What is SAP BusinessObjects?
SAP BusinessObjects BI is a reporting and analytics business intelligence (BI) platform aimed at business users. It consists of a number of reporting applications that allow users to discover data, perform analysis to derive insights and create reports that visualize the insights.
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83 Likeliness to Recommend
96 Plan to Renew
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82 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+90 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love SAP BusinessObjects?
Pros
- Reliable
- Respectful
- Helps Innovate
- Performance Enhancing
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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SAP BusinessObjects Reviews
Ankush C.
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jan 2023
BI reporting solution for businesses
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SAP BusinessObjects from other similar products?
We connected with DB2 and Sybase, which were used for reporting and data visualisation, to complete the organization's reporting requirements. Data warehousing features that enable connections to numerous sources.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Users of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) can choose from a wide range of features. The most frequently used features are report scheduling, query creation, retrieval of queries created by other users, access to various databases, dashboard creation, and data export. These are the features that I enjoy using the most.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Limited data transformation capabilities and a lacklustre GUI in comparison to other tools on the market.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Please check out the better or equivalent alternative solutions that are currently on the market.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Efficient Service
- Saves Time
- Respectful
Hailey C.
- Role: Finance
- Industry: Manufacturing
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Oct 2022
Quite powerful and data entry is smart
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SAP BusinessObjects from other similar products?
We use SAP BusinessObjects to access, visualize, and analyze data. It also has a drag and drop feature for a more interactive interface. Its a great tool for non-technical users, as we don't have to write code for basic usage
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Insights and predictive analytics are automated with the help of AI and ML. Great graphing library for creating line plots, area charts, bar charts, histograms, and more
What do you dislike most about this product?
We have experienced slow performance when multiple prompts are opening. Requires a large number of hardware resources
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
SAP BusinessObjects is a professional tool often regardes as one of the top data visualization tools. If you choose to use SAP BusinessObjects, you can create visualizations for viewing not just on the web but also on mobile. This tool provides multiple information supply connections
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Carl J.
- Role: Finance
- Industry: Manufacturing
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Sep 2022
Intuitive and standardized solution
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SAP BusinessObjects from other similar products?
SAP BusinessObjects helps us transform our decision making by providing fact-based, quality information regardless of where the data resides. The solution lets me create accurate, timely dashboards and reports
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards wich allow us to create custom dashboards from reports. These include interactive charts, gauges and widgets
What do you dislike most about this product?
If you plan to install SAP BusinessObjects with different languages, it's easier to do it when you do a fresh install. Avoid doing it later as it's not an easy process and can create a lot of risk in your deployment environment
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
SAP BusinessObjects is a solution that will deliver the insight you need to understand data and use it to make better decisions to help manage your enterprise and focus on sustainable growth
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing