SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform Reviews

The ad-hoc reporting in a web environment is great.

We have integration with 30 different systems now. Business users manual data-entry load has decreased, and data between different systems are consistent in almost-real time.

We can develop time-based, visualized analyses with our BI platform, and four years ago, business users had to prepare their complex records in Excel every time they needed data reports. Now they only need to refresh reports. On the other hand, business users were only able to query data four years ago, but now their visions are changing and they are now performing data mining and forecast analyses.

Data mining and more visualized reports are the next steps.

I've used it for four years.

We had to deal with data quality problems.

It has inadequate data analysis and data profiling, which has increased testing and user acceptance duration.

BO Web Intelligence, v4.0 is more unstable than XI v3.x. We’ll upgrade to v4.1 in Q3.

There were issues in v4.0 SP1 but we are now using SP5 and it has improved.

No, we did not.

Setup was straightforward, but the customization and implementation process was complex.

We started with a vendor-partner, but now we have in-house team and still get consultancy advice from the partner.

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First, perform an analysis of your business users' requirements.

The data quality and your data warehouse models are the most important parts of a BI project. Design the model from both business requirements and source data. Make sure you involve business users from the beginning and explain the advantages of business intelligence to the data life-cycle well. Assign a short and attractive name to the web site and/or tool that users can remember easily and will like.

We mainly use SAP BO to do operation and financial reporting. More than 100 reports were created on it. User can easily access all reports through the BO web link (portal).

Because our ERP system is SAP ECC, and SAP BW is the data warehouse, BO is the best choice to integrate with either SAP ECC or SAP BW.

Good, powerful functions in the table format report compared with Microsoft Power BI. It can process big volumes of data fast.

It should have a better integration with Excel. Currently, we can use Explore to do data discovering, but cannot generate charts.

The security features and flexibility of the product are the most valuable functions of BO.

BO helps our organization make important business decisions with the data it provides. It has great integration with an ERP solution.

They need to improve the processing of software as it has lag when it initially starts.

I've used it for four and a half years.

We had no issues deploying it.

There are some issues with the stability, but this is improving.

We have had no issues scaling it for our need.

The tech support is pretty good.

I've been using it for a long time.

The initial setup is pretty straightforward.

The implementation is much more fun when you know what kind of requirements you're going to process I think it is the best product on the market as it has good integration with ERP.

• Easy interface for business users
• Advanced functionality in BI
• It connects any data sources with SAP Business Objects tool

There are many tools that help the organization like SAP Lumira, SAP Business Explorer, SAP Design Studio and Dashboard to give you the summary and detailed analysis. With some of these tools, the technical dependency is much lower.

The Events feature needs to be improved, and I have already suggested this in the SAP Ideas portal. It is related to BOBJ.

I've been using it for the last seven years.

We have had no issues with the deployment.

The stability is again dependent on your sizing activity. If you don't have enough hardware and use it a lot, the tool will crash.

We have had no issues with scaling it for our needs.

10/10 - technical support is brilliant.

It's dependent to the client requirement. As I said earlier if sizing is done properly then you will not face any issues. If not, you may face issues if your utilization is high and resources are low.

I performed multiple implementations and upgrade projects for the BOBJ and BODS tool.

It depends how the customer is utilising the solution.

Business users can learn it very fast because it is easy to operate.

We use it for dashboarding. We are using the previous version of this solution.

It is stable and robust. It has pretty direct integration with SAP ERP. It is easy to use. 

Its price should be better. It is expensive and not cost-effective. It should also be improved in terms of end-user experience. It requires further improvements for usability and ease of use. 

It should have more dashboarding metrics and much faster integration with ERP so that when you double click, you can instantly see the scenario-based result.

I have been using this solution for about ten years.

We have about a hundred users of this solution.

Their technical support is all right.

It was a partner who did the installation. It took about one week. You need two people for its deployment.

It is not cost-effective. It is expensive.

I would rate SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform a seven out of ten.

Universe Designer is the product's most valuable feature because you can manage joins or derived tables as you wish.

The business can create their own reports and dashboards.

Maybe they can improve some features in report designer, like the possibility of associating colors with the dimensions. For example, if you could associate blue with the dimension "France", red with "United States", etc.

I have used this solution for a year and a half.

I have not yet encountered any issues with stability.

I have not yet encountered any issues with scalability.

I rate them 9/10. Very good and very fast support from SAP.

I used Jaspersoft and I changed at the same time as I changed jobs.

I think the pricing and licensing is expensive, but the tool is aimed at the big companies.

If the business case calls for creating static reports/dashboards, this tool is awesome. If the business case is for dynamic reports/dashboards, I don't recommend it.