Business Objects vs Other BI Apps

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Hi All,
I know this is the business objects forum and I come from a BO background but I wanted to know your opinions on BO on a whole compared to other products for example :

SSRS 2008 better than Crystal reports?

Strategy Companion Analyzer better than BO Voyager?

Anything that rivals WEBI?

BOXI Rel 4? And is it true deski will no longer be available in BOXI Rel 4? I am correct BO have made an application available to help migrate reports from deski to webi? Any good?

Many Thanks

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Bell_33 (BOB member since 2010-07-05)

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Hi,

This long discussion can help you:

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I would like to start what will hopefully become the comprehensive Bob stop on your quest to compare BO with other tools. We’ve got loads of info regarding BO versus this, that, and sundry other BI tool. I’m going to post links to the nuggets here and hope that you all will do the same. Here goes… A really great comprehensive list of BI tools by Larry Greenfield can be found here. We have discussed the pros and cons of BO here. We have compared Crystal to BO here, here, here, here, an…

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Marek Chladny (BOB member since 2003-11-27)

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Hi,

I have view those pages and alot of those posts are old. I am went to implement the latest versions hence all the questions.

Anyone any ideas?

Many Thanks

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Bell_33 (BOB member since 2010-07-05)

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@Informer30

…BOXI Rel 4? And is it true deski will no longer be available in BOXI Rel 4? I am correct BO have made an application available to help migrate reports from deski to webi?

And this topic has been discussed in many threads on BOB. The most current one is this…

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kayser (BOB member since 2009-09-07)

@Informer30

Any good?

This is a very subjective question and you will get a subjective answer. The Semantic Layer is completely redesigned with much better functionality. Multi-source and multi-dimensional are absolutely marvelous. The presentation layers are much better integrated. It gives the customers of the previous versions a great reason to upgrade.

In my humble opinion, no other BI tool has such maturity and yet so easy to use.

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substring (BOB member since 2004-01-16)