SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Reviews

The best part was the robust enterprise nature of the system. Data quality is controlled centrally by IT and processes and users always know that the data they are getting is good quality and usable. It becomes a single source of truth

This product is definitely not user friendly. Takes a lot of IT support to get up and running and often if changes are to be made to existing reports also IT needs to get involved. Plus its very pricey and not meant for smaller businesses

I love the scheduling feature of the reports wherein you can easily schedule reports to be executed on a particular day.

Reports with data more than 1 lakh rows takes a lot of time and even crashes sometimes

Business Objects has many capabilities, for me, the ease of publication of reports is the most important.

SAP is a large company, if you work for a relatively small company (700 people), then you have to go through a partner. The quality of these partners varies.

For an SAP environment, this is best tool for reporting, since it can be connected effectively with SAP

The connectivity of this tool with non SAP tools is not straight forward or simple

BusinessObjects offered a wide range of reporting and analytics tools. Non-technical users could simply design a report, schedule it for timely refresh and get it delivered to the end-users in a fully automated way. SQL scripts also available to identify data sources, table connections etc...

It takes time to fully discover and understand all the functionalities, but it will pay out on the long run. Data load takes longs when working with large databases.

Using BOBJ has been light years better than previous database front-ends that I utilized, it is full of functions andhas a much more user friendly interface.

Many of the functions are at a more basic level and require you learning their program to be able to nest them together and get the results you're looking for.

Cloud benefits, Personalized, Self-Service, Great analysis

Should work on expanding more features and allow more flexibility.

Possibility to schedule a report with different parameter and send it by mail to different user.
You can send a report in many format (xlsx, Pdf, etc)
Triggers features when you schedule a report

Administration is not easy, many services to check every day.
Consume a lot of Memory and CPU.
In case of crash, the reinstallation is very difficult and too long.

Every day I learn something new about the software and I'm always blown away but the capabilities. I dont know that I can pick out one thing I like most although a big one is how it allows me to take reports that to refresh previously would take quite a fair length of time but now that I have built the same reports in Business Objects I have automated most, if not all, of them. And many are even emailed to me at a time which I've scheduled so now that the reports are built, all I do is nothing. Just wait for them to be sent to my email inbox.

I wish there was an easy way to have my scheduled reports send to SharePoint (if there is a way please let me know);

Easy to use Tools and Data analysis Kits

Need to adopt some dynamic features like Tableau and Power BI

SAP in our business of distribution and logistics is very complex and can gather a mass of data. It excels at drilling down to fine detail and tracking of inventory and sales down to number of turns and we use all of this data to drive our business. For this it is a great platform.

Because of it's many layers and it's complexity it creates an environment where it can be cumbersome to create orders and quotes.

KPI review is showing daily life of performance linked to IOT activities in the Industry 4.0 times

Due to re-planning of tasks , targets would be change in the operation. Follow up of changes and tracking of trend must be more visible with reasons why target is changed and until when old target was valid.

The interface is very easy to use for all audiences, allowing us to empower basic users to run their own reports. The ability to combine database elements with custom script to customize reports is very useful.

Sometimes the report formatting can be finicky. It is very responsive but can overcompensate for small formatting (size, spacing, etc) adjustments.

It's highly scalable and flexible. We use it to track participants in youth serving agencies. We use it to connect many databases together. It's the best tool we've found in almost 20 years.

The only drawback is not the software itself, but rather training. We use it in a fairly non-traditional way, but I struggle to find training that is appropriate for our needs.

Self-service reporting, easy to use, various tools based on use case. lot of formatting and charts inclusion options.

visualizations and dash boards products instability and not mobile friendly , many tools and need to learn various tools for each use case.

SAP Business Objects provides a nice way to interface with data, allowing both power and flexibility through its structure.

With each new version there seems to be some flaw that needs to be corrected or feature that should be added and at an enterprise level it becomes difficult to continuously deploy the updates.

Easy to set up the backoffice part of the tool.
Simple way how to organize and manage access rights.
Perfect for dashboard customization, its even possible to add some html code and thus custom designs and outputs.

The data universes takes some time to load.
It takes time for system end users to learn how to create and format their ad-hoc reports.

It has different product for every user type. From excel integration to mobile funcionality. It is very complete.

It would be better to have a strongest desktop tool to work with webis, etc.
the roadmap of SAP BO tool is changing very fast.