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Business Intelligence Made Easy
What do you like best about the product?
I really enjoyed the drag and drop query capability. When I was using Business Objects, I did not write SQL, and this interface allowed me to pull data in a user-friendly and intuitive way.
What do you dislike about the product?
Graphing was a nice bonus feature, but I tended to do this outside of Business Objects because updating charts was a time suck. Also, scheduling reports made my life easier but I found that some reports would fail with regularity (and these were simple data pulls that should not have been a drain on the system).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Extracting data from Business Objects allowed me to automate data pulls so I was ready to compile reports as soon as the workday began, and also allowed me to automatically send reports to leaders so they could keep a pulse on their areas.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Great for users who don't write SQL. Sub-queries were a great asset for pulling data without duplication.
Good product
What do you like best about the product?
Business objects is a good product with a lot of functionality.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is a little bit too complicated to use for clients.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Bringing data together from different sources and providing a reporting platform for the way the client wants to see the data.
Satisfied Customer
What do you like best about the product?
What I really like about this product is that is provides historical analystics for business decisions
What do you dislike about the product?
What I dislike is the complexity of identifying the correct data elements for the reports
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Understanding our business
great tool for reporting
What do you like best about the product?
customizable reporting features with good viewing and editing parameters to work with.
What do you dislike about the product?
THe tool serves its current purpose of creating and customizing reports for our user base.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Reporting and Analytics
Great variety of reporting system but has its faults
What do you like best about the product?
I like that the reports seem to be full of options to tailor them to your specific needs. There are endless varieties of formatting and information that can be showed in meaningful ways.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the ways to run reports are not intuitive. The amount of formatting options can be overwhelming and sometimes needed functions are hard to find. Not all reports being live make it hard to remember which need constant refreshing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Business Objects helps track when orders come in, tracking shipping, and identifying financial issues among reports
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Be sure to receive lengthy and thorough training.
Sap Products are very helpful and consistent
What do you like best about the product?
the sales support does help. the team is usually gets me answers. Also even though support doesn't answer quickly usually its the correct answers.
What do you dislike about the product?
soemtimes the sales support lacks answering in a timely manner.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
they help me solve my business needs.
Great Outcomes, Not User Friendly
What do you like best about the product?
There are so many different sales reports you can run that tell you literally anything you want to know. We use this in book publishing, and I can compare sales history for different titles, or compare by BISAC codes, on sale dates, price points, and so much more that I have not tapped into. I probably understand a sixteenth of the entire software.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's not user friendly. You can't just download it and figure out the multiple uses by playing around. You definitely have to have someone teach you, and there are a lot of factors that will change your report completely if you aren't selecting the right groups or categories. The problem is, unless you really know the software, you'll never know if the report you've run is incorrect or what you're looking for.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
At my new company we don't have it, and there is a lot of information we don't have access to. Business Objects allows you to compare sales from any time frame to another time frame whereas the software I now use only gives you YTD. You can't even select specific months.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Put in a rigorous training program for employees.
Biz Objects
What do you like best about the product?
Makes reporting and exporting reports very quick and easy
What do you dislike about the product?
Load times can be slow and the raw data exported must be heavily formatted before sharing externally.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Exporting data, reporting for customers
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Good tool - gets the job done when it come to exporting data fast.
I use BO to create and refresh reporting for inventory management
What do you like best about the product?
Charting and Excel-like reporting - BO interacts well with excel, which is useful for non-BO users to understand what is being shared
What do you dislike about the product?
Restrictive with modifications - I am not sure if it is our current setup, but it is very difficult to modify a report that is created by another producer, especially after they have left the company.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using business objects in my role to create if-then reporting so that we can update the system for accurate information sharing, as well as monitor inventory and service levels throughout our distribution network in order to act as proactively as possible to avoid issues.
SAP BO REVIEW
What do you like best about the product?
STILL THE BEST IN CLASS FOR ENTERPRISE WIDE REPORTING
CONTINUOUS NEW PRODUCT LAUNCHES
GOOD SUPPORT
CONTINUOUS NEW PRODUCT LAUNCHES
GOOD SUPPORT
What do you dislike about the product?
VERY OLD FASHIONED WHEN COMPARED TO THE NEW TOOLS IN THE MARKET NOW
NO AGGRESSIVE FEATURE UPDATES TO COMPETE WITH TABLEAU OR QILIKVIEW
STEEP LEARNING CURVE FOR NEW COMERS
EXPENSIVE
NO AGGRESSIVE FEATURE UPDATES TO COMPETE WITH TABLEAU OR QILIKVIEW
STEEP LEARNING CURVE FOR NEW COMERS
EXPENSIVE
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
ENTERPRISE WIDE REPORTING
Recommendations to others considering the product:
NOT NOW YOU HAVE BETTER MORE ROBUST OPTION SIN THE MARKET
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