SAP BusinessObjects GRC pros and cons

Vendor: SAP

3.7 out of 5

7 reviews
66% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

SAP BusinessObjects GRC strengthens control management by addressing risk controls and preventing role conflicts, providing enterprise-level clients with insights into access risks. It offers scalability for BW applications, customizable dashboards, and real-time monitoring to enhance data security. Predictive analytics offer deeper insights, though improvements in technical support, wait time integration, and inactive login issues are needed. Lack of immediate alerts requires attention for timely issue detection.

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PROS

Initial setup is straightforward and can be completed quickly, approximately within one week.

Scalability and flexibility to implement applications on top of BW are highlighted features.

It helps in creating reports for projects, including ad-hoc reports, enhancing the reporting process.

Offers risk control management tools, assisting in identifying permission and access risks to ensure role clarity.

Customization options in the dashboards and effective real-time monitoring enhance data security by restricting domain visibility.

CONS

Predictive analytics could be embedded for better offerings.

Technical support needs to be improved and faster.

The ability to add wait time and integrate sources in wait time is desired.

There are significant management difficulties due to non-functioning features.

Immediate alerts are lacking, leading to delayed issue detection.

SAP BusinessObjects GRC Pros review quotes

Osama Saleh

Deputy Finance Director at Abdul Latif Jameel

Apr 4, 2022

It is wonderful from the control perspective. The GRC tools help you in knowing what are the risk controls, how to mitigate risks, and how to ensure that there are no conflicts between the roles. From the user perspective, you get to know what are the permission risks and access risks. You get a lot of useful information.

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Vishal Guthula

Sr Advanced Analytics Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Aug 26, 2025

The customization options in the dashboards inside SAP BusinessObjects GRC are highly valuable, and the real-time monitoring feature performs effectively, allowing teams to maintain data security by restricting domain visibility.

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Mohamed Sultan

Active Supervisor at Social Insurance Organizaton

Jan 16, 2024

The tool helps create reports for projects, including the creation of any ad-hoc reports

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SAP GRC Specialist Lead at Deloitte

Jun 24, 2025

The stability of SAP BusinessObjects GRC is acceptable.

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Gebrehiwot Tesfay Gebreslassie

Business Intelligence Senior Developer II at Ethiopian Airlines

Apr 27, 2022

The best features are the scalability and flexibility to implement applications on top of the BW.

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Vijay Sarathi

DGM at Bharat Electronics Limited

Apr 25, 2022

Initial setup was straightforward. It took maybe one week.

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Cengiz Kaya

IT Consultant at CASS

Sep 11, 2023

We have enterprise clients for the product.

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SAP BusinessObjects GRC Cons review quotes

Osama Saleh

Deputy Finance Director at Abdul Latif Jameel

Apr 4, 2022

BusinessObjects is very dated. It is not that user-friendly. It should be made more user-friendly. In addition, if they could make predictive analytics an embedded part of it where people get to know what is there to offer, it would be great.

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Vishal Guthula

Sr Advanced Analytics Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Aug 26, 2025

Currently, we do not receive immediate alerts; we only discover issues after something goes wrong.

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Mohamed Sultan

Active Supervisor at Social Insurance Organizaton

Jan 16, 2024

I think the old system is better than the new one. From an improvement perspective, the tool needs to ensure that the new technologies it offers are better than the old ones.

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SAP GRC Specialist Lead at Deloitte

Jun 24, 2025

I am working on features that are not functioning as expected, which creates significant difficulties in management.