We performed a comparison between MicroStrategy and XLCubed 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."MicroStrategy's solution for mobile is very good."
"It was easy to install and implement a report with it."
"It is definitely customizable. We have been able to put in key metrics and performance indicators, thus it is customizable."
"The usability for users to be able to drag and drop, then create their own reports."
"Tech support has been great, very responsive. We usually hear back within a day. We usually email them and that works out perfect. The right person always gets back to us."
"I have never had any problems with the stability."
"The stability of the product is good."
"It is very stable."
"Great capability, performance, flexibility, visuals, and the solution is also very cost effective."
"I am looking forward to testing their full graphics that are available, as they looked very interesting in the demo."
"I prefer the capabilities of a single platform, but it does not always work. We are a huge company. Some areas do not use MicroStrategy, so you have to blend whatever systems they are using together to get the data points that you are looking for."
"Another feature to consider in the future would be adding some additional offline capabilities without using desktops."
"There might be opportunities for reporting or data analysis, perhaps even in the realm of simulation."
"We had some problems with customer service and support."
"It is performing well, but sometimes we have complex requirements and the performance decreases, and then we have to find another way to make it perform again. That is what you encounter when use the project, but that's inevitable because if we would have used another product, we would've had the same thing."
"I did not see any additional value of providing one button for installation on the whole platform if it was going to be installed for different servers. You would have to make customization every time. There was no additional value in an installer."
"Lacks decent visualization and the process for creating new objects needs to be simplified."
"MicroStrategy's mobile dashboard is still not a RESTful design."
"Would like the ability to be able to benchmark."
"There should be a better or an easier way to establish that connection to external sources."
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MicroStrategy is ranked 9th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 155 reviews while XLCubed is ranked 26th in Reporting. MicroStrategy is rated 8.2, while XLCubed is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of MicroStrategy writes "A robust solution for powerful data analytics". On the other hand, the top reviewer of XLCubed writes "Cost effective with great capability, performance, flexibility and visuals". MicroStrategy is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Qlik Sense, whereas XLCubed is most compared with Microsoft Power BI and Tableau. See our MicroStrategy vs. XLCubed report.
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