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SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence

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856 Reviews and Ratings

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What is SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence?

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.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • Pixel Perfect reports

    Pixel Perfect reports are highly-formatted reports with graphics and ability to preview the report before printing.

    Category average: 7.9

  • Publish to Web

    Category average: 8

  • Report Delivery Scheduling

    Report Delivery Schedule is the ability to have reports delivered to a destination at a specific data and time.

    Category average: 8.3

Areas for Improvement

  • Responsive Design for Web Access

    Web design aimed at producing easy-to-read sites across a range of different devices.

    Category average: 7.7

  • Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

    In-app dashboard reports and data visualization.

    Category average: 7.4

  • Mobile Application

    A dedicated app for iOS and/or Android.

    Category average: 7.2

Reviews

What users are saying about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence.
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Powerdul Analytics platform with strong reporting features.

Incentivized
Tripti KashaudhanView profile
SDE in Information Technology at KSOLVES (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

1.I have used it to create business reports from company data like sales, performance and operations.

2.It helps to analyzes large amount of data to understand trends and business performance.

3.We can craete dashboards to monitor key business metrics in one place for better busines decision making.

Pros

  • create detailed and well formatted business reposrt easily.
  • handles large volumes of data efficiently.
  • Combines data from multiple sources into one platform.

Cons

  • Needs a more modern and user-friendly design
  • deployment process can be time-consuming.
  • Visualization options are not as advanced as modern BI tools

Return on Investment

  • Faster report generation
  • better decision making
  • Centalized data management
  • Improved productivity

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Power BI and Tableau Cloud

Other Software Used

Microsoft Power BI

Enterprise-Grade BI Tool That Hasn't Modernized.

Incentivized
Verified User
Analyst in Finance and Accounting (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence is used to generate various core reports across different Commercial and Finance units within the organisation. It leverages SAP data from SAP Business Warehouse and allows users to access up-to-date reports, including interactive in-browser reports and scheduled email exports, reflecting various predetermined KPIs and business scenarios. Access controls restrict data to users who should see it.

Pros

  • Connection to SAP Business Warehouse for business context and semantics.
  • Paginated reports for print/export.
  • Scheduling of report refresh and sending to users and destinations.

Cons

  • Report building is not intuitive and simple tasks are very time-consuming.
  • Modern interface hides a lot of important functionality behind multiple clicks/menus.
  • It is very difficult to trace back to data sources when something goes wrong.

Return on Investment

  • Ability to view consolidated figures consistently and accurately.
  • Able to talk about the same numbers without risk of manual transformation errors.
  • Able to measure different parts of the organization accurately.

Usability

SAP BusinessObjects BI Powerful Tool

Incentivized
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence is integrated with our ERP system, datawarehouse, and CRM system for centralized reporting. It provides our users self service analysis for their daily operational tasks. The platform allows for governance and security compliance with right access and controls in place. The product helps address ad-hoc report requests to free up our BI team and is proven to increase productivity.

Pros

  • Self service reporting
  • Scheduling and management
  • Governance and security

Cons

  • The learning curve could be improved
  • Faster performance for certain reporting
  • More visualization and reporting templates

Return on Investment

  • Faster operational results
  • Better response and performance
  • Meeting compliance needs

Usability

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence helpful for decision making and Predictive analysis

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence is generally used in our organisation for creating dashboards with some specific and dynamic drill downs, with additional reports, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence helps the stakeholders get an on demand status for KPIs which help taking correct decisions promptly. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence can be easily attached to SQL database views with the help of OLEDB connections.

Pros

  • Centralized Reporting and Dashboards
  • RealTime updates
  • Single source of truth
  • Drill Downs

Cons

  • Its very tightly coupled with other SAP products
  • UI is little less intutive
  • Requires some technical knowledge in attaching views to reports

Return on Investment

  • Positive ROI
  • Provides ways to promptly takes decisions which helps in allocating resources efficently
  • It requires some technical supervision for best integration but after that it can be utilized properly by non tech personal as well.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Power BI, Tableau Server and Oracle Analytics

Other Software Used

Matterport, Egnyte, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Visual Studio Code

Awesome tool for analytics, visualization and Planning with AI/ML

Incentivized
irfan shaikView profile
Technical Consultant in Information Technology at Numeric technologies inc (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We mainly use this to perform business reporting, and visualization for a broader range of audience. We perform large scale data analytics to discuss in-depth business insights and perform forecasts for the rest of the financial year. The best of this application we can perform cross-enterprise sharing which helps in sharing business insights with colleagues and makes decision-making easier. Before this, we used to use an internal product developed that gets crashed for a large set of data. Now using this we can load huge datasets that helps filtering things very easier.

Pros

  • Cross enterprise sharing where sharing the insights are easier across organisation.
  • Creative role based dashboards helps to provide information to specific users that way they can make decisions easier any time any where across any device.
  • Large scale data analytics is one where data from large sets are used to discover in depth business insights and perform the forecast for rest of the financial year to make decisions easier.

Cons

  • UI part need much improvements as every one don't have complete idea of the components.
  • The transfer of the data between the system seems to be tricky if you have a system with one data type and different system with different data type the kind of conversion is harder.
  • The features that are available in Desktop version are not available in mobile which is big drawback for this sap.

Return on Investment

  • The kind of financial reporting we are performing to make the decision faster has a positive impact with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence.
  • We primarily use this tool for reporting and analytics purpose on top of SAP data we use this for live reporting on SAP S/4 HANA. It has real-time connectivity with S4 HANA.
  • Main area of improvement if I can see the visualization on the mobile which is lagging so much.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Analisa.io

Other Software Used

Microsoft Power BI

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