Hi If I understood your question correctly you are trying to understand if BO/BI is OLAP based desktop or web based. The answer to this is that BO is more of a ROLAP and not a traditional MOLAP like TM1 etc. In BO suite lumira has some level of in-memory capabilities but…

Hi Whether anybody likes a tool or not can be a personal choice but like you said it is definitely one of the best in terms of its breadth and functionality. The advantage of enterprise BI tools like BO, Cognos is that it can be installed for a small setup in a very fast…

Hi You have not mentioned which OS you were trying to configure BO in? One of the things that I can say why you may have found BO difficult is because like any enterprise BI tool it is pretty confiugrable and flexible and that can confuse a normal user. Also if you have…

Hi The below url could be a good resource for you to get all the information about SAP Busines Objects, please remember not all the documents here might be accessible if you do not have an SAP support account but hopefully this will get you the information that you are…

Hi Gary Thanks a lot for your reply and the suggestions. I agree with you that evaluation process is not as simple as what I have pointed out but what I have tried listing here is a very high level differentiator between the various tools that I am hoping can act as a…

Hi SAS VA (visual analytics) is primarily a data exploration and data discovery tool. Since it is from the SAS family of products so yes it has good integration with the predictive and statistical analysis engine of SAS. In my opinion if you are a big SAP and BOBJ shop…