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 option to use various administrative tools, like Integrity Manager, is a valuable feature."
"The platform can be easily monitored. You have quite a good overview of tasks which are being run."
"It keeps BI in the hands of everyone, rather than a developer or an analyst."
"The mobile for MicroStrategy is the best of all the BI platforms. As a separate product for the mobile device, MicroStrategy is the entire BI platform. It is an enterprise solution, a separate unit, etc."
"We use MicroStrategy as an integrated solution with some of their other CRM type applications."
"Getting more data to people more quickly. Providing more flexibility for how they use the data."
"Scalability is the best thing. You can really scale."
"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 are using SAP BusinessObjects because its scheduling capabilities are more powerful than those of other tools."
"The platform is a complete enterprise-level tool where everything is integrated to suffice your requirement."
"This reporting and broadcasting solution has a lot of flexibilities and can connect to multiple source systems."
"The report development tool called SAP Web Intelligence under the BI Launch Pad portal has been the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature we have found to be the SAP BW, which is a warehouse tool. Additionally, it is an easy tool to use."
"Provides autonomy for all the business users to develop their own reports."
"Has features that can be leveraged to scale out and scale up."
"It is solid and stable."
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"MicroStrategy is not cloud native today and some of their APIs are a little limiting."
"The problem is the way that their metrics are designed. It can be difficult to understand what you're actually looking at. Then when you're comparing a document against the VI, you can't actually do that properly. So there are components, and there is a huge learning curve in the Enterprise Manager space. I think it would benefit them greatly if they were to exercise a significant amount of research and development in that space."
"If you compare it with Power BI with the DAX language, it would be great to put that into MicroStrategy."
"MicroStrategy's mobile dashboard is still not a RESTful design."
"The learning curve is quite steep."
"Lacks decent visualization and the process for creating new objects needs to be simplified."
"I would try to make it a little more basic, user-friendly. In terms of the UX, it's a bit sluggish there."
"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 their data visualization products enhanced and made more robust and easier to implement."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is lacking dashboards and this would be the only reason we are looking for another solution."
"It is limited for us because SAP is shifting toward the cloud, and we can't use a cloud solution for SAP BusinessObjects. SAP introduced a product called PlusTimes one or two years ago and another one that I believe was called Automatic BI. This tool is more powerful than BusinessObjects and other tools because it's provided in the cloud."
"The SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform has always struggled with dashboarding."
"The solution is not good for self-services, they can improve in this area."
"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."
"The dashboard tool is called Lumira and it is very uncomfortable for developers to use. They should improve this in the future."
"More thorough testing of Service Packs before release."
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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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