#1 most frequent
United States of America
60.1%924 installations of 1,537
What is SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence?
The SAP® BusinessObjects™ Business Intelligence Platform provides users with ad hoc queries, reporting, data visualizations, and analysis tools. Its integrated, unified infrastructure aims to offer scalability from one-to-many tools and interfaces on-premise, in the cloud, or as a hybrid approach.
Categories & Use Cases
Top Performing Features
Role-Based Security Model
Role-based access means that access to data is determined by job or position in the corporation.
Category average: 8.4
Report-Level Access Control
Report-level access control means that the type of report determines who has access to it.
Category average: 8.1
Publish to Web
Category average: 8.4
Areas for Improvement
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
A customizable, open source API Gateway is a fast and scalable type of API
Category average: 7.7
Mobile Application
A dedicated app for iOS and/or Android.
Category average: 7.4
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
In-app dashboard reports and data visualization.
Category average: 7.9
Who Buys & Uses SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
#2 most frequent
France
6.3%97 installations of 1,537
#3 most frequent
Canada
4.9%76 installations of 1,537
Awesome tool for analytics, visualization and Planning with AI/ML
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We mainly use this to perform business reporting, and visualization for a broader range of audience. We perform large scale data analytics to discuss in-depth business insights and perform forecasts for the rest of the financial year. The best of this application we can perform cross-enterprise sharing which helps in sharing business insights with colleagues and makes decision-making easier. Before this, we used to use an internal product developed that gets crashed for a large set of data. Now using this we can load huge datasets that helps filtering things very easier.
Pros
- Cross enterprise sharing where sharing the insights are easier across organisation.
- Creative role based dashboards helps to provide information to specific users that way they can make decisions easier any time any where across any device.
- Large scale data analytics is one where data from large sets are used to discover in depth business insights and perform the forecast for rest of the financial year to make decisions easier.
Cons
- UI part need much improvements as every one don't have complete idea of the components.
- The transfer of the data between the system seems to be tricky if you have a system with one data type and different system with different data type the kind of conversion is harder.
- The features that are available in Desktop version are not available in mobile which is big drawback for this sap.
Return on Investment
- The kind of financial reporting we are performing to make the decision faster has a positive impact with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence.
- We primarily use this tool for reporting and analytics purpose on top of SAP data we use this for live reporting on SAP S/4 HANA. It has real-time connectivity with S4 HANA.
- Main area of improvement if I can see the visualization on the mobile which is lagging so much.
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Analisa.io
Other Software Used
Microsoft Power BI
Time for a change
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We have been using SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence for many years now as the front-end tool across multiple sources, but it has very limited functions. What we mostly use it now is a tool to schedule running a report after loading has completed and save that report to a shared drive. Most users prefer using the Analysis for office or Power BI as they can use online and offline data. I think SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence is a bit older than SAC and now people are liking stories and other functions in SAC and are moving away from SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Pros
- Scheduling the report run with prompts
- Front end too that can get data from multiple sources
- Roles synced from BW can be added to limit data access
Cons
- Flexibility of multiple drill down options
- Combining data in system and offline data from computer
- The need of Universe designer so less self service ability
Return on Investment
- Slow response takes up more of people's time
- Not valuable for analysis, so a bit of waste
Usability
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence helping your organization in share and distribute data
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
The SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence is heavily used in our company. Since we moved all the workbooks from BW Analyzer to SAP Analysis for Office, all the workbooks are saved in the BI Launchpad platform. The folder structure is based on the company organization and connected to BW roles which shows to the end user only the folder they are able to see.
Pros
- Scheduling workbooks
- Organization of SAP Analysis workbooks
- Central repository of Lumira Dashboards
Cons
- Better interface for the end users
- No technical content. Example: report to show the BW queries used by AfO workbooks
Return on Investment
- Not lots of updates in SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
- Best tool for Scheduling. SAC cannot do everything SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence does in terms of Scheduling
Usability
Alternatives Considered
SAP Analytics Cloud
Other Software Used
SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Business Warehouse, SAP Integrated Business Planning
Happy User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I use SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards to broadcast reports to our customers. This is our analytical suite for reporting and monitoring our baseline data for procurement and logistics operations. Our organization is an Information Technology group that manages a very large amount of assets along with procurement activities. SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards is our only way to manage reporting and soon-to-be SAC.
Pros
- Broadcasting reports on schedule
- Showing data analytics that have drill down capabilities
- Monitoring and managing custom report by user
Cons
- Ease of use
- Reports building can be a challenge unless your an excel wiz
- Easier use of adding in other data sources
Return on Investment
- Additional resource to manage
Usability
Great SAP data analytics product
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
SAP Business Objects and Business Intelligence is one of the flagship products of SAP. I remember the BW days and then the acquisition of BO and eventually the rollout of the new SAP data analytics platform i.e. BI. The product is good for large data volumes, month-end closings, analytical analysis, generating 360-degree reports, handling workload, managing process chain, etc. However more the data, more the memory needed.
Pros
- Analytics
- Continuous refresh of reports
- Easy customizations using ABAP
Cons
- Memory requirements
- Hardware requirements
- Continuous operational support
Return on Investment
- Smooth month end close
- On time reports
- Better business visibility
Alternatives Considered
Microsoft Power BI
Other Software Used
1EDISource, Mainframe Modernization with AWS (Blu Age), uPerform
