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# SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence User Reviews

## Reviews summary

- Overall rating: 4.3/5
- Total reviews: 244

### Secondary ratings

- Ease of use: 4.0/5
- Customer support: 4.0/5
- Value for money: 4.0/5
- Functionality: 4.3/5

### Rating distribution

- 5 stars: 114 reviews (47%)
- 4 stars: 100 reviews (41%)
- 3 stars: 27 reviews (11%)
- 2 stars: 2 reviews (1%)
- 1 star: 1 reviews (0%)

### Most mentioned pros

- It can be easily intergrated with Microsoft office as we use power point for alot of our presentations, it allows us the ability to export from PowerPoint to SAP.
- We enjoyed using SAP Business because so far it is the only software that we have found that allows us to put together decent, attractive and factual data reports easily and that can analyze data as well.
- It works well, and I have not experienced any crashes or long delays in data retrieval, which is a great plus to the software as it holds a large magnitude of company data.

### Most mentioned cons

- The user interface is very poor and outdated, even just to print a screen of an inventory list you have to open a separate window rather than print from that page.
- SAP IT services can’t retrieve it—it’s just stuck in the system forever.
- Also it is an expensive software and requires additional licensing from Oracle or any database developer which then adds more high cost to it.

## SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence customer reviews

Showing reviews 1-25 of 244 (page 1).

### Big brain in your pocket

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: michelle m.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Individual & Family Services
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: December 2024
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

Overall we found SAP to be an amazing product and the customer service is helpful and kind no matter what kind of questions are asked.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

We enjoyed using SAP Business because so far it is the only software that we have found that allows us to put together decent, attractive and factual data reports easily and that can analyze data as well. SAP Business has also helped us alot to identify weak spots in our marketing with its amazing analysis tools, it helps us fill in the gaps to stay on top of all the new upcoming trends on the market for our industry. It can be shared shared among us no matter where we are so that we can all work on the same data as a team. We enjoyed using SAP Business because it has the capability to process a large amount of data quickly and helps us put that data into visual graphs that are able to show us real time data that has been analyzed. It can be easily intergrated with Microsoft office as we use power point for alot of our presentations, it allows us the ability to export from PowerPoint to SAP. It easily intergrates with other SAP platforms for more extra functions. It has been great for day to day use and has made us look more professional with their creative interactive graphs and self service capabilities.

#### Cons

What we least like about SAP is that it can not be used by just anyone a bit of computer literacy is needed as some functions and instructions are a bit hard to understand with out some computer literacy.

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### Global reports standardization

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: William G.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 201-500 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: August 2020
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

A good tool, but with a medium learning curve for new users

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

Possibility to apply to different regions of company operations in the world, make it standard. Crosschecks rules to ensure consistent reports

#### Cons

No low code It demands techinal team queue to update business needs.

#### Reasons for choosing SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence

Integration and compatibility wih other curent company softwares

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### Business Objects

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Jill B.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 1001-5000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: September 2019
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

I use Business Objects every day and get the data I need.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

This product give us the ability to pull reports with ease. Once you have successfully composed a report, you are able to build on the structure as needed.

#### Cons

Sometimes finding a field can be difficult if you are not sure what exactly you are looking for. With time, this gets easier.

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### BusinessObject to simplify complex database analysis

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Tibor K.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Entertainment
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: October 2022
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

BusinessObject provides great analytical tools for companies to make smarter decisions, it can operate on very large scale databases and it is relatively stable and trouble free. Users can learn it easily and provides many visual tools therefore different and simple to read formats to analyze data and make decisions easier and quicker.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 3/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

BusinessObjects is capable to run and process databases with millions of records, it has very good visual tools that are easy for users to read and analyze making it a tool easy to learn for users. It is flexible to run on any of the popular databases such as MS-SQL or Oracle and it is a stable software requiring little intervention from system administrators, usually once setup it runs trouble free.

#### Cons

It is complex to setup and requires more extensive training for the system administrators to operate it in the background. Also it is an expensive software and requires additional licensing from Oracle or any database developer which then adds more high cost to it.

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### SAP BI: Build queries with ease

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Ankush B.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Information Technology and Services
- Company size: 501-1000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: March 2022
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

- SAP BI is a gamechanger tool for any organization. SAP BI is suitable for the organizations using SAP ERP system as it is very easy to integrate - SAP BI is recommended for medium and large enterprises.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

SAP BI is a very dynamic and user friendly tool. SAP BI helps in developing data queries and analyze data. SAP BI save lots of time and efforts while creating reports. The best features in SAP BI are: - Automating and scheduling reports - Real time data synchronization

#### Cons

Although SAP BI is very powerful tool and easy to integrate with the SAP ERP system but have following limitations: - Sometimes real time data synchronization takes time that leads to difference in actual and reporting figures - Training and understanding of SAP BI takes time and efforts

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### SAP BusinessObjects- BI reporting

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Brus B.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Real Estate
- Company size: 10000+ employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: September 2023
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

One of the best aspects of SAP BusinessObjects is its easy to use GUI, which allows even those who are not well versed in SQL to create complex reports. I find it very convenient to share these reports between different people and business units. The system's ease of use is further highlighted by its Excel-based design; It works similar to a pivot table, making data manipulation simpler.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

I have been using SAP Business for reporting and data visualization, and it has been very helpful in meeting our organization's requirements. We have connected it with multiple databases such as DB2 and Sybase, and its data storage capabilties are quite robust. The platform is undoubtedly powerful and capable of handling heavy tasks with ease.

