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.
"Building apps is easy. You just drag in your data, and then you drag in all the elements that you want on your app. It's drag and drop design, and then you can customize your visuals. They make it all easy with plug and play widgets."
"The solution's platform analytics gives us real-time analysis of how a particular user uses the report and how the systems behave."
"Semi-automatic support of implementing date dimensions, including delta to prior year implementation."
"It is a great tool and has the best offerings for doing data analysis."
"The ability to create aesthetically pleasing information by providing dashboards."
"The stability of the product is good."
"Cube performance and easy integration with third-party tools/products, are valuable features."
"We've made it an open BI platform, so that all our business analysts can build their own dashboards and Dossiers."
"It has been extremely valuable, to combine data from various data sources."
"The scheduling and publication features are very useful."
"Business analytics are the most valuable features of this solution; I don't have experience with the other functional features offered."
"The platform is a complete enterprise-level tool where everything is integrated to suffice your requirement."
"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."
"We use it to identify critical KPIs to senior management."
"The planning and dashboarding features have been useful. Additionally, the fixed-format reports are good."
"It is a very good product, stable, and has good technical capabilities."
More SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform Pros →
"MicroStrategy is not cloud native today and some of their APIs are a little limiting."
"There might be opportunities for reporting or data analysis, perhaps even in the realm of simulation."
"Another feature to consider in the future would be adding some additional offline capabilities without using desktops."
"It would be good if it had greater analytics so we could build these visualizations by ourselves with scripts."
"We haven't invested in the mobile platform. We want to invest, but the problem is the security. We are in the health domain, so we have PHI data."
"The product is designed for enterprise. A lightweight version would be easier for a smaller workgroup."
"There are some challenges in our organization on how we store the data."
"Currently, the client view looks completely different depending on what you are building."
"There is room for improvement in providing more user-friendly and versatile reporting options."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"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."
"More thorough testing of Service Packs before release."
"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."
"There should be more integration with other platforms."
"The dashboard tool is called Lumira and it is very uncomfortable for developers to use. They should improve this in the future."
More SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform Cons →
More SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform Pricing and Cost Advice →
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.
See our list of best BI (Business Intelligence) Tools vendors.
We monitor all BI (Business Intelligence) Tools reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.