We performed a comparison between Looker and MicroStrategy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Embedded BI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's quite effortless to navigate through various applications and review their updated data in real-time."
"With Looker, I have experienced benefits in terms of usability and shareability."
"It is a pretty stable solution because it is a cloud-based product."
"The product is easy to use."
"Looker allows you to generate the most optimal SQL queries in a DC through UI actions. We had signed a contract with Google Cloud to use BigQuery. That was the primary reason we adopted Looker. It works better with BigQuery than any other BI platform. We also like how this tool was developed. It was designed with an eye toward microservices architecture."
"The stability of Looker has been good since I have been using it. However, it depends on what components are being used."
"From a developer's perspective, the way the functionality's being handled is great."
"I would rate the stability a ten out of ten. I didn't face any issues with stability."
"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."
"Speed for high level aggregation by using Intelligent Cubes."
"It has the potential to become a great evangelist for AI and other embedded analytics."
"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 most important feature is the way it handles ad hoc queries and provides formatted reports."
"The implementation was fairly straightforward."
"There's extensive logging capabilities, if something is wrong then we are able to find out why."
"I find MicroStrategy the most suited to the enterprise-wide BI platform, because of its scalability and stability."
"Looker doesn't connect to Excel, which is a huge disappointment because a lot of data is presented in Excel. Also, it can't consume data directly from REST APIs, which is necessary. Looker needs to expand its horizons when it comes to data sources. The inability to connect to different data sources is hampering our use cases. Currently, it only has an ODBC connection that connects to a database. It needs to connect to other data sources, such as Excel, APIs, and different platforms."
"The main area of concern in Looker is probably related to blending the data from the different sources, including the data present internally in the company and on the cloud."
"Integrations with other BI tools could be better."
"The product does not have documented material."
"It needs to be more user-friendly."
"The integration with different databases must be improved."
"The visualization capability of the product is limited."
"Stability needs improvement."
"We did have issues with stability, and that was because we were co-located with another business unit, and we outgrew them on the unit. So we had to get to a separate physical instance."
"We would really like to see MicroStrategy have some support teams based more in Europe, because for now it seems that there is one person for the whole CE region. That is not exactly what we would like to see. We do know that MicroStrategy supports most places, either in the US or India, but those are different time zones, people, and cultures."
"They need to improve on distribution services. There are lack of features which were there earlier with Narrowcast, but they are not there in the distribution services."
"Needs tighter mapping integration."
"MicroStrategy should become more user friendly. It should behave more like Tableau."
"Training would be an area that they could improve upon."
"Consolidate the functional offering to be more concise in the front-end for web reports, dashboards, and self-service."
"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."
Looker is ranked 5th in Embedded BI with 19 reviews while MicroStrategy is ranked 4th in Embedded BI with 155 reviews. Looker is rated 8.0, while MicroStrategy is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Looker writes "The APIs are exposed at every level, so it's highly modular". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MicroStrategy writes "A robust solution for powerful data analytics". Looker is most compared with Amazon QuickSight, Tableau, Google Data Studio, Databricks and Alteryx, whereas MicroStrategy is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Databricks. See our Looker vs. MicroStrategy report.
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