SAP BusinessObjects Reviews

The overall architecture of BO XI (with UDT v14.2.7.3130) is intuitive to understand. Most of my experience, however, has been using it with derived tables for more flexibility in the clinical trial space. This is one of the features that I like because it allows me to not only deliver custom reports but also standardized reports that integrate data from different sources.

I think that BO's lack of OLAP functionality could use some beefing up. In my company, it's usually BO, Spotfire or Tableau that are used for reporting. If BO had OLAP capabilities, processes within the company that rely heavily on other tools may also change to account for that.

I can easily find the solution in internet. And I can easily drag and drop the columns of the tables I selected in DFX to BLX.

Information Design Tool app to be accelerated for the designer

This software is excellent to use for data analytics, to create graphs, tables, and overall financial reporting.

The software is locking a really good support team to address user's issues. The 24 hours support is necessary

The scope advantages and the ability to link the data available in our organization by SAP BusinessObjects has allowed us to optimize the administrative and operational processes in a way that allows us to access the correct information.

I do not have negative opinions of the tool, within the organization has been very useful the use of it.

Easy to set up the backoffice part of the tool.
Simple way how to organize and manage access rights.
Perfect for dashboard customization, its even possible to add some html code and thus custom designs and outputs.

The data universes takes some time to load.
It takes time for system end users to learn how to create and format their ad-hoc reports.

Once it's been implemented for the entire company it integrates every aspect smoothly. The ability to link every part of the business is invaluable. From HR to logistics to production, managing warehouse inventory cost saving are realized.

Implementation can be tricky if the people setting it up dont take the time to learn the business from one end to the other. It takes a team working in unison to develop a fully functional system. I've seem great things from SAP and I've seen a company sinking from a poor implementation.

SAP BusinessObjects is a wide collection of softwares that businesses can use to handle different functions such as reporting, business analytics, forecasting, etc.

Based on my experience, the softwares are easy to use with interactive graphical user interface. Also, with its point and click functionality, new users can easily familiarize with the system. In addition, the ability to customize the system for more advanced users is absolutely commendable. Few systems are flexible enough like SAP BusinessObjects. The integration of SQL Database Management makes it easier for more advanced users to customize the system according to the company's needs and demands.

Since the software is mostly Window-based, computers using other programming language might have some difficulty in using the system. The wide variety of functionality also makes it a little bit confusing with new users especially those with no knowledge of SQL syntax.

Its best feature, in my opinion, is the ease of building reports through its drag and drop interface. We have several data universes which we use to generate the reports. Business Objects makes it quite easy to manipulate the data fields and build professional looking reports.

My least favorite thing about this product would have to be the lack of download capability in more current versions of Excel. Currently, Business Objects only downloads in Excel 2007 format, which can sometimes complicate pulling millions of rows of data into one spreadsheet. Office 2010 and 2013 are capable of handling millions of rows of data, but B.O. cannot deliver it into those new formats.

The interface is very easy to use for all audiences, allowing us to empower basic users to run their own reports. The ability to combine database elements with custom script to customize reports is very useful.

Sometimes the report formatting can be finicky. It is very responsive but can overcompensate for small formatting (size, spacing, etc) adjustments.

I liked that it could be embedded with single sign on with a transactional application in a SaaS environment. This enables companies to build the software they have domain knowledge in and take advantage of reporting capabilities that tools like Business Objects has.

It can sometimes be difficult to work through navigation issues when embedding the software. It requires someone to understand how to get into the toolkit, which has a learning curve.

facilitates self service and is user friendly to write queries with basic training of users thereby reducing reliance on central IT. Also data can be exported to excel/pdf etc.

This product works well when there is a data warehouse and data is regularly uploaded to the data warehouse so that users can write query and generate data from the query.

Using BOBJ has been light years better than previous database front-ends that I utilized, it is full of functions andhas a much more user friendly interface.

Many of the functions are at a more basic level and require you learning their program to be able to nest them together and get the results you're looking for.

SAP Business Objects provides a nice way to interface with data, allowing both power and flexibility through its structure.

With each new version there seems to be some flaw that needs to be corrected or feature that should be added and at an enterprise level it becomes difficult to continuously deploy the updates.

SAP BusinessObjects allows the company to integrate with external systems, such as SIMS Claims and Microsoft Office and combine data from these for business analytics and reporting functions. There is a drag-and-drop interface which allows you to create custom reports using the perimeters you want.

The drag-and-drop interface is sometimes difficult to use especially when working with a large amount of data. Once you use this program more, it seems to get easier to use.

Being able to pull data easily from our data warehouse.

Sometimes tricky to move fields around without leaving spaces in columns that you don't want.

I have worked as an SAP Consultant so I know the importance of reporting for clients. SAP business objects are the best way to quickly design and integrate reporting tools with SAP source systems.

For an end user, there is limited flexibility when it comes to modifying reports once deployed. I would like some more customization options.

BusinessObjects is great for data analysis and reporting about data. You can make a template for a specific report and trust that when someone needs this report, it is generated exactly how you defined it.
Also you can analyze your data, see trends and report on them.

It's not really point-and-click; you need some experience to use it. But given the fact that many software vendors prefer BusinessObjects must mean something for its quality.

The web reports functionality is great. The concept of crystal reports is good.

Resource allocation and Server intelligence agent.

self service reporting function & easy of use

poor wiev of dashboard & no entegrated solution for data masking

Business Objects provides an easy way to generate and format reports, This solution provide a multiple way of visualization. reports, queries, dashboards.

Business Objects would be more integrated and more usefull.

SAP business objects is a no frill enterprise BI suite, it is very stable, robust and deliver good performance on large scale use.
Self service quite easy once universe is built
One click Scheduling and Publishing capabilities.
Data is cached, giving users the ability to work offline.
Wide variety of support for charts and functions.
Abundant online forum for help.

Know how is quite complicated for new users. specially syntax and dealing with measures, attributes and variable
Data base integration often malfunctions for some RDMS, for example Netezza queries are often lost in queue.
Adding new data sources and change request require complicated changes in Universe.
Poor capability ability for adhoc analysis like users want to load data to check against warehouse.
relatively less visual appeal for dashboard compare to other BI tools

Ease of use

Limited data visualization capabilities

It have been improved very much since i used it from version 3.1 to the last version 4.2, always creating new features and new integration with new tools, its very complete and fast, also can be good modeled from final user, make your own reports, customize it, and share it, its really works good, can be integrated with sap erp sap bw, sap bpc, it has many purposes.

SAP BO becomes a bit slow when its a high amount of data for processing, if you have to create a big data report, its heavy to create it.

Integration with SAP. Easy of use. Seamless integration with SAP HANA

There is confusion about the different products under the BOBJ suite.