
What is SAP BusinessObjects?
SAP BusinessObjects BI is a reporting and analytics business intelligence (BI) platform aimed at business users. It consists of a number of reporting applications that allow users to discover data, perform analysis to derive insights and create reports that visualize the insights.
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84 Likeliness to Recommend
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94 Plan to Renew
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80 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+93 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love SAP BusinessObjects?
Pros
- Reliable
- Respectful
- Helps Innovate
- Performance Enhancing
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Quality of Features
Ease of Data Integration
Ease of IT Administration
Business Value Created
Availability and Quality of Training
Usability and Intuitiveness
Ease of Customization
Breadth of Features
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
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SAP BusinessObjects Reviews
BILAL S.
- Role: Finance
- Industry: Retail
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Feb 2022
Data To Information Intelligence
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SAP BusinessObjects from other similar products?
Great tool to manage, integrate, and process all your enterprise data and do the analysis and provide information for decision making.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Great tool to monitor daily, weekly, monthly sales and if you bring in budget the Year-over-year analysis is possible.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Sometimes it's functionality is little bit slow and could take sometime to calculate business functions.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Make sure to have a Product roadmap and future vision before starting the implementation.
Pros
- Acts with Integrity
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
Mark K.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Manufacturing
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Jan 2022
unmissable, great product!
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SAP BusinessObjects from other similar products?
it does the job, intuitive way of creating reports and scheduling them
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
ease of use, great connectivity with all sorts of data
What do you dislike most about this product?
there is nothing I dislike
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
would certainly recommend this product, we could not run our daily operation without the reports from crystal
Pros
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Security Protects
- Reliable

Ravi Shekhar P.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Nov 2021
Easy to use, but a bit pricey and old.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SAP BusinessObjects from other similar products?
It is old and SAP is not providing enough updates and support to promote its new tools in market.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It is easy to learn for SQL developers.
What do you dislike most about this product?
It is old with least supports.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Please move to new products available in market for this is old tool now.
Pros
- Reliable
- Generous Negotitation
- Transparent
- Security Protects
Cons
- Commodity Features
- Vendor Friendly Policies