Celonis vs. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Celonis
Score 8.4 out of 10
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Celonis is a Process Intelligence platform that helps companies improve their operations, customer experience, and sustainability. The company’s technology provides a digital twin of a company’s processes, giving everyone in the organization a common language and the ability to identify and capture value.N/A
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Score 7.7 out of 10
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The 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
Pricing
CelonisSAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CelonisSAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
Additional DetailsSnap is Celonis' free-to-use, cloud-based process mining solution, with over 3500 registrants and users. It includes most major features of Celonis, including all functionality found in common process mining tools. It also includes pre-built connectors to ServiceNow and pre-built content to get users started quickly on their process mining journey.
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Community Pulse
CelonisSAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Top Pros
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Features
CelonisSAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Process Mining
Comparison of Process Mining features of Product A and Product B
Celonis
7.3
19 Ratings
12% below category average
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
-
Ratings
Data Connection7.719 Ratings00 Ratings
Process Discovery7.918 Ratings00 Ratings
Visual Process Representation7.517 Ratings00 Ratings
Process Variants7.218 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance Metrics7.417 Ratings00 Ratings
Process Mining Algorithms7.916 Ratings00 Ratings
Root Cause Investigation7.518 Ratings00 Ratings
Process Optimization7.017 Ratings00 Ratings
What-if Analysis6.211 Ratings00 Ratings
Process Compliance and Audit7.115 Ratings00 Ratings
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Celonis
-
Ratings
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6.7
50 Ratings
19% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings8.045 Ratings
Customizable dashboards00 Ratings6.146 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings6.146 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Celonis
-
Ratings
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6.4
47 Ratings
23% below category average
Drill-down analysis00 Ratings6.246 Ratings
Formatting capabilities00 Ratings6.246 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings5.232 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings8.046 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Celonis
-
Ratings
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6.7
47 Ratings
21% below category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings9.039 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings4.245 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings5.341 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings9.046 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings6.125 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Celonis
-
Ratings
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4.7
42 Ratings
52% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings4.340 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings4.238 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings5.237 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Celonis
-
Ratings
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9.0
47 Ratings
6% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings9.047 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings9.045 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings9.044 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings9.028 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Celonis
-
Ratings
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6.1
33 Ratings
26% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings5.132 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings5.127 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings5.129 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Celonis
-
Ratings
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
5.2
23 Ratings
41% below category average
REST API00 Ratings5.120 Ratings
Javascript API00 Ratings5.118 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings5.117 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings6.021 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings5.120 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings5.119 Ratings
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User Ratings
CelonisSAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(158 ratings)
6.1
(72 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.3
(7 ratings)
8.3
(24 ratings)
Usability
6.7
(3 ratings)
7.1
(15 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(5 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(10 ratings)
Support Rating
6.6
(3 ratings)
8.6
(16 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(4 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(1 ratings)
9.0
(8 ratings)
Configurability
8.2
(1 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
CelonisSAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Likelihood to Recommend
Celonis
Celonis is well suited especially for comparably big use cases due to hefty license costs. For thorough analyses, all departments should take part in the approach since there are a lot of hidden influences and effects from departments to one another. Use cases like conformance / revision are possible but will not be a big lever since this only involves checking single instances.
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SAP
The proper management of SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards requires an expert on the team to manage and build reports. If an organization does not have the proper expertise on board to build and deploy reports it will fail. Data analytics, dropping into excel, and broadcasting of information are major bonuses for the use of SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards.
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Pros
Celonis
  • Clear understanding on how the processes really run
  • Excellent solution to support use cases like harmonization, process excellence, audit and compliance
  • High performing methodology to build economic value addressing inefficiencies
  • Perfect to convince clients showing objective evidences
  • Make easy the enterprise collaboration
  • Provide an E2E "movie" of the processes
  • Able to ensure a centric model to connect all the core processes
  • Top performances that save time of the analyst that can spend energy in his real work
  • Excellent ETL, agnostic (able to extrapolate data from many DB)
  • Strong capabilities of the data model
  • Continuous innovation
  • Solid platform to address projects of business process reengineering
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SAP
  • This software is easy to initially learn, and very powerful in producing reusable reports.
  • It is much faster than my company's internal manual queries. The ability to build off of a saved query and share queries to other users is a great positive.
  • My favorite part is that you can run queries in the background and it does not interfere with your current work or slow your computer down.
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Cons
Celonis
  • User interface is complex and so it can take some time for users who are new to process mining to become familiar with the tool
  • Celonis is not able to integrate with all of Uniper's enterprise application due to lack of connectors
  • No real-time collaboration with other users e.g. lack of shared annotations
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SAP
  • The installation can be very complex and time-consuming, it requires a lot of planning and foresight as to what role the software will play in the organization.
  • The software has a relatively large learning curve that takes dedicated users months to get comfortable with, the UI is a bit intimidating for new users.
