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SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence

Overview

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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Recent Reviews

Happy User

7 out of 10
July 21, 2022
I use SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards to broadcast reports to our customers. This is our analytical suite for reporting and monitoring our …
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SAP BI Review

6 out of 10
January 28, 2020
Incentivized
We are using SAP BI for analysis and reporting purposes. We use this within the insurance industry. We had some issues with a client …
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Popular Features

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  • Drill-down analysis (45)
    9.0
    90%
  • Multi-User Support (named login) (46)
    9.0
    90%
  • Customizable dashboards (45)
    8.1
    81%
  • Report Formatting Templates (45)
    7.7
    77%
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Pricing

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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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  • No setup fee

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  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Features

BI Standard Reporting

Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.

7.7
Avg 8.2

Ad-hoc Reporting

Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.

8.2
Avg 8.1

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

8.7
Avg 8.4

Data Discovery and Visualization

Data Discovery and Visualization is the analysis of multiple data sources in a search for patterns and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.

8.3
Avg 8.1

Access Control and Security

Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.

9.4
Avg 8.6

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

8.8
Avg 8.0

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding

APIs are a set of routines, protocols, and tools for used for embedding one application in another

7.5
Avg 7.9
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Product Details

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

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsApple 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 ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

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March 04, 2015

SAP Business Objects excels against similar competition, but against the likes of Spotfire, Tableau, Qlik, and Si Sense, it's just plain old "BO"

Verified User
Director in Information Technology
Consumer Goods Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
SAP Business Objects is definitely more appropriate for large organizations with big budgets and longer implementation times. It is more appropriate for organizations that wish to report on areas that mirror the SAP core modules. In other words, it is stronger for standard reporting in HR, Finance, Supply Chain, Sales, Procurement, etc.
December 30, 2014

SAP Business Objects is a strong choice for an Enterprise reporting solution

Carla Simoneau | TrustRadius Reviewer
Carla Simoneau
Software Architect
5280 Solutions (Computer Software, 201-500 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I would recommend SAP Business Objects if they are looking for a flexible enterprise solution where they need the ability to create pixel perfect reports and many scheduling options. If they are looking more for analytics and dashboard type data analysis there are other products for less money that can do this.
November 29, 2014

Bank Analyst Infrequent User Review

Robin Tufts | TrustRadius Reviewer
Robin Tufts
Credit Administration 2nd Vice President
American Chartered Bank (Banking, 201-500 employees)
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I would want to know how often the product would be used. Users that have daily use on it and need to build and create new reports would have better use out of the product. If it is only used on an infrequent basis it wouldn't seem to be worth the cost.
November 04, 2014

SAP Business Objects: Easy-to-Deploy Great Looking Management-Level and Routine Enterprise-Wide Reporting

Phil Hackman, CPA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Phil Hackman, CPA
Financial Systems Manager
Brinks Gilson and Lione (Law Practice, 201-500 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It's better suited if you have one or two main sources of data. If you have multiple databases (eg. 20) it becomes harder to use. What security levels are going to be used in SAP BO so one can anticipate bursting reports to specific users based on content within the report? eg. I only want "Smith's" reports; is Smith in a certain role and is this in your ERP system?
October 08, 2014

You don't need IT staff to write your reports!

Robert Scrimshaw | TrustRadius Reviewer
Robert Scrimshaw
Finance Analyst III
Mayo Clinic (Hospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
SAP Business Objects is well suited to organizations who have financial analysts who would like to write their own financial reports, without constantly having to employ specialized report writers with IT degrees. Through the use of Universes, "regular" folk can write operational and financial reports using English terms, and not SQL code. This revolutionized the reporting that we do, when we implemented it years ago. I don't use the graphing and scorecarding features of the product, but I see the results of those that do in our organization. It's quite impressive!
September 26, 2014

SAP Business Objects XI 3.1: Super-Sized Business Intelligence

Len Bartlett, MBA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Len Bartlett, MBA
Director of Information Services
The Jackson Group, Inc. (Management Consulting, 11-50 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
SAP Business Objects is a top-shelf Business Intelligence Platform. There are a lot more competitors in the BI field today than there were in 2008 when we first started evaluating SAP BO. If you are a medium to large enterprise with the need to analyze data from multiple and diverse sources, this is the way to go. If you are a small to medium-sized company, I would look strongly at your needs requirements, getting as detailed as possible, and evaluate this product against some of the smaller and more nimble competitors out there. Specifically looking at their product development road maps if you are in an industry or competitive environment that needs to have immediate access to the latest and greatest technological advancements. SAP, as a whole, is large and still in an acquisition mode and therefore not as quick to adapt to emerging technologies as Tableau or Microstrategy are. (SAP eventually gets there and does it well, however it will not be the first one in that space.)
September 15, 2014

Give Business Objects another look

Joel Pick | TrustRadius Reviewer
Joel Pick
Director, Business Intelligence
Athene USA (Insurance, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Make sure you assess the type of reporting you need and use the proper tool. Too many tines people purchase one tool out of a suite of tools and then try to force everything into that tool. Also understand your DBMS and design your universes accordingly. Poorly designed universes can have a direct impact on the user experience.
And above all please train your users. Most projects cut back on training which causes a poor user experience.
September 12, 2014

A Quick Summary of Business Objects

Michael Spino | TrustRadius Reviewer
Michael Spino
Sr. Programmer Analyst (Programmer III)
FedEx Services (Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, 10,001+ employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
SAP Business Objects is well suited for both scheduling reports and ad hoc reporting. Users can typically learn the basic reporting functionality without a lot of training. The tool is not strong in pulling data from multiple data sources for the same report and the more advanced reporting is hard to learn.
July 21, 2014

SAP BOXI review

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Telecommunications Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
It is well suited for any reporting requirement where there is a vast amount of data that needs sifting through.
June 02, 2014

Quick, Intuitive System

Carrie Brate | TrustRadius Reviewer
Carrie Brate
Associate Category Manager
ARYZTA LLC (Food Production, 5001-10,000 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
Not having the item number as a separate field adds work, as the user would have to manually separate it out in Excel. Additionally, not being able to type in specific dates for which to pull data could be a hindrance. Additional customization capability would be beneficial.
May 30, 2014

Fast, Accurate, and Effiencient (but not so user friendly)

Verified User
Analyst in Finance and Accounting
Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
It is well suited for retreiving large amounts of data. Other systems may work better if you're trying to pull just a few line items. You should be familiar with excel pivot tables if you are thinking of purchasing this product. It is great if you have to do deep dives into financial data, it is not that beneficial if you just want top of the house, or aggregate data.
May 28, 2014

Good for accessing information, bad for data visualization

Meg DeBoer | TrustRadius Reviewer
Meg DeBoer
Business Analyst
Herman Miller (Furniture, 5001-10,000 employees)
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
SAP Business Objects is well suited when there is a need to house a lot of information that needs to be accessed and sliced by many different types of people. It's less suited for intense data manipulation and data visualization. Overall, I more so recommend this program for accessing large amounts of data rather than customizing tables, dashboards, etc.
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