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SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform pros and cons

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SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform Pros review quotes

SZ
Data & Business Architect at AME
Jan 15, 2022
The most important feature of BusinessObjects is its integration with the SAP ERP system. If an organization is using SAP as its ERP system, and they want to do business intelligence, reporting, or analysis, SAP BusinessObjects is the only tool that I see doing that quite efficiently. That's because of the fact it is tightly integrated, and it gives a good user experience in terms of faster reporting. Its integration is the feature that I have found most valuable, but there are also other factors.
TA
Technical Lead at Cognizant
Dec 22, 2021
It is more user-friendly and easier to work with the report creation part, creating reports out of an established universe. Maybe a business person could liberate the existing universe and create a report on top of it, as well. So that's one cool feature.
DS
Business Intelligence Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Jan 5, 2022
There are two tools inside BusinessObjects' schematic layout called the Universal Design Tool and Information Design Tool. These are the most powerful tools that set BusinessObjects' reporting from other solutions. If my organization has 300 or 400 tables, I can combine all of them into one universe, and everyone can use that. It is just a schematic layout that does not hold any data but the table relationships.
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SZ
Data analyst at ASR Nederland N.V.
Apr 5, 2023
The platform is a complete enterprise-level tool where everything is integrated to suffice your requirement.
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BusinessObject Delivery Dev. at a government with 10,001+ employees
Nov 19, 2021
BusinessObjects can handle a lot of usage on the front end, and many users can view these reports. It's a relatively stable and secure tool.
BA
Associate Consultant at Tata Consultancy Services
Jan 30, 2022
The reports are most valuable. If it is a single-source universe, based on only one database, the performance, and the reporting tool is user-friendly, and users are very familiar with the tool and are comfortable using it.
YS
Head-IT/SAP at Barista Coffee Company Ltd.
Feb 18, 2022
We find that we can scale it as needed.
KS
Director of Underwriting & Product Development at a non-profit with 51-200 employees
Oct 16, 2021
The feature that allows pivot users to create the report dashboards and run them when they want with a lot of flexibility with the drill-downs is very useful. The drill-down features are very good because, in other solutions, such as Excel, you have to create separate pivot tables and a lot of other operations to do drill-downs. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform tool does the drill-downs automatically. Overall the solution is user-friendly and has a lot of drag and drop features.
Paul Grill - PeerSpot reviewer
President & CEO at Infosol Inc
Aug 5, 2022
The ability to merge dimensions in a report is great.
AY
BI/BO Hana Application Consultant at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Feb 24, 2022
This reporting and broadcasting solution has a lot of flexibilities and can connect to multiple source systems.

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform Cons review quotes

SZ
Data & Business Architect at AME
Jan 15, 2022
I really want SAP to focus on the dashboarding side. Based on what I have seen in the past 10 years, dashboarding has captured a lot of markets. Executives at the top-level want data that is summarized, looks good, and tells you a story. That's where Tableau, Qlik, and Power BI have an upper edge. It doesn't mean SAP doesn't give you dashboarding. They do have a dashboarding solution, but Tableau, Qlik, and Power BI are more intuitive and more attractive. I would like SAP to capture the dashboarding market as well, wherein they give at least some competition to other competitors. Presently, Tableau, Qlik, and Power BI are leading the market.
TA
Technical Lead at Cognizant
Dec 22, 2021
Most of the Apps right now are into dashboarding. This tool, for the Crystal Reports in the phase I'm primarily working on, does not have those dashboarding capabilities, like in the other advanced tools like Power BI or ClickView, and compared to them the dashboard generation is not that great.
DS
Business Intelligence Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Jan 5, 2022
Factoring in total implementation and maintenance costs, SAP BusinessObjects is too expensive. If you deal with a huge amount of data, you can go with BusinessObjects. However, if you are a medium-sized company with a modest amount of data, you can opt for another solution.
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SZ
Data analyst at ASR Nederland N.V.
Apr 5, 2023
The SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform has always struggled with dashboarding.
AP
BusinessObject Delivery Dev. at a government with 10,001+ employees
Nov 19, 2021
When we implemented BusinessObjects, the setup was straightforward. After SAP bought BusinessObjects, it gradually became more and more stepwise. There are too many steps, and they take too much time.
BA
Associate Consultant at Tata Consultancy Services
Jan 30, 2022
The performance could be improved, like when we extract a large amount of data.
YS
Head-IT/SAP at Barista Coffee Company Ltd.
Feb 18, 2022
It could be a lighter solution.
KS
Director of Underwriting & Product Development at a non-profit with 51-200 employees
Oct 16, 2021
Tableau was easier for me to use because the interface is more similar to Excel which I was used to using.
Paul Grill - PeerSpot reviewer
President & CEO at Infosol Inc
Aug 5, 2022
We would like to see a native version of BusinessObjects and Web Intelligence created for the cloud.
AY
BI/BO Hana Application Consultant at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Feb 24, 2022
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform has to be improved performance-wise. The look and feel of this application, its scalability, setup, and technical support also need improvement.