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 most important feature is the way it handles ad hoc queries and provides formatted reports."
"The technical support is quite good."
"Project Schema/metadata- Very flexible, connects to a variety of different data sources and is very flexible for many specific tasks. Attributes/metrics/filters created once used by everyone."
"We are embedding multimedia content in our apps... You can embed streaming video from websites, or you can host the video files on your internal media servers. The video is clear, absolutely."
"The implementation was fairly straightforward."
"It is a good tool to help our customers visually see loads of data."
"We use MicroStrategy as an integrated solution with some of their other CRM type applications."
"We have been using it mostly for grid reports and its exporting features."
"The features that I have found most valuable with SAP ERP products are their good user interface, stability, functionality, and good interface options."
"There is a really nice insight feature that I enjoy using."
"It integrates with third-party applications such as Google Drive and Excel,"
"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."
"There is a seamless integration with SAP S4HANA which is really valuable to our organization and its functions. Since the data is stored in the same ecosystem, it creates a simple process of building dashboards, without making the process cumbersome The Analytics Cloud provides standardized templates and storage options, making it easy to plug into existing structures. We're utilizing custom stories that have already been developed, streamlining the development process. It serves as a convenient starting point and contributes to the overall ease of development. Another advantage is that it doesn't provide the same level of calculation power as Power BI and Tableau. SAP Analytics Cloud emphasizes pushing analytics back into the database, recommending data manipulation and preparation outside of the platform. This approach is seen as an advantage, as it allows for more robust data handling."
"One of the most outstanding features is being able to use the dashboard with a touch screen."
"The Smart Predict, Smart Insights, and Smart Discovery predictive analysis features are quite good."
"The product could be improved by adding additional visualization."
"If they can make it more stable, in terms of the connectivity, that would help."
"The analytic speed would probably be what I would look for in terms of improvement because we have super huge data, and if I do not build views on top of data, then reports render really slowly."
"The solution's licensing could be improved because its cost is heavy on the pockets."
"If you compare it with Power BI with the DAX language, it would be great to put that into MicroStrategy."
"MicroStrategy should improve migration automation. Additionally, I would like there to be better partnership support."
"It crashes multiple times for even small changes that I make on the fly in the dashboard. After doing all the necessary changes, the MicroStrategy desktop or even the web version kicks the users out, and all the changes are lost. This functionality is buggy in MicroStrategy. It is hard to keep track of all the changes that I have done before. I don't want to make copies of each change that I have made because I would end up creating a hundred dashboards. It is not feasible in a real environment. I haven't worked on integrating MicroStrategy with the cloud. I am not sure how it behaves in the cloud, but I have heard from a few of my friends that there are some hiccups when you kind of sync to the cloud through MicroStrategy."
"Enterprise Manager should be a little bit less quirky when you build out-of-the-box customization reports for it."
"The security, authorization, and live connection to the back-office system features can be improved. A business analyst colleague who creates complex financial management reports has mentioned that he wants to see more fact and visualization features. It would be helpful to have more visualization features to be able to prepare more stories or reports for executives. For example, Tableau has some visualization features that are not present in this solution."
"SAP could add more templates to the platform."
"It's lacking a bit in maturity and we find we can't run our business off it until it's improved."
"Currently only one data modeler can work at a time."
"It seems like there's a problem with the tool's licenses. If there are a lot of users, like 200, who only use the solution once a year, paying for a full-year license for each user is expensive. There's no option for users who only use the solution occasionally."
"Some of the standard visualizations, such as a speedometer or a goal chart, are not there and should be added."
"There should be more features for the time series charts."
"When it comes to planning there is a concern about the ability to match the exact requirements of the customer with what the product offers."
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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