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 mobile for MicroStrategy is the best of all the BI platforms. As a separate product for the mobile device, MicroStrategy is the entire BI platform. It is an enterprise solution, a separate unit, etc."
"The ability to integrate with PPT is another plus. The platform's ability to write back data directly to the database is also good."
"The implementation was fairly straightforward."
"It is definitely customizable. We have been able to put in key metrics and performance indicators, thus it is customizable."
"The scalability is great. It was one of the selling points for us on MicroStrategy."
"It keeps BI in the hands of everyone, rather than a developer or an analyst."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to actually embed actions, comments, being able to leverage Transaction Services to embed the tool into a business process."
"The drill-down functionality is also very good."
"This reporting and broadcasting solution has a lot of flexibilities and can connect to multiple source systems."
"Enables us to present data with Smart Objects that can be embedded within presentations and which automatically update when the presentations are run."
"The setup is pretty easy. It's not hard at all."
"It is stable and robust. It has pretty direct integration with SAP ERP. It is easy to use."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that we are able to build all dashboards with self-service BI and are able to provide our business users with self-service BI. We are building a repository on top of our data warehouse and building all the dashboards and KPIs."
"The most important feature of BusinessObjects is its integration with the SAP ERP system. If an organization is using SAP as its ERP system, and they want to do business intelligence, reporting, or analysis, SAP BusinessObjects is the only tool that I see doing that quite efficiently. That's because of the fact it is tightly integrated, and it gives a good user experience in terms of faster reporting. Its integration is the feature that I have found most valuable, but there are also other factors."
"The development using SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is very good."
"If I were to compare it with Power BI and I wanted to build proper well-formatted reports, BusinessObjects Business Intelligence does that much better. Power BI is just getting into that space. They've concentrated more on visualization, which is what the SAP Lumira does. With Web Intelligence, you are able to build reports that users can interact with. They can also do a lot of querying themselves. It is robust in terms of security and integration. It is also quite scalable."
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"They need to improve the web."
"The product is designed for enterprise. A lightweight version would be easier for a smaller workgroup."
"There are some challenges in our organization on how we store the data."
"Needs more visual essence and connectors for the ecosystems, which would be easy to use."
"They need to improve on distribution services. There are lack of features which were there earlier with Narrowcast, but they are not there in the distribution services."
"Enterprise Manager should be a little bit less quirky when you build out-of-the-box customization reports for it."
"The graphs available for the new dashboard of version 10 are weak."
"The solution lacks good visualization. They should work on the user interface to make it more slick and modern."
"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 combination of Lumira along with Design Studio merger last year still needs development from a visualization standpoint."
"Technical support may not always be timely or effective."
"The solution is not good for self-services, they can improve in this area."
"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."
"More thorough testing of Service Packs before release."
"The financial area in the solution has certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"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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