(If you have not heard of Business Objects (BO), you may check this out first.)
SAP Business Objects 4.x is the latest release which overhauls old version (BO XIR3) by providing lots of improvements, such as multiple data source (instead of single source in previous version) and better mobile development. While it was claimed that there are lots of nice features, users found lots of problems after they work on BO 4.x, especially for those who migrate from older versions to BO 4.x.
There is a poll created by BOB community in 2012 for BO 4.x satisfaction. As of 25-Feb-2014, there are total 201 votes for this poll and the result is shown as below.
SAP Business Objects 4.x is the latest release which overhauls old version (BO XIR3) by providing lots of improvements, such as multiple data source (instead of single source in previous version) and better mobile development. While it was claimed that there are lots of nice features, users found lots of problems after they work on BO 4.x, especially for those who migrate from older versions to BO 4.x.
There is a poll created by BOB community in 2012 for BO 4.x satisfaction. As of 25-Feb-2014, there are total 201 votes for this poll and the result is shown as below.
There are 108 users working on BO 4.x. Among BO 4.x users, more than half (62%) found major issues on using BO 4.x. Common issues include missing features, bugs and slow performance.
The interesting part is that there are 83 users (41%) working on XIR3 or before, and planing to upgrade to BO 4.x.
The interesting part is that there are 83 users (41%) working on XIR3 or before, and planing to upgrade to BO 4.x.