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.
"Dependency on development teams, as well as managing the platform, has reduced a lot with Visual Insight."
"It helps all the store managers and supply chain people to obtain a view of the data and plan the next week, the next month, quarters, and so on."
"It's useful if you need to create dashboards that you check every day. Also, we can create a queue, but it will be updated every day with scheduled updates."
"Transaction Services, that was really the part of the tool that made it very compelling for us, because it gave the opportunity to drive action."
"The solution is ideal for enterprise-level companies or corporations."
"We are using mobile analytics, and it is amazing."
"You can build once and deploy to multiple operating systems. Also, it resizes in the way you want it to."
"It has had a direct impact on bottomline improvements."
"The Dynamic HTML (DHTML) client option of Webi has been enhanced adding features that were previously only available with the Java client including conditional formatting and support of XLS as a data provider."
"Has features that can be leveraged to scale out and scale up."
"The report development tool called SAP Web Intelligence under the BI Launch Pad portal has been the most valuable feature."
"We find that we can scale it as needed."
"It is a very good product, stable, and has good technical capabilities."
"It allows the analysis of business data and enables decisions based on the analysis."
"The development using SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is very good."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is definitely scalable."
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"We would really like to see MicroStrategy have some support teams based more in Europe, because for now it seems that there is one person for the whole CE region. That is not exactly what we would like to see. We do know that MicroStrategy supports most places, either in the US or India, but those are different time zones, people, and cultures."
"I don't think that they will, but I'd like to see parallel processing, scalable parallel processing."
"The web developer tool for documents creation does not have all the features of the client version"
"MicroStrategy should become more user friendly. It should behave more like Tableau."
"MicroStrategy is not cloud native today and some of their APIs are a little limiting."
"They should provide more tutorials and include some project files."
"There might be opportunities for reporting or data analysis, perhaps even in the realm of simulation."
"They need to improve the web."
"Recently, it's become less stable if I am working on Citrix."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is an outdated solution that is missing many features."
"Most of the Apps right now are into dashboarding. This tool, for the Crystal Reports in the phase I'm primarily working on, does not have those dashboarding capabilities, like in the other advanced tools like Power BI or ClickView, and compared to them the dashboard generation is not that great."
"The solution is not good for self-services, they can improve in this area."
"Factoring in total implementation and maintenance costs, SAP BusinessObjects is too expensive. If you deal with a huge amount of data, you can go with BusinessObjects. However, if you are a medium-sized company with a modest amount of data, you can opt for another solution."
"It could be a lighter solution."
"The interface could be slicker and more user-friendly."
"The solution could be less expensive. It's a bit pricey now."
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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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