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.
"We are using it for operations analysis and sales data analysis."
"It is very stable."
"Building apps is easy. You just drag in your data, and then you drag in all the elements that you want on your app. It's drag and drop design, and then you can customize your visuals. They make it all easy with plug and play widgets."
"The technical support of MicroStrategy can be helpful through implementation."
"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."
"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."
"We prefer having our analytics capabilities in a single platform, which MicroStrategy's offers."
"I find MicroStrategy the most suited to the enterprise-wide BI platform, because of its scalability and stability."
"The solution's user security is extremely effective. You can profile very well. All the users and all the functionality is protected and that includes information and data segregation."
"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."
"We find that we can scale it as needed."
"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."
"The scheduling and publication features are very useful."
"We are using SAP BusinessObjects because its scheduling capabilities are more powerful than those of other tools."
"The report development tool called SAP Web Intelligence under the BI Launch Pad portal has been the most valuable feature."
"Has features that can be leveraged to scale out and scale up."
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"The solution lacks good visualization. They should work on the user interface to make it more slick and modern."
"It would be good if it had greater analytics so we could build these visualizations by ourselves with scripts."
"If they can make it more stable, in terms of the connectivity, that would help."
"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 don't think that they will, but I'd like to see parallel processing, scalable parallel processing."
"We have seen some stability issues with MicroStrategy on cloud. We have a few unhappy customers."
"The UI seems klutzy with its manual entry."
"We haven't invested in the mobile platform. We want to invest, but the problem is the security. We are in the health domain, so we have PHI data."
"The performance could be improved, like when we extract a large amount of data."
"Currently, we can use Explore to do data discovering, but cannot generate charts."
"The interface could be slicker and more user-friendly."
"The dashboard tool is called Lumira and it is very uncomfortable for developers to use. They should improve this in the future."
"There should be more integration with other platforms."
"The platform should be a bit more user-friendly."
"The user interface should be easier to use and navigate."
"Integrations with things like Active Directory and LDAP tend to be a little complex."
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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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