We performed a comparison between MicroStrategy, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."Visual Insight gives you the capability of doing self-service analytics. This has been the most powerful and valuable feature."
"I have shown our users how to stop using Excel. They would create these vast Excel files, and I showed them how to do the same thing with MicroStrategy, which saves a significant amount of time for them everyday."
"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."
"There's extensive logging capabilities, if something is wrong then we are able to find out why."
"This solution has allowed us to become a top-class competitor among other consulting companies."
"The reporting, the dashboards, and the new visualization functions. It is very easy for users to understand their data and dashboards."
"The interactive features that appear in the report were good. The external rendering option they give with multi servers was also good."
"With the new version that's coming out, I think they have simplified a lot of things. Also, when it comes to the administration part, and sharing, and the collaboration features, they are really great. You can send out comments with a filter to someone in your organization, and if the person clicks on it, he actually sees what you are seeing. So that's really great."
"Enables us to present data with Smart Objects that can be embedded within presentations and which automatically update when the presentations are run."
"It is a very good product, stable, and has good technical capabilities."
"Way of creating reports."
"BusinessObject's most useful feature is the semantic layer, which offers us the flexibility to go for ad hoc reporting."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform's most valuable features are it has a great presentation layer. We can develop the presentation layer with drag-and-drop capabilities. For end-users and for our interns in the company can create reports and do their data analysis processes or works by using the objects that we created on the presentation layer by themselves."
"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."
"The solution's user security is extremely effective. You can profile very well. All the users and all the functionality is protected and that includes information and data segregation."
"We find that we can scale it as needed."
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"Tableau Prep tool for data preparation is a most valuable tool."
"It is a complete solution allowing a lot of integrations, different graphics, multiple operations and analyzes our date and gives us meaning from it."
"The data blending capabilities is a huge factor for our team."
"It is a stable solution."
"The ability of filtering and segmentation of the data makes it very flexible compared to other tools."
"The initial setup is quick and easy and you don't need special outside assistance to set everything up."
"Tableau has data relationships that can be applied to a data source which helps build out a directory which is helpful. Data blending has also been valuable to us."
"It's a very good, flexible product, and it's easy to learn."
"One of the things that I want to see MicroStrategy do is become more cloud native. Right now, the deployment on cloud is very easy to ruin, it is very much like spinning up separate VMs."
"Another feature to consider in the future would be adding some additional offline capabilities without using desktops."
"MicroStrategy lacks that community support. You're either stuck figuring things out yourself or paying expensive fees to MicroStrategy consultants for help."
"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."
"This solution is missing enhanced features in the dashboards."
"Consolidate the functional offering to be more concise in the front-end for web reports, dashboards, and self-service."
"The learning curve is quite steep."
"It would be good if it had greater analytics so we could build these visualizations by ourselves with scripts."
"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."
"The solution could be less expensive. It's a bit pricey now."
"The self-service area, or dashboard, needs some improvement. While the reporting itself is great, the dashboard and Analytics Cloud are not user friendly."
"The user interface should be easier to use and navigate."
"Technical support may not always be timely or effective."
"Factoring in total implementation and maintenance costs, SAP BusinessObjects is too expensive. If you deal with a huge amount of data, you can go with BusinessObjects. However, if you are a medium-sized company with a modest amount of data, you can opt for another solution."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform has to be improved performance-wise. The look and feel of this application, its scalability, setup, and technical support also need improvement."
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"When there are millions of records, scaling up is quite difficult."
"Implementation requires a technical background."
"A strict security measure is needed. I believe it is weak in terms of security."
"When it comes to large datasets, the data should be extracted faster."
"Other tools are more competitively priced."
"It needs more ETL capabilities, to be able to address the end-to-end BI need."
"Navigating through activities like cleansing, reshaping, and wrangling extensive or complicated datasets could prove challenging within the Tableau environment."
"Most of the problems in Tableau Online that I have noticed have to do with performance or weird, inexplicable bugs that I can't pin down. For example, you might try unloading some data, and you'll be waiting for a long time without anything happening."
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