We performed a comparison between MicroStrategy and SAP Analytics Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two BI (Business Intelligence) Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We've made it an open BI platform, so that all our business analysts can build their own dashboards and Dossiers."
"We prefer having our analytics capabilities in a single platform, which MicroStrategy's offers."
"We have been using it mostly for grid reports and its exporting features."
"The most important feature is the way it handles ad hoc queries and provides formatted reports."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to build reports, then customize for different groups instead of having to build multiple reports. Therefore, the ability to build customization in the reports for different groups."
"The most valuable features are the Visual Insights and the visualizations."
"Transaction Services, that was really the part of the tool that made it very compelling for us, because it gave the opportunity to drive action."
"The solution's platform analytics gives us real-time analysis of how a particular user uses the report and how the systems behave."
"Its user-friendliness is valuable. It is a product for end-users and not for IT, which is an advantage."
"The most valuable feature of SAP Analytics Cloud is its integration with SAP."
"Data integration is very good."
"The user interface is quite good for developing reports out of models."
"The features that are most valuable in SAP Analytics Cloud are the planning feature and the predictive analytics feature, though the planning feature needs to be more efficient."
"Considering the reporting part, I rate the tool a nine out of ten."
"It's many features make it the best in the market."
"One of the most outstanding features is being able to use the dashboard with a touch screen."
"There might be opportunities for reporting or data analysis, perhaps even in the realm of simulation."
"The problem is the way that their metrics are designed. It can be difficult to understand what you're actually looking at. Then when you're comparing a document against the VI, you can't actually do that properly. So there are components, and there is a huge learning curve in the Enterprise Manager space. I think it would benefit them greatly if they were to exercise a significant amount of research and development in that space."
"If there are some advanced visualization features - maybe I'm not aware of them - but if there were a Vitara which could work on top of MicroStrategy, it would make sense for MicroStrategy to have that within their own library. So they should add more visualizations to the library."
"If you compare it with Power BI with the DAX language, it would be great to put that into MicroStrategy."
"It needs better visualizations."
"One of the things that I want to see MicroStrategy do is become more cloud native. Right now, the deployment on cloud is very easy to ruin, it is very much like spinning up separate VMs."
"We've found the scalability to be very good. However, it depends on the environment. In general, it could be much better."
"MicroStrategy should become more user friendly. It should behave more like Tableau."
"Improvements are coming quarterly whereas previously it was on a monthly basis."
"SAP has always had one problem with its products, they make them very closed systems that are difficult to integrate."
"What could be improved in SAP Analytics Cloud is integration, particularly in terms of extracting data from the source system. Currently, its data extraction mechanism doesn't have good integration and needs improvement."
"Figuring out how to navigate all of the products around Data Warehouse Cloud and SAP Analytics Cloud and BW for HANA is quite difficult."
"Currently only one data modeler can work at a time."
"In the live connection model, we can't create calculated dimensions, however, in the import model we can create them."
"Its integration or connectivity with non-SAP systems, big data, and social media, such as YouTube, LinkedIn, et cetera, can be improved. This is where SAP has limited features as compared to other solutions."
"The connection works only for importing data. Currently, there is no real-time integration between SAP Analytics Cloud and CRM. There are some features present in the classic but not in the optimized version. If I need to create something specific, I often have to switch the versions. It would be more convenient to have a single product that incorporates all the necessary features."
MicroStrategy is ranked 8th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 155 reviews while SAP Analytics Cloud is ranked 5th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 60 reviews. MicroStrategy is rated 8.2, while SAP Analytics Cloud is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of MicroStrategy writes "A robust solution for powerful data analytics". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Analytics Cloud writes "Good for reporting but needs to improve its predictive analytics features". MicroStrategy is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Databricks, whereas SAP Analytics Cloud is most compared with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Tableau, IBM Planning Analytics, Microsoft Power BI and Oracle Essbase. See our MicroStrategy vs. SAP Analytics Cloud report.
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