SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence vs EIDOS: Which is a better fit?

I love how you can build and customize reports. I love how the software allows you to feed the informaiton in and it comes out very easy to use and summarize.

Tamara T

Administrative Coordinator

There is an limit of rows and also limits on how to combine queries. Outline features is very uncomfortable.

The Implementation of HANA is critical for reaching the next level of performance as well. SAP has very good customer service and the free education and learning resources are very useful.

I dislike the fact that sometimes the tool just fails to send the report for no apparent reason. Also you can receive timeouts on developing part when you want to save you're work.

I really like the simplicity and interactive visuals it provides. The KPI measurement is really good and real time reporting is quite useful.

Resul R

PD Engineer

Poor wiev of dashboard & no entegrated solution for data masking.

Cheryl C

Application administrator

Business Objects has many capabilities, for me, the ease of publication of reports is the most important.

Error messages are often hard to decipher, in terms of actionable next steps to resolve. Some better instructions during error cases would go a long way.

Steve S

CEO, Chief Architect

This is a great toolset for supporting CxOs in any vertical and any type organization, but it depends on outstanding skill in facilitation to link the tools to each other and the use cases.

High license costs (especially with low number of users). Small optical deficiencies (low formatting options in Properties).

It is a great help for me and for my customers in reducing high complexity. During the last 10 years, Eidos was continuously improved into a very user-friendly tool kit.

It requires disciplined thinking and brutally exposes reasoning and planning weaknesses. This is a great advantage for organizations, but can be embarrassing for individuals.

Clarity of thought; greatly improved scenario practice; additional rigor in strategic process; significantly improved management and review capability.

Most business people are not highly motivated to create transparency regarding their decision making or their risk management approach.

Great, structured way to moderate strategy sessions. Gives you a clear roadmap for such workshops which, in my experience, greatly reduces the time of the workshop itself by focusing the discussions.

The advantage is also a disadvantage. If someone is not open to the different way of thinking it might seem challenging to use the software for a decision making process.