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 have been using it mostly for grid reports and its exporting features."
"It's a stand-alone mobile development app that you don't even have to do business intelligence on. You can just use it to build apps."
"It is a good tool to help our customers visually see loads of data."
"Scalability is the best thing. You can really scale."
"There are people who are using MicroStrategy as transaction services."
"I like the user interface and the experience has been great."
"The platform can be easily monitored. You have quite a good overview of tasks which are being run."
"Visual Insight gives you the capability of doing self-service analytics. This has been the most powerful and valuable feature."
"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."
"We find the product to be very stable."
"The feature that allows pivot users to create the report dashboards and run them when they want with a lot of flexibility with the drill-downs is very useful. The drill-down features are very good because, in other solutions, such as Excel, you have to create separate pivot tables and a lot of other operations to do drill-downs. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform tool does the drill-downs automatically. Overall the solution is user-friendly and has a lot of drag and drop features."
"The setup is pretty easy. It's not hard at all."
"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."
"The reporting features the solution offers are excellent."
"I like the fact that we can integrate it seamlessly within our Epic environment, but probably the best thing that Crystal Reports offers is the ability to do visualizations. They're simple to do, and they're catchy. So, it is a really great tool."
"I have seen improvement in our work after using the solution."
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"With Cube partition (v10.1 and above) scalability has not been an issue, but the Cube publish time, and temporary space consumption while the Cube is being published, has almost doubled during implementation of Cube partition."
"I prefer the capabilities of a single platform, but it does not always work. We are a huge company. Some areas do not use MicroStrategy, so you have to blend whatever systems they are using together to get the data points that you are looking for."
"The learning curve is quite steep."
"If they can make it more stable, in terms of the connectivity, that would help."
"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."
"There are a lot of offerings, and we are not fully using everything to its advantage."
"They should provide more tutorials and include some project files."
"I would try to make it a little more basic, user-friendly. In terms of the UX, it's a bit sluggish there."
"The solution can improve by having more analytical features."
"Technical support may not always be timely or effective."
"I would like to see their data visualization products enhanced and made more robust and easier to implement."
"This solution is complex to configure and administer."
"The dashboard tool is called Lumira and it is very uncomfortable for developers to use. They should improve this in the future."
"The combination of Lumira along with Design Studio merger last year still needs development from a visualization standpoint."
"Over the years, the product tends to rename and rebrand itself and change its direction. This is a deficit of the solution."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is an outdated solution that is missing many features."
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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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