We performed a comparison between MicroStrategy and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: MicroStrategy is the winner in this comparison. It is a robust, mature solution that receives high marks for its ease of use. In contrast, some SAP BusinessObjects reviewers note that its interface is lacking.
"The scalability is great. It was one of the selling points for us on MicroStrategy."
"The solution has excellent features available on mobile."
"Technical support has sent us to rapid response before, when we really needed them."
"The feature I found most valuable is the drop and drag functionality available."
"MicroStrategy's solution for mobile is very good."
"It was easy to install and implement a report with it."
"Comprehensive security control and more."
"Our primary use case is to deliver all data insights to our company."
"The platform uses a lot of Java technologies so the performance and system-level management are tricky because it needs a lot of resources."
"Reporting from SAP Business Objects Web Intelligence is amazing, and gives users the ability to quickly access data from existing universes and/or relevant data sources, without the need to involve a functional business analyst or financial analyst."
"We find that we can scale it as needed."
"To share a metadata service layer, you don't need to add a user or write a SQL query. Instead, you can present a raw database to your end user."
"It allows the analysis of business data and enables decisions based on the analysis."
"The setup is pretty easy. It's not hard at all."
"The feature that allows pivot users to create the report dashboards and run them when they want with a lot of flexibility with the drill-downs is very useful. The drill-down features are very good because, in other solutions, such as Excel, you have to create separate pivot tables and a lot of other operations to do drill-downs. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform tool does the drill-downs automatically. Overall the solution is user-friendly and has a lot of drag and drop features."
"The reporting features the solution offers are excellent."
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"They need to improve on distribution services. There are lack of features which were there earlier with Narrowcast, but they are not there in the distribution services."
"It needs row-level security, column-level security, on attributes. I want to be able to handle full-scale security model from the semantic layer, flat out."
"I would like to see a single standalone application to control everything from the administration perspective, and also to develop new applications."
"The web developer tool for documents creation does not have all the features of the client version"
"Its price should be lower. In terms of features, what we have is quite encompassing right now."
"We have seen some stability issues with MicroStrategy on cloud. We have a few unhappy customers."
"Needs tighter mapping integration."
"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."
"We would like to see a native version of BusinessObjects and Web Intelligence created for the cloud."
"The solution is not good for self-services, they can improve in this area."
"It needs to be more flexible for the end-user."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is lacking dashboards and this would be the only reason we are looking for another solution."
"Its price should be better. It is expensive and not cost-effective. It should also be improved in terms of end-user experience. It requires further improvements for usability and ease of use. It should have more dashboarding metrics and much faster integration with ERP so that when you double click, you can instantly see the scenario-based result."
"Recently, it's become less stable if I am working on Citrix."
"The calculation engine requires some improvement."
"The user interface should be easier to use and navigate."
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MicroStrategy is ranked 8th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 155 reviews while SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is ranked 6th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 102 reviews. MicroStrategy is rated 8.2, while SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of MicroStrategy writes "A robust solution for powerful data analytics". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform writes "Web intelligence will work with any amount of data even if you have 10 million rows". MicroStrategy is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, IBM Cognos, Qlik Sense and Oracle OBIEE, whereas SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, IBM Cognos and Databricks. See our MicroStrategy vs. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform report.
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