SAP BusinessObjects 25 Concurrent (CSBL) and 10 Named Users - PREMIUM
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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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
Friendly for reports
What do you like best about the product?
I like that I can easily pull a report. The report that I pull from this system are student schedules once they’ve been registered for classes. It is super friendly to use and I like how I can pull a report and it gives me a few different formats to choose from instead of just a standard one.
What do you dislike about the product?
There isn’t much that I dislike about this system. It’s one of my favorite ones at work because of how easy it is to use. Super easy to pull reports and easy to save them as excel or pdf, too.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We weren’t unable to pull student schedules and display attendance until this system. It’s been very helpful and most find it easy to use. Instead of looking in two systems for this information, BI displays it on one report.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Very friendly to use
Good program
What do you like best about the product?
Wonderful outcomes and very powerful program
What do you dislike about the product?
Takes a bit of time to get used to it. Not as user friendly
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I mainly have used this program to track KPIs and for business analytics. It definitely takes the guesswork out of making decisions and helps to inform others as well
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Take some time learning how to use the program
SAP used everywhere very difficult
What do you like best about the product?
Familiar layout and transactions across companies.
What do you dislike about the product?
Very complicated to sort data needed. Programming requests are often expensive and difficult to implement successfully if at all.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Quick access to tracking costs is the most effective feature I have used.
A web based reporting tool
What do you like best about the product?
I was able to use it and create reports after an hour training. You can schedule and send reports to someone’s email. You can format the output within the program itself.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is still web based so you have to export it. Even though you can format the tables and add calculations it doesn’t compare to what you can create in excel. Make sure to save your work as there is no autosave and if you forget and become idle, you lose your work.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Running various reports.
Databasing at it's better than averagest!
What do you like best about the product?
The robust database indexing, the search feature is really fleshed out, it's file export capabilities are great.
What do you dislike about the product?
It can be clunky and crashes often, need a restart.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use BI to generate all of our daily order reports and to store all of the bills of materials and order notes from past machinery projects.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Handles our data base and reporting needs, I would imagine it can easily do the same for any manufacturing company.
Not worth the clicks
What do you like best about the product?
The reporting feature and the ability to add any level of data to a report is fantastic. the amount of reports now available for metrics and the detail within each is much improved from our last system. Each report can be tailored to my team, a specific sales rep, our market or the nation.
What do you dislike about the product?
Each action is broken down to the most minute detail. Adding a sales rep to workbench? That will take 15 steps/clicks. Adding trim to a new customer that will take 2 systems and 45 steps. Everything takes much more time because even the slightest 'action' has been broken down in to its own step. Enter data into the system relies heavily on internet speed and the amount of users on the system at a given time. Get in early? Fantastic the system will run well for you. As soon as 9 AM hit all users nation wide are using the system and there is a dramatic decrease in speed. Want to get something accomplished after lunch? You need to time it correctly because EVERYONE get kicked off at 1:15 and if you didn't save your work or mark as in process then that is potentially hours wasted.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are major pitfalls with reporting, some we didn't even realize until we were live on SAP. Reports can be run much faster and are more comprehensive than before.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Have end users start the trial period before implementing to any part of the business.
Great Enterprise tool
What do you like best about the product?
It can handle a lot of data, with high performance
What do you dislike about the product?
The features look outdated, the visuals are not great looking
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is the primary business reporting tool in our company
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