visual strong tood - business boject
What do you like best about the product?
OLAP analysis, webi and lumira are best in all BO tools
What do you dislike about the product?
Xcelsius should be much developer friendly and should be accessible smoothly from different data sources
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
many critical reports with having huge complex formula are created in Webi
BOBJ on a budget!
This 5-named-user AMI is a good value when compared to setting up trial versions of the software on your own for a quick pilot or proof-of-concept project. It could also make a decent on-demand development environment for small orgs, or a nice "sandbox" for larger teams.
My usage consisted of spinning up an x3.large instance, installing some drivers to talk to PostgreSQL (via RDS) and building a universe and Web-I reports for a POC. I was the only developer so I turned off the instance when not actively developing or demoing. The Windows server password is available via standard EC2 admin screens, while the BO admin password is auto-generated and placed on the desktop as a text file.
A couple of notes: The monthly licensing is done via calendar month so if your project crosses into the 1st day of a month you will need to pay the monthly license fee for the entire 30 day period. However your first month is prorated, depending on when in the month you sign-up.
And there is an add'l hourly software license charge on top of the monthly fee and standard EC2 usage charges. Like EC2 usage though, you can shutdown the instance to avoid these hourly costs if you don't need the server 24/7. You always pay the monthly fee, regardless, until you shutdown your instance and then click the "Cancel Subscription" button on AWS Marketplace's 'Your Software' screen.
Good solution for business intelligence and reporting
What do you like best about the product?
Dashboard, BI , crystal reports.
Specially customizing a report for the customer and work flow with business studio.
What do you dislike about the product?
Setup for starting and settings for dashboard.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Report customization, work flow authorization
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Easy setup and installations.
For Visuals
What do you like best about the product?
DB agnostic & Predictive Libraries to help leverage value by any Client of any size
What do you dislike about the product?
Visualizations are still catching up when compared to competition & number of tools
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Formatted reports and Visualizations
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Sizw well & take time to configure
Easy to use and seamless integration
What do you like best about the product?
Business objects is easy to use to view, sort and analyze business intelligence transactional data. The query focus is seamless. Overall visualization tools are OK.
What do you dislike about the product?
The drag and drop functionality provides a minimum restriction at times. Visualization can sometimes be a bit difficult to use.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Main focus is sales optimization. The analytics performed using Business Objects have provided sales insight for products and services.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Use the trial and play around with it.
In general, a great product to use!
What do you like best about the product?
Very easy to use. A big part of using it correctly is how well you can control the data you want.
What do you dislike about the product?
Finding the right person to setup Business Objects to give you the information in the format that you want.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This is a great tool to manage our UPC's and Orders for a range of customers in many areas.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Do not currently have any additional recommendations. My manager has a vast bit more experience with this product and hence she is able to answer many of the questions that I have. Getting the most out of the product is really about learning how to manipulate the data to suit your needs!
Decent Report Running
What do you like best about the product?
I like that everything from another systems I use can be put into a report on this system.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't like that it takes the data 24 to show up , and be able to be presented in report form.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Analysis of data.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Real Time reporting, that is such a downfall, I literally have to tell people, i will give you that information tomorrow because my system is a day behind.
Very powerfull
What do you like best about the product?
A complete tool for your business intelligence. It helps you to control, discover your huge datas. A what-if analisys is also included as well.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing. That's all you can ask. Maybe some implementation with commun software (mailchimp, prestashop...)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
All problemes or benefits you can think, from telco to bank all is possible
Powerful Analytical Capabilities!
What do you like best about the product?
Highly interactive dashboards including drill-through, conditional formatting and complex filtering
Completely flexible WYSIWYG layouts
Wide range of input controls available for what-if analysis
Dashboard and application can published to BI Platform, HANA and NetWeaver Platform
What do you dislike about the product?
More of a developer’s tool where the dashboards are shared with the business users
Demands a specific skillset to operate
Time consuming process to build new or modify the existing ones.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
An IT authoring tool with HTML5 UI technology that provides predefined graphical dashboards and analytic applications to multiple business users.
Real time analysis with live data and Multi Language Support.
Customer- and SAP-delivered content
HANA support and Mobile Support.
BO Web-Based Version
What do you like best about the product?
Ability to schedule reports to run and export to a directory.
What do you dislike about the product?
The web based version seems to be slow and a bit clunky.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We utilize Business Objects for reporting as this is the only software we have liscensed to extract data from our accounting system.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Business Objects is a useful platform, but may take some time to understand the inner workings.
