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 most valuable feature is the ability to actually embed actions, comments, being able to leverage Transaction Services to embed the tool into a business process."
"The most valuable features are the Visual Insights and the visualizations."
"It has the potential to become a great evangelist for AI and other embedded analytics."
"I like that they're trying to incorporate Developer into Workstation and Desktop into Workstation, so you get the all-in-one encompassing, highly technical Developer Workstation where you can do the VI, you can do the Dossier."
"The convenience of it. Having it on the mobile, so someone has it right there in their pocket most of the time."
"Dossiers are going to change the name of the game for us. We want to be able to have the executive committee go into a meeting and tell a story. We want them to tell us a story, not us."
"It scales well. It used to have only a max of four I-servers, but I think recently, somewhere in version 10, they doubled that, so you can have eight I-servers now."
"Reports are very easy to create. It takes a very short amount of time to build a report, which is very useful."
"The web intelligence reporting tool and universe designer are the most valuable aspects of the solution."
"We are using SAP BusinessObjects because its scheduling capabilities are more powerful than those of other tools."
"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."
"If I were to compare it with Power BI and I wanted to build proper well-formatted reports, BusinessObjects Business Intelligence does that much better. Power BI is just getting into that space. They've concentrated more on visualization, which is what the SAP Lumira does. With Web Intelligence, you are able to build reports that users can interact with. They can also do a lot of querying themselves. It is robust in terms of security and integration. It is also quite scalable."
"Has features that can be leveraged to scale out and scale up."
"It is more user-friendly and easier to work with the report creation part, creating reports out of an established universe. Maybe a business person could liberate the existing universe and create a report on top of it, as well. So that's one cool feature."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is definitely scalable."
"Business analytics are the most valuable features of this solution; I don't have experience with the other functional features offered."
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"The interface you can design in MicroStrategy is great, but I feel it needs to be refreshed, add a bit more functionality. I would like to see more capabilities on the mobile side, to bring it on par with apps that you see in the App Store."
"Getting our data to work with the tool is where we are having issues."
"I think they're still lacking on customer service. I think historically, MicroStrategy's customer service was a lot better than it is today."
"When we come to them with a problem, they might know more of a generalized solution, but not one targeted to our industry."
"Needs tighter mapping integration."
"I would like to see more integration."
"Lacks decent visualization and the process for creating new objects needs to be simplified."
"There is room for improvement on the graphs."
"I would like to see their data visualization products enhanced and made more robust and easier to implement."
"The combination of Lumira along with Design Studio merger last year still needs development from a visualization standpoint."
"We would like to see a native version of BusinessObjects and Web Intelligence created for the cloud."
"It is not simple to use."
"The interface could be slicker and more user-friendly."
"The self-service area, or dashboard, needs some improvement. While the reporting itself is great, the dashboard and Analytics Cloud are not user friendly."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"There should be more integration with other platforms."
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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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