Useful Web Based Tool
Updated March 16, 2016
Useful Web Based Tool
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
12.1.0
Modules Used
- Infoview
Overall Satisfaction with SAP Business Objects
Reporting account levels information and statistics, individual level information and statistics, and querying marketing databases for advertising purposes.
Pros
- Well formatted tables of data, similar to an Excel pivot table but for larger data sets.
- Scheduling tasks to run at a later time or date.
- Easy formula editing, if someone knows how to use the functions in Excel they'll be able to work with Business Objects formulas.
Cons
- You can't easily run large data sets. Normally you have schedule these projects.
- You cannot email the result automatically to a regular email user. You can only send them an email to the systems built in Inbox.
- End users can't create their own computed value/fields, generally you need IT to do that in the back end.
- SAS Enterprise Guide
SAS has more options available to the end user. Both are great tools and I use both SAS and SAP.
- The availability of having a web based tool is vastly superior.
- The actual query and objects layout is very user friendly.
- Even a person with limited query experience will be able to use the general functions or run a shared project easily.
- The ability to share a project with another user is very convenient.
Using SAP Business Objects
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