SAP BusinessObjects 5 Named Users - STANDARD
Protiviti, Inc. | BI 2025 SP0 on Windows 2022 Jul 25Windows, Windows Server 2022 Base 2022 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Data Warehouse Connectivity Tool
What do you like best about the product?
Easily manage and bring up values stored in the data warehouse. Export into popular file formats such as PDF and Excel.
What do you dislike about the product?
None so far, it has some of those data manipulation tools that makes it easy to learn how to use it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Some of the problems I'm solving by using SAP Business Intelligence is housing all the user information and the ability to pull this information by multiple people on my team.
Flexible Analytics
What do you like best about the product?
Flexible reporting, infinitely customisable
What do you dislike about the product?
Steep learning curve for universe design
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Virtualisation of date.
Easy acces and report distribution
What do you like best about the product?
The automatic report distribution functions are amazing and saving time.
What do you dislike about the product?
The concept of user management and the users fee's associated with SAP BO are quite expensive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Saving time by automatic report distribution.
A streamed line way to review data
What do you like best about the product?
I appreciate the Business Objected streamlined approach to discover at review data.
What do you dislike about the product?
It can be challenging at first, there is a learning curve.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Using business objects I can generate easy to read reports from my clients.
The Best Enterprise Business Intelligent tool
What do you like best about the product?
BO has multiple components tailored to each business need. We have Crystal reports for picture perfect reports for printing & mailing, we have Web Intelligence reporting for data analysis and ad-hoc reporting. Universe will provide better control of data restrictions, security profile implementation etc. There are hundreds of features brought in or improved over the previous versions.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is tough to master the tool and the help document is not big to explore. The formula editor is not user friendly. Too many features and categorization of the features confuse the business user who want to do ad-hoc reporting by himself. The issues in Universes creation takes lot of time for report designer
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I worked on BO projects for multiple clients, both on relational and SAP. BO is the only tool which can effectively help to handle thousands of users working on multiple clients. The slice & dice, the drill through and the charts and many other feature make it most adapted Bi tool for many clients across the different industries.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Unlike data visualization, you are looking for enterprize BI then BO is the best.
Once you learn it, it is very helpful
What do you like best about the product?
Sap can be used for so many things. There is a fix for everything
What do you dislike about the product?
It can be hard to learn initially. Almost like a foreign language.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am delivering orders for a retail company and making sure that everything gets processed correctly.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Sap can do everything!!
BI
What do you like best about the product?
Running SAP BI is useful since all the information is located in one place
What do you dislike about the product?
It is not user friendly you must be trained on how to use it
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
it helps with locating all data in one location
Good product for large companies, but likely poor for smaller companies (1,000 employees or less)
What do you like best about the product?
Ability to run and schedule reports off of the server, rather than locally on my machine. I also like the flexibility that our IT teams can build entirely different and very dynamic universes for all different parts of the business. I like the permissions functionality to be sure that the appropriate people have the right access to the reports and behind-the-scenes information.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's not particularly intuitive. I have to be somewhat well-versed in the product to know how to run jobs/reports off the server, so many of my co-workers haven't migrated to the run-jobs-off-the-server thinking. When jobs aren't run off the server, there are limitations (could be the decision of our IT/IS department, I'm not positive) for how many records can be included and unioned.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Opportunities for revenue improvement at multiple levels (department --> location (which includes multiple departments) --> region (multiple locations)), as well as service line/business unit regardless of physical location.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
When you really get into their code, it's less than stellar. Cleaning this up would be nice. For those of us who run a lot of jobs, having CMC default to the proper folder (like can be done in normal BO Production) would be nice and save a ton of time.
Not User Friendly But Good Versatility
What do you like best about the product?
I like that I can connect Business Objects to a large amount of data sources, as working with data is mostly what my job consists of. It can also handle a lot of tasks.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not the most user-friendly software to use.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Using business objects to export data from hospital
SAP Business Objects
What do you like best about the product?
It is very easy to design custom reports and automate the distribution of these reports (weekly, monthly, etc.). This saves us a lot of time and with our recipients of the data
What do you dislike about the product?
It can be somewhat difficult to build custom variables without an extensive background in using BO.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use it primarily for reporting purposes. We have our SAP Business Objects platform linked with the same database we use for Workday.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Building custom variables used in reporting takes time and is not as simple as building formulas in Microsoft Excel.
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