting is a fundamental part of the larger movement towards improved business
intelligence and knowledge management. Often implementation involves extract, transform, and
load (ETL) procedures in coordination with a data warehouse and then using one or
more reporting tools. While reports can be distributed in print form or via email, they are
typically accessed via a corporate intranet.
With the dramatic expansion of information technology, and the desire for increased
competitiveness in corporations, there has been an increase in the use of computing power to
produce unified reports which join different views of the enterprise in one place. This reporting
process involves querying data sources with different logical models to produce a human
readable reportfor example, a computer user has to query the Human Resources databases and
the Capital Improvements databases to show how efficiently space is being used across an entire
corporation.
SAP BusinessObjects (a.k.a. BO, BOBJ) is an enterprise software company, specializing
in business intelligence (BI). BusinessObjects was acquired in 2007 by SAP
AG a German company. The company claimed more than 46,000 customers worldwide in its
final earnings release prior to being acquired by SAP. Its flagship product is BusinessObjects XI,
with components that provide performance management, planning, reporting, query and analysis
and enterprise information management. Business Objects also offers consulting and education
services to help customers deploy its business intelligence projects. Other toolsets enable
universes (the Business Objects name for a semantic layer between the physical data store and
the front-end reporting tool) and ready-written reports to be stored centrally and made selectively
available to communities of users.
QlikTech is a software company based in Radnor, Pennsylvania, World's Fastest Growing BI
tool. With 10.3 customers being added every working day. QlikTech is the provider
of QlikView, business intelligence software. QlikView is a. Is an IN-memory based BI tool
which can be deployed in a week's time. It comes at HALF the TCO and delivers TWICE the
value compared to any OLAP based BI Solution In QUARTER of the TIME
QlikView is the most flexible Business Intelligence platform for turning data into knowledge.
More than 24,000 organizations worldwide have enabled their users to easily consolidate, search,
and visually analyses all their data for unprecedented business insight using QlikViews
simplicity.
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Comparative Study
QlikView is a single integrated tool for ETL, DW, Multi-Dimensional Analysis, Dash
boarding, Reporting, as per the Butler group user takes couple of hours training instead of
weeks taken by traditional OLAP based tools as in the way Business Objects is focusing
on Business intelligence, Score carding, Strategic planning, Budgeting, Forecasting,
Consolidation etc.
Business objects performance is based on Warehouses, as in QlikView warehouse is not
required.
While considering Server/User Licenses both are Named versions.
For Business Objects Web users are unlimitedly configured but in QlikView its limited
with User license.
QlikView uses its integrated Robust ETL to Extract data from multiple data sources and
forms a data repository using its patented Technology (AQL: Associative Query Logic),
and Empowers the customer to be independent of the vendor to create and use analytics,
But Business Objects required building data warehouse, normalization, schema writing,
and creation of cubes.
Both the Reporting tools will shows similarities in Technology wise like Supported
database, Supported Networks etc.
QlikView can connect to all major OLAP cubes like Business objects, and they are not
using any third party tools used in Business Objects like Crystal Reports.
SAP Business Objects BI solutions reduces BI TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) by
providing a single, integrated, scalable, highly available, business intelligence enterprise
platform with an award winning service oriented architecture (SOA). Compared to SaaS
BI solutions, the cost of QlikView is higher because of the procurement and maintenance
of the hardware needed for development, QA and production environments, and costs
associated with downtimes. Only when QlikView is compared to on premise BI products
does QlikView have a lower TCO.
SAP Business Objects provides a framework of data extraction and analysis that helps
business leaders make data centric managerial decisions that will help improve the
bottom line and maintain operational stability and efficiency over the long term.
QlikView Applications are constrained by how much RAM can be addressed in a single
hardware box. As a result, QlikView is designed for gigabytes-scale BI applications.
Given a typical 10x compression rate, QlikView performs well on data volumes up to 1020 gigabytes of compressed data. Since QlikView has to bulk load all data to the system
RAM, reloading data is a considerable workload and can take a substantial amount of
time. This limits the practical frequency of data updates in case of larger data volumes.