#### Cons

The learning curve is long, training is needed to be able to handle it properly, the user interface needs improvement, so that it is easier and more intuitive to use.

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### SAP BO - Web Intelligence

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Syed Amir A.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Information Technology and Services
- Company size: 10000+ employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: April 2022
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

Overall experience has been good. It can host a lot of reports which can be scheduled for month end reporting. Automated this application using automation anywhere and reaped a lot of benefits.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

I love the scheduling feature of the reports wherein you can easily schedule reports to be executed on a particular day.

#### Cons

Reports with data more than 1 lakh rows takes a lot of time and even crashes sometimes

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### Everythink about data

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Funda A.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Automotive
- Company size: 1001-5000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: February 2022
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

It is a tool that facilitates the management of all past or future data and the follow-up of KPI at every level. It will help companies make data-driven decisions and provide significant competitive advantage.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

We use SAP BusinessObjects in order to track both operational and strategic company KPI's. The dashboards are very easy to customize. BI tool is very helpful in order to make forecasts.

#### Cons

Data export is not offered. Dashboards are really helpful. But sometimes user can need to export the data in excel form.

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### SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence review KPI monitoring

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Olive t.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Food Production
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: September 2022
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

At first, the software is looking complicated, but using it very easier after passing an induction allow exporting data to another tool for further exploitation, good data cleaning and KPI monitoring easy to set up , handle and customize

#### Cons

the cost of the license is as high as it cant allow small-scale business to buy and use

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### Great tool, reliable architecture and very useful

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Glendy M U.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Information Technology and Services
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: November 2018
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

In space, the area that I address is the customer service through this fantastic tool we can keep a real-time control of the requests for services from our customers, assigning numbers of events that link the whole process with the areas involved, from that the service request is made until it ends with the invoicing process of it.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

The scope advantages and the ability to link the data available in our organization by SAP BusinessObjects has allowed us to optimize the administrative and operational processes in a way that allows us to access the correct information.

#### Cons

I do not have negative opinions of the tool, within the organization has been very useful the use of it.

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### Full Life-Cycle product Management System (ERP)

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Steven J.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: December 2024
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Project management and product life-cycle management.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 3/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Complete product life-cycle management system. Ability to manage product development through production with complete accuracy.

#### Cons

Complex configuration and training required.

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### A great business analytics and reporting tool

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Ruby S.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Information Technology and Services
- Company size: 10000+ employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: February 2023
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

I have personally used this application for more than 10 years and it has been a significant report for our reporting requirements. We generate reports both in pdf and excel, depending on our requirement and the reports do contain the prompts for the checker to verify the reports if needed.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

SAP BusinessObjects is one of the best reporting tool. The tool can be well integrated with one of your main database (in our case it was Flexcube) to produce a number of reports for your clients and investors. It's very much easy to use and requires little or no training for the users to implement. Probably, one of the best features of this application is it's report scheduler which can schedule your reports as per your prompts and you can easily have them saved in a particular drive of your choice.

#### Cons

One of the critical issues that I encountered while using SAP BusinessObjects is it inbox reporting. Most of the reports for a user would be available as Global reports however certain specific customised reports are sent to the inbox of the user where that user can only run the same report and will not be available for other users. While accessing the inbox reports, we often encountered issues where the user was not able to run the report or the report will get deleted automatically after some time or the report output will be very slow.

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### Great tool for report automization, analysis and calculation

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Chemicals
- Company size: 5001-10000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: March 2019
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

It's a very powerful tool to download data, however, requires some trainings for users.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

It's intergrated in Microsoft Excel, so I can use all function of Excel on the data download by SAP Business Object. Normally we have to go to the web version of the reporting tool and download report one by one, but with SAP business Object (Analysis Office), we can insert the data source one time, format it, do calculation with it (using all other Excel function). The next time when you need to update the data. Just simply refresh data source in your formatted file. All data are refreshed while your calculation/format are still there. You can even write Excel VBA to load data with Analysis Office. It saves you a lot of time to download all reports based on different filter criterion.

#### Cons

First, it takes time to load if the data is too bid Second, there is a limit (55 000 lines) on Excel. You can, of course, change the limit, but not everybody knows how to do it (or allowed to do it) Thirdly, the prompts are not so well-designed and user-friendly. I normally have to scroll down a lot to find the filter. (imagine you have 10 different sheet, scrolling down will take long time). Fourthly, VBA and Analysis Office are quite complicated to use and the trouble-shooting is quite annoying.

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### The perfect B.I. for mid-size companies

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Guido G.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Furniture
- Company size: 501-1000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: March 2023
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

It has been used as main reporting tool of the company: all the teams used to receive the automatic reports in the morning and all teams had the capability to generate on-demand reports.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 3/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

I appreciate above all its flexibility when I need to create ad hoc reports.It's very powerful, even if a bit complicated at the begining, and it really allows business users to drill down into data and get the information they need.

