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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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- Customizable dashboards (45)8.181%
- Report Formatting Templates (45)7.777%
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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 Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete) and 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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February 25, 2015
The New SAP BusinessObjects RESTful SDK: What It Means to You
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Jaspersoft
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 requiring research. Support Tickets are relatively easy to setup and are responded to quickly.
January 05, 2015
BOBJ: Powerful Reporting Solutions for SAP driven Data
This tool is really the best option when undergoing an IT overhaul in switching to an SAP driven production system. There are many competitors but the overall suite of out-of-the box functionality is hard to pass up.
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 best I've seen. MicroStrategy didn't work for us because we have a very normalized database for reporting and the metadata layer required architecting every attribute that will be used in a report. This brought challenges to us since we have very wide tables. In BOBJ I can define the relationship at the table level rather than the attribute. MS also did not have shortcut joins or the concept of stored procedure universes. Cognos was the most similar to BOBJ, but we found some key components missing. They did not have the ability to put a large number of reports in one package with a single schedule. They also only allow one schedule on a report. If you need to define more than one schedule you have to create a report view. The ability to define success/failure emails for a report was not in the product either. We use this to keep the business informed on their reports so they don't call IT to find out if the report completed.
December 18, 2014
BO go or no-go
November 29, 2014
Bank Analyst Infrequent User Review
I did not have the authority to select the product. It was selected because of the provider we went with for our data.
November 04, 2014
SAP Business Objects: Easy-to-Deploy Great Looking Management-Level and Routine Enterprise-Wide Reporting
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September 23, 2014
SAP Business Objects tool review
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Because of security
September 15, 2014
Give Business Objects another look
- Microsoft SQL Server,Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management,IBM Cognos,Birst
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 interface, but lack the functionality.
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 interface, but lack the functionality.
September 12, 2014
A Quick Summary of Business Objects
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
June 02, 2014
Quick, Intuitive System
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Oracle Business Analytics,Oracle Data Warehouse
SAP Business Objects is overall much quicker when it comes to pulling data. Additionally, I have yet to run into any instances where Business Objects is down. When I used the Oracle applications, during high usage periods, it was often extremely difficult to be able to extract data, and there were also frequent outages. This was extremely frustrating and led to decreased productivity. With Business Objects, I am able to get what I need within just a few minutes. The pivot-table-esque format is easy to use.
May 30, 2014
Business Objects - Can We Live Without It?
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I have used internal databases, web bases dashboards, they lack the quality and reliabity of SAP Business Objects.
SAP Business Objects is robust, user friendly and is great for repititive use. It also allows the user to change reporting per capacity requirements.
SAP Business Objects is robust, user friendly and is great for repititive use. It also allows the user to change reporting per capacity requirements.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
If I compare SAP Business Objects with Oracle Essbase, I would use SAP BO if I'm looking for very detailed reports. Oracle Essbase is an add in into Excel and therefore is very easy to use as it is available every time I open Excel. I use Oracle Essbase if I need to retrieve something quickly. On the other hand, I use SAP Business Objects if I want to get more in depth reports. It is not as user friendly as I have to log on to a website and then export the report to Excel. But it is better in the level of detail of the reports and its efficiency.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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 offer. If SAP Business Objects could keep up on that end, it would be a much more useful program.
October 17, 2013
Business Objects 4.0 Review
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We picked this directly; as we already have a previous version of Business Objects, it will be easier to upgrade than to switch systems.
December 21, 2012
Problems reporting against an OLAP database.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Originally, Business Objects was implemented before I joined.
When we had issues with Business Objects Version 3, we evaluated:
1) Tableau - This is a great product, really rich/appealing, and good mobile finctionality, but the price and the ETL functionality were issues. Allso performance of Tableau against OLAP data was not that good. It was much better against relational databases.
2) SQL BI - This had most of the features looking for. We have started to use SQL BI tools - not in production, we are stilltesting. We are not using with OLAP - we bring data from BW and store in a SQL data mart, stage, transform if required, model, then report.
- Finance still using old SAP BW tools.
- Operations is using BO 4.0
- Another group using Business Objects 3.1, and is going to try out SQL BI tools
We also evaluated another product called Greenplum (acquired by EMC). This has no front end to it, and is essentially a data warehouse.