We performed a comparison between Google Data Studio and MicroStrategy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Reporting solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Valuable features include advanced integrated analysis and easy implementation."
"The ability to integrate with a great variety of data sources."
"The ability to design complex data models and equations."
"The solution is free so that is a good feature."
"I am impressed with the tool's scheduling mechanism, refresh mechanism, and different types of charts."
"The company dashboard is useful because we could share it via a link as a reminder for everyone to check it weekly. We observed the progress of our portfolio from last week to the current week, allowing us to compare revenues."
"Data Studio integrates seamlessly with other Google products, and we can use it with other APIs if we like."
"This has improved our organization by allowing people to see their data and develop visualizations themselves."
"In the past, when we had so many legacy systems, with Cognos and others, it was took multiple steps to get what we wanted. Now, it's a seamless integration. We can connect directly, in the form of In-Memory Cubes or live-publish cubes, to the data warehouse, and blend in the data with big data. Not only relational databases, but we can also integrate other third-party files, and create a single-source software."
"Stability is great, especially with package deployments. It is very consistent and stable."
"Workstation and Desktop on the client side will speed up some development activities."
"We pretty much use the knowledge base. We feel that Microstrategy's community is a good forum to use."
"With all the APIs it's very scalable."
"Technical support is knowledgeable. The right person gets back to us whenever we email them."
"The most valuable features are the Visual Insights and the visualizations."
"It is definitely customizable. We have been able to put in key metrics and performance indicators, thus it is customizable."
"Panels are not as easy to use as other data extraction UIs."
"Other tools might be worth considering if you need more advanced features or support for a larger user base."
"Stability and scalability an be improved for a full ten."
"It's not yet a replacement for a complete BI tool."
"When you physically install a product on one machine instead of the cloud, you have a better visibility, best icon quality, etc.. It's more of an issue with how we are adapting to the transition. We are still in the early moments of using this tool, and we need to go deeper to discover some improvements."
"Insisting on forums, blogs and community outreach in communications, and posting videos on an established calendar would be useful."
"There is a significant degree of sophistication required to compete with Tableau or Cognos."
"The tool should come up with data modeling layer features that are present in other products like Power BI."
"Something I would be interested in is more visualizations, because right now we use SDK to create some. If there were more out-of-the-box options, we would be happy with that."
"The areas that have room for improvement in MicroStrategy are mainly related to building additional tools. Specifically, the embedding process has been a bit of a struggle."
"I don't think that they will, but I'd like to see parallel processing, scalable parallel processing."
"Its price should be lower. In terms of features, what we have is quite encompassing right now."
"Training would be an area that they could improve upon."
"There is room for improvement on the graphs."
"Data writeback, and on-the-fly predictive analysis results from R and Python could be improved."
"I did not see any additional value of providing one button for installation on the whole platform if it was going to be installed for different servers. You would have to make customization every time. There was no additional value in an installer."
Google Data Studio is ranked 12th in Reporting with 8 reviews while MicroStrategy is ranked 9th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 156 reviews. Google Data Studio is rated 7.6, while MicroStrategy is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Google Data Studio writes "The cloud environment makes it easier to use large volumes of data and collaborate with coworkers". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MicroStrategy writes "A robust solution for powerful data analytics". Google Data Studio is most compared with Amazon QuickSight, Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Looker and Zoho Analytics, whereas MicroStrategy is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Qlik Sense. See our Google Data Studio vs. MicroStrategy report.
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