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SAP BusinessObjects

Composite Score
8.2 /10
CX Score
8.5 /10
Category
SAP BusinessObjects
8.2 /10

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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SAP BusinessObjects Ratings

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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

83 Likeliness to Recommend

96 Plan to Renew

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Since last award

82 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+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?

2% Negative
8% Neutral
90% Positive

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Respectful
  • Helps Innovate
  • Performance Enhancing

Feature Ratings

Average 79

Operational Reporting Capabilities

84

Data Exploration and Visualization

84

Data Connectors and Data Mashup

83

Dashboard

82

BI Platform Administration

82

BI Security

80

Self Service and Ad Hoc Capabilities

80

Intelligent Alerts and Notifications

79

Collaboration

78

Mobile

70

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 80

Quality of Features

83

Ease of Implementation

83

Ease of Data Integration

82

Ease of IT Administration

82

Usability and Intuitiveness

81

Ease of Customization

80

Business Value Created

80

Breadth of Features

80

Availability and Quality of Training

80

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

80

Vendor Support

76

SAP BusinessObjects Reviews

Lena joi J.

  • Role: Sales Marketing
  • Industry: Consulting
  • Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2022

An excellent software for all-sized corporations.

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates SAP BusinessObjects from other similar products?

SAP Business Objects permits the corporate to integrate with external systems, like SIMS Claims and Microsoft office, and mix data from these business analytics and news functions. I prefer that I can simply pull a report. The report that I pull from this technique is student schedules once they’ve been registered for classes. It’s super friendly to use and that I like however I can pull a report and it provides me a few different formats to settle on from rather than simply a typical one.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I use Bi daily. The analysis for office add-on is what I exploit at my place of employment that is a pivot table and makes it straightforward to put data for analysis. It’s easy to use. Also, it’s easy to teach to different regular users. It is convenient to drag information and create calculations and formulas.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The platform is incredibly slow. A million data limit is a joke and most of the charts are simply not intuitive. No data science implementation like R and Python scripts. The dashboard isn’t very interactive and I believe the tools must be rebuilt from beginning to finish. Not fit the purpose.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I have used this software for a lot of time. It’s a useful gizmo for scripting and developing reports. It’s a straightforward drag-and-drop choice to pick out what variable you wish in your final report. If you’ve got a sizable amount of facilities and have data kept in multiple universes, it permits you to make a combined question and obtain a final report from multiple universes.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Trustworthy

Isabella B.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2022

SAP business is easy-to-use reporting tool.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates SAP BusinessObjects from other similar products?

Ease of use and simply integrated into alternative spreadsheets. SAP Business Objects is a useful gizmo for data analysis and was helpful for our team to develop informed ways for growth. Our data team was able to code and use extra queries to help customize our search. Simple to use, web compatible, glorious data coverage image and sharing features. Supports report scheduling, custom calculations, merge queries from different data sources and supports export to excel, PDF.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I prefer the flexibility to drag elaborated transactions from Business Objects. I exploit it to review financial information like payables. It captures info like invoice date, vendor number, due date, received date, check number and others. Most importantly, you’ll simply transfer business objects queries into excel and use pivot tables. It permits you to save plenty of standard templates. The foremost used functionalities are report scheduling, question building, retrieving queries designed by alternative users, accessing different databases, building dashboards, and generating data exports. These are the functionalities that I prefer the be

What do you dislike most about this product?

With time, SAP BO has become additional redundant and is troublesome to upgrade and integrate the new data sources, which may be simply integrated into other BI tools.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I recommend that organizations reserve their dominant departments as power users of SAP BO. These power users ought to produce training and user manuals for different users inside the organization.

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Trustworthy
  • Unique Features
  • Efficient Service

sanjana j.

  • Role: Operations
  • Industry: Healthcare
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2022

GREAT BI TOOL!!

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates SAP BusinessObjects from other similar products?

OFFERS A VARIETY OF REPORTING TEMPLATES WITH GREAT PLOTS AND CARTS.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

DATA VISUALIZATION IS GREAT WITH SAP BI.

What do you dislike most about this product?

THE INITIAL COST IS ON THE HIGHER SIDE.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

GREAT BI TOOL TO HAVE IN YOUR BUCKET!!!

Pros

  • Unique Features
  • Respectful
  • Altruistic
  • Appreciates Incumbent Status

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