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.
"It helps all the store managers and supply chain people to obtain a view of the data and plan the next week, the next month, quarters, and so on."
"There's extensive logging capabilities, if something is wrong then we are able to find out why."
"The most valuable features are the Visual Insights and the visualizations."
"The platform can be easily monitored. You have quite a good overview of tasks which are being run."
"The architecture is very solid."
"Cube performance and easy integration with third-party tools/products, are valuable features."
"The most valuable features are drill down, dashboards, documents, bringing everything under one roof, and visualizations."
"We pretty much use the knowledge base. We feel that Microstrategy's community is a good forum to use."
"Has features that can be leveraged to scale out and scale up."
"The platform is a complete enterprise-level tool where everything is integrated to suffice your requirement."
"The initial setup of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform was easy since the solution is user-friendly."
"We use it to identify critical KPIs to senior management."
"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."
"BusinessObjects can handle a lot of usage on the front end, and many users can view these reports. It's a relatively stable and secure tool."
"The reports are most valuable. If it is a single-source universe, based on only one database, the performance, and the reporting tool is user-friendly, and users are very familiar with the tool and are comfortable using it."
"It is solid and stable."
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"Needs more visual essence and connectors for the ecosystems, which would be easy to use."
"We have seen some stability issues with MicroStrategy on cloud. We have a few unhappy customers."
"MicroStrategy should become more user friendly. It should behave more like Tableau."
"Enterprise Manager should be a little bit less quirky when you build out-of-the-box customization reports for it."
"We have the mobile server. We have not used it. That is because the people on our team have not been trained on it yet, but that is something that we want to do."
"The product could be improved by adding additional visualization."
"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."
"One of the things that I want to see MicroStrategy do is become more cloud native. Right now, the deployment on cloud is very easy to ruin, it is very much like spinning up separate VMs."
"The user interface should be easier to use and navigate."
"The financial area in the solution has certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"It is not simple to use."
"The UI could be updated a bit."
"Factoring in total implementation and maintenance costs, SAP BusinessObjects is too expensive. If you deal with a huge amount of data, you can go with BusinessObjects. However, if you are a medium-sized company with a modest amount of data, you can opt for another solution."
"Currently, we can use Explore to do data discovering, but cannot generate charts."
"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."
"Over the years, the product tends to rename and rebrand itself and change its direction. This is a deficit of the 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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