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User Friendly and ease of working on solutions of complex problems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
still we is a scope of improvement like better ways to analyze data just like excel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Once setup users found it simple to build all manner of queries, and got quick results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Complex to setup. The universe creation and editing very quickly became difficult due to the complexity of the object model and the object properties. We also found it required a high level of knowledge and skill to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
powerful functionalities, easy to use and intuitive to learn when practicing regularly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
interaction with excel
graphically old fashioned Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

OLAP analysis, webi and lumira are best in all BO tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Xcelsius should be much developer friendly and should be accessible smoothly from different data sources Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SAP BusinessObjects invented "ad hoc" analytics with Desktop & Web Intelligence (WEBi), back in the mid-90's.
With 20 years of customers (over 3 million users) and solid data governance, WEBi is still the de facto standard for ad hoc analytics.
Together with Crystal Reports SAP BusinessObjects owns over 20% of the world-wide BI marketshare - according to Gartner.
With SAP HANA - Business Objects customers are able to take advantage of in-memory for accelerated analytics performance and reduced cycle time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
SAP seems to place a large focus on ERP which is understandable. Howver there is an opportunity to invest more heavily on the proven analytics platform tools, including WEBi and Crystal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Business objects is easy to use to view, sort and analyze business intelligence transactional data. The query focus is seamless. Overall visualization tools are OK. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The drag and drop functionality provides a minimum restriction at times. Visualization can sometimes be a bit difficult to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
SAP BO provides a strong reporting framework, best suited for report writers, but palatable to new reporting analysts and consumers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
SAP products are some of the priciest on the market and the price point can deter clients from implementing reporting solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Ability to schedule reports to run and export to a directory. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The web based version seems to be slow and a bit clunky. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Established systems and building platform. Very strong structured reporting for regular output Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Difficult to change options. Requires specialised expertise. Not end user flexible Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Great tool for aggregating data from multiple databases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The report creator is substandard and difficult to learn. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.