Overall Satisfaction with BusinessObjects SRC (Discontinued)
- Highly flexible reporting environment. Easy to write your own reports.
- Business Objects was fair at Budgeting. It allowed a lot of flexibility in creating a budget that meets the customized needs of any organization, but along with that it can be clunky and a little difficult to use. I would say the reporting ability was much better than the budgeting capability.
- Another aspect that this product does well is that it allows endless ways to consolidate different business units, departments, sites, etc. You can roll up a region, district, certain departments, etc. easily. This was a major advantage to my role overseeing 30+ hospital sites.
- SRC had a delay in information until the month's operations officially closed and the data was fed into the system. Other products that I have used allow you to see activity throughout the month. Knowing that it isn’t final, you can still get a sense of how revenues/expenses are stacking up for the month, etc. In addition, other operational metrics, like Average Daily Census, Admissions, etc. should be able to be tracked daily, rather than having to wait until the month is over.
Using BusinessObjects SRC (Discontinued)
200 - Across the board - IT, operational, financial, clinical
1 - One main person provided support for SRC. This was not enough, mainly just because of questions about writing reports, where a certain report was, etc.
- To report on financial and operational results.
- Used for budgeting evaluation and projecting financial results.
- Used for daily/weekly tracking of pertinent operational metrics.
Evaluating BusinessObjects SRC (Discontinued) and Competitors
No - NA
BusinessObjects SRC (Discontinued) Implementation
BusinessObjects SRC (Discontinued) Training
- In-person training
- Self-taught
I would not recommend using the product without some sort of training. It is important to learn the coding language to write reports in this product.
BusinessObjects SRC (Discontinued) Support
Not Sure
Using BusinessObjects SRC (Discontinued)
BusinessObjects SRC (Discontinued) Reliability
Integrating BusinessObjects SRC (Discontinued)
- Business Warehouse
- Business Explorer
- SAP
Unsure. I did not integrate.
- SalesForce.com