Instead, you can present a raw database to your end user." "One of the most valuable features of SAP BusinessObjects is that it's not a dashboarding solution. So that's one cool feature." "To share a metadata service layer, you don't need to add a user or write a SQL query. Maybe a business person could liberate the existing universe and create a report on top of it, as well. All the users and all the functionality is protected and that includes information and data segregation." "It is more user-friendly and easier to work with the report creation part, creating reports out of an established universe. It is easy to use." "The solution's user security is extremely effective. It has pretty direct integration with SAP ERP.
Overall the solution is user-friendly and has a lot of drag and drop features." "It is stable and robust. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform tool does the drill-downs automatically. The drill-down features are very good because, in other solutions, such as Excel, you have to create separate pivot tables and a lot of other operations to do drill-downs. Its integration is the feature that I have found most valuable, but there are also other factors." "We are using SAP BusinessObjects because its scheduling capabilities are more powerful than those of other tools." "The feature that allows pivot users to create the report dashboards and run them when they want with a lot of flexibility with the drill-downs is very useful. 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.
"The most important feature of BusinessObjects is its integration with the SAP ERP system.