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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Reliable Centralized Program
What do you like best about the product?
Data is reliably in consistent locations and easy to identify. Fields give you list of values if value is unknown. Easy to see real time changes and activities. Document flow is easy to monitor and track within the doc flow.
What do you dislike about the product?
Calculations can at times be inconsistent and unpredictable. System has trouble interacting with other systems if integrating multiple platforms.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
N/A
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Spend lots of time investigating how it will interact with other platforms if you have existing systems or implementing other platforms.
So far, so good
What do you like best about the product?
It's easy to use, the cost is less as compared to tableau or other BI products in the market and customer care is good.
What do you dislike about the product?
You need to maintain universe layer to talk to the database, it does not talk to databases directly. If you have to add a new field in the report from the database then you have to add that particular field in universe layer which is added headache.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Makes creating reports easier.
Powerful and intuitive, yet graphically old fashioned
What do you like best about the product?
powerful functionalities, easy to use and intuitive to learn when practicing regularly
What do you dislike about the product?
interaction with excel
graphically old fashioned
graphically old fashioned
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
sales analytics
First time user, very satisfied
What do you like best about the product?
Used this at my last position. Very concise and efficient with a number of useful customizations to report to the end user. Definitely helpful in day to day operations
What do you dislike about the product?
A bit of a steeper learning curve to begin than some of the competition as well as being somewhat more expensive. Not a deal breaker by any means though.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were using this to help manage our sales team and manage and analyze the data that came out of their normal daily activities to help inform our strategy.
Great product!
What do you like best about the product?
The UI is clean and modern. It's incredibly easy to navigate.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish that I could have more export options. Right now they are limited.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm able to support the back-end projects started by our BI team here.
SAP
What do you like best about the product?
All information is available in the system.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not very intuitive for users if you are not familiar with the system.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Managing promotional deals, trade spending.
Great software for running reports!
What do you like best about the product?
Very easy to run report. Easy user interface. Also fairly simple to edit and change report prompts.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is not anything that I dislike about Business objects.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We now have a way to get analytic reporting of all areas of our business at a touch of a button. The reporting is real-time and very effective for our company.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Very simple for the average user to use.
A solid Entry in leveraging BI
What do you like best about the product?
One of the things I like about BObj is that, as a BI Manager, I can help varying levels of users. For example, if I have a user that has no interest/technical skill, I can build up a Universe, create an InfoSpace, and design some view sets. If the user is more advanced, maybe I just need to build the universe and let them play with the view sets. Users can insert themselves in the BI process where they feel comfortable.
What do you dislike about the product?
There has traditionally not been a good method of restoring a single item when a user accidentally over-engineers it or deletes it altogether. And until recently, there hasn't been any kind of versioning. There are also, if there is much customization of the environment, it takes a little more effort to upgrade an existing environment or stage a new one.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The problem is that there is an ever-changing series of questions that get asked. Many reporting tools are simply too robust and cumbersome for the standard user. Having lots of data is useless, if it is to hard for the decision-makers to get to. Web Intelligence can be as simple or as complex as the user needs it to be, so it attracts varying levels of experience. Explorer is a very easy to use visualization tool. I've seen Explorer users go from ONLY looking at canned view sets to building their own Information Spaces.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This tool was here when I was hired a few years ago and now that I've learned it, It's a solid BI tool. If I didn't have a BI tool and I was researching from scratch, I don't know if I'd necessarily hands-down pick this one, but Business Objects would definitely be one of the options I considered.
Sometimes configuration is challenging (unless you are also very familiar with setting up Java VMs). I like the meta-data layer design tool. I like that there are thick and thin versions of the tools users use. Users at this point try to build a report themselves rather than immediately asking me to do it (which is a small miracle). I did end up having to use a 3rd party tool to make me feel safe about backups and versioning (because at the time I started using BObj, there was no recycle bin or version management), but in general I'm happy with the product and am not looking for a replacement solution.
Sometimes configuration is challenging (unless you are also very familiar with setting up Java VMs). I like the meta-data layer design tool. I like that there are thick and thin versions of the tools users use. Users at this point try to build a report themselves rather than immediately asking me to do it (which is a small miracle). I did end up having to use a 3rd party tool to make me feel safe about backups and versioning (because at the time I started using BObj, there was no recycle bin or version management), but in general I'm happy with the product and am not looking for a replacement solution.
Business Objects review
What do you like best about the product?
I like best the multiple ways to manipulate a report, and that you can set up to receive it on a daily, weekly, monthly, etc... basis, without having to re-enter your information.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's very specific and doesn't always tell you what you entered incorrectly. You'll get a null report but you won't know why.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
In my office, we need to pull reports on biographical data, and fundraising, so Business Objects helps us focus on a specific group of people. The benefits are pinpointing who we want to reach out to, or find information on.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure you have the right parameters set!
Best and Easy reporting tool
What do you like best about the product?
User Friendly and ease of working on solutions of complex problems
What do you dislike about the product?
still we is a scope of improvement like better ways to analyze data just like excel.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helping business to analyze data better and make business decisions.
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