The SAP® BusinessObjects™ Business Intelligence Platform provides users with ad hoc queries, reporting, data visualizations, and analysis tools. Its integrated, unified infrastructure aims to offer scalability from one-to-many tools and interfaces on-premise, in the cloud, or as a hybrid approach.
Strengths: very good dashboard creating tool and two separate ad hoc modules: one for simple reporting ("Analysis") and one for more advanced, "Pixel Perfect" reports ("BI Publisher). All available from the same place and web based …
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SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform has deeper analysis, better version control, and a more superior web dashboard access over Oracle API Manager. We were using Oracle product due to our data being in several different applications with different databases where it was not possible …
ThoughtSpot is superior for query speed and simplicity but is inferior in merged-dimension query setup and execution. BOBJ is superior to Tableau in that the universes simplify the queries for the end-user, however, it's inferior in visualizations. decisionpoint is a dashboard …
Analysis Services and Oracle Discoverer are more developer oriented than true self service tools and their development capabilities as well as their content delivery is limited. The Symantec layer sets BO apart in that regard. Heavy development is also possible and custom …
Business object is a very complete BI suite and its highly developed. I think is very suitable for companies with high complexity data and analysis. The cost of the license and project is expensive.
The biggest advantage that SAP Business Objects has over these competitors are value and options. Value wise, it brings together a tool set that delivers a bit of something for everyone. With integration into Microsoft Office, additional options are available to for those …
I have used Data Stage; plug and play extractors help to fetch data from SAP CRM/ECC. It reduces the ETL job design efforts. I have used Tableau, the SAP dashboard provides more options in designing legends on charts, in-built hide/show features in charts.
We found the community, support and talent pool more accessible with SAP BusinessObjects than JasperSoft. Independant forums such as BOB at (http://www.forumtopics.com/busobj) plus sites form SAP such as SCN (http://scn.sap.com) provide most of what we need to overcome an issue …
I have recently been evaluating Information Builders, MicroStrategy, and Cognos. IB had some nice dashboard and analytics, but was lacking on the scheduling side. We were looking for something more robust. MicroStrategy had a very impressive UI and the dashboards were among the …
Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is more dependent on IT for development. We had issues with loger development time with Cognos. Hyperion Essbase Smartview is a good discovery tool but not a good enterprise reporting tool. It is very business centric with the Excel …
SAP Business Objects is primarily used since it can plug into a large variety of existing data sources and only required setup of it's own admin server. A number of other tools have been utilized for functionality but SAP Business Objects proved the best for reporting.
Google Analytics gives a user access to different types of data but from a reporting perspective, it does what SAP Business Objects can do and more. I wish SAP Business Objects had the type of data visualization and readily obtainable insights that Google Analytics has to …
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Originally, Business Objects was implemented before I joined.
When we had issues with Business Objects Version 3, we evaluated: