SAP BusinessObjects 5 Named Users - STANDARD
Protiviti, Inc. | BI 4.3 SP4 P1 on Windows 2022 Oct24 UpdateWindows, Windows Server 2022 Base 2022 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Data Analytics Platform Enhanced
What do you like best about the product?
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 job, I track pharmacy revenue, reimbursements, and other sales metrics. We are able to produce pretty visuals and charts for senior leadership on a whim, and also build out elaborate dashboards that incorporate our pharmacies data.
What do you dislike about the product?
We use Tableau and PowerBI also, so being able to incorporate these together would be nice.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The visuals! The visuals and chart options in the SAP BI platform are more user friendly than Tableau. PowerBI is very similar so it was easy to incorporate our analysts into use SAP BI. We use SAP for our accounting teams, so the analytics platform was an easy transition.
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Great for Financial Analysis
What do you like best about the product?
Very easy to use and navigate. The function keys are easy to understand.
What do you dislike about the product?
The use of MS Excel to update sheets for business objects.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It automates financial data from SAP ERP system to financial statements.
Great for data management and reporting
What do you like best about the product?
Great for data management and reporting. Makes query easy.
What do you dislike about the product?
Hard to format and build reports. it's time consuming. Not very yet friendly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using this to data mine and query across several databases.
Great Program
What do you like best about the product?
I like the fact that it offers quality reporting and that it is easy enough to use that I can use it with minimal effert
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing to dislike at all it is a great program
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Learning more about the customers and purcahsing behavior
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Just try it for yourself I believe that it will meet your needs
Get useful insights to your data using SAP BI
What do you like best about the product?
Customizable reports,
User roles management,
Seamless integration with SAP architecture,
Scalability to required volume,
Global presence,
Vast standard tools and features,
Regular updates
User roles management,
Seamless integration with SAP architecture,
Scalability to required volume,
Global presence,
Vast standard tools and features,
Regular updates
What do you dislike about the product?
Slow processing specially when handling large quantities of data
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were facing problem in analysing our data, getting insights, taking fact bases decisions and sharing reports with desired stack holders. We have solved all these problems with SAP BI
Insights about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)
What do you like best about the product?
Enterprise reporting tool with SOA architecture. Tightly coupled semantic layer, CUID tightly integrated with all objects. Object references nearlty coupled with Reporting tools like Web Intelligence, SAP Lumira, SAP Analytics Cloud
What do you dislike about the product?
License cost is high compared to Modern BI tools
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Seamless integration with various source system, create analytical reports and dashboards. Predictive, Prescriptive and descriptive analytics
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Amazing tool to explore. Think twice before moving away from SAP Business Objects to Modern BI tools like Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Qlik Sense
Frequent SAP Business Objects Use
What do you like best about the product?
I like the ability to pull detailed transactions from Business Objects. I use it to review financial data such as payables. It captures information like invoice date, vendor number, due date, received date, check number and others. Most importantly, you can easily download business objects queries into Excel and use pivot tables. It allows you to save a lot of standard templates.
What do you dislike about the product?
It can be difficult to get used to building your own queries. You have to be cautious about how you use the fields.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Managing all accounting data. Using it in coordination with Oracle SmartView to reconcile accounts.
Using BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Tools
What do you like best about the product?
Flexibilty
User friendly
Adaptabilty - multiple data sources
User friendly
Adaptabilty - multiple data sources
What do you dislike about the product?
Cost of user licenses
It discourages clients/customers from adopting the tools
It discourages clients/customers from adopting the tools
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Users prefer up-to-date information with almost real-time information. Combined with HANA, Dashboard, WebI... which are powerful tools from the users‘ perspective.
Business Objects tried and true
What do you like best about the product?
It is a feature rich mature BI tool set that can achieve the vast majority of what any enterprise needs if you are primarily using Relational databases.
What do you dislike about the product?
Business Objects was primarily a Relational database reporting and analysis tool set, but since SAP bought it, there seems to be a push towards BW as the primary data source. There also seems to be a push towards non-Windows servers; why? 95% of BO installation used to be on Windows servers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's easy to automate delivery of reports in a number of formats. It replaces any number of Excel spread sheets that need manual updating. A serious time save and ensures consistency. Users get the information they need.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Use the core BO products for Relational data sources only. Using WebI with BW can be a serious challenge. Using Lumira with BW is decent.
Next Generation Analytics
What do you like best about the product?
I use BI on a daily basis. The analysis for office add-on is what I use at my place of employment which is a pivot table and makes it easy to lay data for analysis.
What do you dislike about the product?
The errors! They usually pop up on the bottom left and are rather technical which makes deciphering rather difficult. Again, if the underlying data is flawed the output will also be flawed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use SAP to analyze our monthly business performance on a customer, material, end user level.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is a great software for SAP. I highly recommend considering this software for chemical businesses
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