We primarily use the solution for business intelligence as more people ask for that.
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 Analytics Platform Enhanced
What do you like best about the product?
What I like most about SAP BI, is the ability to bring in our data sources and produce better visuals around our pharmacy dispensing data. In my job, I track pharmacy revenue, reimbursements, and other sales metrics. We are able to produce pretty visuals and charts for senior leadership on a whim, and also build out elaborate dashboards that incorporate our pharmacies data.
What do you dislike about the product?
We use Tableau and PowerBI also, so being able to incorporate these together would be nice.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The visuals! The visuals and chart options in the SAP BI platform are more user friendly than Tableau. PowerBI is very similar so it was easy to incorporate our analysts into use SAP BI. We use SAP for our accounting teams, so the analytics platform was an easy transition.
Great for Financial Analysis
What do you like best about the product?
Very easy to use and navigate. The function keys are easy to understand.
What do you dislike about the product?
The use of MS Excel to update sheets for business objects.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It automates financial data from SAP ERP system to financial statements.
Helps with decision making, reliable, and make information gathering simple
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
We're a financial business, and this has helped us make important decisions.
What is most valuable?
This is the easiest way to gather information and have everything together. We have manipulated the information effectively in the way we want.
It is a stable product.
The solution can scale.
What needs improvement?
The platform should be a bit more user-friendly. There should be an easier way to use the solution.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've used the solution for about a year. I have not used it for that long just yet.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I'd rate stability ten out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability is good. I'd rate scalability eight out of ten.
We have around 50 users using the solution at this time.
Likely, we will increase usage in the future.
How are customer service and support?
I've never contacted technical support. I do not know how helpful or responsive they are in general.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I was not part of the process of selection.
How was the initial setup?
I'm not sure about the initial setup. I wasn't a part of the deployment process.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I am not familiar with the pricing of the solution.
What other advice do I have?
We have used the latest version of the solution. However, I don't know the exact version number.
New users need to understand a bit about business intelligence in order to prove the usefulness of the solution. You also need to have an idea of what you'd like to get out of the solution, and that should be decided at the outset.
I'd rate the solution ten out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Great for data management and reporting
What do you like best about the product?
Great for data management and reporting. Makes query easy.
What do you dislike about the product?
Hard to format and build reports. it's time consuming. Not very yet friendly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using this to data mine and query across several databases.
Great Program
What do you like best about the product?
I like the fact that it offers quality reporting and that it is easy enough to use that I can use it with minimal effert
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing to dislike at all it is a great program
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Learning more about the customers and purcahsing behavior
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Just try it for yourself I believe that it will meet your needs
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
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.
Using BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Tools
What do you like best about the product?
Flexibilty
User friendly
Adaptabilty - multiple data sources
User friendly
Adaptabilty - multiple data sources
What do you dislike about the product?
Cost of user licenses
It discourages clients/customers from adopting the tools
It discourages clients/customers from adopting the tools
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Users prefer up-to-date information with almost real-time information. Combined with HANA, Dashboard, WebI... which are powerful tools from the users‘ perspective.
Business Objects tried and true
What do you like best about the product?
It is a feature rich mature BI tool set that can achieve the vast majority of what any enterprise needs if you are primarily using Relational databases.
What do you dislike about the product?
Business Objects was primarily a Relational database reporting and analysis tool set, but since SAP bought it, there seems to be a push towards BW as the primary data source. There also seems to be a push towards non-Windows servers; why? 95% of BO installation used to be on Windows servers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's easy to automate delivery of reports in a number of formats. It replaces any number of Excel spread sheets that need manual updating. A serious time save and ensures consistency. Users get the information they need.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Use the core BO products for Relational data sources only. Using WebI with BW can be a serious challenge. Using Lumira with BW is decent.
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