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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
29th
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 October 2026, in the BI (Business Intelligence) Tools category, the mindshare of Holistics Data Software is 0.5%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence is 2.9%, down from 3.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence2.9%
Holistics Data Software0.5%
Other96.6%
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."
"We want to use HANA and something called SLT, which will cover our replication and allows us to do modeling directly in the cloud, which is a great feature."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform outperforms all other tools such as Power BI and Tableau, showing more accuracy, reliability, and flexibility compared to all other BI tools worldwide."
"​Provides autonomy for all the business users to develop their own reports.​"
"We find that we can scale it as needed."
"We use it to identify critical KPIs to senior management."
"SAP Business Objects Data Services is user friendly and easy to learn."
"The common metadata environment means that the entire organisation has the same definition of core measures rather than these being derived in spreadsheets or specific reports."
"Ive yet to find a bi tool that can match SAP’s offering, and Ive implemented all of them."
 

Cons

"The learning curve was quite hard for us to master all the features at the beginning."
"It needs to become more user friendly. Currently, it is very cumbersome to use."
"The performance could be improved, like when we extract a large amount of data."
"The basic components of the solution could be improved."
"It needs to be more user friendly for web use."
"Reports/Dashboards on RDBMS cannot handle or scale the demands of the latest data analytics solutions."
"The dashboard tool is called Lumira and it is very uncomfortable for developers to use. They should improve this in the future."
"Fairly straightforward but, not as easy as the vendor made it sound."
"ROI for the reporting product alone, as a component in a whole stack of things contributing to ROI, is in my view a minor contributor."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"We purchase licenses through Epic. So, we get an Epic price as opposed to the SAP price. If we were going to use other products like Webby that they offer or exclusively use BI Launch Pad, it would cost a lot because half of our employees would touch it in some fashion. So, we use Epic-Crystal integration to keep the licensing cost down. I believe the BI Launch Pad licensing is something like $800 for each, and the Crystal Report licensing is something like $500 for each, but that's not what we pay."
"The SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform has to improve its licensing cost."
"It is not a subscription model, but you must purchase a perpetual license for this."
"There is an annual license to use SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform."
"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 is losing market to its competitors because of its costly user license and licensing model. They can do much better on the licensing side. That's what Microsoft has been doing, and that's why Power BI is gaining market share at the moment. SAP needs to relax a little bit on the licensing part. If Microsoft is giving people a solution that is half of the cost of SAP, people will definitely go with Power BI."
"Just work with SAP to make sure you have enough licenses but don't go overboard."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is an expensive application."
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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

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Outsourcing Company
11%
Construction Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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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
There are many...It would rather depend what System BI architecture or Enterprise legacy you have at your end...I would recommend as follows: 1) If you have legacies of SAP, Oracle - look for SAP...
Tableau vs. Business Objects - Which is a better solution for visualization and analysis?
Both tools have their positives and negatives. First, I should mention that I am relatively new to Tableau. I have been working on and off Tableau for about a year, but getting to work on it consta...
 

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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