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.
"This solution is the most scalable BI platform in the world."
"In the past, when we had so many legacy systems, with Cognos and others, it was took multiple steps to get what we wanted. Now, it's a seamless integration. We can connect directly, in the form of In-Memory Cubes or live-publish cubes, to the data warehouse, and blend in the data with big data. Not only relational databases, but we can also integrate other third-party files, and create a single-source software."
"Having the analytics capabilities on a single platform."
"With all the APIs it's very scalable."
"Technical support is knowledgeable. The right person gets back to us whenever we email them."
"It is a good tool to help our customers visually see loads of data."
"The interactive features that appear in the report were good. The external rendering option they give with multi servers was also good."
"The platform can be easily monitored. You have quite a good overview of tasks which are being run."
"Through the use of Business Intelligence reporting and scheduling features, reports are generated and automatically sent according to a schedule. This has freed up countless hours spent performing the same tasks, month over month."
"We find that we can scale it as needed."
"It has been extremely valuable, to combine data from various data sources."
"The planning and dashboarding features have been useful. Additionally, the fixed-format reports are good."
"Enables us to present data with Smart Objects that can be embedded within presentations and which automatically update when the presentations are run."
"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."
"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."
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"The learning curve is quite steep."
"Data preparation-wise, it was not so straightforward with respect to getting different sources. Preparing or transforming the data inside and then bringing it onto the dashboard was a bit difficult, and the experience could have been better."
"MicroStrategy is dragging behind other tools on the self-service visualizations, like Tableau. I would rate Tableau as a 10. For the same visualizations, I would say MicroStrategy is an eight, maybe nine. They're still behind on the self-service visualizations,"
"Sometimes, it has become too complex to upgrade and adjust to the ecosystem."
"It would be good if it had greater analytics so we could build these visualizations by ourselves with scripts."
"If you do not learn the ins or outs, it can be a difficult tool to use. You could do a PoC and get enough out of it to be able to use it. However, when it comes to administering it, you definitely need the training."
"I think they're still lacking on customer service. I think historically, MicroStrategy's customer service was a lot better than it is today."
"We had some problems with customer service and support."
"It is limited for us because SAP is shifting toward the cloud, and we can't use a cloud solution for SAP BusinessObjects. SAP introduced a product called PlusTimes one or two years ago and another one that I believe was called Automatic BI. This tool is more powerful than BusinessObjects and other tools because it's provided in the cloud."
"There is room for improvement in providing more user-friendly and versatile reporting options."
"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."
"Over the years, the product tends to rename and rebrand itself and change its direction. This is a deficit of the solution."
"The UI could be updated a bit."
"The performance could be improved, like when we extract a large amount of data."
"The solution is not good for self-services, they can improve in this area."
"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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