Software Engineer at a mining and metals company with 1,001-5,000 employees
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2023-08-24T14:24:20Z
Aug 24, 2023
In my company, the solution is used when I get involved in scenarios to get more insight into the analytics part before presenting different options to the company's CEO, because of which I stress over those scenarios related to externalities.
We use this SAP solution for designing reports. This is a purely analytic application for designing reports to cater to higher management and specific business use cases.
Currently, I work for an organization in the insurance sector. So we do a lot of detailed reporting using SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform. We provide the specific KPIs that investors want us to report on. So one of the use cases is that we build reports for our external customers, such as investors, partners, vendors, and the department’s internal employees. Since SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is a versatile tool, it can be used to distribute the reports to the downstream system. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform gives us a lot of flexibility to model the data and control what we deliver. At the same time, we are also using the platform for dashboarding solutions.
I have several use cases, generally in more complex environments. These are typically corporate, requiring functionality such as strong data security, bursting, metadata-based support, scalability, fault tolerance, load balancing, support for high volume, breadth of functionality in one set of products, etc. It has been used in Retail, Construction, Banks, and Insurance organisations. It works well for organisations where a structured, common, and more disciplined view of larger, more complex information is required. This is generally with more complex and multiple source systems with larger volumes of information.
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The primary use case for BusinessObjects today is for comprehensive Business Intelligence reporting. Most organizations using BusinessObjects today primarily use Web Intelligence or Crystal Reports or both for critical enterprise reporting and ad-hoc query and analysis. We managed multiple BO deployments for multiple organizations, from the local and federal government to healthcare providers and from insurance to manufacturing. In all these organizations, timely and accurate reporting is essential, and BusinessObjects is solid, reliable, and versatile. You can produce professional drillable formatted reports quickly and either interact with them or publish and distribute them in commodity formats like PDF and Excel.
Senior Architect at a construction company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2022-05-31T10:46:37Z
May 31, 2022
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is used for a variety of reporting purposes. We have data from the business warehouse that has been affected by the S/4HANA system. Various reports have been created in the BOBI. This would reflect those reports based on the various requirements.
BI & Analytics Manager at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2022-05-04T06:59:39Z
May 4, 2022
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is an enterprise reporting platform. We use it to read data from the data warehouses and serve the internal usage of the company for reporting purposes.
SAP BI product is basically for analytics. If your management wants to see the complete business's structure, what is going on in terms of business, what you are doing, everything you can have gathered by SAP BI. Management does not want to check entries. They want the ledgers. They want the numbers. The numbers and ledgers can be focused on via the analytics tool. We are using this type of functionality to gather management or partners' requirements.
The solution can be deployed on-premise and in cloud environments. We are using Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS for cloud services. Our main use case for the use of this solution is for reporting.
We are integrators and implementers. It's purely technical instead of functional. I take care of all the servers and do server configuration, capacity planning, sizing, capacity planning, and performance tuning. Mainly, my work is not in the reporting part. We support the users and the business, and we take care of all the BusinessObjects servers. We are using version 4.2 right now. In that, we have a reporting tool called Web Intelligence. We haven't explored 4.3 yet.
System Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2021-12-27T19:55:10Z
Dec 27, 2021
In general, we use BusinessObjects for extensive reports. BusinessObjects reports have several pages. Our users prefer BusinessObjects over Microsoft Excel because Excel is limited in its data files and all that.
Head of BI and Analytics at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
2021-11-05T14:54:41Z
Nov 5, 2021
We are using SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform for a lot of things, such as simple reports and business dashboards, and in all the business areas, for example, finance, sales, and purchasing.
Technical Consultant at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2021-11-02T18:41:00Z
Nov 2, 2021
We use it for our customers and to schedule reports. We use it so we can provide them options, to let anyone type in the system and run the report anytime they want.
Director of Underwriting & Product Development at a non-profit with 51-200 employees
Real User
2021-10-16T07:22:16Z
Oct 16, 2021
Our company is in the healthcare industry and we are using BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform for a lot of our data, such as eligibility, claims, premium, plan. We run all kinds of different reports for our customers and our brokers on how the claims and planners are performing and what is the utilization of different services throughout the claims.
Data Science Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2021-09-10T17:50:00Z
Sep 10, 2021
We are only using the dashboards and promoting the self-service BI features. the usage is limited just to visualization. We integrated dashboards for monitoring KPIs. sending SMS' is used based on threshold in few dashboards. Otherwise, it's more used for visualization and not data mining because it requires some licenses that we didn't buy.
BI | Analytics | Insights | Leadership | Digital | Visualization Composer| Strategy | Design Language | BI Rehab
Real User
2018-12-10T08:29:00Z
Dec 10, 2018
I call it a big boys toy due to costs involved for full, not large, scale deployments. Due to SAP gobling up a multitude of products over the year, the integration issues have mostly all been resolved now and its mature platform whereby all the others are still playing catchup.
