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 technical support is quite good."
"Speed for high level aggregation by using Intelligent Cubes."
"It's a stand-alone mobile development app that you don't even have to do business intelligence on. You can just use it to build apps."
"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."
"It is a great tool and has the best offerings for doing data analysis."
"With the new version that's coming out, I think they have simplified a lot of things. Also, when it comes to the administration part, and sharing, and the collaboration features, they are really great. You can send out comments with a filter to someone in your organization, and if the person clicks on it, he actually sees what you are seeing. So that's really great."
"We prefer having our analytics capabilities in a single platform, which MicroStrategy's offers."
"The option to use various administrative tools, like Integrity Manager, is a valuable feature."
"It is solid and stable."
"We use it to identify critical KPIs to senior management."
"The report development tool called SAP Web Intelligence under the BI Launch Pad portal has been the most valuable feature."
"We find the product to be very stable."
"It is stable and robust. It has pretty direct integration with SAP ERP. It is easy to use."
"The platform is a complete enterprise-level tool where everything is integrated to suffice your requirement."
"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 setup is pretty easy. It's not hard at all."
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"The online community page of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Getting our data to work with the tool is where we are having issues."
"We had some problems with customer service and support."
"I want to be able to have one report that's delivered to 30 different people and all 30 different people see something different. Now, you can do that today with metrics. You cannot do that with attributes. There's a component of that which, if an attribute is on granularity-one and another is on granularity-two, and you remove granularity-one, you're now going to be summing to a level that you did not expect before."
"The product is designed for enterprise. A lightweight version would be easier for a smaller workgroup."
"I think they're still lacking on customer service. I think historically, MicroStrategy's customer service was a lot better than it is today."
"Scalability is something which will need to be improved when it goes to a bigger audience."
"Another feature to consider in the future would be adding some additional offline capabilities without using desktops."
"There is room for improvement in providing more user-friendly and versatile reporting options."
"There should be more integration with other platforms."
"Recently, it's become less stable if I am working on Citrix."
"The self-service area, or dashboard, needs some improvement. While the reporting itself is great, the dashboard and Analytics Cloud are not user friendly."
"When we implemented BusinessObjects, the setup was straightforward. After SAP bought BusinessObjects, it gradually became more and more stepwise. There are too many steps, and they take too much time."
"SAP BusinessObjects is actually losing popularity within our company because people find the user interface and the way things are set up not to be as easy as many other tools that are on the market, like Qlik and things like that."
"Its data visualization tool is not as good as Power BI and Tableau. Currently, for data visualization, you need to spend more money to buy another solution such as Power BI or Tableau. It is also very hard to integrate it with other third-party solutions. Its integration with other solutions should be improved."
"This solution is complex to configure and administer."
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MicroStrategy is ranked 9th 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 Looker. See our MicroStrategy vs. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform report.
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