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.
"We've made it an open BI platform, so that all our business analysts can build their own dashboards and Dossiers."
"It helps all the store managers and supply chain people to obtain a view of the data and plan the next week, the next month, quarters, and so on."
"The drill-down functionality is also very good."
"The single stack solution will always be more profitable, scalable, and elastic for organizational needs."
"There's extensive logging capabilities, if something is wrong then we are able to find out why."
"It definitely impacts people, who are excited to use it."
"The usability for users to be able to drag and drop, then create their own reports."
"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."
"There are two tools inside BusinessObjects' schematic layout called the Universal Design Tool and Information Design Tool. These are the most powerful tools that set BusinessObjects' reporting from other solutions. If my organization has 300 or 400 tables, I can combine all of them into one universe, and everyone can use that. It is just a schematic layout that does not hold any data but the table relationships."
"It is more user-friendly and easier to work with the report creation part, creating reports out of an established universe. Maybe a business person could liberate the existing universe and create a report on top of it, as well. So that's one cool 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 platform uses a lot of Java technologies so the performance and system-level management are tricky because it needs a lot of resources."
"It gives you a lot of flexibility in designing your dashboards."
"Reporting from SAP Business Objects Web Intelligence is amazing, and gives users the ability to quickly access data from existing universes and/or relevant data sources, without the need to involve a functional business analyst or financial analyst."
"The planning and dashboarding features have been useful. Additionally, the fixed-format reports are good."
"The web intelligence reporting tool and universe designer are the most valuable aspects of the solution."
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"I don't think that they will, but I'd like to see parallel processing, scalable parallel processing."
"Another feature to consider in the future would be adding some additional offline capabilities without using desktops."
"Currently, the client view looks completely different depending on what you are building."
"I would like to see the enterprise version available in a demo or as a trial version."
"The solution lacks good visualization. They should work on the user interface to make it more slick and modern."
"Scalability is something which will need to be improved when it goes to a bigger audience."
"The UI seems klutzy with its manual entry."
"We had some problems with customer service and support."
"The financial area in the solution has certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is lacking dashboards and this would be the only reason we are looking for another solution."
"It would be good if they could integrate the possibility for end users to create end models for themselves that they can use, especially for site operators, and if they could provide the end user not only the self-service BI, but also the self-service analytics, based on a predefined model, the same way that Oracle did."
"Recently, it's become less stable if I am working on Citrix."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in providing more user-friendly and versatile reporting options."
"We would like to see a native version of BusinessObjects and Web Intelligence created for the cloud."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
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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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