Time for a change
April 29, 2025

Time for a change

Rica Camus | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence

Overall Satisfaction with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence

We have been using SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence for many years now as the front-end tool across multiple sources, but it has very limited functions. What we mostly use it now is a tool to schedule running a report after loading has completed and save that report to a shared drive. Most users prefer using the Analysis for office or Power BI as they can use online and offline data. I think SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence is a bit older than SAC and now people are liking stories and other functions in SAC and are moving away from SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence

Pros

  • Scheduling the report run with prompts
  • Front end too that can get data from multiple sources
  • Roles synced from BW can be added to limit data access

Cons

  • Flexibility of multiple drill down options
  • Combining data in system and offline data from computer
  • The need of Universe designer so less self service ability
  • Slow response takes up more of people's time
  • Not valuable for analysis, so a bit of waste
Not good for analysis, but okay for static dashboard

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

No

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

No

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

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence go as expected?

No

Would you buy SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence again?

No

Suited for static data or dashboard that just gets refreshed and sent to email or shared drive

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
4.0
Pixel Perfect reports
Not Rated
Customizable dashboards
4
Report Formatting Templates
4
3.7
Drill-down analysis
2
Formatting capabilities
4
Integration with R or other statistical packages
Not Rated
Report sharing and collaboration
5
7.0
Publish to Web
Not Rated
Publish to PDF
7
Report Versioning
Not Rated
Report Delivery Scheduling
8
Delivery to Remote Servers
6
5.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
5
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
Not Rated
Predictive Analytics
Not Rated
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
Not Rated
6.8
Multi-User Support (named login)
6
Role-Based Security Model
7
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
7
Report-Level Access Control
7
Single Sign-On (SSO)
7
Not Rated
Responsive Design for Web Access
Not Rated
Mobile Application
Not Rated
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Not Rated
5.0
REST API
Not Rated
Javascript API
5
iFrames
Not Rated
Java API
5
Themeable User Interface (UI)
Not Rated
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
Not Rated

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