SAP BusinessObjects 5 Named Users - STANDARD
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Great Product for Financial Companies
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use, fast, simple, the reports come in different formats
What do you dislike about the product?
Web based limitations with some reports,
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Running reports for mutual fund trades
An easy way to keep track of all my business needs.
What do you like best about the product?
I like that I can easily create report through an easy and familiar format.
What do you dislike about the product?
That one application doesn't update on the other.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Who's buying what, when they are buying and what platforms are being used to search.
So far, so good
What do you like best about the product?
It's easy to use, the cost is less as compared to tableau or other BI products in the market and customer care is good.
What do you dislike about the product?
You need to maintain universe layer to talk to the database, it does not talk to databases directly. If you have to add a new field in the report from the database then you have to add that particular field in universe layer which is added headache.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Makes creating reports easier.
Great software for running reports!
What do you like best about the product?
Very easy to run report. Easy user interface. Also fairly simple to edit and change report prompts.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is not anything that I dislike about Business objects.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We now have a way to get analytic reporting of all areas of our business at a touch of a button. The reporting is real-time and very effective for our company.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Very simple for the average user to use.
A solid Entry in leveraging BI
What do you like best about the product?
One of the things I like about BObj is that, as a BI Manager, I can help varying levels of users. For example, if I have a user that has no interest/technical skill, I can build up a Universe, create an InfoSpace, and design some view sets. If the user is more advanced, maybe I just need to build the universe and let them play with the view sets. Users can insert themselves in the BI process where they feel comfortable.
What do you dislike about the product?
There has traditionally not been a good method of restoring a single item when a user accidentally over-engineers it or deletes it altogether. And until recently, there hasn't been any kind of versioning. There are also, if there is much customization of the environment, it takes a little more effort to upgrade an existing environment or stage a new one.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The problem is that there is an ever-changing series of questions that get asked. Many reporting tools are simply too robust and cumbersome for the standard user. Having lots of data is useless, if it is to hard for the decision-makers to get to. Web Intelligence can be as simple or as complex as the user needs it to be, so it attracts varying levels of experience. Explorer is a very easy to use visualization tool. I've seen Explorer users go from ONLY looking at canned view sets to building their own Information Spaces.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This tool was here when I was hired a few years ago and now that I've learned it, It's a solid BI tool. If I didn't have a BI tool and I was researching from scratch, I don't know if I'd necessarily hands-down pick this one, but Business Objects would definitely be one of the options I considered.
Sometimes configuration is challenging (unless you are also very familiar with setting up Java VMs). I like the meta-data layer design tool. I like that there are thick and thin versions of the tools users use. Users at this point try to build a report themselves rather than immediately asking me to do it (which is a small miracle). I did end up having to use a 3rd party tool to make me feel safe about backups and versioning (because at the time I started using BObj, there was no recycle bin or version management), but in general I'm happy with the product and am not looking for a replacement solution.
Sometimes configuration is challenging (unless you are also very familiar with setting up Java VMs). I like the meta-data layer design tool. I like that there are thick and thin versions of the tools users use. Users at this point try to build a report themselves rather than immediately asking me to do it (which is a small miracle). I did end up having to use a 3rd party tool to make me feel safe about backups and versioning (because at the time I started using BObj, there was no recycle bin or version management), but in general I'm happy with the product and am not looking for a replacement solution.
Good business tool, but needs modernising to stay relevant
What do you like best about the product?
It is an easy way to share reports across the organization and enables users to view advanced dashboards and analytics without having dedicated software installed on the computer. Managing structure of reporting, sharing links to entire folders or files and setting permission on those folders and files is quite straight forward. It does a decent job at showing analysis on large data sets.
What do you dislike about the product?
Performance wise, sometimes quite slow when loading large daily datasets (3-5 min load times), have seen better optimised systems. Export to Excel 2007, again on large data sets can be quite slow. Interface looks quite a bit dated and I hope they improve on it, to make it more modern and with a touch of animations, quite helpful to have a good and beautiful presentation tool for data (something you can take straight to a board meeting).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitoring of daily/monthly performance across a variety of dashboards, graphs. It also serves as a database store for large sets of data that are used in ad-hoc excel files. Helps in keeping information transparent and helps managers see their performance better on daily level.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The system is quite expensive to implement, so do take careful consideration when acquiring it. If you already have SAP driving a couple of your reporting systems then Business Objects is the way to go to have a proper integration. UI wise and performance wise it is a bit dated, so don't expect pretty and fast changing graphs on the dashboards, but still a very robust system with good features behind it. Hopefully in the near future SAP will modernise it a bit.
Good looking and dynamic reports
What do you like best about the product?
- Good looking GUI
- Easy to understand interface (drag and drop)
- Speed
- Powerful analytics
- Easy to understand interface (drag and drop)
- Speed
- Powerful analytics
What do you dislike about the product?
- Not totally intuitive (ie: need to press the refresh button each time a change is made)
- Need indepth understanding of data to make the most out of the tool
- Need indepth understanding of data to make the most out of the tool
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Invoice payments statics
- Maintenance orders details
- Maintenance orders details
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Careful implementation is key - although BOBJ brings a new and better user interface, it is still reliant on BEX queries and tweaking legacy BW reports might still be able to serve your business needs.
Good overall suite for large BI organization
What do you like best about the product?
The product suite includes a reporting tool (web intelligence), visual data exploration (Lumira), and BI app (Design Studio). Universes are also the best semantic/intermediary layer tool out there. Business Objects BI Suite is the most complete suite of BI tools to meet all of the organization's BI needs.
What do you dislike about the product?
Expensive licensing.
Still missing extensions for embedded BI and extranet deployments.
Still missing extensions for embedded BI and extranet deployments.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Able to deploy data and answers to common business questions right in the hands of the business. BI apps able custom "BI systems" for roles to manage their operations and self-serve web intelligence reports allow users to answer hundreds of business questions (for a well designed report).
Great Tool for Reporting
What do you like best about the product?
Great tool for aggregating data from multiple databases.
What do you dislike about the product?
The report creator is substandard and difficult to learn.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Financial reporting and auditing.
SAP BO is an amazing business process management tool.
What do you like best about the product?
It is a very good tool for Business Intelligence , Data Visualization and Reporting.It is easy to use and automates the entire process of reporting and MIS.It allows one to analyze the business products.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are integration issues with SAP Business Objects.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am currently working on a BI project which involves me to use SAP Business Objects.It is user friendly and solves big business problems efficiently.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Start using business objects one of the best tools in market for BI and Data Visualization.
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