Best Reporting tool in the BI Market
Updated May 25, 2016

Best Reporting tool in the BI Market

mahesh ray | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SAP Business Objects

Currently SAP Business Objects is being used across organization by different teams like Engineering, Offering, Sales, Marketing and Product Teams.

I have developed multiple canned and ad-hoc reports as per business needs. Basically this serves the purpose of reporting provisioning, billing and usage information of the different offerings Citrix has.

Pros

  • Easy to build and debug reports both with OLTP and OLAP data.
  • Multiple features like merging, fetching data from multiple sources and data security are integrated in BO.
  • Easy to share the reports with users by scheduling and publication like features and also it comes with a nice portal, Infoview.

Cons

  • SAP BO should have application connectors for applications like Marketo
  • Switching database schemas for the same table should be there.
I had to choose between Tableau, Birst and BO.
I liked BO over these as the features like derived tables, merge dimensions, context operators are not there in other tools.
I have used multiple reporting tools in the market and I like Business Objects the most for financial and marketing reports. BO works like a charm.

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
8.0
Pixel Perfect reports
9
Customizable dashboards
6
Report Formatting Templates
9
9.0
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
10
Integration with R or other statistical packages
6
Report sharing and collaboration
10
9.0
Publish to Web
10
Publish to PDF
10
Report Versioning
6
Report Delivery Scheduling
10
9.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
9
10.0
Multi-User Support (named login)
10
Role-Based Security Model
10
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
10
7.3
Responsive Design for Web Access
9
Mobile Application
6
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
7
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding ()
Not Rated

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