  • SAP could organize their help better, it can be difficult to find dependable solutions to issues via their website and support channels.
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Likelihood to Renew
Celonis
We have been able to leverage Celonis [greatly] because of the commitment and support we receive from our data scientist. I strongly believe that we would not be able to accomplish this without her assistance. Moreover, when we escalate matters, the product development is engaged and commits resources to make sure our initiatives/business cases are supported.
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SAP
The institution has decided to move in a different direction, and will be using MSBI for reporting. I have been very happy with the Business Objects suite of tools, and will continue to use them heavily until we make the transition.
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Usability
Celonis
It is a great tool but also requires a lot of work to get it into a useable fashion. Part of this is on our end as we don't have the dedicated analyst function yet to really become self-sufficient with Celonis. It also uncovers a lot of data issues or at the very least, multiple rounds of development and data validation are required before getting to a position where the business users feel comfortable with the data being reflected. This is fairly normal with any data-related development effort and perhaps not unique to Celonis.
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SAP
From a server and client side perspective. the Business Intelligence Platform provides a foundation for all aspects of content development, distribution, analysis, collaboration and self service. Ease of use from targeted content delivery through controlled accessibility. Content exporting in the format of the users choice. Scheduling for internal or external delivery. Public and private folders for secure content access when requied. Web based for viewing on the users device of choice without the need to download additional applications.
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Reliability and Availability
Celonis
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SAP
When we implemented 3.1, we had a tough time managing the system: It took almost a year to stabilize.

With 4.0, we want to roll out to more users, and are holding back because of fears about the performance issue
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Performance
Celonis
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SAP
Overall, the tool (Web Intelligence 4.2) is fast and solid. One issue is a dependability on JAVA for a full feature report creation/edit capabilities (as opposed to limited HTML option). Second, planned end of JAVA support by major browsers (Chrome is already not supporting JAVA applet).
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Support Rating
Celonis
We submit tickets to Celonis through product support. No assistance is generally provided, have to wait and the ticket is then escalated to product support in Germany. Many times we submit the ticket and the support desk asks us the same questions back where they should already have this information.
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SAP
SAP has released various versions of SAP BO BI. starting from 3.1 and going to 4.0,4.1,4.2 and latest being 4.3. SAP provides support to these new versions. As new versions keep on coming, support for the very old software goes out of scope from SAP. it is when the different organization plans to get their BO content migrated from a lower version to a newer version. The newer version had definitely added functionality and features which ease the work of users.
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In-Person Training
Celonis
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SAP
SAP authorized training is best, Please go ahead with it. Even lot of online training options/videos available for self learning
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Online Training
Celonis
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SAP
I haven't used it or got feedback from the end user.

Content looks to be pretty detailed. Focused on SQL but not BW.
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Implementation Rating
Celonis
Celonis has a lot of tools to support the implementation.
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SAP
Hire specialists and experienced staff. Mix some beginners so that everyone is not a leader but a learner too. Plan well; architect well; break down implementation in small steps and move towards larger steps. Create a centralized and authorized SAP Business Objects implementation team.
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Alternatives Considered
Celonis
The major reason to choose Celonis is that it has enhanced decision-making in filtering the candidates. The frontend designer has nice graphics and has well-designed self-service. I particularly enjoy the visual editor, which allows you to create complicated PQL without having to write any code, as well as the numerous filtering choices, including process mining options.
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SAP
We selected SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) based on price. It can stack up against others in terms of price and honestly, that's about it. Salesforce Commerce does a hell of a better job at handling it. However, in the space of Business Intelligence, SAP can do more, and that's why at the end we went with it
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Scalability
Celonis
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SAP
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform supports SOA Service Oriented Architecture. You can start/restart/enable/disable all the servers. You can seamless do load balancing and clustering. It supports all leading application and web server. Supports LDAP SSO integration. People who can work on excel with training they can work on SAP Business Objects Web Intelligence, dashboard, Lumira, Information design tool product suite. Tool is very user friendly and easy to learn and implement
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Return on Investment
Celonis
  • Celonis thus far (and I do not anticipate anything changing) has not had a negative impact on our business. It has challenged us to think differently about what is possible and jumpstarted process improvement aimed at saving both money and time while improving the morale of our end users. Celonis has also provided us with enough data to be to develop targeted business objectives on system usage and timeliness which without them was nearly impossible to measure let alone act upon
  • Better order processing (quicker, more system driven, and saves money)
  • Reduction in throughput time (our order fulfillment time has improved and our order processing time has decreased)
  • Finds and acts on automation opportunities
  • Can find large dollar value opportunities for process improvement
  • Can find data driven recommendations for executive interactions
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SAP
  • By generating and distributing reports in a timely manner, we were able to save millions of dollars for the company which otherwise would not have been visible.
  • Almost realtime dashboard, saved the company a huge amount by showing the outages and kept the company from buying a tool to do just that.
  • It showed the customers who were not paying the bills and were missing in the system due to some loophole. This was visible by doing reporting on the theft usage of electricity.
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