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 technical support is quite good."
"There are people who are using MicroStrategy as transaction services."
"It is a reliable solution for our needs."
"We've made it an open BI platform, so that all our business analysts can build their own dashboards and Dossiers."
"The single stack solution will always be more profitable, scalable, and elastic for organizational needs."
"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 architecture is very solid."
"It drives us away from Excel. For what it is for, it is good. You can't run a business on Excel."
"BusinessObjects can handle a lot of usage on the front end, and many users can view these reports. It's a relatively stable and secure tool."
"It has been extremely valuable, to combine data from various data sources."
"The web intelligence reporting tool and universe designer are the most valuable aspects of the solution."
"The reporting features the solution offers are excellent."
"The solution's user security is extremely effective. You can profile very well. All the users and all the functionality is protected and that includes information and data segregation."
"Way of creating reports."
"Business analytics are the most valuable features of this solution; I don't have experience with the other functional features offered."
"Ease of report development is a key feature."
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"MicroStrategy's mobile dashboard is still not a RESTful design."
"I would like to see the enterprise version available in a demo or as a trial version."
"Its price should be lower. In terms of features, what we have is quite encompassing right now."
"They need to do a better job In its ability to allow end users to produce their own reports, metrics, and self-service business intelligence."
"Currently, the client view looks completely different depending on what you are building."
"I want to be able to have one report that's delivered to 30 different people and all 30 different people see something different. Now, you can do that today with metrics. You cannot do that with attributes. There's a component of that which, if an attribute is on granularity-one and another is on granularity-two, and you remove granularity-one, you're now going to be summing to a level that you did not expect before."
"They should provide more tutorials and include some project files."
"The UI seems klutzy with its manual entry."
"Factoring in total implementation and maintenance costs, SAP BusinessObjects is too expensive. If you deal with a huge amount of data, you can go with BusinessObjects. However, if you are a medium-sized company with a modest amount of data, you can opt for another solution."
"The self-service area, or dashboard, needs some improvement. While the reporting itself is great, the dashboard and Analytics Cloud are not user friendly."
"The solution could be less expensive. It's a bit pricey now."
"It needs to be more flexible for the end-user."
"The UI could be updated a bit."
"The user interface should be easier to use and navigate."
"We would like to see a native version of BusinessObjects and Web Intelligence created for the cloud."
"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."
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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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