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Using Business Object to Manage a Dealflow
What do you like best about the product?
Business Object, extracts the data from another database, to create dealflow tables automatically. It is highly customizable.
What do you dislike about the product?
Interface may seems a bit old and a bit counterintuitive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps us to keep track of our dealflow, create statistics, and automatically generate a table.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I have no recommendation concerning BO.
Good software but starting to lag behind the industry leaders
What do you like best about the product?
I like the fact that BOBJ is very refined and has been around for a long time which separates it from other vendors. Things are very thought out and organized in a way that is easy to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
lack of support for hierarchies except when pointing to OLAP data sources
cost of the licensing
cost of the licensing
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Enabling enterprise insights
Faster and more accurate decision making
Faster and more accurate decision making
An easy way for someone to pull data who is not very familiar with writing complicated queries.
What do you like best about the product?
I like that it is easy to use and very user friendly. It does not take long to become familiar with the layout. The quality of the end product is well worth the time it takes to learn this system.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike that it is not as versatile as writing sequel code.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps you understand where to focus marketing initiatives to increase revenue.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I recommend that you know your purpose before using it. Don't go into it and hope you figure something out as you go.
Implementing custom Data Warehousing and ad-hoc mining solution for Telco
What do you like best about the product?
Once setup users found it simple to build all manner of queries, and got quick results.
What do you dislike about the product?
Complex to setup. The universe creation and editing very quickly became difficult due to the complexity of the object model and the object properties. We also found it required a high level of knowledge and skill to use.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We wanted to eliminate drain on IT department resources in satisfying ad-hoc query requests.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
There is a plethora of data mining solutions available and I would suggest exploring alternatives unless you already have specific skills with Business Objects.
SAP BO - Top rated BI system in a multinational organization
What do you like best about the product?
Using Web Intelligence tool you can create sophisticated reports and share them on SAP BI platform across the organization. Easy to use from a business users perspective. Possibility to access the reports via URL link without any additional local software on a users PC allows user to use BI reports in the portal or ERP single page applications. Lots of possibilities to maintain user authorizations. BI Audit functionality allows you to analyze the usage of SAP BO. Alert functionality gives the opportunity to get the information about the systems malfunction. SAP BO Monitoring displays the status of the BO servers. Easy to transport the content between different SAP BO environments (DEV, QA, PROD). Performance optimization.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is complicated and can cost a lot of money to implement SAP Business Objects. Without any experience with previous SAP BO versions it can be a little hard to understand the software and the way SAP Business Objects works.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
SAP Business Objects is used by following departments: Finance, Line Management, Business Controlling, Marketing, HR, Corporate etc. It is used across the whole organization in many countries around the world.
Good Tool for Reporting
What do you like best about the product?
able to create and modify custom reports, set up auto delivery schedule to others.
What do you dislike about the product?
difficult to work in, especially if you don't do it frequently.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
custom data reports from multiple systems.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Great tool for compiling data from multiple systems.
powerful reporting tool but with poor UI and dynamics
What do you like best about the product?
The best thing about SAP Business Objects is the reporting architecture.
The universes are best part you can think of for building any reporting framework.
even if you do not have separate reporting database, universes are like building your virtual reporting DB(if you can afford reporting load on your application database).
we use if a lot for reporting on all enterprise applications and this tool helps a lot on analytics.
the other supporting tools like BODS etc. helps build a better reporting environment.
The universes are best part you can think of for building any reporting framework.
even if you do not have separate reporting database, universes are like building your virtual reporting DB(if you can afford reporting load on your application database).
we use if a lot for reporting on all enterprise applications and this tool helps a lot on analytics.
the other supporting tools like BODS etc. helps build a better reporting environment.
What do you dislike about the product?
now since the reporting and analytics needs highly responding UI, Business Objects lags in this.
the end user data massaging is pretty slow and bulky.
the end user data massaging is pretty slow and bulky.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
A lot of reporting requirements are fulfilled.
end user data analytics and business decisions and taken based on this
end user data analytics and business decisions and taken based on this
Recommendations to others considering the product:
a very good enterprise reporting tool.
goes well with other ETL tools etc.
if you are considering rich end user experience than features, then you need to think once again.
goes well with other ETL tools etc.
if you are considering rich end user experience than features, then you need to think once again.
Old BI paradigm
What do you like best about the product?
Established systems and building platform. Very strong structured reporting for regular output
What do you dislike about the product?
Difficult to change options. Requires specialised expertise. Not end user flexible
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Structured Reporting of monthly results. Once the reports were built it was easily produced each month
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Not a good platform for end user reporting or data discovery and investigation. If you are producing regular, static unchanging reports, (e.g. monthly performance) this provides a good solution and integrates well with other SAP products
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