Manager at a consumer goods company with 501-1,000 employees
Vendor
2018-08-15T07:13:00Z
Aug 15, 2018
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.
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is a versatile and flexible solution for reporting and dashboards, focusing on analytics and ad hoc reporting. It can be deployed on-premise or in the cloud. The solution includes tools such as Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports, SAP Lumira, and Analytical Cloud and is primarily used for comprehensive business intelligence reporting.
The most valuable features include excellent reporting features, good technical support, scalability, and the...
We primarily used it for BI reporting and analytics, preparing dashboards, reports, and everything related to data analysis.
In my company, the solution is used when I get involved in scenarios to get more insight into the analytics part before presenting different options to the company's CEO, because of which I stress over those scenarios related to externalities.
We use this SAP solution for designing reports. This is a purely analytic application for designing reports to cater to higher management and specific business use cases.
Currently, I work for an organization in the insurance sector. So we do a lot of detailed reporting using SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform. We provide the specific KPIs that investors want us to report on. So one of the use cases is that we build reports for our external customers, such as investors, partners, vendors, and the department’s internal employees. Since SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is a versatile tool, it can be used to distribute the reports to the downstream system. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform gives us a lot of flexibility to model the data and control what we deliver. At the same time, we are also using the platform for dashboarding solutions.
We use the solution to manage our databases.
I have several use cases, generally in more complex environments. These are typically corporate, requiring functionality such as strong data security, bursting, metadata-based support, scalability, fault tolerance, load balancing, support for high volume, breadth of functionality in one set of products, etc. It has been used in Retail, Construction, Banks, and Insurance organisations. It works well for organisations where a structured, common, and more disciplined view of larger, more complex information is required. This is generally with more complex and multiple source systems with larger volumes of information.
The primary use case for BusinessObjects today is for comprehensive Business Intelligence reporting. Most organizations using BusinessObjects today primarily use Web Intelligence or Crystal Reports or both for critical enterprise reporting and ad-hoc query and analysis. We managed multiple BO deployments for multiple organizations, from the local and federal government to healthcare providers and from insurance to manufacturing. In all these organizations, timely and accurate reporting is essential, and BusinessObjects is solid, reliable, and versatile. You can produce professional drillable formatted reports quickly and either interact with them or publish and distribute them in commodity formats like PDF and Excel.
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is used for a variety of reporting purposes. We have data from the business warehouse that has been affected by the S/4HANA system. Various reports have been created in the BOBI. This would reflect those reports based on the various requirements.
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is an enterprise reporting platform. We use it to read data from the data warehouses and serve the internal usage of the company for reporting purposes.
The SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is useful for all kinds of analytics, reporting, and alerting.
SAP BI product is basically for analytics. If your management wants to see the complete business's structure, what is going on in terms of business, what you are doing, everything you can have gathered by SAP BI. Management does not want to check entries. They want the ledgers. They want the numbers. The numbers and ledgers can be focused on via the analytics tool. We are using this type of functionality to gather management or partners' requirements.
The solution can be deployed on-premise and in cloud environments. We are using Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS for cloud services. Our main use case for the use of this solution is for reporting.
We are integrators and implementers. It's purely technical instead of functional. I take care of all the servers and do server configuration, capacity planning, sizing, capacity planning, and performance tuning. Mainly, my work is not in the reporting part. We support the users and the business, and we take care of all the BusinessObjects servers. We are using version 4.2 right now. In that, we have a reporting tool called Web Intelligence. We haven't explored 4.3 yet.
In general, we use BusinessObjects for extensive reports. BusinessObjects reports have several pages. Our users prefer BusinessObjects over Microsoft Excel because Excel is limited in its data files and all that.
We are using SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform for a lot of things, such as simple reports and business dashboards, and in all the business areas, for example, finance, sales, and purchasing.
We use it for our customers and to schedule reports. We use it so we can provide them options, to let anyone type in the system and run the report anytime they want.
Our company is in the healthcare industry and we are using BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform for a lot of our data, such as eligibility, claims, premium, plan. We run all kinds of different reports for our customers and our brokers on how the claims and planners are performing and what is the utilization of different services throughout the claims.
We are only using the dashboards and promoting the self-service BI features. the usage is limited just to visualization. We integrated dashboards for monitoring KPIs. sending SMS' is used based on threshold in few dashboards. Otherwise, it's more used for visualization and not data mining because it requires some licenses that we didn't buy.
We primarily use the product for reporting and dashboards. We only have those two use cases, although there are other ways to use them.
We primarily use the solution for reports regarding sales inventory and production.
Our primary use case for this solution is business enterprise reporting.
We use it for dashboarding. We are using the previous version of this solution.
We use it for reporting.
I call it a big boys toy due to costs involved for full, not large, scale deployments. Due to SAP gobling up a multitude of products over the year, the integration issues have mostly all been resolved now and its mature platform whereby all the others are still playing catchup.
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.
Management reporting and also some ad-hoc reporting.