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.
"Scalability is fantastic. It can go from a small operation up to a gigantic operation. "
"The technical support is quite good."
"We use MicroStrategy as an integrated solution with some of their other CRM type applications."
"The platform can be easily monitored. You have quite a good overview of tasks which are being run."
"The architecture is very solid."
"Getting more data to people more quickly. Providing more flexibility for how they use the data."
"It definitely impacts people, who are excited to use it."
"I have never had any problems with the stability."
"It can process big volumes of data fast."
"It has been extremely valuable, to combine data from various data sources."
"Has features that can be leveraged to scale out and scale up."
"We are using SAP BusinessObjects because its scheduling capabilities are more powerful than those of other tools."
"Business analytics are the most valuable features of this solution; I don't have experience with the other functional features offered."
"The reporting features the solution offers are excellent."
"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."
"The platform uses a lot of Java technologies so the performance and system-level management are tricky because it needs a lot of resources."
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"They should provide more tutorials and include some project files."
"We had some problems with customer service and support."
"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."
"There are some challenges in our organization on how we store the data."
"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."
"They need to improve on distribution services. There are lack of features which were there earlier with Narrowcast, but they are not there in the distribution services."
"The areas that have room for improvement in MicroStrategy are mainly related to building additional tools. Specifically, the embedding process has been a bit of a struggle."
"MicroStrategy should become more user friendly. It should behave more like Tableau."
"I would like to see their data visualization products enhanced and made more robust and easier to implement."
"The calculation engine requires some improvement."
"More thorough testing of Service Packs before release."
"The solution is not good for self-services, they can improve in this area."
"The self-service area, or dashboard, needs some improvement. While the reporting itself is great, the dashboard and Analytics Cloud are not user friendly."
"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 dashboard tool is called Lumira and it is very uncomfortable for developers to use. They should improve this in the future."
"The combination of Lumira along with Design Studio merger last year still needs development from a visualization standpoint."
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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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