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Holistics Data Software vs SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 3, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Holistics Data Software
Ranking in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools
31st
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
SAP BusinessObjects Busines...
Ranking in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools
5th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
114
Ranking in other categories
Data Visualization (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the BI (Business Intelligence) Tools category, the mindshare of Holistics Data Software is 0.5%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence is 2.7%, down from 3.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence2.7%
Holistics Data Software0.5%
Other96.8%
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools
 

Featured Reviews

PN
Project Assistant at Computer Center - HCMC University of Technology
Good analytics, fair pricing, and a variety of features
We just use Holistics Data Software for transforming data and reporting in my company. We use it to create dashboards and sometimes send dashboard captures into our Slack or email Holistics Data Software is easy to use, and the price is suitable for my company. We've been using it for almost a…
TarunKumar7 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Data Engineer at LTI LATAM and Toubro Improtech
Data insights have driven faster financial forecasts and improved role-based decision making
The best features SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform offers include cross-enterprise sharing, where sharing insights is easier and seamless across my organization, and creating role-based dashboards. The role-based dashboards help my team and organization by providing information to specific users, allowing them to make decisions more easily, anytime, anywhere, across any device. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform has positively impacted my organization by allowing us to perform financial reporting to make decisions faster. Since we started using SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, we have been able to make faster, data-driven business decisions based on actual data insights and data analysis, which has accelerated our ability to make better decisions for our business productivity.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Holistics Data Software is easy to use, and the price is suitable for my company."
"Able to quickly create and publish reports using WebI."
"Ive yet to find a bi tool that can match SAP’s offering, and Ive implemented all of them."
"The solution I built replaced a manual process that would take 3 weeks and provided an automated solution."
"It's provided us with best practice reports out of the box for various modules, as well as an interface for creating adhoc reports with more analytical capabilities."
"If I were to compare it with Power BI and I wanted to build proper well-formatted reports, BusinessObjects Business Intelligence does that much better."
"The solution is stable."
"Crystal Report and the enterprise reporting is very good, it's very detailed."
"It gives you a lot of flexibility in designing your dashboards."
 

Cons

"The learning curve was quite hard for us to master all the features at the beginning."
"We feel that the tool is very complex in terms of implementing the dashboard; lots of coding and performance issues, and we require particular skillsets and resources as regular users cannot understand it."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is lacking dashboards and this would be the only reason we are looking for another solution."
"But SAP sort of dropped the ball with their 4.x release, leaving out features that we had become used to with 3.1, which was stable."
"In Design Studio version 1.6, when creating a custom geo map component, we are not able to associate a shape layer with data sources."
"I can't recommend BusinessObjects because its usage is limited, and it can't provide a new solution for end-users."
"We regret that versions that are initially released do not seem to be well finished (a lot of bugs), and that a lot of patching is necessary to get to a stable version (our experience for BOXIR3, BI4 and so on)."
"There are too many steps, and they take too much time."
"We need to speed up the performance of our tool because it is slower compared to the SAP Analytics Cloud tool."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"There's no additional charge for a Development environment license, so build an additional development server."
"The platform's pricing needs to be revised."
"​It is not an expensive platform. The licensing is for a package of users starting at 10 users."
"It has an option of a Cloud Platform (SAP Analytics Cloud) which has a lower price than the on-premise platform, and you can buy individual licences per user.​"
"I have always found SAP BI to be expensive. It is expensive even when you compare SAP BI Cloud with Microsoft Power BI. Power BI is probably around $9.99 per month, and the cheapest SAP BI is around $20, which is double. In terms of price, Power BI is definitely a lot better. If you have budget issues, you may want to go for Power BI."
"We are satisfied with the solution, but we are not satisfied with the licensing cost which SAP offers. They offer one lumpsum licensing which does everything. That is not the right strategy, because sometimes you don't have power users, they are only viewers, but we need to buy the full license for them. This is not something we want to continue with."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is an expensive application."
"Just work with SAP to make sure you have enough licenses but don't go overboard."
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Comparison Review

it_user6663 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Expert at a transportation company with 51-200 employees
May 25, 2013
SAP Business Objects vs. Microsoft BI
A quick look at the whole idea on another weblogs gives you a sense that all of them just talked about very brief things like report refresh feature in BO or cube feature in MS Analysis Service. I choose MS BI and I want to share my reasons and opinions on why I choose it and give you another quick…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Construction Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business34
Midsize Enterprise20
Large Enterprise67
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Holistics Data Software?
The product is easy to set up as a cloud service. We did not need to hire additional staff such as data engineers.
What needs improvement with Holistics Data Software?
The learning curve was quite hard for us to master all the features at the beginning. Now it's fine.
What is your primary use case for Holistics Data Software?
We just use Holistics Data Software for transforming data and reporting in my company. We use it to create dashboards and sometimes send dashboard captures into our Slack or email.
Seeking lightweight open source BI software
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Also Known As

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SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform, SAP BusinessObjects, Business Objects, SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards, SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
 

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Sample Customers

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SRAM, Kennametal, Fairfax Water, British American Tobacco, Velux, and FedEx.
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