My experience with SAP BO
March 12, 2016

My experience with SAP BO

Sarah Cubas | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SAP Business Objects

As an IT consult and working for a consulting firm, we typically consult other organizations on SAP and inmost cases we help them to implement and deploy SAP. Sometimes clients do not have a lot of experience with SAP products especially with SAP Business Objects. So our job is to provide support and guide them to better understand the language of SAP.
  • SAP Business Objects reduces total cost of ownership (TCO0 which gives advantage to a better performance and scalability.
  • BI platform.
  • Data exploration.
  • It can cost a lot of money to implement SAP business objects.
  • It can be a little hard to understand the software and the way SAP business objects works.
  • You will need to have plenty of servers to make SAP Business Objects work.
You can analyze data in a offline mode so there is no need to be online to analyze data. It's easy to interpret the information. You can easily access the data. SAP Business Objects can be compatible with other applications and can also integrate. Dealing with big data can be a challenge, SAP Business Objects provides a solution to manage big data and to have better reporting analysis.
Yes, SAP business Objects can have a better advantage than using Excel. You can create very sophisticated reports and it even works offline to analyze reports. It is less time consuming and more efficient. Web intelligence and ad hoc reporting are available. and the good thing about SAP Business Objects is that it has many functionalities to create very powerful reports.

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
9
Customizable dashboards
8
Report Formatting Templates
9
Drill-down analysis
8
Formatting capabilities
9
Integration with R or other statistical packages
9
Report sharing and collaboration
9
Publish to Web
8
Publish to PDF
8
Report Versioning
8
Report Delivery Scheduling
9
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
9
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
9
Predictive Analytics
9
Multi-User Support (named login)
8
Role-Based Security Model
9
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
9
Responsive Design for Web Access
9
Mobile Application
8
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
9