--- 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(1,074) ](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 Insurance](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Insurance") UI Verified User in Insurance Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/8/2019 "Business Intelligence Solution for all sizes " 5/5 What do you like best about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)? SAP Business Objects allows the company to integrate with external systems, such as SIMS Claims and Microsoft Office and combine data from these business analytics and reporting functions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)? The drag-and-drop interface is sometimes difficult to use especially when working with large amounts of data such as claims. Once you use the program more, it seems to get easier to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) solving and how is that benefiting you? Overall, SAP BusinessObjects offers multidimensional data analysis. This allows you to create reports on multiple business parameters from multiple external data sources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Chemicals](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Chemicals") UC Verified User in Chemicals Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/30/2019 "Game changer " 5/5 What do you like best about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)? I am a fan of business warehouse. This add on puts master data to great use and given it’s excel based the data becomes very easy to slide and dice for analytics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)? The technical jargon on errors should be in layman’s language. Currently it makes no sense to a non technical person Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) solving and how is that benefiting you? We use BI to analyze our business data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Education Management](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Education Management") AE Verified User in Education Management Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 2/7/2019 "Friendly for reports " 5/5 What do you like best about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)? I like that I can easily pull a report. The report that I pull from this system are student schedules once they’ve been registered for classes. It is super friendly to use and I like how I can pull a report and it gives me a few different formats to choose from instead of just a standard one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)? There isn’t much that I dislike about this system. It’s one of my favorite ones at work because of how easy it is to use. Super easy to pull reports and easy to save them as excel or pdf, too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI): Very friendly to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) solving and how is that benefiting you? We weren’t unable to pull student schedules and display attendance until this system. It’s been very helpful and most find it easy to use. Instead of looking in two systems for this information, BI displays it on one report. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Sanya S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sanya S.") SS Sanya S. Senior Healthcare and Quality Analyst Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/30/2018 "Experience with Business Objects" 3.5/5 What do you like best about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)? I have used business objects for over 2.5 years now. It is great tool for scripting and developing reports. It has easy drag and drop options to select what variable you want in your final report. If you have large number of facilities and have data stored in multiple universes, it allows you to create a combined query and get final report from multiple universes. You can send your scripts to other Individuals within your team/ For any recurring reports you can schedule them and they run whenever you've set them to run. It has some amazing quick filters that can be used while writing your script that allows you get tailored results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)? I feel like it has some capability for visualizations but definitely lacks uniqueness and intuitiveness that other visualization tools have. In addition the process of exporting reports is quite time consuming and this is something that can be improved so it becomes more user friendly. The final reports can improve on their filter-ability so it is easier for the user to review only specific data in a more time-efficient manner. Business objects allows you to view the actual SQL script that is run for the your customized report but at times it has different names for the tables that it links to in the data warehouse which at times makes it difficult to cross validate if you want find the associated tables in your data warehouse. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI): Improved visualization capabilities, make it more user friendly on the aspect of filtering the final reports and exporting them out from the tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) solving and how is that benefiting you? We use this tool primarily for reporting. Easy to generate structured reports and export it out as excel report and share with the business owners. This tool allows to create and save your scripts in personal folder for ongoing use in the future. We also have some scripts saved on the public folder which other individual can access and run without actually having to recreate them. It is good tool for users who are not proficient in writing scripts in SQL or other reporting tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 11/2/2018 Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Banking](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Banking") AB Verified User in Banking Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/28/2019 "Actually, leader in analysis and reporting" 4.5/5 What do you like best about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)? The possibility to easily combine data from more than one query Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)? It's not easy to build reports with more than one page Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) solving and how is that benefiting you? We have made queries, analisys and reports on enterprise administration, customer, sellers and billing data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Retail](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Retail") UR Verified User in Retail Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/26/2018 "Not worth the clicks" 1.5/5 What do you like best about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)? The reporting feature and the ability to add any level of data to a report is fantastic. the amount of reports now available for metrics and the detail within each is much improved from our last system. Each report can be tailored to my team, a specific sales rep, our market or the nation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)? Each action is broken down to the most minute detail. Adding a sales rep to workbench? That will take 15 steps/clicks. Adding trim to a new customer that will take 2 systems and 45 steps. Everything takes much more time because even the slightest 'action' has been broken down in to its own step. Enter data into the system relies heavily on internet speed and the amount of users on the system at a given time. Get in early? Fantastic the system will run well for you. As soon as 9 AM hit all users nation wide are using the system and there is a dramatic decrease in speed. Want to get something accomplished after lunch? You need to time it correctly because EVERYONE get kicked off at 1:15 and if you didn't save your work or mark as in process then that is potentially hours wasted. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI): Have end users start the trial period before implementing to any part of the business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) solving and how is that benefiting you? We are major pitfalls with reporting, some we didn't even realize until we were live on SAP. Reports can be run much faster and are more comprehensive than before. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/7/2019 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "The Best Enterprise Business Intelligent tool" 4/5 What do you like best about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)? BO has multiple components tailored to each business need. We have Crystal reports for picture perfect reports for printing & mailing, we have Web Intelligence reporting for data analysis and ad-hoc reporting. Universe will provide better control of data restrictions, security profile implementation etc. There are hundreds of features brought in or improved over the previous versions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)? It is tough to master the tool and the help document is not big to explore. The formula editor is not user friendly. Too many features and categorization of the features confuse the business user who want to do ad-hoc reporting by himself. The issues in Universes creation takes lot of time for report designer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI): Unlike data visualization, you are looking for enterprize BI then BO is the best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) solving and how is that benefiting you? I worked on BO projects for multiple clients, both on relational and SAP. BO is the only tool which can effectively help to handle thousands of users working on multiple clients. The slice & dice, the drill through and the charts and many other feature make it most adapted Bi tool for many clients across the different industries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Pingting L.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Pingting L.") PL Pingting L. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/22/2017 "Nice product " 3.5/5 What do you like best about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)? I know it is more of a older generation of BI product but it does do the work. You can generate reports and store them in different folders pretty easily, and it's comparatively easy to do updates so there are relatively less down time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)? It is not cloud based. The IT team needs to have a local server and database. The business users can't access the software form a lot of devices such as mobile devices. It is not good for building visualizations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI): If your company is not all about data visualization and already has a SQL database. SAP BO is the product for you. But if you are looking for a more of a cloud based software, it is not. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) solving and how is that benefiting you? Mostly building reports. It's pretty fast and easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 9/14/2018 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Food & Beverages](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Food & Beverages") IF Verified User in Food & Beverages Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 9/29/2019 "Financial Analyst" 2.5/5 What do you like best about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)? There are options of designing some reports to be all automated and a push of a button. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)? It can be very slow with a lot of data running. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) solving and how is that benefiting you? I am solving analytic issues and reporting client commissions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 9/19/2019 "Review SAP BO" 5/5 What do you like best about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)? Data can be queried easily, filters can be added to make report meet your requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)? The queries can take a long time to run and load reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) solving and how is that benefiting you? Making data accessible easily and making data easy to read. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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