SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform Stability
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DENNISSUNNY
Business Intelligence Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
BusinessObjects' stability is awesome with a huge amount of data, but you're often running three or four tools at a time. For example, say I want to do reporting in BusinessObjects. First, I have to think about the type of schematic layer I must use: UDT or IDT. Second, I have to think about what type of reporting tool I'll need: ad hoc, detailed summary, or dashboard reporting.
If it is an ad hoc report, I will go for Crystal Report. If it is just dashboard reporting, I've to go for SAC or Lumira. These confusions will be there for every user. If someone wants to really work on BusinessObjects, they should understand at least three or four of its tools. With Tableau, you only need to know about Tableau. You don't have to think about other tools because everything is inside Tableau or Power BI.
BusinessObjects will give you a lot of options. There will be a proper category, like schematic layout developer, report developer, report viewers, etc. And there are different categories of users inside BusinessObjects. Tableau and Power BI don't have such categories.
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Sumeet Zalpuri
Data engineer at ASR Nederland N.V.
If your environment is very big, and you have frequent changes coming, you will see that SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is not a hundred percent. But for relatively small environments that follow the life cycle or process with fewer changes, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform has one of the most stable systems.
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Paul Grill
President & CEO at Infosol Inc
The stability is very good. After 30+ years of development, this is a very solid platform.
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SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform
March 2024
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Joyee Sen
SAP Service Delivery Manager at SoftwareONE
Stability can be affected by configurations related to business objects which tend to be somewhat complex. It's not a very widely used product and that in itself is a problem.
Shylaraj AK
Senior Architect at a construction company with 10,001+ employees
The product is stable, but we do experience issues around the time SAP releases patches.
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Andy Pan
BusinessObject Delivery Dev. at a government with 10,001+ employees
BusinessObjects is perfectly stable. I seldom have a problem. I'm an administrator who is on-call 24/7, but I rarely get a call at midnight about an issue with BusinessInsights. With some tools, I get a call at least once per week. BusinessObjects has set up a server type they call the Server Intelligence Agent. This autonomously handles the situation right away by restarting or automatically debugging to resolve the issues. The whole server doesn't shut down when there is a problem.
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Voravit Jongrugsakul
Business Development at Bicone
In terms of stability, SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform has been good. It is a reliable solution, especially for injecting and integrating data from sources like SAP, Microsoft Azure, or AWS. The platform's partnerships with major systems like SAP and Oracle contribute to its overall stability.
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SumeetZalpuri
Data & Business Architect at AME
It is absolutely trustworthy. Once you develop a BI solution and it is signed off, you can definitely rely on it. I have seen big enterprises that have the finance or other critical reports going out from the system. It is reliable. I don't see any problem there. The problem only comes if it is not properly deployed, or you do not understand the product or don't know what you want from the product. Your business goals should be clear. Reliability is not an issue. It is an enterprise product at the end of the day.
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Vishal Khare
IT manager at Electrolux Home Products
The level of stability is very good. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable and the performance is good.
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Miguel Vargas
Software Engineer at a mining and metals company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
Sumit Chhabra
Consultant - Business Development for Travel, Transport and Hospitality unit at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
I would give stability a nine out of ten. I haven't faced any major issues with the product. If you have experience with the product, you can increase its performance and scale it up. So it's all about your experience with the product.
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Vedat Gunes
BI & Analytics Manager at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is a stable solution.
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reviewer1750965
Technical Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
On the backside, there is not much that needs to get fixed. Occasionally we used to figure out some bugs with the versions, mostly compatibility issues with the latest databases, for example with Snowflakes. But we used to get the patches for that compatibility issues. But so far I haven't seen those sorts of issues in the environment that I'm working in.
In terms of the maintenance, we have seen some server slowness or shutdowns or something like that. We have noticed it, but not much on the admin side of activities. But if we see some issues in the system then we usually reach out to SAP to see their point of view and they may be coming with a fix for it or with a solution to adjust the system parameters.
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reviewer1664400
Data Science Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is a very stable solution and it works well.
It doesn't work in memory, only on the server side. We are not taking this benefit, but it's very stable and it's answering the need.
