Pros and Cons of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 2025

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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Time for a change

Rating: 6 out of 10

April 29, 2025

Vetted ReviewVerified User

We have been using SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence for many years now as the front-end tool across multiple sources, but it has very limited functions. What we mostl...

Rica Camus

Consultant - Information Technology

SAP Analytics Lead

Fonterra

14 years of experience

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

Rating: 9 out of 10

December 23, 2024

IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User

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 insight...

irfan shaik

Consultant - Information Technology

Technical Consultant

Numeric technologies inc

3 years of experience

Verified on LinkedIn

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence helping your organization in share and distribute data

Rating: 6 out of 10

November 18, 2024

IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User

The SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence is heavily used in our company. Since we moved all the workbooks from BW Analyzer to SAP Analysis for Office, all the workbooks a...

Verified user

Manager

5 years of experience

Great SAP data analytics product

Rating: 8 out of 10

July 27, 2022

IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User

SAP Business Objects and Business Intelligence is one of the flagship products of SAP. I remember the BW days and then the acquisition of BO and eventually the rollout of the ...

Gaurav Pandey - PMP,ITIL,CSM

Consultant - Information Technology

SAP Application Manager

Flynn Restaurant Group

9 years of experience

Happy User

Rating: 7 out of 10

July 21, 2022

Vetted ReviewVerified User

I use SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards to broadcast reports to our customers. This is our analytical suite for reporting and monitoring our baseline data for procurement and log...

Jim Myers

Manager - Information Technology

Chief, IT Asset management

USG

15 years of experience

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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.

Entry-level set up fee?

No setup fee

Offerings

Free Trial
Free/Freemium Version
Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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$10

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SAP Analytics Cloud

$36

per month per user

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Features

BI Standard Reporting

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

7.2

Avg 8.2

Ad-hoc Reporting

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

6.6

Avg 8.0

5.3
Drill-down analysis
(48) Ratings
Drill down analysis is the ability to get to a further level of detail by going deeper into the hierarchy.
6.7
Formatting capabilities
(48) Ratings
Ability to format output e.g. conditional formatting, lines, headers, footers.
7
Integration with R or other statistical packages
(33) Ratings
Integration with the open-source R predictive modeling environment.
7.3
Report sharing and collaboration
(48) Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration is the ability to easily share reports with others.

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

7.6

Avg 8.3

9
Publish to Web
(40) Ratings
7
Publish to PDF
(47) Ratings
6.5
Report Versioning
(42) Ratings
Report versioning is the assignment of version numbers to each version of a report to help in tracking.
8.3
Report Delivery Scheduling
(48) Ratings
Report Delivery Schedule is the ability to have reports delivered to a destination at a specific data and time.
7
Delivery to Remote Servers
(27) Ratings
Ability to deliver reports to remote servers

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.

6.8

Avg 7.9

6
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
(42) Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats are canned visualization types that can be selected to visualize different kinds of data.
6.5
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
(39) Ratings
Location analytics is the visualization of geographical or spatial data.
7.5
Predictive Analytics
(38) Ratings
Predictive Analytics is the ability to build forecasting models based on existing data sets.
7
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
(2) Ratings
Pattern recognition and data mining mean the ability to recognize hidden patterns in large quantities of data.

Access Control and Security

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

8.4

Avg 8.6

8
Multi-User Support (named login)
(49) Ratings
Named model access means that users have access based on name and password.
8.7
Role-Based Security Model
(47) Ratings
Role-based access means that access to data is determined by job or position in the corporation.
8.3
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
(46) Ratings
Multiple access permission levels means that different levels of users have different rights.
8.7
Report-Level Access Control
(3) Ratings
Report-level access control means that the type of report determines who has access to it.
8.3
Single Sign-On (SSO)
(30) Ratings
Allows users to use one set of login credentials to access multiple applications

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

5.9

Avg 7.8

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding

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

6.6

Avg 7.7

6.5
REST API
(21) Ratings
REST is an architecture style for designing networked applications
6.3
Javascript API
(20) Ratings
A Javascript API is a type of API
7
iFrames
(18) Ratings
An iFrame is an HTML document embedded inside another HTML document on a website
6.3
Java API
(23) Ratings
A Java application programming interface (API) is a list of all classes that are part of the Java development kit (JDK)
7
Themeable User Interface (UI)
(21) Ratings
A themeable user interface means that a specific visual them can be applied to it
6.5
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
(20) Ratings
A customizable, open source API Gateway is a fast and scalable type of API

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Product Details

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FAQs

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 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

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 Publish to Web highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).

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

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 23, 2024

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irfan shaik

Technical Consultant

Numeric technologies inc (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

Verified User

3 years of experience

Verified on LinkedIn

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.