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SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Overview

What is SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)?

The SAP® BusinessObjects™ Business Intelligence (BI) platform is a flexible, scalable information infrastructure that helps you more easily discover and share insights for better business decisions. The integrated, unified infrastructure enables scalability from one to many tools and interfaces on premise, in the cloud, or as a hybrid approach.

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Product Description

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) offers data-rich business intelligence. Drive more intelligent processes and decisions _ with business intelligence software.


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SAP
Year Founded
1972
HQ Location
Walldorf
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@SAP
301,811 Twitter followers
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125,049 employees on LinkedIn®
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NYSE:SAP
Phone
+1 (800) 872-1727
Total Revenue (USD mm)
$27,338
Description

Our business analytics solutions close the gap between transactions, data preparation, analysis, and action, so you can make more informed decisions.


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Recent SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Reviews

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Meghan I.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Data Analytics Platform Enhanced"
What I like most about SAP BI, is the ability to bring in our data sources and produce better visuals around our pharmacy dispensing data. In my j...
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Verified UserEnterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Great for Financial Analysis"
Very easy to use and navigate. The function keys are easy to understand.
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Gourav K.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Redwood integration with SAP Business Objects"
The integration of redwood with SAP Business Objects is seemless. The best use-case where i find that redwood is the best tool is to schedule the r...
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What do you like best about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)?

The ability to increase profitability and maintain cash flow is made much easier. The education services it offers is also very beneficial for customers. It aids the efficiency of business intelligence projects. It is easy to use for physical data storage and front-end reporting. It allows for reports to be stored centrally and made available to multiple users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)?

Minor details within the software's color schemes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Using it for performance management, planning, reporting, query and analysis, and enterprise information management is most likely the best option for small businesses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Some business problems addressed via Business Objects are globalizing our business, creating process improvements and improving our research and development team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)?

It make its easier on the managing a company. It keeps you updated about critical processes and gives you full control of what is going on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)?

Can't seem to find a negative its a great program to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Finding ways to reduce the company's cost and figuring out alternatives to battle the problem. It improves cash flow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Ability to run reports ad hoc and customize parameters on which the reports are run. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)?

Major performance issues in high volume situations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Business objects is customizable, so customers can have a wide range of report options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)?

Numerous functions for inventory management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)?

Lack of user friendliness, difficult to learn / train new employees, cumbersome processes with functions buried in layers of screens Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Order management and entry -moderately effective and functional Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Used this at my last position. Very concise and efficient with a number of useful customizations to report to the end user. Definitely helpful in day to day operations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)?

A bit of a steeper learning curve to begin than some of the competition as well as being somewhat more expensive. Not a deal breaker by any means though. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) solving and how is that benefiting you?

We were using this to help manage our sales team and manage and analyze the data that came out of their normal daily activities to help inform our strategy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)?

STILL THE BEST IN CLASS FOR ENTERPRISE WIDE REPORTING

CONTINUOUS NEW PRODUCT LAUNCHES

GOOD SUPPORT Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)?

VERY OLD FASHIONED WHEN COMPARED TO THE NEW TOOLS IN THE MARKET NOW

NO AGGRESSIVE FEATURE UPDATES TO COMPETE WITH TABLEAU OR QILIKVIEW

STEEP LEARNING CURVE FOR NEW COMERS

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NOT NOW YOU HAVE BETTER MORE ROBUST OPTION SIN THE MARKET Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) solving and how is that benefiting you?

ENTERPRISE WIDE REPORTING Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)?

The data abilities are decent and you can get to the data you need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)?

It takes too long to run reports and is sometimes difficult to use multiple universes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Mostly doing analysis for supply chain. I can get the data I need to support other departments and customers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)?

SAP business objects begins to make sense and seems intuitive after using it for a while Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)?

Initially downloading, registering, etc. seemed to take me a lot longer than expected, and finally getting the hang of the program seemed longer than it should have been Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI):

get help when setting it up Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) solving and how is that benefiting you?

many business tasks pertaining to business intelligence Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)?

Using Web Intelligence tool you can create sophisticated reports and share them on SAP BI platform across the organization. Easy to use from a business users perspective. Possibility to access the reports via URL link without any additional local software on a users PC allows user to use BI reports in the portal or ERP single page applications. Lots of possibilities to maintain user authorizations. BI Audit functionality allows you to analyze the usage of SAP BO. Alert functionality gives the opportunity to get the information about the systems malfunction. SAP BO Monitoring displays the status of the BO servers. Easy to transport the content between different SAP BO environments (DEV, QA, PROD). Performance optimization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)?

It is complicated and can cost a lot of money to implement SAP Business Objects. Without any experience with previous SAP BO versions it can be a little hard to understand the software and the way SAP Business Objects works. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) solving and how is that benefiting you?

SAP Business Objects is used by following departments: Finance, Line Management, Business Controlling, Marketing, HR, Corporate etc. It is used across the whole organization in many countries around the world. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)?

Lots of information and you can customize it to suit your businesses needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)?

Very nitpicky with having to be very exact. I have to do multiple steps when it would be nice to be able to group items. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI):

customize it as much as possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) solving and how is that benefiting you?

I manage projects and use it to see the status of projects. It is a one stop shop for all the projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.