SAP Business Objects is a complex but valuable tool.
February 13, 2019
SAP Business Objects is a complex but valuable tool.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform
SAP Business Objects platform is currently in use by two departments across our enterprise with a total of about 200 people. These departments take requests from businesses across the enterprise and work with them to generate reports based off of criteria that the business decides. The whole organization benefits from Business Objects.
- It is a very flexible platform with many different add-ons that provide lots of different functionality.
- If configured and installed correctly it can be a very robust and dependable platform for the business.
- It has the ability to handle almost all types of data sources you can throw at it.
- The installation can be very complex and time-consuming, it requires a lot of planning and foresight as to what role the software will play in the organization.
- The software has a relatively large learning curve that takes dedicated users months to get comfortable with, the UI is a bit intimidating for new users.
- SAP could organize their help better, it can be difficult to find dependable solutions to issues via their website and support channels.
We currently have implementations of both Microsoft BI and SAP Business Objects so our enterprise has found reasons for both. Some users prefer BI over SAP and it depends on the department they are working for. SAP was chosen for the more complex tasks that require large data sets and its ability to help its users visualize the data and plan for the future.