SAP BusinessObjects 5 Named Users - STANDARD
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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.
Great BI Tool
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use in drag and drop interface means the learning curve is quite low to get up and running creating charts and reports
What do you dislike about the product?
Gets a bit confusing when trying to cross join tables
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Makes reporting and analyzing data easier
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.
Information at my fingertips
What do you like best about the product?
I enjoy the user friendliness of the system. Being able to run special, and even ad box reports when I need them can be a real lifesaver and time saver when I need it.
What do you dislike about the product?
I sometimes dislike the clunkiness and non user friendliness of the product. But once you get to know it and learn it things get better.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Running specialized reports to get information about my employees and tax figures for quarterly and yearly filing and calculations.
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.
Easy to navigate
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of navigation, good GUI, tools are named what they are you don't have to second guess. As a very basic user I knew it could do much more but we didn't. Canned reports were easily navigated through.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not sure what version I used but it could of used some updating. For a basic BI user it was good though.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
3rd party user created and ran basic reports. Wish I had more direction to do more with it.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Good for beginners to get their feet wet.
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