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 platform can be easily monitored. You have quite a good overview of tasks which are being run."
"It's user-friendly, also the MTDI cube is a very good approach, as it helps you to use the pre-format instead of using the standard objects from the schema of MicroStrategy."
"It is definitely customizable. We have been able to put in key metrics and performance indicators, thus it is customizable."
"Stability is great, especially with package deployments. It is very consistent and stable."
"The dashboard features and functionalities that come through the MicroStrategy Suite are the most valuable. It can be used by end users with minimum knowledge of the product. They can run a report or create a dashboard on their phones, which is kind of cool."
"The most valuable features are the Visual Insights and the visualizations."
"The most valuable features of MicroStrategy are user-friendliness and integration with the different data warehouse systems."
"The technical support of MicroStrategy can be helpful through implementation."
"The platform uses a lot of Java technologies so the performance and system-level management are tricky because it needs a lot of resources."
"It gives you a lot of flexibility in designing your dashboards."
"It provides flexibility for creating reports. It is very good for creating highly-complex reports. I like this solution because when I buy BusinessObjects, it comes with many components, such as reporting, dashboard, and data visualization tools. Its performance is good. It is running on top of SAP BW and SAP HANA."
"We find that we can scale it as needed."
"The platform is a complete enterprise-level tool where everything is integrated to suffice your requirement."
"Business analytics are the most valuable features of this solution; I don't have experience with the other functional features offered."
"The common metadata environment means that the entire organisation has the same definition of core measures rather than these being derived in spreadsheets or specific reports."
"It is solid and stable."
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"There are some challenges in our organization on how we store the data."
"The online community page of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Sometimes, it has become too complex to upgrade and adjust to the ecosystem."
"I would like to see a feature where migrations are easier. When you migrate from certain environments, it could probably be a little cleaner. Sometimes it seems to be somewhat clunky when you migrate from one environment, say a development to a test or production environment."
"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."
"We have seen some stability issues with MicroStrategy on cloud. We have a few unhappy customers."
"We had some problems with customer service and support."
"MicroStrategy is not cloud native today and some of their APIs are a little limiting."
"There should be more integration with other platforms."
"The user interface should be easier to use and navigate."
"Technical support may not always be timely or effective."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform should be made easier for the end-users and the performance could be improved."
"The combination of Lumira along with Design Studio merger last year still needs development from a visualization standpoint."
"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."
"It could be a lighter solution."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is lacking dashboards and this would be the only reason we are looking for another solution."
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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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