Item: SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Rating: 9
Author: irfan shaik

Overall Satisfaction with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We mainly use this to perform business reporting, and visualization for a broader range of audience. We perform large scale data analytics to discuss in-depth business insights and perform forecasts for the rest of the financial year. The best of this application we can perform cross-enterprise sharing which helps in sharing business insights with colleagues and makes decision-making easier. Before this, we used to use an internal product developed that gets crashed for a large set of data. Now using this we can load huge datasets that helps filtering things very easier.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Cross enterprise sharing where sharing the insights are easier across organisation.
Creative role based dashboards helps to provide information to specific users that way they can make decisions easier any time any where across any device.
Large scale data analytics is one where data from large sets are used to discover in depth business insights and perform the forecast for rest of the financial year to make decisions easier.

Cons

UI part need much improvements as every one don't have complete idea of the components.
The transfer of the data between the system seems to be tricky if you have a system with one data type and different system with different data type the kind of conversion is harder.
The features that are available in Desktop version are not available in mobile which is big drawback for this sap.

Return on Investment

The kind of financial reporting we are performing to make the decision faster has a positive impact with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence.
We primarily use this tool for reporting and analytics purpose on top of SAP data we use this for live reporting on SAP S/4 HANA. It has real-time connectivity with S4 HANA.
Main area of improvement if I can see the visualization on the mobile which is lagging so much.

Usability

Based on the kind of features that are available I have rated the above. Features like easy integration, analytics and visualisation are the primary pillars that helps in making the decision easier as there are few drawbacks as well like integration issues and expensive compared to other reporting platform and learning curve is also bit hard.

Alternatives Considered

Analisa.io

This has the biggest drawback of handling the large data volume which I feel is needed as this is time-consuming and making decisions at the right time is getting harder and we have decided to move to this platform considering the time taken to process the data.

Key Insights

Do you think SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence's feature set?

Did SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Microsoft Power BI

Likelihood to Recommend

As mentioned earlier reporting was a big headache for us and the tools we used didn't support large data sets and visualization Performing analytics with such data sets was cumbersome and later post using this SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence we were able to correlate different data sets and prepare the dashboard pretty easier which were helpful and easier to understand.

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Feature Ratings

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Awesome tool for analytics, visualization and Planning with AI/ML

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