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SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence

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Last updated March 13th, 2026

# Page 8 - Reviews of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Managing Director  
Management Consulting  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Brilliant German tech, not user friendly"

March 15, 2019

5.0

Somone with advanced training and I infnate patience is required to set this up and train it out in a large corporate. And then somone else is required to check all the access levels are correct. Unless big data is needed that's reliable and well German ( most positive sense of the word), its not really an option for small businesses.

Pros

Like most things from SAP, its accurate, auditable trusted and secure.

Cons

Basically unusable without an IT team for average humans. I've spent hours and hours trying to get something out of it, watching videos, filling helpsheets and workflows. I know its operator error but I know I'm not stupid. The white screen just sits there, mocking me.

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Burak C.  
Accounts Payable  
Consumer Goods  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Visualizes your work"

June 21, 2022

5.0

Pros

Visualisation feature is just perfect especially if you are presenting to management. Saves time and works fine. It can create role based dashboards where you can create interactive, real-time dashboards. Intergrates with Office programs and with HANA too which is a great feature.

Cons

Same as other SAP programs, not so easy to master. Overall pricing might be too much for small or medium sized companies.

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Harry D.  
Learning Business Partner  
Insurance  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Better than the basics"

February 24, 2019

4.0

Overall, it has been a useful purchase for myself.

Pros

It’s supported my work in analysing trends and creating reports.

Cons

The software can be clunky, needs work on user experience.

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NP

Neelam P.  
HR Generalist  
Mechanical or Industrial Engineering  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "It is a great software. Very useful and is customer friendly. Meets the need."

February 28, 2017

4.0

Pros

Modules can be designed as needed. Reports that extracted can meet the requirement and hence makes it more useful.

Cons

it is a little complex, specially while dealing with data management. not flexible with data input methods or formats

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TW

Tiffany W.  
Lead Accountant  
Medical Devices  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Good Software, little dated and not as user friendly as hoped. "

August 29, 2017

5.0

Ability to bring data out of JDE and report on it has made customizing and reviewing reports/data much easier.

Pros

The ability to customize reports for dates, etc is a great functionality. Also the ease of saving report templates and categorizing them.

Cons

Not as many fields as I would like are able to be brought in. For instance the GL module and AP module are hard to interact with each other sometimes and bring in the data I'm looking for.

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Andrea D.  
Enterprise Architect  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "null"

March 29, 2016

2.0

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Supply Chain Engineer/Commodity Manager  
  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Excellent platform for handling large data"

January 11, 2018

4.0

It helped me generate reports of data which were needed to fulfil the requirement of my stakeholders and also for me to learn about the business with a bit of digging.

Pros

This is the platform my org used before migrating to SAP HANA. It was really good and easy to handle large amount of data and generate reports of data needed.

Cons

It was slow and some of the options are not very intuitive. Again similar to SAP HANA need considerable amount of training to become proficient in it.

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AF

Alejandro F.  
Consultant  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "SAP BO is a Powerful Inteligent solution for your Business."

September 2, 2016

4.0

Pros

SAP is one of the most acepeted BI tools in the market, its suite are design for all company sizes, so it can handle your organization grows, SAP BO allows to connect to a multiple data sources and connect to a different integration points like sharepoint, java, etc.

Cons

First of all, this toll is quite expensive, small and medium companies are not capable to spend a lot of money acquiring it and continue paying for supporting cost. Another think I dislike about SAP BO is it require a number of servers so this increment the amount of the spend.

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GN

GP N.  
Consultant  
Telecommunications  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Robust, scalable and user friendly enterprise BI solution "

October 29, 2015

4.5

Pros

SAP business objects is a no frill enterprise BI suite, it is very stable, robust and deliver good performance on large scale use. Self service quite easy once universe is built One click Scheduling and Publishing capabilities. Data is cached, giving users the ability to work offline. Wide variety of support for charts and functions. Abundant online forum for help.

Cons

Know how is quite complicated for new users. specially syntax and dealing with measures, attributes and variable Data base integration often malfunctions for some RDMS, for example Netezza queries are often lost in queue. Adding new data sources and change request require complicated changes in Universe. Poor capability ability for adhoc analysis like users want to load data to check against warehouse. relatively less visual appeal for dashboard compare to other BI tools

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SE

Saran E.  
Consultant  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "SAP BusinessObjects 4.x Consulting Project "

March 2, 2017

5.0

I have implemented this toolset across different organizations and trained users in using the business intelligence and reporting features in Web Intelligence, Explorer, Crystal Reports, etc.

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TW

Tamara W.  
Paralegal  
Real Estate  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "SAP Business Intelligence"

January 12, 2023

4.0

Pros

The ability to report out and track expenses

Cons

Not really a feature more business side; coding of information

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NO

NavyTim O.  
SC Analyst  
Medical Devices  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "BOXI fairly powerful but needs lots of IT expertise and hand-holding"

August 15, 2017

4.0

Better data capture from SAP than available within SAP

Pros

Directly takes SAP data as is and is flexible to allow re-positioning and formatting of data to meet analytics and graphics needs

Cons

Latest BOXI revisions are a bit temperamental and require extensive IT pro help and support to avoid data confusion and incorrect messaging

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MM

Michael M.  
Director of Strategy Analytics  
Hospital & Health Care  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Powerful but counter-intuitive"

July 18, 2019

4.0

Primary development support for two large hospitals.

