SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence

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Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence	Score6.5 out of 10	N/A	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.	N/A

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Considered Both Products	SAP irfan shaik Technical Consultant in Information Technology at Numeric technologies inc (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence This has the biggest drawback of handling the large data volume which I feel is needed as this is time-consuming and making decisions at the right time is getting harder and we have decided to move to this platform considering the time taken to process the data. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence We are using SAC as well but the Schedule part of SAC cannot be compared to SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence schedule. Incentivized Helpful? Gaurav Pandey - PMP,ITIL,CSM SAP Application Manager in Information Technology at Flynn Restaurant Group (Restaurants, 10,001+ employees) Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Microsoft's Power BI has certainly gained a lot of attention and became a leader in Gartner's magic quadrant. This is certainly a good product for average data volume which can be handled in the cloud, however, SAP BI is capable of handling much more data with complex reporting … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence SAP Business Objects have better security model than Tableau. One can setup a lot of security permissions as compared to a tool like Tableau. Tableau is good for creating visualizations/dashboards but not very great for operational reporting. Scheduling features are much better … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Other offering include PowerBI and Tableau. Both alternatives have different licensing options to consider, in terms of capabilities, they increase in conjunction with the license price. Incentivized Helpful? Saurabh Raheja Technology Lead in Information Technology at Infosys Limited (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence When we get the installation of the SAP BO BI Platform done on one of the BO servers, we get a whole of stacks of SAP BO BI suite tools installed. This is a package that has reporting tools inside it. For instance, web intelligence-rich clients, SAP Crystal reports, etc. We can … Incentivized Helpful? McMillan Hung Financial Analyst in Finance and Accounting at European Tyre Enterprise Limited (Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, 1001-5000 employees) Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Board is a great ERP software. Business Objects is more nimble and flexible. Board is good if the Dash Boards and screens are relatively static and have selection/filter options. Business Objects is if you do lots of ad-hoc analysis and reporting on the fly. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence I'd say they are on a par with each other. AppD definitely provides very technical insights, whereas BI provides better business reports. Incentivized Helpful? Dharmesh Shah Associate Principal in Information Technology at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech (Banking, 10,001+ employees) Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence MicroStrategy Analytics and IBM Cognos Analytics is costlier compared to SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform stacks. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform stacks is user friendly, easy to adapt, easy to train resources and get them … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Even though all these tools are very similar to each other, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform does have better integration with the database than other competitors such as Microsoft Power BI. On the side of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence SAP BO BI is very similar to Microsoft Power BI. However, SAP BO BI is much stronger in terms of analytics and document management while Power bI is stronger in data visualization and big data integration. SAP BO BI is a great tool within its ally, which is performance analysis … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence There is no special differentiation point. My companies were using SAP as their main ERP and therefore using the SAP BO BI for reporting and analysis purposes. Some reports were defined to be released periodically but these reports were needed for day to day information. We … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Earlier, I used SAP BW's BEx tools for reporting, but it was challenging to format the report data and export to different formats. SAP BEx tools can access data from limited sources where as SAP BO can access data from most of the datasources which is why I prefer using BO … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence An upgrade to SAP BW/4HANA could be considered to get better performance. But if performance is not a huge problem, SAP BusinessObjects BI is a good solution on-premise. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence We tried Yellowfin BI but it did not work for our business model. It was nice and the user-experience was good but ultimate we sided with SAP Business Objects BI Platform because the visual reports that were produced were simple and easy to understand. We need that level of … Incentivized Helpful? David Angers Senior Business Intelligence Developer in Information Technology at Sierra Nevada Corporation (Defense & Space, 1001-5000 employees) Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Crystal was part of the platform prior to my tenure. Explorer has always had a limited use case. I helped drive the conversation for Visual Intelligence and by the time we acted, it turned into Lumira which can't hold a candle to Tableau or Power BI. Incentivized Helpful? Martin Lopez Gerente de Consultoría in Product Management at SEIDOR Analytics (Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees) Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform is an on premise solution that allows you to display information hosted on an SAP BW / 4 HANA server. SAP Analytics Cloud is SAP's business intelligence solution that works in the cloud and is complemented by SAP … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence As we have been using SAP ERP, having SAP BI was one of the key factors in our choice. Also design efficiency, variety of data sources' integration and document versioning gave better advantages to SAP BI over others. Also adding SAP BI during the SAP ERP rollout provided … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Crystal Reports has the most features that we need for our custom and purpose built reports. Incentivized Helpful? Michael Diaz-Suarez Help Desk Specialist in Corporate at Getronics (Consumer Goods, 10,001+ employees) Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence We selected SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) based on price. It can stack up against others in terms of price and honestly, that's about it. Salesforce Commerce does a hell of a better job at handling it. However, in the space of Business Intelligence, SAP can do … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Sometimes configuration is challenging (unless you are also very familiar with setting up Java VMs). I like the meta-data layer design tool. I like that there are thick and thin versions of the tools users use. Users at this point try to build a report themselves rather than … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence We currently have implementations of both Microsoft BI and SAP Business Objects so our enterprise has found reasons for both. Some users prefer BI over SAP and it depends on the department they are working for. SAP was chosen for the more complex tasks that require large data … Incentivized Helpful? Tim Dorscher Product Specialist - Walls Product Line Management in Product Management at Haworth (Construction, 1001-5000 employees) Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence I use the platform as it is all that is available to me. I have no ability to query the warehouse directly probably for good reason. I have been using PowerBI and I know it can connect to the warehouse and do the query and visualization in real time. However, our admins will … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence That was the best alternative that could connect to our ERP instances. The availability of SAP Rapid Marts that could be leveraged to pull data models for specific SAP areas such as Sales tables, Production, Maintenance, and others was also a very important differentiation. … Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence

Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Feature	SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 8.2 51 Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports	8.646 Ratings
Customizable dashboards	7.747 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates	8.347 Ratings

Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Feature	SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 7.8 48 Ratings
Drill-down analysis	7.147 Ratings
Formatting capabilities	8.347 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages	7.333 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration	8.647 Ratings

Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Feature	SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 7.9 48 Ratings
Publish to Web	9.040 Ratings
Publish to PDF	7.446 Ratings
Report Versioning	6.742 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling	8.447 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers	7.726 Ratings

Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Feature	SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 7.2 43 Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)	6.941 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization	6.939 Ratings
Predictive Analytics	7.938 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining	7.32 Ratings

Comparison of Access Control and Security features of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Feature	SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 9.2 48 Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)	9.048 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model	9.646 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)	9.045 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control	9.62 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)	9.029 Ratings

Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Feature	SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 5.8 34 Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access	6.733 Ratings
Mobile Application	3.928 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile	3.930 Ratings

Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Feature	SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 7.1 24 Ratings
REST API	6.721 Ratings
Javascript API	7.319 Ratings
iFrames	7.318 Ratings
Java API	7.122 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)	7.321 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)	6.720 Ratings

User Ratings
	SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Likelihood to Recommend	7.7 (73 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.3 (24 ratings)
Usability	7.6 (16 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (5 ratings)
Performance	9.0 (10 ratings)
Support Rating	8.6 (16 ratings)
In-Person Training	10.0 (4 ratings)
Online Training	9.0 (2 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.0 (8 ratings)
Configurability	9.0 (2 ratings)
Data Sharing and Collaboration	8.2 (45 ratings)
Data Sources	8.3 (45 ratings)
Ease of integration	9.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.0 (2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	9.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	9.0 (1 ratings)