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There are some secondary benefits, like analysts getting their post 5 PM time back or the ability to shorten all closing processes to a half or less."

"The price for Alteryx Designer is reasonable but the price for Alteryx Server for universal collaborations is too expensive.".

"There are some implementation services and internal effort costs at the beginning but there is nothing else.".

More SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform Cons → Its integration with other solutions should be improved." "The solution is not good for self-services, they can improve in this area." It is also very hard to integrate it with other third-party solutions. Currently, for data visualization, you need to spend more money to buy another solution such as Power BI or Tableau. So, from a customer perspective, in terms of saturating our employee base, we don't really have great saturation because of the expense." "The interface could be slicker and more user-friendly." "Its data visualization tool is not as good as Power BI and Tableau. It is not really practical to give people access to BI Launch Pad. We're an organization with 18,000 employees. If you are a part of BI Launch Pad, then you could run ad hoc reporting, but for the integration, you need access to BI Launch Pad, which is quite expensive. There is nothing really wrong with the product in terms of what it does. It's a bit pricey now." "It would be good if they could integrate the possibility for end users to create end models for themselves that they can use, especially for site operators, and if they could provide the end user not only the self-service BI, but also the self-service analytics, based on a predefined model, the same way that Oracle did." "They could reduce the licensing expenses. There are too many steps, and they take too much time." "The solution could be less expensive. After SAP bought BusinessObjects, it gradually became more and more stepwise. It would be awesome to have better integration with third-party products." "When we implemented BusinessObjects, the setup was straightforward. It would be nice if it had tighter integration with products like Epic. "We're an Epic shop, and Epic is moving away from Crystal. More SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform Pros → It is just a schematic layout that does not hold any data but the table relationships."

If my organization has 300 or 400 tables, I can combine all of them into one universe, and everyone can use that. These are the most powerful tools that set BusinessObjects' reporting from other solutions. It is also quite scalable." "BusinessObject's most useful feature is the semantic layer, which offers us the flexibility to go for ad hoc reporting." "There are two tools inside BusinessObjects' schematic layout called the Universal Design Tool and Information Design Tool. It is robust in terms of security and integration. They can also do a lot of querying themselves. With Web Intelligence, you are able to build reports that users can interact with. They've concentrated more on visualization, which is what the SAP Lumira does. Power BI is just getting into that space. Its integration is the feature that I have found most valuable, but there are also other factors." "If I were to compare it with Power BI and I wanted to build proper well-formatted reports, BusinessObjects Business Intelligence does that much better.

That's because of the fact it is tightly integrated, and it gives a good user experience in terms of faster reporting. If an organization is using SAP as its ERP system, and they want to do business intelligence, reporting, or analysis, SAP BusinessObjects is the only tool that I see doing that quite efficiently. It's a relatively stable and secure tool." "The most important feature of BusinessObjects is its integration with the SAP ERP system. It's not hard at all." "The platform uses a lot of Java technologies so the performance and system-level management are tricky because it needs a lot of resources." "BusinessObjects can handle a lot of usage on the front end, and many users can view these reports. It is running on top of SAP BW and SAP HANA." "The setup is pretty easy. I like this solution because when I buy BusinessObjects, it comes with many components, such as reporting, dashboard, and data visualization tools. It is very good for creating highly-complex reports. "It provides flexibility for creating reports.