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Mar 08, 2022 at 03:40 PM

need to compare business objects to tableau (in regard to Tableau Prep)

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I looked at two older questions comparing B.O. to Tableau (here and here), but I'd like a fresh (quick) comparison.

I've used Business Objects for 7 years and really like it. It's a workhorse, and I'm sure if we got some motivation we could do snazzy-enough Dashboards (good enough for government work).

Business Objects for us is great, we just connect to the Oracle transaction system and it's good to go. Not big data so it's fine, mostly for operational reporting. We also have a Data Warehouse but essentially it's also a transactional d.b., not really a true data warehouse (summarized).

Previously I considered Tableau and Business Objects similar tools, but the two older questions beg to differ, as Tableau has always been the 'data visualization' tool.

Then I come to find out that there is such a thing as "Tableau Prep" which looks like an ETL tool, which does not work because that's a ton of overhead. With our current setup, there is no ETL - we just connect Business Objects to Oracle and start building Universes and such.

So I'm trying to avoid a big "uh-oh - we got a lotta work to do" if we jump into Tableau.

*Tableau has come into the mix as we have a license to it via Salesforce, but we've also implemented Google Big Query and so that is going to be our database to pull from.

**I would prefer we just use Business Objects, but it's on the way out along with Oracle (in 5-6 years)