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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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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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What is SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence?
The
SAP® BusinessObjects™ Business Intelligence (BI) platform is a flexible,
scalable information infrastructure that aims to help you more easily discover and
share insights for better business decisions. According to the vendor, the integrated, unified infrastructure enables scalability from one to
many tools and interfaces on premise, in the cloud, or as a hybrid approach.
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Features
- Supported: Reporting and analysis
- Supported: Data visualization and analytics applications
- Supported: Office integration
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Competitors
- Microsoft BI (MSBI)
- Tableau Desktop
- MicroStrategy
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Apple Safari, Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Windows: Server 2008 and 2012; Suse SLES 11 x86_64; Red Hat EL 5 and 6 x86_64; AIX 6.1 and 7.1 Power; Solaris 10 and 11 SPARC |
| Mobile Application | No |
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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.
Microsoft BI (MSBI) and Tableau Desktop are common alternatives for SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence.
Reviewers rate Single Sign-On (SSO) highest, with a score of 9.9.
The most common users of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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It is unlike any other platform.
November 19, 2018
SAP Quality Engineer Review
SAP BusinessObjects is the only system of its kind that I've tried.
April 03, 2018
Business Objects for Self-Service and AdHoc reporting
Some organizations use Spotfire which is far more advanced in terms of its analytical capabilities vs. Lumira/PA etc. but the sharing/storage side of the BI Platform is far superior and much better managed. The ability to create user groups, access levels etc. on BI Platform helps to keep the platform secure.
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 to use SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform. Oracle was also slow in releasing feature enhancements where SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform is much more consistent with updates and releases that are better tested with fewer bugs.
January 16, 2018
A solution that will grow with the company
On a different company level, we have been using the MS PowerBI platform, a package with a great usability - quickly deployable and easy to use from the beginning. Used the Azure cloud option (needless to say that in a paid version). The main difference would be a scale of usage, however. The Power BI visualizations were really easy to use which is the main difference ...
August 31, 2017
Is SAP BusinessObjects Good for your company?
I have worked on different BI tools in the market and could not find any other tool that was better and more powerful than SAP BusinessObjects.
August 25, 2017
SAP BusinessObjects BI - the budget killer
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 tool with potential but is still new. However, decisionpoint is superior in building dashboards on limited technical resources and varying database platforms.
July 19, 2017
SAP BusinessObjects review from an early adopter
When we did the implementation in 2005, BusinessObjects was by far the most advanced transactional level analytical query engine that was available.
September 16, 2016
How Business Objects reporting saved the company millions of dallars
- SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)
Microsoft's reporting tool was not easy to use and had too many steps to get to a report. I like Business Objects' Universe feature, it's core to all of the reporting.
June 11, 2016
SAP BIP what is it and what can it do?
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 system development kits are available. Business Objects can be deployed with SAP Data Services and SAP HANA to provide a complete business intelligence solution. Varied content delivery types (reports, dashboards,alerts..) are supported. It provides robust security if fully configurable.
June 10, 2016
Awesome tool for reporting and dashboards.........
Score 10 out of 10
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- obiee and MSBI
I feel that SAP Business Objects tool gives me the competitive advantage over other tools because most large organizations use SAP Business Objects because of its endless scalability. Moreover it has more secured features with restrictions levied at the row level and easy to login options with various authentications to support single sign on.
May 25, 2016
Business Object: Scalable and Easy to use !
We are using Business Objects as well as Oracle OBIEE. From an end user perspective, Business Objects is really easier to use and design reports.
May 25, 2016
Best Reporting tool in the BI Market
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
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 cost of the license and project is expensive.
- MicroStrategy, OBIEE and IBM Cognos
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 organizations closely intertwined with Microsoft tools.
March 16, 2016
Useful Web Based Tool
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
- SAS Enterprise Guide
SAS has more options available to the end user. Both are great tools and I use both SAS and SAP.
March 12, 2016
My experience with SAP BO
You can analyze data in a offline mode so there is no need to be online to analyze data. It's easy to interpret the information. You can easily access the data. SAP Business Objects can be compatible with other applications and can also integrate. Dealing with big data can be a challenge, SAP Business Objects provides a solution to manage big data and to have better reporting analysis.
February 22, 2016
Know why customers go for Business Objects
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.
I have used Tableau, the SAP dashboard provides more options in designing legends on charts, in-built hide/show features in charts.
February 11, 2016
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Unable to confidently say, since both systems have their pluses and minuses and I have not used SAP as long as I did Oracle.
November 19, 2015
SAP Business Objects Great for Application Intergrations
It connects to MS office, XML and other data sources and if you're interested more in reporting, SAP Business Objects is the way to go. If you have a large company with a big budget, and you’re looking for a highly scalable BI tool that integrates with a number of applications, then this application will suffice.
September 15, 2015
Business Objects SRC - Excel on Steroids
Business Objects SRC is more flexible than other products and that is especially important in a company where each division is completely different in how they operate, their KPIs, and their operating functions. It allows finance to decide what information is important at that time and does not take months of IT resources to meet management's immediate informational needs. Reporting and budgeting is easily updated when there is an addition or a deletion of a line of business. Finance is allowed to dice the information in any way to satisfy the current needs of the business.
March 10, 2015
SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 for use in Ambulatory Healthcare
Score 6 out of 10
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Microsoft/Caradigm Amalga
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Microstrategy
SAP offered the most complete package. We were looking for a platform that gave us ETL tools, reporting, dashboards, and security.
Tableau
Qlikview
iDashboards
Microstrategy
SAP offered the most complete package. We were looking for a platform that gave us ETL tools, reporting, dashboards, and security.
- Tibco Spotfire,Tableau Server,Actuate,Logi Analytics,Birst,Microsoft BI,QlikView,GoodData,Domo,SiSense,Yellowfin,IBM Cognos
We selected SAP Business Objects in the previous instance because we were implementing SAP ERP and the choice of Business Objects was favorable from an integration and cost perspective. We did not choose SAP Business Objects most recently because of the predicted long implementation times, high cost (without SAP ERP), myriad of required tools, complex security model, difficulty in customizing, and lack of functionality for our specific industry. We felt that Business Objects would thrive more in a typical manufacturing company.
In my opinion, Business Objects stacks up very well against "like competitors". This would include IBM Cognos, Microsoft BI, Oracle (Hyperion and OBIEE), etc. I don't think it compares favorably to the more agile, cutting-edge, and economical leaders in the BI space. This would include TIBCO Spotfire, Tableau, QlikView, Si Sense, etc.
In my opinion, Business Objects stacks up very well against "like competitors". This would include IBM Cognos, Microsoft BI, Oracle (Hyperion and OBIEE), etc. I don't think it compares favorably to the more agile, cutting-edge, and economical leaders in the BI space. This would include TIBCO Spotfire, Tableau, QlikView, Si Sense, etc.