--- title: SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Reviews meta\_title: 'SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 254 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 3.8 review\_count: 254 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Analytics Tools & Software url: https://www.g2.com/categories/analytics-tools-software --- # SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) but has limited features. Are you part of the SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! The SAP® BusinessObjects™ Business Intelligence (BI) platform is a flexible, scalable information infrastructure that helps you more easily discover and share insights for better business decisions. The integrated, unified infrastructure enables scalability from one to many tools and interfaces on premise, in the cloud, or as a hybrid approach. * * * Seller [SAP](https://www.g2.com/sellers/sap) Discussions [SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Community](https://www.g2.com/products/sap-businessobjects-business-intelligence-bi/discuss) Solution Type All-in-One Overview by Alejandro Barajas (Advocacy and Amplification, Global Customer Marketing CoE at SAP) Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 5 months ### Return on Investment 29 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/sap-businessobjects-business-intelligence-bi/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Tableau](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Tableau") Tableau 4.4/5(3,785) ](https://www.g2.com/products/tableau/reviews) [ ![Looker](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Looker") Looker 4.4/5(1,656) ](https://www.g2.com/products/looker/reviews) [ ![Domo](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Domo") Domo 4.3/5(1,077) ](https://www.g2.com/products/domo/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/sap-businessobjects-business-intelligence-bi/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 254 real user reviews. Implementation Time 5 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Verified User in Retail](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Retail") UR Verified User in Retail Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 9/15/2017 "Business Intelligence Made Easy" 3.5/5 What do you like best about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)? I really enjoyed the drag and drop query capability. When I was using Business Objects, I did not write SQL, and this interface allowed me to pull data in a user-friendly and intuitive way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)? Graphing was a nice bonus feature, but I tended to do this outside of Business Objects because updating charts was a time suck. Also, scheduling reports made my life easier but I found that some reports would fail with regularity (and these were simple data pulls that should not have been a drain on the system). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI): Great for users who don't write SQL. Sub-queries were a great asset for pulling data without duplication. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) solving and how is that benefiting you? Extracting data from Business Objects allowed me to automate data pulls so I was ready to compile reports as soon as the workday began, and also allowed me to automatically send reports to leaders so they could keep a pulse on their areas. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Internet](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Internet") UI Verified User in Internet Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/3/2017 "Business Objects Every Day" 4/5 What do you like best about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)? What do I like best? I use this almost every day to gather client reporting. It is rather quick and very helpful. It is very easy to read and comprehend. Very easy to export and share data with customers/sales partners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)? I dislike the ability to customize further. Some reporting lacks customization, but it is easily customizable after being exported. Some reports run slower than others, but they are quick for the most part. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI): I recommend that others consider using Business Objects. It can house a tone of information and assist with a wide variety of thing in, i assume, a wide variety of industries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) solving and how is that benefiting you? The business problems I am solving are the prevention of cancels and trying to upsell products to make the business more money. Utilizing numbers shown in reporting to assist with upsells and preventing cancellation of service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Jennifer C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jennifer C.") JC Jennifer C. Financial Analyst Pharmaceuticals Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/28/2017 "Not great for first time userd" 3.5/5 What do you like best about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)? I like the overall look and ease of data pulling from business objects Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)? I do not like the fact that creating variables and formatting the data set is so complex. Most of the times I download to excel format using Excel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) solving and how is that benefiting you? I currently use this is objects for data mining to query any historical sales for the overall business Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Hospital & Health Care](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Hospital & Health Care") CH Verified User in Hospital & Health Care Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 4/30/2018 "Useful SAP BI Tool" 3.5/5 What do you like best about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)? Ability to build SQL data sets in the background to easily build reports for business users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)? Front End Report front end doesn't look very slick Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) solving and how is that benefiting you? Building BI Dashboards for deployment across the business Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Antoine C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Antoine C.") AC Antoine C. Sales Support Supervisor & Margin Manager Consumer Goods Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/13/2017 "SAP B-Objects Reviewed " 4.5/5 What do you like best about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)? SAP Business Objects is a great tool for business intelligence in office or on the go. Without many actions required, a user is able to access reliable, accurate and up to date intelligence data on the go. This is great for on the go displays, and meetings, anyone is able to securely access the the data they need for essential communications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)? There aren't many things to dislike about this SAP program. SAP provides a wide array of products and services, utilizing SAP Business Objects, will essentially improve your footprint and traffic by a proven percentage. The layout of this software is provides a clear view of essentials. Vital training must be performed before usage of the program, however, once familiar efficiency will improve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI): For anyone who seeks to use this service, I recommend you pay close attention to all the tools, each has its individual function that serves a unique purpose. If you are looking to spend the money for this services, which by the way is a great service for the money, using it the correct way can easily boost sales, traffic among other initiatives to track the consumer behavior, which will ultimately make you a better business owner or organization. Understanding the metrics is the key. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) solving and how is that benefiting you? SAP Business Objects is solving the main business problem most companies have. Understanding their customer base to a level of mastery. Once behaviors are identified, targeting your base is a lot easier, and more importantly you're able to jar their attention the sustainable way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Government Administration](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Government Administration") UG Verified User in Government Administration Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/22/2018 "Works great for our needs" 5/5 What do you like best about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)? Works great as our interface to print our work orders Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)? I can not think of anything about it that needs improvement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) solving and how is that benefiting you? It allows us to print the work orders that are generated by our asset management software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Consumer Goods](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Consumer Goods") AC Verified User in Consumer Goods Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/4/2017 "Excellent suite of tools with outstanding support" 5/5 What do you like best about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)? When SAP bought BOBJ they pretty much retained the support organization and we get responsive, technically competent input from them on a regular basis. Products are updated regularly and with significant improvements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)? My only significant complaint is that the licensing arrangements are complicated and don't always flex with the evolution of the products. Just when you start to learn the names of the products, they rebrand them. Makes keeping track of what you own tricky. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) solving and how is that benefiting you? Adopted with gusto across our organization for mobile reporting, dash boarding, and slice and dice reporting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad") UT Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/31/2017 "Easy to use interface" 4.5/5 What do you like best about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)? As SAP BusinessObjects BI has improved over the years it has become much easier to use to build reports that are helpful to the business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)? This may be a corporate admin setting, but the web application is inconsistent in when it automatically logs me out after a period of inactivity. Sometimes it’s only a few minutes, others half an hour or more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) solving and how is that benefiting you? It provides a robust platform for creating reports that are able to provide statistics quickly for trends over various periods of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![😷Tejaswi R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "😷Tejaswi R.") 😷R 😷Tejaswi R. Solutions Architect Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/19/2018 "Universe makes it easy to find data" 3.5/5 What do you like best about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)? In a complex data model the Universe makes it easy to find the correct joins. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)? Integration with different sources does not always play nice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) solving and how is that benefiting you? Creating Reports on the Fly and scheduling them in CMC Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite SF Syed F. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 9/27/2017 "The best BI tool known to man" 5/5 What do you like best about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)? Flexibility to working against specific databases, SAP oriented environments and free hand sql give the front end users the power as much as the IT DEV team in the new 4.2 RC. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)? I am not a fan of not having enough graphical template in Lumira which doesnt allow to connect live to non SAP sources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) solving and how is that benefiting you? Top benefit is the transition of our tableau users trying their smooth transition into the new Lumira platform with the slight deficiency in graphing templates was surprising to me Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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