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.
"There's extensive logging capabilities, if something is wrong then we are able to find out why."
"With all the APIs it's very scalable."
"We've made it an open BI platform, so that all our business analysts can build their own dashboards and Dossiers."
"The most valuable features are ad hoc reporting and the ability to create dashboards."
"The feature I found most valuable is the drop and drag functionality available."
"The platform can be easily monitored. You have quite a good overview of tasks which are being run."
"It is one tool which you can find everything. "
"The hyperintelligence is the most valuable feature."
"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."
"Ease of report development is a key feature."
"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."
"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."
"It is a very good product, stable, and has good technical capabilities."
"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."
"It gives you a lot of flexibility in designing your dashboards."
"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."
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"Needs tighter mapping integration."
"I would like to see more Writeback capabilities that would allow our IT department not to be worried about the wild, Wild West of Writeback."
"The online community page of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"I don't think that they will, but I'd like to see parallel processing, scalable parallel processing."
"If they can make it more stable, in terms of the connectivity, that would help."
"If you compare it with Power BI with the DAX language, it would be great to put that into MicroStrategy."
"Scalability is something which will need to be improved when it goes to a bigger audience."
"We have not invested nor are we planning to invest in MicroStrategy's mobile platform."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform should be made easier for the end-users and the performance could be improved."
"More thorough testing of Service Packs before release."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is lacking dashboards and this would be the only reason we are looking for another solution."
"Tableau was easier for me to use because the interface is more similar to Excel which I was used to using."
"We would like to see a native version of BusinessObjects and Web Intelligence created for the cloud."
"This product could be improved with Cloud Integrations and Predictive Analytics functions integration."
"It could be a lighter solution."
"Recently, it's become less stable if I am working on Citrix."
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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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