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 convenience of it. Having it on the mobile, so someone has it right there in their pocket most of the time."
"The interactive features that appear in the report were good. The external rendering option they give with multi servers was also good."
"It drives us away from Excel. For what it is for, it is good. You can't run a business on Excel."
"The simplicity of MicroStrategy is what I like the most."
"I have had a lot of projects where we had a lot of users, like thousands of users, and the data was in one report which could bring in six million records. MicroStrategy is doing a good job on scalability."
"MicroStrategy has what they call the Semantic Graph — an enterprise-grade semantic graph — and I think the technology is fantastic."
"The platform can be easily monitored. You have quite a good overview of tasks which are being run."
"The scalability is great. It was one of the selling points for us on MicroStrategy."
"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."
"This reporting and broadcasting solution has a lot of flexibilities and can connect to multiple source systems."
"The solution is stable."
"It allows the analysis of business data and enables decisions based on the analysis."
"The features which the solution has been awesome. The way the data is fetched from the database, and the queries are executed, is unique using the Universe of Business Objects. That makes it unique and we could not find another solution that functions in a similar way. It's has a great way of receiving and executing queries."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is definitely scalable."
"We find the product to be very stable."
"One of the most valuable features of SAP BusinessObjects is that it's not a dashboarding solution. It's a real product. You can create operational reports and publish it to anyone. You can create schedules. You can create a Universe, semantic layers. There's also a security configuration. It's a huge product, so if there is a business need, SAP BusinessObjects can cover it."
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"The solution lacks good visualization. They should work on the user interface to make it more slick and modern."
"We have the mobile server. We have not used it. That is because the people on our team have not been trained on it yet, but that is something that we want to do."
"Another feature to consider in the future would be adding some additional offline capabilities without using desktops."
"Data writeback, and on-the-fly predictive analysis results from R and Python could be improved."
"Native VI on mobile apps and better android support are lacking."
"There is room for improvement on the graphs."
"Currently, the client view looks completely different depending on what you are building."
"From a stability standpoint, from MicroStrategy, I would say it's fairly consistent. I would give it a "B" because there are times where we have issues that are just inexplicable. They go away and then we have no resolution. To me, that's not acceptable. There are just times where our users can't access things and we're not sure why, and that's a problem to me."
"More thorough testing of Service Packs before release."
"It could be a lighter solution."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is an outdated solution that is missing many features."
"Integrations with things like Active Directory and LDAP tend to be a little complex."
"The UI could be updated a bit."
"The solution is not good for self-services, they can improve in this area."
"The financial area in the solution has certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"This product could be improved with Cloud Integrations and Predictive Analytics functions integration."
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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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