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 implementation was fairly straightforward."
"It is always nice to have one solution in a single platform. You can do pretty much everything, instead of having to get a little bit here or a little bit there."
"We've made it an open BI platform, so that all our business analysts can build their own dashboards and Dossiers."
"Dependency on development teams, as well as managing the platform, has reduced a lot with Visual Insight."
"There are people who are using MicroStrategy as transaction services."
"Speed for high level aggregation by using Intelligent Cubes."
"The stability of the product is good."
"MicroStrategy has powerful data security features, which are crucial these days. For example, when users view data in MicroStrategy, they're only allowed to see a portion based on the permissions. When we evaluated other solutions like Power BI or Tableau, we found the security is very poor. They can't help us secure access to the data."
"It allows the analysis of business data and enables decisions based on the analysis."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform's most valuable features are it has a great presentation layer. We can develop the presentation layer with drag-and-drop capabilities. For end-users and for our interns in the company can create reports and do their data analysis processes or works by using the objects that we created on the presentation layer by themselves."
"The ability to merge dimensions in a report is great."
"Reporting from SAP Business Objects Web Intelligence is amazing, and gives users the ability to quickly access data from existing universes and/or relevant data sources, without the need to involve a functional business analyst or financial analyst."
"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."
"It is more user-friendly and easier to work with the report creation part, creating reports out of an established universe. Maybe a business person could liberate the existing universe and create a report on top of it, as well. So that's one cool feature."
"The web intelligence reporting tool and universe designer are the most valuable aspects of the solution."
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"They should give proper industry-based tutorials so that one can learn it easily and implement it based on the requirements. They should give more MMP files so that we can import a whole project altogether and learn from that project."
"If you do not learn the ins or outs, it can be a difficult tool to use. You could do a PoC and get enough out of it to be able to use it. However, when it comes to administering it, you definitely need the training."
"This solution is missing enhanced features in the dashboards."
"MicroStrategy should become more user friendly. It should behave more like Tableau."
"The web developer tool for documents creation does not have all the features of the client version"
"The pricing could be lower because it is costly."
"If you compare it with Power BI with the DAX language, it would be great to put that into MicroStrategy."
"We've found the scalability to be very good. However, it depends on the environment. In general, it could be much better."
"Tableau was easier for me to use because the interface is more similar to Excel which I was used to using."
"The solution could be less expensive. It's a bit pricey now."
"This solution is complex to configure and administer."
"SAP BusinessObjects is actually losing popularity within our company because people find the user interface and the way things are set up not to be as easy as many other tools that are on the market, like Qlik and things like that."
"When we implemented BusinessObjects, the setup was straightforward. After SAP bought BusinessObjects, it gradually became more and more stepwise. There are too many steps, and they take too much time."
"It needs to be more flexible for the end-user."
"The combination of Lumira along with Design Studio merger last year still needs development from a visualization standpoint."
"The interface could be slicker and more user-friendly."
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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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