We performed a comparison between MicroStrategy and SAS Visual Analytics 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."The subscription model is excellent. About half of our reporting comes out of the subscription, and from there, the ease of use in dragging and dropping reporting objects."
"The stability of the product is good."
"The single stack solution will always be more profitable, scalable, and elastic for organizational needs."
"Having the analytics capabilities on a single platform."
"Technical support has sent us to rapid response before, when we really needed them."
"I have had a lot of projects where we had a lot of users, like thousands of users, and the data was in one report which could bring in six million records. MicroStrategy is doing a good job on scalability."
"Comprehensive security control and more."
"The convenience of it. Having it on the mobile, so someone has it right there in their pocket most of the time."
"I believe that the possibilities for exploring data and formulating visual results are quite good because it allows the business analyst to have different perspectives on the data."
"Simplifies report designs and quickly displays tables and graphs."
"It integrates well with SAS, making it simple and quick for developers."
"It's a stable, reliable product."
"Data handling is one of the best features of SAS Visual Analytics."
"The flexibility of the configuration is valuable to me."
"We've found the product to be stable and reliable."
"Great for handling complex data models."
"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,"
"The solution lacks good visualization. They should work on the user interface to make it more slick and modern."
"I know we are not competing against Tableau, but MicroStrategy needs to step up its game on the GUI side."
"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."
"We had some problems with customer service and support."
"There are a lot of offerings, and we are not fully using everything to its advantage."
"The In-Memory Capability (cubes) needs a lot of improvement."
"They should give proper industry-based tutorials so that one can learn it easily and implement it based on the requirements. They should give more MMP files so that we can import a whole project altogether and learn from that project."
"The installation process can be a bit complex."
"There are scalability issues. It depends on the data volume and number of end-users. VA requires a lot of hardware resources to move volumes of data."
"Better connectivity with other data origins, better visualization, and the ability to create KPIs directly would all help."
"There is room for improvement in anti-money laundering prevention and operation monitoring, as well as operation monitoring surveillance."
"There are a few little things that are predefined and can be done out of the box immediately. There is no business intelligence application that is predefined, which is something some customers or prospects would love to have. Small and mid-sized companies would struggle with it because they prefer something standard that has been predefined by somebody else."
"Colours used on report objects"
"The product is expensive and needs the integration of more languages."
"The charts and tables could use better sorting, primarily using other variables than the ones on the figure. If they could implement views like in the older version (previous to Viya), it would be very nice."
MicroStrategy is ranked 8th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 155 reviews while SAS Visual Analytics is ranked 8th in Data Visualization with 35 reviews. MicroStrategy is rated 8.2, while SAS Visual Analytics 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 SAS Visual Analytics writes "Single environment for multiple phases saves us time, and has good visualizations". MicroStrategy is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Qlik Sense, whereas SAS Visual Analytics is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Databricks, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio and Dataiku. See our MicroStrategy vs. SAS Visual Analytics report.
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