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Very Efficient, but Timing Varies
What do you like best about the product?
I love that I am able to get reporting that I need and it available in a clear cut format.
What do you dislike about the product?
The timing varies, it can either come within minutes or hours - not very consistent.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Gathering information from a market level or ROI on a client base. It makes it very easy to see when something is going well or needs improvement.
Excellent excellent performance
What do you like best about the product?
Performance and processing, ease of use.
What do you dislike about the product?
replication of data to the cloud and performance with it
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
performance
Great experience with the self service capabilities
What do you like best about the product?
Self serf capabilities in webi are great. Provides flexibility with analytical reporting
What do you dislike about the product?
challenges with fixed format reports, would love to see crystal report like capabilities built in webi
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
analytical reporting
BOBJ universe
What do you like best about the product?
data and reporting format that allows users to drilldown and drill thru the top level
What do you dislike about the product?
connectivity. it takes long and takes time to contact IT for support
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
N/A
Reporting operational and analytical data and the ease of reporting made simple is the best part,
What do you like best about the product?
Web I, Crystal reports, BI Lauch pad, the ease of working with the tool.
What do you dislike about the product?
Issues with BW connections in the earlier versions of 4.0
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Profit margin analysis, complex push reports, value realization and business improvements.
Love to integrate Business Object into SAP application
What do you like best about the product?
Can turn the static data of SAP database into a editable and customized Excel spreadsheet.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some features of BO cannot integrate smoothly from SAP database.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Be able to customized data from massive information into specific data to study and present to management decisions.
Easy to create reports
What do you like best about the product?
It's easy to build reports with the BO tool, drag and drop entities you need once you create/choose the right database/universe
What do you dislike about the product?
Can't cross reference between universes or databases if information you need is not built in the same environment, then you have to build a whole new table to bring all of the data together
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
running quick reports when needed, doesn't have to go to an IT resource all the time for reports
A bit Comolex but Useful
What do you like best about the product?
There is so much information in Business Objects and you can really find anything you need to make your sales case
What do you dislike about the product?
Because there is so much information, sometimes you can get caught up in the numbers. Would be better if you can open in excel easier as well
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Solution based selling
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Know what you are trying to say with the data before pulling it, as the info can be too broadscaled and comolex to make sense of unless you know what you're specifically looking for
SAP Boxi
What do you like best about the product?
The best part about SAP Boxi is being able to retrieve sales data on products information for each division base on a lot of different search criteria.
What do you dislike about the product?
Boxi is known to clock and freeze when searching through a lot of data, so it can become daunting when the search takes a long time to obtain and then only to find out there is no data or the data search failed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Business problems we are solving with Business Objects is; understanding sales data of how products are being sold, how much each division is generating in sales per product, classifying product information, and taking data to analyze sales trend and how to reduce cost in supplier management.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Business is a great tool assessing sales data but most likely will need to improve in their search efficiency and need to be a bit more user friendly.
Pros and Cons of SAP Business Objects
What do you like best about the product?
0. Strong platform for business intelligence
1. Flexible to connect with various data sources such as OLAP, and XML, SharePoint, Java, Microsoft Office and .NET
2.Easy to integrate with LDAP security providers and Single-Sign-On (SSO) solutions for user access and also provide the level of security needed to restrict access
3. Easy to integrate the historical SAP database for reports and does not take much time to pull history like SAP ERP.
4. Multiple BI analysis can be performed to make strategic and tactical decisions
5. Can be linked with SAP visualization tool- SAP lumira and data is easy to handle in MS-Excel and other applications
1. Flexible to connect with various data sources such as OLAP, and XML, SharePoint, Java, Microsoft Office and .NET
2.Easy to integrate with LDAP security providers and Single-Sign-On (SSO) solutions for user access and also provide the level of security needed to restrict access
3. Easy to integrate the historical SAP database for reports and does not take much time to pull history like SAP ERP.
4. Multiple BI analysis can be performed to make strategic and tactical decisions
5. Can be linked with SAP visualization tool- SAP lumira and data is easy to handle in MS-Excel and other applications
What do you dislike about the product?
1. User needs to know specific skill sets to get complete benefit
2. Complex structure of SAP ERP can not be managed efficiently in Business objects and data can mislead for some important decisions.
3. License part is bit difficult to understand for users.
4. Difficult for a non-technical person to understand the system
2. Complex structure of SAP ERP can not be managed efficiently in Business objects and data can mislead for some important decisions.
3. License part is bit difficult to understand for users.
4. Difficult for a non-technical person to understand the system
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1. Reporting various database which are difficult to pull out SAP -ERP and take huge time
2. Integration of various inputs to provide inputs to operations model
3. Platform for visualization and dashboard to understand performance of global business
This software has reduced waiting time for various database for strategic and tactical business decisions.
2. Integration of various inputs to provide inputs to operations model
3. Platform for visualization and dashboard to understand performance of global business
This software has reduced waiting time for various database for strategic and tactical business decisions.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Definitely for the industries which are looking for improving their work efficient and working in cost reduction direction.
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