SAP BusinessObjects BI Reviews

Great for data management and reporting. Makes query easy.

Hard to format and build reports. it's time consuming. Not very yet friendly.

We are using this to data mine and query across several databases.

I like the fact that it offers quality reporting and that it is easy enough to use that I can use it with minimal effert

Nothing to dislike at all it is a great program

Just try it for yourself I believe that it will meet your needs

Learning more about the customers and purcahsing behavior

Customizable reports,

User roles management,

Seamless integration with SAP architecture,

Scalability to required volume,

Global presence,

Vast standard tools and features,

Regular updates

Slow processing specially when handling large quantities of data

We were facing problem in analysing our data, getting insights, taking fact bases decisions and sharing reports with desired stack holders. We have solved all these problems with SAP BI

Enterprise reporting tool with SOA architecture. Tightly coupled semantic layer, CUID tightly integrated with all objects. Object references nearlty coupled with Reporting tools like Web Intelligence, SAP Lumira, SAP Analytics Cloud

License cost is high compared to Modern BI tools

Amazing tool to explore. Think twice before moving away from SAP Business Objects to Modern BI tools like Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Qlik Sense

Seamless integration with various source system, create analytical reports and dashboards. Predictive, Prescriptive and descriptive analytics

Easy to use, web compatible, excellent data reporting visualization and sharing features. Supports report scheduling, custom calculations, merge queries from different data sources and supports export to excel, PDF.

Report creation, custom calcualation variables, merge dimension, cross tab reporting, report scheduling and input controls

Improve dashboard and visualization features to compete with other tools available in market

Enterprise reporting, combining data from different business object universes, report scheduling in month end, dashboard reporting etc.,

I like the ability to pull detailed transactions from Business Objects. I use it to review financial data such as payables. It captures information like invoice date, vendor number, due date, received date, check number and others. Most importantly, you can easily download business objects queries into Excel and use pivot tables. It allows you to save a lot of standard templates.

It can be difficult to get used to building your own queries. You have to be cautious about how you use the fields.

Managing all accounting data. Using it in coordination with Oracle SmartView to reconcile accounts.

Flexibilty

User friendly

Adaptabilty - multiple data sources

Cost of user licenses

It discourages clients/customers from adopting the tools

Users prefer up-to-date information with almost real-time information. Combined with HANA, Dashboard, WebI... which are powerful tools from the users‘ perspective.

It is a feature rich mature BI tool set that can achieve the vast majority of what any enterprise needs if you are primarily using Relational databases.

Business Objects was primarily a Relational database reporting and analysis tool set, but since SAP bought it, there seems to be a push towards BW as the primary data source. There also seems to be a push towards non-Windows servers; why? 95% of BO installation used to be on Windows servers.

Use the core BO products for Relational data sources only. Using WebI with BW can be a serious challenge. Using Lumira with BW is decent.

It's easy to automate delivery of reports in a number of formats. It replaces any number of Excel spread sheets that need manual updating. A serious time save and ensures consistency. Users get the information they need.