SAP Business Objects Intelligence: I wish I was allowed another way
January 31, 2019
SAP Business Objects Intelligence: I wish I was allowed another way
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform
I use it to gather data from our SAP Warehouse to report out our financial information and high and low performing/selling products. It allows us to gather that data and put it into Excel where we can then use other tools to create visualizations of the data in our monthly, quarterly and yearly reports.
- Allows significant customization and filtering of the data when creating reports.
- Is an easy, relatively user-friendly way of accessing the data.
- No SQL or other programming languages needed for queries.
- The interface is old and unintuitive. The tooltips are helpful but for someone new to it there is little help in where to begin and what to do
- This may be our systems but it is slow when querying our data.
- For some reason when exporting the data, if I choose reports it never exports ALL the data so I am not sure what function that option is supposed to provide.
I use the platform as it is all that is available to me. I have no ability to query the warehouse directly probably for good reason. I have been using PowerBI and I know it can connect to the warehouse and do the query and visualization in real time. However, our admins will not allow that and force SAP Business Objects on us. It makes the aggregating of the data phase more time consuming and you end up having to run three different platforms to create reports. At least in our case, SAP Business Objects is slow and it is prone to crashing during a query.