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.
"Now we can collaborate, in real time. In the past we had to wait for our business partners say if a visualization looked good or sufficed for their requirements. There was no real-time decision making. Now, with Dossier, it will accelerate the velocity of decision making."
"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."
"MicroStrategy's solution for mobile is very good."
"Semi-automatic support of implementing date dimensions, including delta to prior year implementation."
"Has a great semantic layer."
"Cube performance and easy integration with third-party tools/products, are valuable features."
"Technical support is knowledgeable. The right person gets back to us whenever we email them."
"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 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."
"What I like the most about SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform is that it has significantly improved our decision-making process."
"It is stable and robust. It has pretty direct integration with SAP ERP. It is easy to use."
"I have seen improvement in our work after using the solution."
"The development using SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is very good."
"The initial setup of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform was easy since the solution is user-friendly."
"The most important feature of BusinessObjects is its integration with the SAP ERP system. If an organization is using SAP as its ERP system, and they want to do business intelligence, reporting, or analysis, SAP BusinessObjects is the only tool that I see doing that quite efficiently. That's because of the fact it is tightly integrated, and it gives a good user experience in terms of faster reporting. Its integration is the feature that I have found most valuable, but there are also other factors."
"The solution is stable."
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"Its price should be lower. In terms of features, what we have is quite encompassing right now."
"It would be good if it had greater analytics so we could build these visualizations by ourselves with scripts."
"There are some challenges in our organization on how we store the data."
"MicroStrategy is dragging behind other tools on the self-service visualizations, like Tableau. I would rate Tableau as a 10. For the same visualizations, I would say MicroStrategy is an eight, maybe nine. They're still behind on the self-service visualizations,"
"Enterprise Manager should be a little bit less quirky when you build out-of-the-box customization reports for it."
"The product is designed for enterprise. A lightweight version would be easier for a smaller workgroup."
"Needs more visual essence and connectors for the ecosystems, which would be easy to use."
"We have not invested nor are we planning to invest in MicroStrategy's mobile platform."
"We would like to see a native version of BusinessObjects and Web Intelligence created for the cloud."
"We're an Epic shop, and Epic is moving away from Crystal. It would be nice if it had tighter integration with products like Epic. It would be awesome to have better integration with third-party products."
"I don't like the fact that I have to use two tools. Web Intelligence is good for reporting and all kinds of stuff, but I would rather have one product. All the reporting features of Web Intelligence should be developed within Lumira. A lot of predictive abilities have been brought into the cloud version of SAP Analytics. It would be nice to see a lot of newer technologies and AI. Predictive capabilities are becoming a little more standard. Instead of having to get another model, we are just looking for one solution to deal with analytics including predictive."
"The SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform has always struggled with dashboarding."
"The dashboard tool is called Lumira and it is very uncomfortable for developers to use. They should improve this in the future."
"The solution could be less expensive. It's a bit pricey now."
"This product could be improved with Cloud Integrations and Predictive Analytics functions integration."
"It could be a lighter solution."
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MicroStrategy is ranked 8th 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 Databricks. See our MicroStrategy vs. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform report.
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