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SAP Business Objects
What do you like best about the product?
It is very easy to design custom reports and automate the distribution of these reports (weekly, monthly, etc.). This saves us a lot of time and with our recipients of the data
What do you dislike about the product?
It can be somewhat difficult to build custom variables without an extensive background in using BO.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use it primarily for reporting purposes. We have our SAP Business Objects platform linked with the same database we use for Workday.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Building custom variables used in reporting takes time and is not as simple as building formulas in Microsoft Excel.
Easy to navigate
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of navigation, good GUI, tools are named what they are you don't have to second guess. As a very basic user I knew it could do much more but we didn't. Canned reports were easily navigated through.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not sure what version I used but it could of used some updating. For a basic BI user it was good though.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
3rd party user created and ran basic reports. Wish I had more direction to do more with it.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Good for beginners to get their feet wet.
Great reporting with multi-platform support
What do you like best about the product?
Business Objects is a great reporting platform for any business to use. It is easy to use and very customizable. You can do the desktop version and the web version of the software and has a great administration platform for the administrators.
What do you dislike about the product?
SAP is always late on releasing the patches and fixes for its bugs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
All of the reporting that we do are automated via SAP BusinessObjects. We even automate the Financials and month ends reports with it. It saves a lot of time that none of the reporting has to be done manually inputting numbers by numbers.
Clinical Trial Management System
What do you like best about the product?
SAP Business Objects is user-friendly for CRAs in drafting reports, tracking site details and site staff, and managing protocol sites overall, just to name a few.
What do you dislike about the product?
Error messages resulting from certain functions not performed prior to other functions, with same data entered.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our company uses SAP Business Objects for clinical trial management of protocols, trials, sites, staff, reports, document tracking, action items, and protocol deviations.
Awesome powerful tool
What do you like best about the product?
Its design and ease of use.Tool can be used to pull data from various sources.
What do you dislike about the product?
its architecture to use sever disk space for storing reports and definition of report.If folder is deleted its hard to recover.Admin has overhead of cleanin up reports to save disk space.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Business and operational reports
SAP Business Intelligence
What do you like best about the product?
I like SAP Business Intelligence because I can use it without having a knowledge of a SQL query language. I can easy connect to my database and data tables and I can set up a easy query to export the needed data records. When I have saved my query, I can save this data to a report or a different file format which can be used to for other SQL tools.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a bit hard to learn how to generate all those reports. The documentation is not so clear.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
SAP Business Objects provides to my company the capacity to do a business analysis in real time. It should be a must have tool for all the companies and it should be used by any areas to export data and to do business analysis.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I recommend you SAP Business Objects if you want to implement an automated business solution for you company.
SAP
What do you like best about the product?
I personally enjoyed how accessible this portal was.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike how difficult it was to work with. It was not easy to learn and requires training not provided.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps with programming and shortcuts for quick customer service.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I recommend they invest in training because it is a difficult app to learn.
Easy to use interface
What do you like best about the product?
As SAP BusinessObjects BI has improved over the years it has become much easier to use to build reports that are helpful to the business.
What do you dislike about the product?
This may be a corporate admin setting, but the web application is inconsistent in when it automatically logs me out after a period of inactivity. Sometimes it’s only a few minutes, others half an hour or more.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It provides a robust platform for creating reports that are able to provide statistics quickly for trends over various periods of time.
Its good have make it in analytical report in SAP BO
What do you like best about the product?
There are few features are very interesting like report, graphs, interfacing and integrating to third party tool
What do you dislike about the product?
needs to improve on starting the application view
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
There are few problems were we are sorted out in customizing report it was due to incomplete parameters
SAP BusinessObjects 4.1 review
What do you like best about the product?
1. Ease of new reports creation.
2. Ability to pass reporting parameters from GUI screens.
3. Pretty robust in nature and good security options.
2. Ability to pass reporting parameters from GUI screens.
3. Pretty robust in nature and good security options.
What do you dislike about the product?
1. Universe development bit tedious.
2. Bit complex to run a single report with data from multiple databases.
2. Bit complex to run a single report with data from multiple databases.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1. Our client uses SAP BI 4.1 as the standard BI reporting tool as it blends well with other applications.
2. It easily accepts reporting parameters from other GUI based applications.
3. Allow for robust security implementation
2. It easily accepts reporting parameters from other GUI based applications.
3. Allow for robust security implementation
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Robust BI reporting application with easy integration with other tools and databases
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