1. Dynamic Visibility
2. Query Prompt Selector
3. Query Refresh Selector
1. Dynamic Visibility
2. Query Prompt Selector
3. Query Refresh Selector
1.5 Years
No
No
No
Very Good
Technical Support:Excellent
No
Straightforward
Excellent. Through the vendor SAP India.
A very creative tool to present the data in graphical and pictorial form, so as to make better decision for the growth of the organization.
Here are second thoughts:
- BO development team release patch every two weeks.
- Patchsets are released very often.
- Every new patchset introduces several new bugs,
- including many bugs regression.
In small project I have raised several incidents, including one with high priority.
I've been using BuisnessObjects since early 2000's.
In my ( but not limited) opinion, after SAP took over control of product development, entire software quality gone worst
SAP BusinessObjects BI Analytics Editions provides to you the full spectrum of Analytics technologies and innovations which enables you to design, build and consume business friendly, agile, fast, quality and intelligent Analytics solutions for your business.
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Intelligent – because now you can create the most intelligent Analytics that meets all your individual, departmental and Enterprise requirements.
Fast – because now you can design, implement and consume Analytics at the speed of rapidly changing business.
Quality – because now it is easier than ever to build trustworthy and reliable Analytics for your business.
Analytics for all – Analytics should and must be accessible for all and everyone. And now it is…
Thank you for the brief yet critical information about SAP Business Objects. Generally, a good program is one that is easy to use and achieves the purpose for which it was developed. Business Objects qualifies as such for its attributes mentioned above by this author. In addition to providing quality analytic results, the analysis process is easy and thus fast. The tool is designed for use by any kind of business that needs data analysis; all that is required is a person with skills and knowledge in utilizing the program. Moreover, every business can use the tool for their specific analysis needs.
It's used for business reporting and it performs well.
It allows hundreds of end-users to be able to access business reports and make business decisions based upon them.
It provides good centralized management, and it performs well against our day-to-day solution.
The admin features for disk space management need work. It's very difficult to manage the disk space by the application; good admin features and not included to allow you to do that. I don't believe that is in the latest version of the product either.
We find it's stable, very little down time, good level of performance.
It's scalable simply by adding extra servers, application servers, so the scalability is good.
Our technical support is through a value added reseller.
We've been using Business Objects for a long time. The last time we did an upgrade from a client version to a browser-based version.
When selecting a vendor, the most important criteria are the features of the product, that it is a good fit with our environment, and price will be a part of the consideration.
It was complex because we were upgrading from a previous version with a different architecture.
I would rate it about nine out of 10 because it performs well.
Do a trial. Fully investigate all the ins and outs of the license as well.
Autonomy for all the business users to develop their own reports.
The report development tool called SAP Web Intelligence under the BI Launch Pad portal.
This product could be improved with Cloud Integrations and Predictive Analytics functions integration.
No issues.
No issues.
Technical support is excellent.
No.
The initial setup was straightforward.
It is not an expensive platform. The licensing is for a package of users starting at 10 users. Currently, it has an option of a Cloud Platform (SAP Analytics Cloud) which has a lower price than the on-premise platform, and you can buy individual licences per user.
We evaluated Cognos and OBIEE.
It is a very good product, stable, and has good technical capabilities.
It has got a broad range of options for SMBs and enterprise level companies.
My company uses this to monitor revenue and its achievement for every product, salesman, period and department. We also implement for financial statement purpose such as profit loss statement, balance sheet statement and opex report.
Our sister company also use SAP Business Objects to monitor all the sales activities, stock, aging stock, and forecast.
At the end of the day, Business Objects reduces the manual process of gathering and creating reports into a much simpler and easier ways via self-service and dashboard management.
It was straightforward.
In-house development since I’m in a consulting company
The primary use case for SAP BusinessObjects has been to provide users static dashboards and reports with a fixed trend where the analysis part is predefined in terms of a fixed set of visualizations.
We use it to identify critical KPIs to senior management, which automatically get circulated every morning.
We started receiving benefits from SAP BusinessObjects the first week we used it.
It will give you better performance if your warehouse is also on SAP Business Warehouse. It gives you a lot of flexibility in designing your dashboards. For example, BusinessObjects Design Studio provides custom templates where you can create your own templates. You can also create your own custom charts. There are CSS formats which you can take in, then you can create your own color coding. Thus, a lot is possible.
From a developer's point of view, it has definitely provided a lot of flexibility.
The combination of Lumira along with Design Studio merger last year still needs development from a visualization standpoint.
It depends a lot on how BusinessObjects has been installed and configured, because there are a lot of services which run in the background. For example, if I have not done the proper sizing at implementation in terms of allocating the right resources in terms of memory and RAM for the different services within BO to run, any analytic documents which are built on BO can get impacted in terms of their performance. Therefore, stability is good provided your sizing and configuration has been done properly.
Scalability is good. Once it is set up in the mid-layer, multiple users can access it. Then, the product can grow into an enterprise-wide deployment.
The technical support for general issues gives us a good response, but for certain critical issues, it can takes four weeks to obtain a response. It will initially go to an SAP support team, and if they are not able to resolve the issues, then they will route the call to SAP in Germany. The German development team usually takes a bit more lead time to come back on those issues.
We were not using a previous solution.
The initial setup was not that complex as SAP has all the documentation in place. However, initially, we went for suboptimal sizing, which in the first few months led to performance issues. We had to reconfigure, do the proper sizing, and give the right memory requirements to meet our performance expectations.
In my experience, the Analytics module provides the business the ability to make the appropriate decisions for improving our organization.
It provided our customer and their users usage of the product, and enable their planning team to be able to plan their stock availability accordingly.
It needs to be more user friendly for web use. Its integration into social media platforms needs to be easier.
I've used this solution for approximately 10 years.
There are issues with deployment, but only during new rollouts. Once the product development team fix the issues and provide customers with support packs, we are good.
We had no issues with the performance.
It's been able to scale for our needs.
You have to pay to get the good service. The really nice thing about is that tech support is performed across the globe, so timezones doesn’t get into picture.
It's straightforward but you need the expertise.
We have done implementation using both in—house and vendor teams. If you are using a vendor, make sure it is done by one vendor, else it will be hard to get a good quality end product.
I did a partial evaluation as every solution has its pros and cons.
This works only for medium to large scale companies due to the high cost.
Very correct Saraswati. Business Objects is a set of tools and i will add one more i.e. it is a Complete Suite of tools, which are used as per Industry requirement (basing on kind of user i.e. top level, middle level and Subordinate level) and fitment.