QlikView often grows inside of a larger organization via small and isolated departmental
deployments. At some point in time, corporate IT will step in and seek to take control.
Consolidating and managing separate QlikView deployments is very difficult and
requires considerable rework. Lastly, QlikView stores its data in proprietary files. If the
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QlikView implements in a matter of days, as always. Now, QlikView 8 brings real time
to in-memory analysis. Using newly released APIs, QlikView can have data streamed
into the memory model. Imagine real time stock tickers, and feeds from real-time
systems, while the Business Objects requires more time for the implementation.
Business objects require worrying about versioning - both data versioning, and business
object versioning, As compared with QlikView.
Creates personalized analysis. Users have the ability to create and save their own
personalized QlikViews without impacting the master QlikView. This allows users to
define QlikViews according to their individual needs, analyses multiple scenarios and
refine results until they get the exact answers needed. In BOs require to write
a new object for a new entity - this might not be fully true as design might encourage
reuse, but cannot beat the dataset, in which to setup the object have to write zero code.
QlikView Allows people to work better together. QlikView reports, and secure links, can
now be sent directly via email and server links. People can share their findings with
colleagues, who can then build on that analysis with their own information continually
strengthening the organizations intelligence like as Business Objects.
In SAP Business Objects Lose any enhancements Microsoft may provide with in future
versions of .NET. If in .NET 1.1, shied away from datasets, because of
its serialization problems, probably spent a very long time getting business objects
working. Only to find out that MS fixed it in .NET 2.0, any way QlikView Does not use.
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Feature Comparison:
Features
Business Objects
QlikView
Analytic functionality
Yes
Yes
Bubble up exceptions
Yes
Drill down
Yes
Yes
Sorting
Yes
Yes
Restrict results by
date range
Includes dashboard
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Counts
Yes
Yes
Percentage of total
Yes
Yes
Allocations
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Integrated
Yes
Yes
Yes
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Yes
Yes
Yes
By dimension
Yes
Yes, No in Dimension
By level
Yes
Yes
By cell
Yes
Yes
Zero-row suppression
Yes
Conditional
formatting by cell,
e.g., highlight cells
below threshold
Returns text (e.g., if
value > 90, returns
"excellent")
French version
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Working Platform
Reports
Documentation
Yes
Yes
Metadata
Yes
Yes
OLAP functionality
Yes
NOT Required
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internet Explorer
client
Netscape client
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Geographical
representation
Drag and drop
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Password security
Yes
By company
Yes
Yes
By department or
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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Yes
Yes
By function (view,
add, change, delete)
By dimension
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
By level
Yes
Yes
By cell
Yes
Yes
Respect active
directory
authentication
Respect database
security
Portal generation that
includes HTML reports
Report writer
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Web-based
Yes
Yes
Generate cube
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG report
design
Technology
Yes
Yes
Yes
YES (AQL)
API-enabled (SDK
Yes
provided)
Web-based (only need Yes
browser at client)
For entire application Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Report writer
Yes
Excel
Yes
PivotTable
Yes
Yes
HTML
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PowerPoint
Yes
XML
Yes
Yes
Views
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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Yes
Yes
Charts
Yes,
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Alerts can be
automatically
triggered
Yes
Limitation/Scalability
over Data
Ad-Hoc Capability
Mobile Reporting
BO Explorer
Yes
No
BI Widgets
Yes
No
Pixel Perfect
Reporting
IT Dependency
Yes
No
Metadata
Management
Tools
Semantic Layer
Live Office
Connectivity
No
No semantic Layer
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Export data or
metadata to XML
Multi User
development
environment
SQL Generation
Resolving circular
loops and Traps
User based and Role
based Security
Real time analysis and
Reporting
Data Modeling
Hardware
Maintenance
No
Possible
No
Associative
No
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Strategic analysis
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Summary:
Choose QlikView if:
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