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reviewer1664538
Manager Data Analytics and Interfaces at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees
It has been a solid product. We have had no issues. Any issues that we had were self-inflicted. They were not consequences of the product.
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Emilio Valle
Programmer at Banco de Guatemala
I'd rate stability ten out of ten.
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Narayansingh Bhandari
Manager IT (SAP) at CLASSIC MARBLE COMPANY PRIVATE LIMITED
The stability isn't quite as good as it could be. It's not a perfectly scalable solution.
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YogendraSingh
Head-IT/SAP at Barista Coffee Company Ltd.
We have found the product to be stable and reliable. It doesn't crash or freeze. There aren't bugs or glitches.
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reviewer1414839
EAM Executive at a educational organization with 5,001-10,000 employees
I haven't used all of the features yet, so I can't answer this question properly.
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it_user431775
Principal Architect - Business Objects / Datawarehouse at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
There have been no stability issues.
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reviewer1394319
Business Intelligence & Data Management Director at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The stability of the SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform depends on your infrastructure. However, the solution itself is very stable reliable.
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reviewer1789389
BI/BO Hana Application Consultant at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The application is now stable, but there are still some things they have to improve on the hardware side.
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Network Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
We had no issues with the performance.
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Sr. SAP HANA / BI Developer with 1,001-5,000 employees
We've had no stability issues.
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reviewer2260338
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The product is stable. No product comes close to the SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform. It is both user-friendly and easy to build for end users. It has good features, but the visualization part is entirely redundant. The visualization capabilities are not as good as Tableau's. We are using Tableau for visualization.
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reviewer1772163
Associate Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The solution is stable. In 4.2, after SP4 onwards, there are a few patches and we have had some issues, but it's okay. SP7 and SP8 are stable.
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reviewer1683282
Director of Underwriting & Product Development at a non-profit with 51-200 employees
The solution has been stable in my usage. Our company has had SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform for as long as I have been here, which is 20 years. I think we have had dashboards with it before. I did not know how it worked with the data universes and we did not have a lot of data in the universe. Using software for service we will upgrade when they upgrade. I have heard that when we move to version 4.3, the user interface looks entirely different and I do not know how that experience will go.
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BIAnalyt2dd4
BI | Analytics | Insights | Leadership | Digital | Visualization Composer| Strategy | Design Language | BI Rehab
It is a solid product.
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Developer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Sometimes encounter some bugs. SAP seems to have taken the approach of letting the users test the product lately.
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RanvijayKumar
Application Development Assoc Manager at Eccenture
BusinessObjects is stable.
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VivekGupta3
Analytics Manager at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
The solution is stable.
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Popoola Adams
Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Its environment is quite robust, especially when it is on-premise.
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reviewer928458
Head of BI and Analytics at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
The stability is good. However, the performance could be better.
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reviewer1486620
Enterprise Architect at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The features SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform provides are fairly stable. I only noticed one data error in the past.
Of course, the platform uses a lot of Java technologies so the performance and system-level management are tricky because it needs a lot of resources.
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David Hudgins
Senior Business Intelligence Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Minor at most. As with any application that presents data within a business, stability is critical to the success of the application and it's validity. Building failovers and redundancies around major functions, like accessing reports, data connectivity, and user security, ensures system stability. However, even with the most perfect system and its redundancies, any business intelligence application can run into issues if the data is bad.
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IS/IT program manager at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I encountered stability issues. The beginning of the web version was very chaotic. It look a long time for Web Intelligence to open, refresh and so on. We regret that versions that are initially released do not seem to be well finished (a lot of bugs), and that a lot of patching is necessary to get to a stable version (our experience for BOXIR3, BI4 and so on).
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reviewer1621293
Global Product Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The stability is pretty good. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable and the performance is good.
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Paul Kellett
Software Engineer at KIS Ltd
Reliability dropped in 2017-2018 with a major release but indications are that this has been addressed.
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Sr Business Intelligence Analyst at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Stability seems to be an ongoing issue with the tool and as much as that could be attributed to the tool, it can also be attributed to the configuration including the BICS connection, the DSL Bridge, and the tomcat server that it is installed on.
