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's a stand-alone mobile development app that you don't even have to do business intelligence on. You can just use it to build apps."
"Speed for high level aggregation by using Intelligent Cubes."
"Now we can collaborate, in real time. In the past we had to wait for our business partners say if a visualization looked good or sufficed for their requirements. There was no real-time decision making. Now, with Dossier, it will accelerate the velocity of decision making."
"It keeps BI in the hands of everyone, rather than a developer or an analyst."
"The technical support is quite good."
"The subscription model is excellent. About half of our reporting comes out of the subscription, and from there, the ease of use in dragging and dropping reporting objects."
"The solution's platform analytics gives us real-time analysis of how a particular user uses the report and how the systems behave."
"There's extensive logging capabilities, if something is wrong then we are able to find out why."
"Way of creating reports."
"We are using SAP BusinessObjects because its scheduling capabilities are more powerful than those of other tools."
"It is a very good product, stable, and has good technical capabilities."
"The platform uses a lot of Java technologies so the performance and system-level management are tricky because it needs a lot of resources."
"I have seen improvement in our work after using the solution."
"It allows the analysis of business data and enables decisions based on the analysis."
"It is stable and robust. It has pretty direct integration with SAP ERP. It is easy to use."
"To share a metadata service layer, you don't need to add a user or write a SQL query. Instead, you can present a raw database to your end user."
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"The interface you can design in MicroStrategy is great, but I feel it needs to be refreshed, add a bit more functionality. I would like to see more capabilities on the mobile side, to bring it on par with apps that you see in the App Store."
"The analytic speed would probably be what I would look for in terms of improvement because we have super huge data, and if I do not build views on top of data, then reports render really slowly."
"Something I would be interested in is more visualizations, because right now we use SDK to create some. If there were more out-of-the-box options, we would be happy with that."
"I did not see any additional value of providing one button for installation on the whole platform if it was going to be installed for different servers. You would have to make customization every time. There was no additional value in an installer."
"We have not invested nor are we planning to invest in MicroStrategy's mobile platform."
"In the developer, there are things that you able to do in a document or a report that you are not able to do in the Dossier."
"I know we are not competing against Tableau, but MicroStrategy needs to step up its game on the GUI side."
"They need to improve the web."
"The platform should be a bit more user-friendly."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is lacking dashboards and this would be the only reason we are looking for another solution."
"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."
"The SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform has always struggled with dashboarding."
"The solution can improve by having more analytical features."
"The UI could be updated a bit."
"There should be more integration with other platforms."
"The biggest area for improvement would be the dashboarding capabilities due to the recent change from Xcelsius to Dashboard Designer. This has created a gigantic ripple in many companies because the skill sets required are drastically different."
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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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