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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A solid tool that makes Querying Data much easier.
What do you like best about the product?
It makes it easy for my team to pull already processed data.
What do you dislike about the product?
The queries often break and pulling in the data can be very slow for more complex data pulls
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have been able to quickly build out complex queries that would not be easily possible in SQL. We can run these queries on a schedule or ad-hoc at any time.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you have an SAP data set-up, I would recommend having your business look into setting up Business Objects. It can make your life pulling in data a lot easier and require less SQL expertise.
SAP is a decent product for me to find what I’m looking for
What do you like best about the product?
I like I can find information that ties to my job functions such as looking at purchase order(PO) history on bill of material items that we procure from vendors and also work order information on parts that we make in-house.
I like the user interface of SAP BI too which I find easier on the eyes than the standard SAP software.
I like the user interface of SAP BI too which I find easier on the eyes than the standard SAP software.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have the standard SAP application at work too and some of functionality on SAP is the same as SAP BI so it cancels out.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are able to cost our material hardware on our proposals easily from information that we pull from SAP BI.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is a useful platform to pull and export information.
Easy to use, commonly known reporting tool
What do you like best about the product?
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) offers a lot of features to its users. The most used functionalities are report scheduling, query building, retrieving queries built by other users, accessing different databases, building dashboards, and generating data exports. These are the functionalities that I like the best.
What do you dislike about the product?
First-time users need training on basic data querying. Also, users need to know which universes, data tables, data fields that they need to execute the queries. The data formatting can be challenging for users (using different data separators).
The upgrade process of SAP BO is very tricky. User experience may decline two years after the initial installation. And at some point, the SAP BO becomes just a data query tool. At that point, people start using Excel to visualize the data.
In summary, I don't particularly appreciate reformating data or using an outdated version of the SAP BO because of undone upgrades. The major downside is, however only experienced users can start using it on day one.
The upgrade process of SAP BO is very tricky. User experience may decline two years after the initial installation. And at some point, the SAP BO becomes just a data query tool. At that point, people start using Excel to visualize the data.
In summary, I don't particularly appreciate reformating data or using an outdated version of the SAP BO because of undone upgrades. The major downside is, however only experienced users can start using it on day one.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This tool helps the controlling, finance, and marketing departments of organizations. It enables users to visualize, analyze the collected data in ERP systems. It can access not only SAP systems but also other third-party systems.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I recommend that organizations reserve their controlling departments as power users of SAP BO. These power users should create training, user manuals for other users within the organization.
SAP BO Review
What do you like best about the product?
SAP Business Objects was a niche tool in the early 2010s because of its compatibility with various data sources and use of Unvierse for creating data model for Web Intelligence.
What do you dislike about the product?
With time, SAP BO has become more redundant and is difficult to upgrade and integrate the new data sources, which can be easily integrated in other BI Tools.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use SAP BO for reporting purposes, mostly tabular reports across various domains.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
SAP BO was a goto BI Tool in early 2010s, but since then there are several other BI Tools like QlikView and Tableau which provide the user friendly interface.
SAP review
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to learn and can manage a large database. Nice graphical user interface.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's expensive and has poor customer service. Seems to have a lot of server shutdowns
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This is used for on boarding at my company
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Overall, this product is very helpful and integrates well with other programs .
Get useful insights to your data using SAP BI
What do you like best about the product?
Customizable reports,
User roles management,
Seamless integration with SAP architecture,
Scalability to required volume,
Global presence,
Vast standard tools and features,
Regular updates
User roles management,
Seamless integration with SAP architecture,
Scalability to required volume,
Global presence,
Vast standard tools and features,
Regular updates
What do you dislike about the product?
Slow processing specially when handling large quantities of data
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
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
Comprehensive Data Analytics Platform
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use and easily integrated into other spreadsheets. SAP Business Objects is a great tool for data analysis and was useful for our team to develop informed strategies for growth. Our data team was able to code and use additional queries to help customize our search.
What do you dislike about the product?
SAP Business Objects is a powerful tool that can be used to accomplish a variety of data requests. It is not an easy to learn platform and isn't very intuitive for first-time users. This program requires attention, training and help for users.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Recently, SAP BusinessObjects was instrumental in informing our strategies to move into a virtual setting in light of Covid. Specifically, the tool allowed our team to separate out different users and groups more likely to engage in new virtual programs and target our marketing efforts accordingly.
Insights about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)
What do you like best about the product?
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
What do you dislike about the product?
License cost is high compared to Modern BI tools
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Seamless integration with various source system, create analytical reports and dashboards. Predictive, Prescriptive and descriptive analytics
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Amazing tool to explore. Think twice before moving away from SAP Business Objects to Modern BI tools like Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Qlik Sense
Frequent SAP Business Objects Use
What do you like best about the product?
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.
What do you dislike about the product?
It can be difficult to get used to building your own queries. You have to be cautious about how you use the fields.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Managing all accounting data. Using it in coordination with Oracle SmartView to reconcile accounts.
It facilitates the manipulation of data and to better understand the information
What do you like best about the product?
The speed in being able to obtain valuable data
What do you dislike about the product?
In the web version, when a lot of data is handled, it gives a loading error.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Better understand the business and user behaviors.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
it is a very good tool to manipulate data. Very stable
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