#### Cons

It requires an adequate training in order to use it at its best.It's a bit complicated, especially to understand all its functionalities and reporting capabilities.

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### Cost Effective Simple Reporting Tool

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Mithun G.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 10000+ employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: June 2021
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

Overall I am having a mixed feeling with respect to Business Object Intelligence. I am neither satisfied nor dissatisfied.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

In Business Objects the way you can build Universe and expose that as a self service tool for users to build their own reports gives it a cutting edge compared to other reporting tools. Being a SAP tool the customer support is good and it integrates well with other cloud platforms.

#### Cons

The look and feel is not that great and it cannot match the dashboard features which are present in other reporting tools like for example Tableau.

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### Excellent Data Mining Tool

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Ron W.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Consumer Goods
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: September 2021
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

The speed and ease of using SAP BI in c comfortable format (we use the Excel Inrerface)

#### Cons

Sometime a pre-existing BI report does blow up and it leaves the report without a connection to BI. Report has to be recreated - no recovery.

#### Reasons for switching to SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence

Licensing costs

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### The CRM (Customer Relationship Management) you need

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Accounting
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: January 2023
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

in general SAP is a tool that combines both reliability and performance with a reactive customer support, wide functional coverage and it is rather scalable

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 3/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

The publication of certain financial and logistical information is very fast because all the data is available almost in real time.

#### Cons

Management tool requiring a relatively high learning curve

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### Lots of layers

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: William B.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Logistics and Supply Chain
- Company size: 1001-5000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: April 2019
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

I've used this platform for years and am proficient at it and because of this I'm a fan.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 3/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

SAP in our business of distribution and logistics is very complex and can gather a mass of data. It excels at drilling down to fine detail and tracking of inventory and sales down to number of turns and we use all of this data to drive our business. For this it is a great platform.

#### Cons

Because of it's many layers and it's complexity it creates an environment where it can be cumbersome to create orders and quotes.

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### My experience with BusinessObjects at a few institutions has been very positive.

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 1001-5000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: May 2018
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Improved organizational reporting.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

The interface is very easy to use for all audiences, allowing us to empower basic users to run their own reports. The ability to combine database elements with custom script to customize reports is very useful.

#### Cons

Sometimes the report formatting can be finicky. It is very responsive but can overcompensate for small formatting (size, spacing, etc) adjustments.

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### Nice Way to Interface with Data

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 1001-5000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: July 2018
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 3/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

SAP Business Objects provides a nice way to interface with data, allowing both power and flexibility through its structure.

#### Cons

With each new version there seems to be some flaw that needs to be corrected or feature that should be added and at an enterprise level it becomes difficult to continuously deploy the updates.

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### SAB BO Administration

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Patrick L.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Company size: 1001-5000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: September 2019
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Check every the status of all the services. Publish and schedule a report Create a report with Crystal Report Create triggers

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 2/5
- Value for money: 2/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

Possibility to schedule a report with different parameter and send it by mail to different user. You can send a report in many format (xlsx, Pdf, etc) Triggers features when you schedule a report

#### Cons

Administration is not easy, many services to check every day. Consume a lot of Memory and CPU. In case of crash, the reinstallation is very difficult and too long.

#### Reasons for switching to SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence

Cost aspect (PowerBI is cheaper)

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### Good tool for developing reports, but not quite nimble enough

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Pawan S.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Biotechnology
- Company size: 10000+ employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: February 2021
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

The overall architecture of BO XI (with UDT v14.2.7.3130) is intuitive to understand. Most of my experience, however, has been using it with derived tables for more flexibility in the clinical trial space. This is one of the features that I like because it allows me to not only deliver custom reports but also standardized reports that integrate data from different sources.

#### Cons

I think that BO's lack of OLAP functionality could use some beefing up. In my company, it's usually BO, Spotfire or Tableau that are used for reporting. If BO had OLAP capabilities, processes within the company that rely heavily on other tools may also change to account for that.

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### Excellent KPI reporting Tool

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Syed H.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Company size: 10000+ employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: August 2022
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 2/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

excellent user friendly tool with easy to use features

#### Cons

installation is bit of an issue for this tool

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### Best reporting platform for non-power users

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Attila M.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing
- Company size: 10000+ employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: July 2023
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

BusinessObjects offered a wide range of reporting and analytics tools. Non-technical users could simply design a report, schedule it for timely refresh and get it delivered to the end-users in a fully automated way. SQL scripts also available to identify data sources, table connections etc...

#### Cons

It takes time to fully discover and understand all the functionalities, but it will pay out on the long run. Data load takes longs when working with large databases.

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### Old but easy to use and teach

- Overall rating: 3/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 10000+ employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: May 2019
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Functionality: 3/5

#### Pros

Nice ui interface, you dont need to know sql, used in many industries so many developers know it

#### Cons

Many icons and menus make it hard to initially know what to use, some in nuances and bugs

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