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.
"I think what we're currently excited about is the ability to integrate R. Most of our data scientists use R for their modeling. I heard at one of the sessions, here at MicroStrategy World 2018, that you can put your R scripts directly into MicroStrategy, so any modeling effort that you've done in the past can be transferred into MicroStrategy."
"The single stack solution will always be more profitable, scalable, and elastic for organizational needs."
"With the new version that's coming out, I think they have simplified a lot of things. Also, when it comes to the administration part, and sharing, and the collaboration features, they are really great. You can send out comments with a filter to someone in your organization, and if the person clicks on it, he actually sees what you are seeing. So that's really great."
"Technical support is knowledgeable. The right person gets back to us whenever we email them."
"Workstation and Desktop on the client side will speed up some development activities."
"Mobile brings reports/dashboards closer to the business user."
"We have ramped up user adoption."
"It plays a vital role in establishing a connection with predictive continuous improvement."
"The initial setup of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform was easy since the solution is user-friendly."
"Enables us to present data with Smart Objects that can be embedded within presentations and which automatically update when the presentations are run."
"The reporting features the solution offers are excellent."
"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 solid and stable."
"The web intelligence reporting tool and universe designer are the most valuable aspects of the solution."
"The Dynamic HTML (DHTML) client option of Webi has been enhanced adding features that were previously only available with the Java client including conditional formatting and support of XLS as a data provider."
"It allows the analysis of business data and enables decisions based on the analysis."
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"There is room for improvement on the graphs."
"MicroStrategy should become more user friendly. It should behave more like Tableau."
"I would like to see a single standalone application to control everything from the administration perspective, and also to develop new applications."
"They need to improve on having more professional, well-equipped premium support."
"Native VI on mobile apps and better android support are lacking."
"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 has a very non-logical user usage part. It has a library mode where users can access all the data, reports, and dashboards, but they also can be accessed from a platform. They have to log into the platform. The user experience is confusing for the users. MicroStrategy needs to define which one they will use. Some functionality isn’t available in library mode but is available in the portal. There should be Office integration. For example, if I do a presentation, then I should be able to add a chart to my presentation."
"The web developer tool for documents creation does not have all the features of the client version"
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is an outdated solution that is missing many features."
"This product could be improved with Cloud Integrations and Predictive Analytics functions integration."
"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."
"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."
"It needs to be more flexible for the end-user."
"The SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform has always struggled with dashboarding."
"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 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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