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 drill-down functionality is also very good."
"Speed for high level aggregation by using Intelligent Cubes."
"It is a good tool to help our customers visually see loads of data."
"You can build once and deploy to multiple operating systems. Also, it resizes in the way you want it to."
"It offers us a lot of out-of-the-box tools, which give us the ability to automate a lot of our administrative tasks. Some things become menial: user creation, restarting a server at 10 o'clock on a Friday - simple things that they really give you the tools to be able to do. That's one thing I really like about the MicroStrategy platform from an administrative perspective."
"The single stack solution will always be more profitable, scalable, and elastic for organizational needs."
"Stability is great, especially with package deployments. It is very consistent and stable."
"We prefer having our analytics capabilities in a single platform, which MicroStrategy's offers."
"The development using SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is very good."
"Has features that can be leveraged to scale out and scale up."
"The ability to merge dimensions in a report is great."
"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 initial setup of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform was easy since the solution is user-friendly."
"Provides autonomy for all the business users to develop their own reports."
"Way of creating reports."
"I have seen improvement in our work after using the solution."
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"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 need to improve on having more professional, well-equipped premium support."
"Getting our data to work with the tool is where we are having issues."
"Our data warehouse is sort of static; negative load and that is it. It is not as real-time as we would like. We are working on building that out first to create more real-time, at which point we will work on some potential integrations with other applications, but I don't think we are there yet."
"Preparation, data loading and data management application is challenging with MicroStrategy. It lacks cube-based analytics as it is outdated, meaning there is no memory or fast processing analytics or MMA deployment."
"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."
"If you compare it with Power BI with the DAX language, it would be great to put that into MicroStrategy."
"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."
"It needs to be more flexible for the end-user."
"There is room for improvement in providing more user-friendly and versatile reporting options."
"This solution is complex to configure and administer."
"The performance could be improved, like when we extract a large amount of data."
"More thorough testing of Service Packs before release."
"The UI could be updated a bit."
"The SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform has always struggled with dashboarding."
"The dashboard tool is called Lumira and it is very uncomfortable for developers to use. They should improve this in the future."
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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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