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 ability to create aesthetically pleasing information by providing dashboards."
"The most valuable features are ad hoc reporting and the ability to create dashboards."
"Stability is great, especially with package deployments. It is very consistent and stable."
"It is a good tool to help our customers visually see loads of data."
"Workstation and Desktop on the client side will speed up some development activities."
"It plays a vital role in establishing a connection with predictive continuous improvement."
"Scalability is the best thing. You can really scale."
"The most important feature is the way it handles ad hoc queries and provides formatted reports."
"The ability to merge dimensions in a report is great."
"The planning and dashboarding features have been useful. Additionally, the fixed-format reports are good."
"Provides autonomy for all the business users to develop their own reports."
"This reporting and broadcasting solution has a lot of flexibilities and can connect to multiple source systems."
"One of the most valuable features of SAP BusinessObjects is that it's not a dashboarding solution. It's a real product. You can create operational reports and publish it to anyone. You can create schedules. You can create a Universe, semantic layers. There's also a security configuration. It's a huge product, so if there is a business need, SAP BusinessObjects can cover it."
"What I like the most about SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform is that it has significantly improved our decision-making process."
"Ease of report development is a key feature."
"The initial setup of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform was easy since the solution is user-friendly."
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"I would like to see the enterprise version available in a demo or as a trial version."
"It is actually pretty complicated to use. It is complicated enough that user adaptation is sometimes difficult. We developed more experts rather than people using it."
"Needs more visual essence and connectors for the ecosystems, which would be easy to use."
"The product could be improved by adding additional visualization."
"I would try to make it a little more basic, user-friendly. In terms of the UX, it's a bit sluggish there."
"I don't think that they will, but I'd like to see parallel processing, scalable parallel processing."
"If there are some advanced visualization features - maybe I'm not aware of them - but if there were a Vitara which could work on top of MicroStrategy, it would make sense for MicroStrategy to have that within their own library. So they should add more visualizations to the library."
"They should provide more tutorials and include some project files."
"It needs to be more flexible for the end-user."
"SAP BusinessObjects is actually losing popularity within our company because people find the user interface and the way things are set up not to be as easy as many other tools that are on the market, like Qlik and things like that."
"We're an Epic shop, and Epic is moving away from Crystal. It would be nice if it had tighter integration with products like Epic. It would be awesome to have better integration with third-party products."
"It could be a lighter solution."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is lacking dashboards and this would be the only reason we are looking for another solution."
"The calculation engine requires some improvement."
"Its price should be better. It is expensive and not cost-effective. It should also be improved in terms of end-user experience. It requires further improvements for usability and ease of use. It should have more dashboarding metrics and much faster integration with ERP so that when you double click, you can instantly see the scenario-based result."
"Technical support may not always be timely or effective."
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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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