
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
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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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SAP BusinessObjects Reviews
Carl J.
- Role: Finance
- Industry: Manufacturing
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Sep 2022
Intuitive and standardized solution
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SAP BusinessObjects from other similar products?
SAP BusinessObjects helps us transform our decision making by providing fact-based, quality information regardless of where the data resides. The solution lets me create accurate, timely dashboards and reports
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards wich allow us to create custom dashboards from reports. These include interactive charts, gauges and widgets
What do you dislike most about this product?
If you plan to install SAP BusinessObjects with different languages, it's easier to do it when you do a fresh install. Avoid doing it later as it's not an easy process and can create a lot of risk in your deployment environment
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
SAP BusinessObjects is a solution that will deliver the insight you need to understand data and use it to make better decisions to help manage your enterprise and focus on sustainable growth
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing

Lena joi J.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Jul 2022
An excellent software for all-sized corporations.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SAP BusinessObjects from other similar products?
SAP Business Objects permits the corporate to integrate with external systems, like SIMS Claims and Microsoft office, and mix data from these business analytics and news functions. I prefer that I can simply pull a report. The report that I pull from this technique is student schedules once they鈥檝e been registered for classes. It鈥檚 super friendly to use and that I like however I can pull a report and it provides me a few different formats to settle on from rather than simply a typical one.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I use Bi daily. The analysis for office add-on is what I exploit at my place of employment that is a pivot table and makes it straightforward to put data for analysis. It鈥檚 easy to use. Also, it鈥檚 easy to teach to different regular users. It is convenient to drag information and create calculations and formulas.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The platform is incredibly slow. A million data limit is a joke and most of the charts are simply not intuitive. No data science implementation like R and Python scripts. The dashboard isn鈥檛 very interactive and I believe the tools must be rebuilt from beginning to finish. Not fit the purpose.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I have used this software for a lot of time. It鈥檚 a useful gizmo for scripting and developing reports. It鈥檚 a straightforward drag-and-drop choice to pick out what variable you wish in your final report. If you鈥檝e got a sizable amount of facilities and have data kept in multiple universes, it permits you to make a combined question and obtain a final report from multiple universes.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Trustworthy

Isabella B.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jun 2022
SAP business is easy-to-use reporting tool.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SAP BusinessObjects from other similar products?
Ease of use and simply integrated into alternative spreadsheets. SAP Business Objects is a useful gizmo for data analysis and was helpful for our team to develop informed ways for growth. Our data team was able to code and use extra queries to help customize our search. Simple to use, web compatible, glorious data coverage image and sharing features. Supports report scheduling, custom calculations, merge queries from different data sources and supports export to excel, PDF.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I prefer the flexibility to drag elaborated transactions from Business Objects. I exploit it to review financial information like payables. It captures info like invoice date, vendor number, due date, received date, check number and others. Most importantly, you鈥檒l simply transfer business objects queries into excel and use pivot tables. It permits you to save plenty of standard templates. The foremost used functionalities are report scheduling, question building, retrieving queries designed by alternative users, accessing different databases, building dashboards, and generating data exports. These are the functionalities that I prefer the be
What do you dislike most about this product?
With time, SAP BO has become additional redundant and is troublesome to upgrade and integrate the new data sources, which may be simply integrated into other BI tools.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I recommend that organizations reserve their dominant departments as power users of SAP BO. These power users ought to produce training and user manuals for different users inside the organization.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Trustworthy
- Unique Features
- Efficient Service