SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
About SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
SAP BusinessObjects is a business intelligence suite with reporting and visualization tools for gaining insight into key metrics such as sales performance, revenue, budgets, and more. Empower business users with anytime, anywhere access to key insights delivered in context and in real time. The SAP BusinessObjects platform offers features such as ad-hoc reporting, role-based dashboard creation, data visualization, data transformation, trend tracking, cross-enterprise sharing, and more.
The centralized platform allows businesses of all sizes to track key insights and use this data to aid decision making and support business growth. The system is deployed on-premise and integrates with third party systems including Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint for data analysis and sharing. SAP BusinessObjects also connects to other SAP tools such as SAP Business Warehouse and SAP HANA to facilitate real-time analytics.
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- Industry: Food Production
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence review KPI monitoring
Reviewed on 25/09/2022
Pros
At first, the software is looking complicated, but using it very easier after passing an induction
allow exporting data to another tool for further exploitation, good data cleaning and KPI monitoring
easy to set up , handle and customize
Cons
the cost of the license is as high as it cant allow small-scale business to buy and use
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
A great business analytics and reporting tool
Reviewed on 07/02/2023
I have personally used this application for more than 10 years and it has been a significant report...
I have personally used this application for more than 10 years and it has been a significant report for our reporting requirements. We generate reports both in pdf and excel, depending on our requirement and the reports do contain the prompts for the checker to verify the reports if needed.
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SAP BusinessObjects is one of the best reporting tool. The tool can be well integrated with one of your main database (in our case it was Flexcube) to produce a number of reports for your clients and investors. It's very much easy to use and requires little or no training for the users to implement. Probably, one of the best features of this application is it's report scheduler which can schedule your reports as per your prompts and you can easily have them saved in a particular drive of your choice.
Cons
One of the critical issues that I encountered while using SAP BusinessObjects is it inbox reporting. Most of the reports for a user would be available as Global reports however certain specific customised reports are sent to the inbox of the user where that user can only run the same report and will not be available for other users. While accessing the inbox reports, we often encountered issues where the user was not able to run the report or the report will get deleted automatically after some time or the report output will be very slow.
- Industry: Glass, Ceramics & Concrete
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
SAP BusinessObjects for Administrators
Reviewed on 20/08/2019
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The system is able to interface and pull data from a very wide variety of data sources once configured and setup. The reports that come out from the system are very customization and the end users seem able to learn to write them fairly easily.
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The amount of updates and complications of installing, configuring and getting the servers up and running can be time consuming. Updates are also a very tedious process ... these are all normal with a software package this large. The most end-user complaint would be the size of the PDF files, they can be quite large depending on the contents of the reports, which can quickly fill up an inbox.
- Industry: Facilities Services
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Makes it easy to build complex queries without knowing SQL, I love it!
Reviewed on 17/10/2018
I use BusinessObjects every single day, multiple times a day. We are transitioning to start having...
I use BusinessObjects every single day, multiple times a day. We are transitioning to start having all reporting come from BO as once the reports are setup and scheduled its "set it and forget it" in many cases. We put a lot of focus on automation and reducing the amount of time spent building custom reports and one-off analyses. So we have built numerous reports to support our sales team, operations teams, vendors, and c-suite that are all easily refreshed and filtered by the users on their own. And our analytics and reporting teams now have time to work on larger scope projects rather than being bogged down by requests.
Pros
I love most everything about BusinessObjects. It's a great way for our employees to self-service in many cases as previously they had no way to get access to larger data sets unless they put in a request with analytics. But now our Directors have access to data and reports at their fingertips with minimal training (they don't need an in-depth understanding of databases or SQL queries to use the software).
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A con that is worth mentioning is that exporting large data sets can be a bit slow. But the ease of use and other benefits definitely outweigh that.
- Industry: Furniture
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
The perfect B.I. for mid-size companies
Reviewed on 20/03/2023
It has been used as main reporting tool of the company: all the teams used to receive the automatic...
It has been used as main reporting tool of the company: all the teams used to receive the automatic reports in the morning and all teams had the capability to generate on-demand reports.
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I appreciate above all its flexibility when I need to create ad hoc reports.It's very powerful, even if a bit complicated at the begining, and it really allows business users to drill down into data and get the information they need.
Cons
It requires an adequate training in order to use it at its best.It's a bit complicated, especially to understand all its functionalities and reporting capabilities.
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence.Q. What type of pricing plans does SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence offer?
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: $14,000.00/year
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Not Available
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Q. Who are the typical users of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence?
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence has the following typical customers:
501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence support?
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence supports the following languages:
Arabic, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian
Q. Does SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence support mobile devices?
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence integrate with?
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence integrates with the following applications:
Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, SAP HANA Cloud
Q. What level of support does SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence offer?
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep)
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