SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform Reviews

Self service BI analytics

SAP BW and Bex integration

Microsoft Office SAP integration

Connectivity with SAP CRM, ECC

DS free with BOE licenses

Need of ETL and Reporting in business functions

The product is used as our primary BI platform.

We use Crystal Reports for end user reporting.

SAP Dashboards for our monthly performance improvement dashboards.

Web intelligence for ad-hoc data reports and exploration.

Data services is used to move data from our production system to our data warehouse.

Secure content sharing.

Business decision making.

Staff management.

Used for reporting purposes.

Operations: We use Business Objects to create operational reports on manufacturing processes. We pull data from SAP ERP into BW and then report on that data.

Finance: We bring in data from SAP ERP to BW and report using the native BW reporting tool called BusinessExporer (BEx). This has all GL information, and we use a profitability analysis tool called CO-PA (cost and profitability analysis) to track revenue, and sales goals.

Sales:we pull data from all systems - SAP ERP, Salesforce.com, SAP CRM - and bring the data intoto BW, for where we report on it using Business Objects. We use Business Objects to build pipeline reports, revenue reports, shipment reports. and also to track the revenue quarter to quarter. We have another system called Adexa Collaborative Demand Planning (CDP) - for trend analysis and forecasts.

We are not using Salesforce as revenue system. Everything related to revenue has to come from SAP. Primary report that SAP is looking for is revenue. We collect all data from transactional systems into BW.