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."The solution is a very good enterprise tool with excellent enterprise functionality for security and user access. It also works perfectly in distribution, with everyone getting their own reports. It is very complex, so you can do whatever you want. If you want to make some data limitations, you can do it. I also like the internal in-memory engine with the Symantec layer. This makes the solution pretty powerful."
"It is scalable and integration-friendly."
"I have had a lot of projects where we had a lot of users, like thousands of users, and the data was in one report which could bring in six million records. MicroStrategy is doing a good job on scalability."
"Stability is great, especially with package deployments. It is very consistent and stable."
"The ability to create aesthetically pleasing information by providing dashboards."
"The solution has excellent features available on mobile."
"The scalability is great. It was one of the selling points for us on MicroStrategy."
"Comprehensive security control and more."
"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."
"A robust solution."
"Its user-friendliness is valuable. It is a product for end-users and not for IT, which is an advantage."
"Easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of the tool is machine learning."
"What my customers like best about SAP Analytics Cloud is the dashboard because it's pretty good."
"Technical support is helpful."
"The reporting, dashboards, KPIs, and visualization are the most valuable."
"The implementation itself was pretty straightforward. The tricky part was understanding MicroStrategy's licensing model, which was a bit convoluted back then."
"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."
"I would like to see a single standalone application to control everything from the administration perspective, and also to develop new applications."
"MicroStrategy lacks that community support. You're either stuck figuring things out yourself or paying expensive fees to MicroStrategy consultants for help."
"There might be opportunities for reporting or data analysis, perhaps even in the realm of simulation."
"I would like to see a feature where migrations are easier. When you migrate from certain environments, it could probably be a little cleaner. Sometimes it seems to be somewhat clunky when you migrate from one environment, say a development to a test or production environment."
"In the developer, there are things that you able to do in a document or a report that you are not able to do in the Dossier."
"We have the mobile server. We have not used it. That is because the people on our team have not been trained on it yet, but that is something that we want to do."
"An additional feature that needs to be added to SAP Analytics Cloud is exporting because right now, you can only export to PDF and PowerPoint. It would be good to have multiple export options, for example, to Excel and other apps. Pricing is an area for improvement in SAP Analytics Cloud, apart from exporting."
"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."
"AI doesn't work as well with SAP live connections."
"SAP has always had one problem with its products, they make them very closed systems that are difficult to integrate."
"One potential improvement is how we can transpose data. With SAP, if you have data from one system with a declared data type and a different system with another data type, the transfer is tricky."
"They need a better scalability rate."
"SAP could add some more visualization features to Analytics Cloud, like charts and analytics. I would also like to see some more data cleaning and ad hoc functions added to this solution."
"The solution should include other scripting languages as well, such as Python."
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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