Business Objects Reviews

Pros

Good product, well marketed and got traction in marketplace. Impressive customer base that led in wide variety of use cases

Cons

Platform solution- not out of the application that worked in a plu & play manner. Product innovation leveled off after some time.

Advice to Senior Management

Communication on acquisitions and other growth strategies was good- well received throughout company. More merit based promotions could have helped.

Pros

Empowerment
Sales potential
Great culture
mulit country opportunity
Fun environmnet

Cons

competition in patch
reduced patch size

Pros

business object is a good place to work at. people are nice there, and the pay is not bad. recommended.

Cons

the raise is not big each year even your performance is over average. also office politics is another factor that affects promotion and raise.

Advice to Senior Management

building a good relationship with both your supervisor and your team members are equally important to your career path in business object.

Pros

The company allows freedom to innovate, present ideas and pays well.

Cons

The job involves 90 to 100% travel. The job environment is extremely uncertain, there is always a fear of losing your job due to lack of projects.

Pros

Good pay and benefits. They know how to treat their people.

Cons

SAP acquisition changed everything. They are too big and don't understand or value the BI business. Say they value the BOBJ employees but don't act like it. Have screwed over many really solid good people.

Advice to Senior Management

SAP- you don't treat the BOBJ customers or the BOBJ employees as well as BOBJ did. This will come back to bite you.

Pros

team work environment
technical knowledge sharing
regonized by managment
well and detail employee training program
work life balance
fun place to work

Cons

company decision is unclear
lay off emplyoees when company being bought.
salary is lower than average on job market
internal paper works

Advice to Senior Management

keep the employees. company is expanding. finance is good yet employees are still being laid off after the merging with SAP.

Pros

Interest both technical and human. Good opportunities to move between different positions in the company. Don't know more since SAP bought them.

Cons

Maybe you need to be very clever in your "political" choices when you want to leave a department for another one.

Advice to Senior Management

Nope

Pros

Great office location, relaxed working environment, smart people, teams that get work done on time and with good quality. Not much overtime required.

Cons

Not much training. Innovation is "encouraged" but most decisions come from top down. Cross site development is difficult. Projects take sometimes years to complete / ship.

Advice to Senior Management

It seems like the organization is always undergoing changes in management and structure. After several times of going through change and not seeing much difference I am wondering if there is really much benefit to restructuring so much.

Pros

Great teamwork, great spirit, great management, great compensation, work life balance is very good and management is always supportive of your personal ambitions

Cons

compensation is good but benefits are reserved only for select few. Stock options are offered to very few. Some senior management members are not approachable

Advice to Senior Management

Continue the good work and listen to employees on the ground level instead of always having conference calls and online surveys

Pros

Employee sales training course and sales methodology

Cons

No clear direction for sales staff, target customers/Account base changed too many times.

Advice to Senior Management

Provide clear direction