SAP BusinessObjects 40 Concurrent (CSBL) and 40 Named Users - PREMIUM
Protiviti, Inc. | BI 4.3 SP3 P1 on Windows 2019Windows, Windows Server 2019 Base 2019 R2 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Great product!
What do you like best about the product?
The UI is clean and modern. It's incredibly easy to navigate.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish that I could have more export options. Right now they are limited.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm able to support the back-end projects started by our BI team here.
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What do you like best about the product?
All information is available in the system.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not very intuitive for users if you are not familiar with the system.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Managing promotional deals, trade spending.
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.
Business Objects review
What do you like best about the product?
I like best the multiple ways to manipulate a report, and that you can set up to receive it on a daily, weekly, monthly, etc... basis, without having to re-enter your information.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's very specific and doesn't always tell you what you entered incorrectly. You'll get a null report but you won't know why.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
In my office, we need to pull reports on biographical data, and fundraising, so Business Objects helps us focus on a specific group of people. The benefits are pinpointing who we want to reach out to, or find information on.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure you have the right parameters set!
Best and Easy reporting tool
What do you like best about the product?
User Friendly and ease of working on solutions of complex problems
What do you dislike about the product?
still we is a scope of improvement like better ways to analyze data just like excel.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helping business to analyze data better and make business decisions.
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.
Java Developer with Business Object Exerience
What do you like best about the product?
It is a great tool for BI reporting. There is rarely a need to write custom queries as the universe join and classes do their job well.
What do you dislike about the product?
The queries generated by Business Objets are not optimized and this necessitates to write custom queries for generating views quickly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use it as a reporting tool for management's decision making. The transformed data from Oracle Database is used for reporting using Business Object.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Use the desktop version for development and use less Business Objects Infoview as this can lead to slow development.
There are a lot of tools available in the market which are more scalable and less expensive as compared to SAP Business Objects.
There are a lot of tools available in the market which are more scalable and less expensive as compared to SAP Business Objects.
Good looking and dynamic reports
What do you like best about the product?
- Good looking GUI
- Easy to understand interface (drag and drop)
- Speed
- Powerful analytics
- Easy to understand interface (drag and drop)
- Speed
- Powerful analytics
What do you dislike about the product?
- Not totally intuitive (ie: need to press the refresh button each time a change is made)
- Need indepth understanding of data to make the most out of the tool
- Need indepth understanding of data to make the most out of the tool
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Invoice payments statics
- Maintenance orders details
- Maintenance orders details
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Careful implementation is key - although BOBJ brings a new and better user interface, it is still reliant on BEX queries and tweaking legacy BW reports might still be able to serve your business needs.
Good overall suite for large BI organization
What do you like best about the product?
The product suite includes a reporting tool (web intelligence), visual data exploration (Lumira), and BI app (Design Studio). Universes are also the best semantic/intermediary layer tool out there. Business Objects BI Suite is the most complete suite of BI tools to meet all of the organization's BI needs.
What do you dislike about the product?
Expensive licensing.
Still missing extensions for embedded BI and extranet deployments.
Still missing extensions for embedded BI and extranet deployments.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Able to deploy data and answers to common business questions right in the hands of the business. BI apps able custom "BI systems" for roles to manage their operations and self-serve web intelligence reports allow users to answer hundreds of business questions (for a well designed report).
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