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BI & Data Lead, Reporting & Analytics Center of Excellence at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We had no major issues.
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Business Objects Admin/Developer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Rarely and was always due to bugs in new SP or FP. Current patch level is very stable.
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Senior BI Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
No issues encountered.
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Architect at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
With most of these products, BO, too, instability arises often when resources are challenged. So, in general, planning for capacity processing is a good way to keep systems stable.
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reviewer2141742
Head of Data Management & Analytics at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Sometimes we encounter issues with nodes when we migrate or update to a support package. Otherwise, the solution is stable.
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Project Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
We've had no issues with stability.
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Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
No issues with stability.
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Shahid Latif
Business Intelligence Analyst at a engineering company with 1,001-5,000 employees
None, for the most part.
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Thales Azevedo
Gerente de BI at a government with 201-500 employees
We've found the stability of the solution to be very good. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable.
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SAP Business Objects Architect at a tech company with 51-200 employees
BOE 4.2 is currently pretty stable in our experience and we already know that it can scale to any level. The only downside to that is cost.
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Sr. Data Warehouse Engineer at a real estate/law firm with 51-200 employees
The amount of resources used has caused the system to fail from time to time. To resolve the issues, it is necessary to perform server and service restarts.
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TeamLd3401
Team Leader at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
Stability is perfect.
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Sr. System Analyst at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We've had no issues with stability.
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Business Intelligence Applications Team Leader at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We had stability issues, mainly with the integration of the SAP BI products with SAP’s EIM products (Data Services, Information Steward). We had some instability when applying patches and new releases.
There was poor quality of the testing of new functionality introduced in new releases.
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GB432
Manager of Architecture/Design at a government with 501-1,000 employees
We had no issues with the stability.
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reviewer1470402
Strategic Account Manager at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees
The stability of the solution has been good.
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reviewer1312164
Business Intelligence Functional Manager BU SAP at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is very stable, and, on the off chance you have a problem, SAP is very quick to help. There are lots of workarounds if you do run into issues.
it_user181065
Business Objects Developer at a aerospace/defense firm with 51-200 employees
Not really, there have been a few hiccups but that was mainly due to bandwidth since we have a centralized location for the servers now.
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Business Intelligence Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Yes, sometimes the services didn't work well, generating a decreasing of performance.
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Senior Managing Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
There were issues because they lack professional services.
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SAP BO/BW Consultant at KIIT University
it_user543585
Technical Manager at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
We find it's stable, very little down time, good level of performance.
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SAP Business Objects Lead Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
No issues.
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Manager at a consumer goods company with 501-1,000 employees
It depends a lot on how BusinessObjects has been installed and configured, because there are a lot of services which run in the background. For example, if I have not done the proper sizing at implementation in terms of allocating the right resources in terms of memory and RAM for the different services within BO to run, any analytic documents which are built on BO can get impacted in terms of their performance. Therefore, stability is good provided your sizing and configuration has been done properly.
it_user456411
SAP BI AMS Lead at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We had no issues with the performance.
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Senior BI Project Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
There are a lot of stability related issues with all SAP BI products, especially compared with similar Oracle, Cognos or QlickView tools. This has a huge impact to BI implementation projects and overall customer satisfaction. Especially big issues are coming in SAP BW/BO integration project. Though SAP had acquired BusinessObjects quite long time ago still they did not manage to integrate their older SAP Business Warehouse with Front end BusinessObjects tools.
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SAP BO/BI Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Lot of issues, because it is a huge product.
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SAP BW on HANA/BO Consultant at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Some database issues were encountered, but SAP has vastly improved on technical support for Business Objects over the last three to four years.
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Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
None
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it_user252576
Business Intelligence and Decision Support Team Leader at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
It has inadequate data analysis and data profiling, which has increased testing and user acceptance duration.
BO Web Intelligence, v4.0 is more unstable than XI v3.x. We’ll upgrade to v4.1 in Q3.
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VishalGuthula
Sr. Software Engineer at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees
There are some issues with the stability, but this is improving.
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Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The stability is again dependent on your sizing activity. If you don't have enough hardware and use it a lot, the tool will crash.
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Consultant BI at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
I have not yet encountered any issues with stability.
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