SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Reviews & Product Details - Page 5

SAP Business Objects allows the company to integrate with external systems, such as SIMS Claims and Microsoft Office and combine data from these business analytics and reporting functions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The drag-and-drop interface is sometimes difficult to use especially when working with large amounts of data such as claims. Once you use the program more, it seems to get easier to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I am a fan of business warehouse. This add on puts master data to great use and given it’s excel based the data becomes very easy to slide and dice for analytics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The technical jargon on errors should be in layman’s language. Currently it makes no sense to a non technical person Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that I can easily pull a report. The report that I pull from this system are student schedules once they’ve been registered for classes. It is super friendly to use and I like how I can pull a report and it gives me a few different formats to choose from instead of just a standard one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There isn’t much that I dislike about this system. It’s one of my favorite ones at work because of how easy it is to use. Super easy to pull reports and easy to save them as excel or pdf, too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have used business objects for over 2.5 years now. It is great tool for scripting and developing reports. It has easy drag and drop options to select what variable you want in your final report. If you have large number of facilities and have data stored in multiple universes, it allows you to create a combined query and get final report from multiple universes. You can send your scripts to other Individuals within your team/ For any recurring reports you can schedule them and they run whenever you've set them to run. It has some amazing quick filters that can be used while writing your script that allows you get tailored results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I feel like it has some capability for visualizations but definitely lacks uniqueness and intuitiveness that other visualization tools have. In addition the process of exporting reports is quite time consuming and this is something that can be improved so it becomes more user friendly. The final reports can improve on their filter-ability so it is easier for the user to review only specific data in a more time-efficient manner. Business objects allows you to view the actual SQL script that is run for the your customized report but at times it has different names for the tables that it links to in the data warehouse which at times makes it difficult to cross validate if you want find the associated tables in your data warehouse. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The possibility to easily combine data from more than one query Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's not easy to build reports with more than one page Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The reporting feature and the ability to add any level of data to a report is fantastic. the amount of reports now available for metrics and the detail within each is much improved from our last system. Each report can be tailored to my team, a specific sales rep, our market or the nation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Each action is broken down to the most minute detail. Adding a sales rep to workbench? That will take 15 steps/clicks. Adding trim to a new customer that will take 2 systems and 45 steps. Everything takes much more time because even the slightest 'action' has been broken down in to its own step. Enter data into the system relies heavily on internet speed and the amount of users on the system at a given time. Get in early? Fantastic the system will run well for you. As soon as 9 AM hit all users nation wide are using the system and there is a dramatic decrease in speed. Want to get something accomplished after lunch? You need to time it correctly because EVERYONE get kicked off at 1:15 and if you didn't save your work or mark as in process then that is potentially hours wasted. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

BO has multiple components tailored to each business need. We have Crystal reports for picture perfect reports for printing & mailing, we have Web Intelligence reporting for data analysis and ad-hoc reporting. Universe will provide better control of data restrictions, security profile implementation etc. There are hundreds of features brought in or improved over the previous versions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is tough to master the tool and the help document is not big to explore. The formula editor is not user friendly. Too many features and categorization of the features confuse the business user who want to do ad-hoc reporting by himself. The issues in Universes creation takes lot of time for report designer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are options of designing some reports to be all automated and a push of a button. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It can be very slow with a lot of data running. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Data can be queried easily, filters can be added to make report meet your requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The queries can take a long time to run and load reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.