SAP Business Objects is a must have for your organisations Reporting and Analysis needs
December 14, 2021
SAP Business Objects is a must have for your organisations Reporting and Analysis needs
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform
SAP Bi reporting tool is our companies primary software for Reporting and Analysis. I use it heavily daily and have done it for over a decade. It's highly nimble and allows me to connect to various data sources that have been set up. I can connect and report on Financial values from our Accounting System to our Point of Sale data that holds key sales and product information. Our Account system does not hold detailed product level information but is good for P&L Reporting by Centre and Divisional level. For stock level and margin data, we use Business Objects to build custom reports and conduct various analyses from the required data source.
- Connects to various data sources
- Excellent for building adhoc reports and doing analysis on the fly
- The scheduling and publication functions are great time savers and allow us to manage many regular and recurring reports.
- At the moment we are experiencing some performance issues, but this may be down to our own companies network/infrastructure and not the BI tool
- The older Client version I thought was more stable than the 4.2 web-based version. But this again could be down to the companies network/infrastructure
- Its been highly positive to meet the decision making needs of the Business
- We are able to build reports and provide analysis relatively quickly
- We build Bi reports for the end-user so they can run the report when needed themselves so they are so reliant on the BI report writer
- Board
Board is a great ERP software. Business Objects is more nimble and flexible. Board is good if the Dash Boards and screens are relatively static and have selection/filter options. Business Objects is if you do lots of ad-hoc analysis and reporting on the fly.
Do you think SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence delivers good value for the price?
Not sure
Are you happy with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence's feature set?
Yes
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?
Yes
Would you buy SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence again?
Yes