GoodData vs. SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

GoodData is well suited when you have a lot of data sources and you need a single location where you can pipe the data into and then create insights/charts/analytics based on the data you've piped in there. It's also great if you want to customize how the datasets interact with each other and what that logical data model looks like. Super super intuitive there. I think it's not great for data presentation if your product is presenting data to your customers. For internal use, it's great

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SAP Business Objects is well suited for the scenarios where most of the logic is written on the backend (in some other application) and one can expose that data for the business users through Business Objects. It is easy to schedule the report, format the same and download the data for analysis. Some simple calculations can also be added on the BO side as needed It is not very appropriate for complex calculations/logic.

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• It's a good platform that has a flexible pricing plan which means that users can get hands-on service free at the start.
• GoodData provides its users with excellent charts and drill-down analysis which makes complex large data sets so simplified and easy to understand and interpret.
• For me it is so convenient because everything just gets saturated on a single page.

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• visualize data
• enable interactions
• real-time connectivity

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• No option to visualise a pin on a map
• Custom metrics and variables can be tricky to get right
• Hard to gauge where you are in terms of workspace data limits
• Adding and removing DB fields from models is not as intuitive as it could be
• Data model loading logs can be quite dense and hard to read, esp. when new
• Setting up models to correctly reference between DB tables takes practise
• No option to limit the amount of data a model loads once the table is included

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• Not able to paste multiple values without semi-colon while filtering the data. Adding semi-colon makes the functionality difficult to use.
• User interface can be improved
• It is costly
• The performance of the report decreases if complex logic/functions are added

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Each client I have worked with and spoken too has renewed their GoodData subscription. I know of not one to date that has cancelled. The GoodData platform has a very high rate of renewal from the discussions I have had with their internal teams as well

After comparing over 20 solution, this is probably not the best in class but the feature set is very competitive. If budget is of no issue, solution like Looker is probably more popular and robust but if you do not want to spend every bit of your budget just for your BI tooling, most users would find GoodData reasonably good enough especially if you are on the SME level

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The software is easy to use if you are familiar with drag and drop design with data or no data views

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We are approximately one month since go-live. There has been one short outage.

Performance on refreshing metrics works well.

The fast and comprehensive responses we got from GoodData regarding the doubts we had experienced while starting to use the products and metrics were of great help in ensuring the metrics we were obtaining were accurate to what we wanted to know about our customers' experience and our product areas of opportunity.

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Support has been good so far

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Petr was a rock star - patient, knowledgeable, clear and easy to work with.

GoodData implementation team was professional and courteous

Thorough, professional and on time.

We chose gooddata compared to other products because gooddata is easier for ordinary people like me to use. Apart from being easy, gooddata also has many features which are more than enough to help my work and costs incurred by gooddata are lower than when I use other products. Thank you goodata for helping our work

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Other offering include PowerBI and Tableau. Both alternatives have different licensing options to consider, in terms of capabilities, they increase in conjunction with the license price.

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• It has helped us drive down support ticket volume
• Better data insights of support tickets helped identify key customer issues and channelize efforts accordingly
• Detailed analysis of existing issue, helped identify product defects across the board thereby provide meaning insights to engineering teams to resolve product issues that were previously unknown to us

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• Positive impact for providing Adhoc and Scheduled reports to business users
• Positive impact for supporting data analysis
• Positive impact for less training time for users and developers

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