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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One of the best report generation tools
What do you like best about the product?
It has interoperability with most of the databases in our environment. It's ability to generate report from these data is commentable.
What do you dislike about the product?
The UI looks very outdated. It could have done much better.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Numerous. It plays a great role in all our reporting activities.
Program Management Intern
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to store lots of information on one software
What do you dislike about the product?
The complexity and the tidiness needed to work the software correctly
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Making orders (intercompany, purchasing, etc.), checking storage, working order, etc.
Experience with Business Objects
What do you like best about the product?
I have used business objects for over 2.5 years now. It is great tool for scripting and developing reports. It has easy drag and drop options to select what variable you want in your final report. If you have large number of facilities and have data stored in multiple universes, it allows you to create a combined query and get final report from multiple universes. You can send your scripts to other Individuals within your team/ For any recurring reports you can schedule them and they run whenever you've set them to run. It has some amazing quick filters that can be used while writing your script that allows you get tailored results.
What do you dislike about the product?
I feel like it has some capability for visualizations but definitely lacks uniqueness and intuitiveness that other visualization tools have. In addition the process of exporting reports is quite time consuming and this is something that can be improved so it becomes more user friendly. The final reports can improve on their filter-ability so it is easier for the user to review only specific data in a more time-efficient manner. Business objects allows you to view the actual SQL script that is run for the your customized report but at times it has different names for the tables that it links to in the data warehouse which at times makes it difficult to cross validate if you want find the associated tables in your data warehouse.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use this tool primarily for reporting. Easy to generate structured reports and export it out as excel report and share with the business owners. This tool allows to create and save your scripts in personal folder for ongoing use in the future. We also have some scripts saved on the public folder which other individual can access and run without actually having to recreate them. It is good tool for users who are not proficient in writing scripts in SQL or other reporting tools.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Improved visualization capabilities, make it more user friendly on the aspect of filtering the final reports and exporting them out from the tool.
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
Okay
What do you like best about the product?
I have to use it to create reports, I do like being able to upload info and create a report with out formulas and also great for tracking progression
What do you dislike about the product?
I've been using it for a year and I still have to re-teach myself everytime I use it, If you are accustomed to using Excel then a little getting used to
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
For me, its mostly being able to look up information for my reports, not as much as making the reports
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.
Powerful but not user friendly
What do you like best about the product?
I like that it can gather large amounts of data that can used to transformed into rows and columns
What do you dislike about the product?
The graphs look outdated, the load time, the small icons
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps solve the need to summarize large amounts of data
It is a pretty simple platform
What do you like best about the product?
This is awesome! You’re able to create reporting necessary for management of your account base with ease.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have not found anything that I dislike to be honest!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has benefited me to be able to have an interface into our data warehouse. I can get the data I need quickly.
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