Pros

Options for combining and displaying data in many ways.

Cons

Complexity of joining and manipulating data.

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DM

Derek M.  
Assstant CIO  
Government Administration  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "We use Business Objects to create reports for our ERP system and it creates reports that can be converted to excel spreadsheets for analysis "

October 16, 2017

4.0

We are looking at other apps to use the SA P product

Pros

It is embedded into our application so users can get reports, create reports and view reports from within the app

Cons

A little more flexibility on creating new reports would be helpful for staff to meet the needs of the customers.

Review Source

TF

Tony F.  
IT Manager  
Newspapers  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Clunky"

March 26, 2020

3.0

I think this is more of how poorly our company rolled this product out, but we are struggling to get through it. This tool has been implemented to have our IT staff have to manage finance tasks now which was previously handled by our finance teams.

Pros

I really have not had much positive experience with this new SAP platform our company launched. I do like the user interface a little better than the previous application we used.

Cons

This could be more of how our company implemented and trained us but I have not had much luck navigating the tool to approve invoices and keep workflows in place.

Review Source

TP

Tanusree P.  
Software Engineer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Self Service Reporting tool for everyone"

June 25, 2021

4.0

In my multiple projects I have used BO for serving business requirements , hence its useful tool but not very fancy.

Pros

The ease to build or edit the universe and publish to users help business people to use this BI reporting tool conveniently. The dashboards are simple to build with some amount of training.Hence as a self service reporting tool this is popular to business users in the industry

Cons

The advanced features and fancy dashboard capabilities like Tableau are not available

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DP

Dipesh P.  
Student  
Financial Services  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "User Friendly but less features"

May 10, 2018

5.0

Pros

If you have experience working on SAP BI/BW, then you will find this tool easy to use in the first go. It creates charts based on DataSources like Infocubes.

Cons

Although, this is a very user friendly tool, it offers a limited range of chart types like Bar Chart, Column Chart, Pie Chart etc. As compared to other leading reporting tools in the market, this tool lacks in offering Global Map charts, Histogram etc.

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Pedro P.  
Product Support Specialist  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "null"

January 22, 2017

4.0

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AM

Alicia M.  
BRIDGE Area Director  
Philanthropy  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Industry Leader in BI is Perfect for Us"

October 11, 2018

5.0

With SAP BusinessObjects, we find new insights in our donor data. Keeping track of relationships is crucial to our organization.

Pros

The universe makes connecting to our data super simple for myself as a business user. I cannot imagine trying to connect to all these databases without some level of advanced database knowledge.

Cons

The Lumira tool does not offer the features that competitive tools like Tableau offer.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Marketing Analyst  
Defense & Space  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Good for big companies"

February 24, 2023

4.0

Ideal for large businesses, with complex decisions and departments that need secure integration.

Pros

Lots of features and easy to integrate dashboard between departments.

Cons

Complexity for non-experienced users, which requires a long learning curve.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Business Intelligence Consultant  
  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Reporting Tool with support for different Report design and Layout for Stakeholders"

April 29, 2018

4.0

Pros

1) Managed system, ease of use and semantic layer 2) Support group and Forums to clarify any open questions

Cons

1) Dashboards filtering options and performance when we have huge data could be improved 2) More of a Developer tool than end user. Limited Self service capability

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
QC Chemist II - ICPMS Coordinator  
Pharmaceuticals  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "use it in my business"

July 24, 2018

4.0

Pros

SAP is an extremely great way to stream-line your processes in most businesses. It is an essential part of our employees' functions.

Cons

SAP can be very intimidating and difficult to get used at first. Not as user friendly as you expect programs to be these days.

Review Source

pB

patricia B.  
contador  
Telecommunications  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "good software"

March 10, 2023

4.0

In general, its functionality is quite good.

Pros

good software, the information is ordered in a good way for the issuance of reports

Cons

in some module the entry of information is somewhat confusing

Review Source

TD

Tyler D.  
Market Research Analyst  
Financial Services  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "SAP Business Objects"

October 25, 2016

4.0

I find Business Objects to be an extremely useful tool to organize, display and share useful data throughout the company. My current and past employer both use the the enterprise reporting tool and have been for quite sometime. It is very end user friendly as well as super user friendly whenever edits need to be made or errors need to be fixed. This product has been around for a while and has constantly been updated with better improvements over time. All the data can be manipulated through queries or a drag and drop method for those who aren't as SQL savvy.

Pros

Ease of use

Cons

Limited data visualization capabilities

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AG

Albano G.  
IT Manager  
Management Consulting  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "A complete BI solution with the best visualization tools"

October 28, 2015

4.0

Pros

Business Objects provides an easy way to generate and format reports, This solution provide a multiple way of visualization. reports, queries, dashboards.

Cons

Business Objects would be more integrated and more usefull.

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