We performed a comparison between MicroStrategy and SAP Analytics Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two BI (Business Intelligence) Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Dependency on development teams, as well as managing the platform, has reduced a lot with Visual Insight."
"The dashboard features and functionalities that come through the MicroStrategy Suite are the most valuable. It can be used by end users with minimum knowledge of the product. They can run a report or create a dashboard on their phones, which is kind of cool."
"It drives us away from Excel. For what it is for, it is good. You can't run a business on Excel."
"There's extensive logging capabilities, if something is wrong then we are able to find out why."
"We are using mobile analytics, and it is amazing."
"We pretty much use the knowledge base. We feel that Microstrategy's community is a good forum to use."
"Project Schema/metadata- Very flexible, connects to a variety of different data sources and is very flexible for many specific tasks. Attributes/metrics/filters created once used by everyone."
"We are using it for operations analysis and sales data analysis."
"The product is flexible and has features like AI, link analysis, and insights. It has many features. I can search, and it creates automatic charts without selecting anything. For example, I can ask, "What is the gross margin?" the tool builds a chart based on my question."
"The most valuable features are the visualization and user-friendliness."
"It is a comprehensive BI solution that provides reporting, planning, and predictive analytics in one solution. You don't have to buy three different products. It is very flexible. It can be implemented very quickly. It has a lot of out-of-the-box scenarios that you can use for quick deployment."
"The features that I have found most valuable with SAP ERP products are their good user interface, stability, functionality, and good interface options."
"In the data warehouse, you're free to make changes. You can make everything text, meaning it's always a string. Even numbers appear as text, giving you the flexibility to work with all columns."
"The visualization feature is the most valuable. SAP Analytics Cloud is also very easy to use."
"The new Application Design option offers lots of customization options by being able to script in Typescript (similar to Javascript)."
"Visualization is quite seamless and awesome. Once the data messaging is set up, it's straightforward and simple to select how it should be displayed. So, that's another advantage of SAP."
"The solution lacks good visualization. They should work on the user interface to make it more slick and modern."
"There needs to be better visualization."
"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."
"They need to improve the web."
"I would like to see the enterprise version available in a demo or as a trial version."
"The product could be improved by adding additional visualization."
"It needs better visualizations."
"Currently, the client view looks completely different depending on what you are building."
"I would like to see reporting to the Analytics cloud directly."
"The business intelligence features should be improved because there is a lack of functionality regarding that part."
"They need a better scalability rate."
"One potential improvement is how we can transpose data. With SAP, if you have data from one system with a declared data type and a different system with another data type, the transfer is tricky."
"Currently only one data modeler can work at a time."
"Pricing is fine for the BI license, but when it comes to client license, that fee is a bit high."
"I expect more integration from SAP Analytics Cloud."
"I think it would be easier if there was another module created to retrieve only data."
MicroStrategy is ranked 8th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 155 reviews while SAP Analytics Cloud is ranked 5th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 60 reviews. MicroStrategy is rated 8.2, while SAP Analytics Cloud is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of MicroStrategy writes "A robust solution for powerful data analytics". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Analytics Cloud writes "Good for reporting but needs to improve its predictive analytics features". MicroStrategy is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Databricks, whereas SAP Analytics Cloud is most compared with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Tableau, IBM Planning Analytics, Microsoft Power BI and Oracle Essbase. See our MicroStrategy vs. SAP Analytics Cloud report.
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