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SAP B-Objects Reviewed
What do you like best about the product?
SAP Business Objects is a great tool for business intelligence in office or on the go. Without many actions required, a user is able to access reliable, accurate and up to date intelligence data on the go. This is great for on the go displays, and meetings, anyone is able to securely access the the data they need for essential communications.
What do you dislike about the product?
There aren't many things to dislike about this SAP program. SAP provides a wide array of products and services, utilizing SAP Business Objects, will essentially improve your footprint and traffic by a proven percentage. The layout of this software is provides a clear view of essentials. Vital training must be performed before usage of the program, however, once familiar efficiency will improve.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
SAP Business Objects is solving the main business problem most companies have. Understanding their customer base to a level of mastery. Once behaviors are identified, targeting your base is a lot easier, and more importantly you're able to jar their attention the sustainable way.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
For anyone who seeks to use this service, I recommend you pay close attention to all the tools, each has its individual function that serves a unique purpose. If you are looking to spend the money for this services, which by the way is a great service for the money, using it the correct way can easily boost sales, traffic among other initiatives to track the consumer behavior, which will ultimately make you a better business owner or organization. Understanding the metrics is the key.
Long wait times, but excellent data
What do you like best about the product?
I like how all the reports I need to do my job are in one database. I can go to the database, and I can type in a few key words and find a report that will most likely give me what I need. This has really helped me do my job and makes it easier to interact and provide for my customer what they need on a daily basis. It's a great tool that I would recommend. It's helped me get ahead. I also do project work in my role, and I can find reports that support that function as well.
What do you dislike about the product?
When connecting through a VPN, the program can run at a snail's pace. This makes it difficult to do my job, because I'm wasting my time by waiting for a report to run. I'd say if I had a faster system, there would be less worries in my daily use with this product.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm solving a need for data for my customer. I can find all of the relevant data I need to make presentations, provide reports, and help boost sales numbers. I work for a large company, so there is a wealth of knowledge. The reports that are created and put on BI&A for us to run really add to the knowledge base of all employees, since we can type in a few key words and get the information that we need in some form or another.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's a great software for pulling the data you need.
The perfect tool for our business.
What do you like best about the product?
the organization that provides to our business no matter the complex
What do you dislike about the product?
The software is no common, it must be more popular for the small business.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The organized platform provides us a perfect way to manage all the activities of the business, i realized the following benefits: organization, easy to use, company compatible.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Is the perfect software to improve your business and manage all the tasks with organization.
A pleasant experience
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to increase profitability and maintain cash flow is made much easier. The education services it offers is also very beneficial for customers. It aids the efficiency of business intelligence projects. It is easy to use for physical data storage and front-end reporting. It allows for reports to be stored centrally and made available to multiple users.
What do you dislike about the product?
Minor details within the software's color schemes
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Some business problems addressed via Business Objects are globalizing our business, creating process improvements and improving our research and development team.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Using it for performance management, planning, reporting, query and analysis, and enterprise information management is most likely the best option for small businesses.
Great Product for Financial Companies
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use, fast, simple, the reports come in different formats
What do you dislike about the product?
Web based limitations with some reports,
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Running reports for mutual fund trades
An easy way to keep track of all my business needs.
What do you like best about the product?
I like that I can easily create report through an easy and familiar format.
What do you dislike about the product?
That one application doesn't update on the other.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Who's buying what, when they are buying and what platforms are being used to search.
So far, so good
What do you like best about the product?
It's easy to use, the cost is less as compared to tableau or other BI products in the market and customer care is good.
What do you dislike about the product?
You need to maintain universe layer to talk to the database, it does not talk to databases directly. If you have to add a new field in the report from the database then you have to add that particular field in universe layer which is added headache.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Makes creating reports easier.
Great software for running reports!
What do you like best about the product?
Very easy to run report. Easy user interface. Also fairly simple to edit and change report prompts.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is not anything that I dislike about Business objects.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We now have a way to get analytic reporting of all areas of our business at a touch of a button. The reporting is real-time and very effective for our company.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Very simple for the average user to use.
A solid Entry in leveraging BI
What do you like best about the product?
One of the things I like about BObj is that, as a BI Manager, I can help varying levels of users. For example, if I have a user that has no interest/technical skill, I can build up a Universe, create an InfoSpace, and design some view sets. If the user is more advanced, maybe I just need to build the universe and let them play with the view sets. Users can insert themselves in the BI process where they feel comfortable.
What do you dislike about the product?
There has traditionally not been a good method of restoring a single item when a user accidentally over-engineers it or deletes it altogether. And until recently, there hasn't been any kind of versioning. There are also, if there is much customization of the environment, it takes a little more effort to upgrade an existing environment or stage a new one.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The problem is that there is an ever-changing series of questions that get asked. Many reporting tools are simply too robust and cumbersome for the standard user. Having lots of data is useless, if it is to hard for the decision-makers to get to. Web Intelligence can be as simple or as complex as the user needs it to be, so it attracts varying levels of experience. Explorer is a very easy to use visualization tool. I've seen Explorer users go from ONLY looking at canned view sets to building their own Information Spaces.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This tool was here when I was hired a few years ago and now that I've learned it, It's a solid BI tool. If I didn't have a BI tool and I was researching from scratch, I don't know if I'd necessarily hands-down pick this one, but Business Objects would definitely be one of the options I considered.
Sometimes configuration is challenging (unless you are also very familiar with setting up Java VMs). I like the meta-data layer design tool. I like that there are thick and thin versions of the tools users use. Users at this point try to build a report themselves rather than immediately asking me to do it (which is a small miracle). I did end up having to use a 3rd party tool to make me feel safe about backups and versioning (because at the time I started using BObj, there was no recycle bin or version management), but in general I'm happy with the product and am not looking for a replacement solution.
Sometimes configuration is challenging (unless you are also very familiar with setting up Java VMs). I like the meta-data layer design tool. I like that there are thick and thin versions of the tools users use. Users at this point try to build a report themselves rather than immediately asking me to do it (which is a small miracle). I did end up having to use a 3rd party tool to make me feel safe about backups and versioning (because at the time I started using BObj, there was no recycle bin or version management), but in general I'm happy with the product and am not looking for a replacement solution.
Good business tool, but needs modernising to stay relevant
What do you like best about the product?
It is an easy way to share reports across the organization and enables users to view advanced dashboards and analytics without having dedicated software installed on the computer. Managing structure of reporting, sharing links to entire folders or files and setting permission on those folders and files is quite straight forward. It does a decent job at showing analysis on large data sets.
What do you dislike about the product?
Performance wise, sometimes quite slow when loading large daily datasets (3-5 min load times), have seen better optimised systems. Export to Excel 2007, again on large data sets can be quite slow. Interface looks quite a bit dated and I hope they improve on it, to make it more modern and with a touch of animations, quite helpful to have a good and beautiful presentation tool for data (something you can take straight to a board meeting).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitoring of daily/monthly performance across a variety of dashboards, graphs. It also serves as a database store for large sets of data that are used in ad-hoc excel files. Helps in keeping information transparent and helps managers see their performance better on daily level.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The system is quite expensive to implement, so do take careful consideration when acquiring it. If you already have SAP driving a couple of your reporting systems then Business Objects is the way to go to have a proper integration. UI wise and performance wise it is a bit dated, so don't expect pretty and fast changing graphs on the dashboards, but still a very robust system with good features behind it. Hopefully in the near future SAP will modernise it a bit.
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