Business Objects

By Odu UmoGaurav Tuladhar

IntroductionSAP BusinessObjects is the business intelligence (BI) application that provides affordable solutions that can address BI requirements from:Operational reporting to flexible ad hoc query reporting and analysis

Dashboards and visualization

Powerful data quality and integration

Planning and budgeting

Key Features and Capabilities Query, reporting, and analysis Help business users make fast, data-driven decisions through self-service.

Familiar applications and platforms Use data within Microsoft Office applications as well as SAP or Oracle software environments

Advanced report publishing Publish personalized reports to thousands of recipients in a single session

Tailored implementation Use quick-start packs to help customize the software to your specific customer requirements

Users OF business objectsBig/Medium sized companies that have an in-house reporting department.

IT consultants, that have reporting and analysis outsourced to them

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Whybusinessobjects

Meets Business challenges of this time

More user friendly than just using access to run queries etc.

Comparison with similar BI applicationsMagic Quadrant Source: Gartner (February 2013)

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Disadvantages of business objects

Poor performance and Scalability - As people move into larger-scale data its performance decrease and needs change

Modifying the content requires complicated and labor consuming IT lifting

Lack of migration path

Built on no. of separate products basing on different technology, Integration is not as good as possible

Inconsistent analytical capabilities - the data connections should be improved due to their excess and inconsistence

conclusionAs business needs and business model choose your vendor appropriately for BI

Ad-hoc queries and visualization IBMs Cognos and Business Object good, Tableau too.

Microsoft lacks user friendly ability though MS Excel integration may be an added benefit

Future Mobility of application and Using Big Data

Challenges integrating several applications smoothly with each version for each of vendors