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 usability for users to be able to drag and drop, then create their own reports."
"We have ramped up user adoption."
"It plays a vital role in establishing a connection with predictive continuous improvement."
"The solution's platform analytics gives us real-time analysis of how a particular user uses the report and how the systems behave."
"This solution has allowed us to become a top-class competitor among other consulting companies."
"Transaction Services, that was really the part of the tool that made it very compelling for us, because it gave the opportunity to drive action."
"We've made it an open BI platform, so that all our business analysts can build their own dashboards and Dossiers."
"The architecture is very solid."
"The report development tool called SAP Web Intelligence under the BI Launch Pad portal has been the most valuable feature."
"The web intelligence reporting tool and universe designer are the most valuable aspects of the solution."
"The features which the solution has been awesome. The way the data is fetched from the database, and the queries are executed, is unique using the Universe of Business Objects. That makes it unique and we could not find another solution that functions in a similar way. It's has a great way of receiving and executing queries."
"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."
"What I like the most about SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform is that it has significantly improved our decision-making process."
"Provides autonomy for all the business users to develop their own reports."
"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."
"It is stable and robust. It has pretty direct integration with SAP ERP. It is easy to use."
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"Enterprise Manager should be a little bit less quirky when you build out-of-the-box customization reports for it."
"Another feature to consider in the future would be adding some additional offline capabilities without using desktops."
"Consolidate the functional offering to be more concise in the front-end for web reports, dashboards, and self-service."
"MicroStrategy's mobile dashboard is still not a RESTful design."
"We had some problems with customer service and support."
"When we come to them with a problem, they might know more of a generalized solution, but not one targeted to our industry."
"Data writeback, and on-the-fly predictive analysis results from R and Python could be improved."
"Our users tend to say the interface is a pain."
"We would like to see a native version of BusinessObjects and Web Intelligence created for the cloud."
"There is still a lot to be done on the mobile side to make Web Intelligence truly seamless between the desktop and mobile versions and I would like to see SAP pay a lot more attention to this."
"They could reduce the licensing expenses. There is nothing really wrong with the product in terms of what it does. It works well. If you are a part of BI Launch Pad, then you could run ad hoc reporting, but for the integration, you need access to BI Launch Pad, which is quite expensive. We're an organization with 18,000 employees. It is not really practical to give people access to BI Launch Pad. So, from a customer perspective, in terms of saturating our employee base, we don't really have great saturation because of the expense."
"The solution is not good for self-services, they can improve in this area."
"The admin features for disk space management need work. It's very difficult to manage the disk space by the application; good admin features and not included to allow you to do that. I don't believe that is in the latest version of the product either."
"The financial area in the solution has certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"The solution can improve by having more analytical features."
"Technical support may not always be timely or effective."
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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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