Anaconda vs MicroStrategy comparison

The compared Anaconda and MicroStrategy solutions aren't in the same category. Anaconda is ranked #11 in Data Science Platforms , with an average rating of 8.7, and holds a 2.1% mindshare in the category. MicroStrategy is ranked #7 in BIT , with an average rating of 7.4, and holds a 2.8% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Anaconda users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of MicroStrategy users who would recommend it.

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95% willing to recommend

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92% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Anaconda

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Science Platforms (11th)

MicroStrategy

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

161

Ranking in other categories

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (7th), Embedded BI (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Business Intelligence solutions, they serve different purposes. Anaconda is designed for Data Science Platforms and holds a mindshare of 2.1%, up 2.1% compared to last year.
MicroStrategy, on the other hand, focuses on BI (Business Intelligence) Tools, holds 2.8% mindshare, down 3.7% since last year.

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Featured Reviews

Rohan Sharma

AI/ML Co-Lead at Developer Student Clubs - GGV

Provides all the frameworks and makes it easy to create environments for multiple projects

The best thing is that it provides all the frameworks and makes it easy to create environments for multiple projects using Anaconda. It is easy for a beginner to learn to use Anaconda. Comparatively, it is easier than using virtual environments or other environments because of the Conda environment. However, there are many things in Anaconda that people need to be aware of, so it can be challenging.

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AJIN S L

Technical Analyst at Allianz

Experience has shown effective features for analysis, but needs interface improvements

The most effective features of MicroStrategy for data analysis are those that cater to user needs. However, I find Power BI to be more useful when comparing some features, but my company does not choose Power BI due to certain code restrictions. The MicroStrategy interface is not as good as Power BI, especially concerning the user-friendly aspects.

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The documentation is excellent and the solution has a very large and active community that supports it."

"The most valuable feature is the set of libraries that are used to support the functionality that we require."

"It has a lot of functionality available, supports many libraries, and the developers are continually improving it."

"It's interesting. It's user friendly. That's what makes it outstanding among the others. It has a collection of R, Python, and others. Their platform strategy has a collection of many other visualization tools, apart from Spyder and RStudio, which is really helpful for data science. For any data science professional, Anaconda is really handy. It has almost all the tools for data science."

"The product is responsive, sleek and has a beautiful interface that is pleasant to use. It helps users to easily share code."

"The solution is stable."

"The notebook feature is an improvement over RStudio."

"The virtual environment is very good."

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"MicroStrategy's best feature is that it is a user-friendly tool."

"Provides us charts and graphs for reporting."

"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."

"Speed for high level aggregation by using Intelligent Cubes."

"The solution has excellent features available on mobile."

"MicroStrategy has powerful data security features, which are crucial these days. For example, when users view data in MicroStrategy, they're only allowed to see a portion based on the permissions. When we evaluated other solutions like Power BI or Tableau, we found the security is very poor. They can't help us secure access to the data."

"Getting more data to people more quickly. Providing more flexibility for how they use the data."

"The ability to create aesthetically pleasing information by providing dashboards."

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Cons

"It crashes once in a while. In case of a reboot or something unexpected, the unseen code part will get diminished, and it relatively takes longer than other applications when a reboot is happening. They can improve in these areas. They can also bring some database software. They have software for analytics and virtualization. However, they don't have any software for the database."

"The solution would benefit from offering more automation."

"The process could be streamlined as the number of actions needed to deploy is quite large compared to other tools."

"It also takes up a lot of space."

"I think better documentation or a step-by-step guide for installation would help, especially for on-premise users."

"When you install Anaconda for the first time, it's really difficult to update it."

"Anaconda should be optimized for RAM consumption."

"I think that the framework can be improved to make it easier for people to discover and use things on their own."

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"The UI seems klutzy with its manual entry."

"I don't think that they will, but I'd like to see parallel processing, scalable parallel processing."

"I wouldn't recommend it if you have no data warehouses; for example, you would need to find a lot of knowledge to transform the data in MicroStrategy itself. So that could be quite challenging."

"You can now do data blending at the document level and data blending allows you to show results from different data sets in one grid, so to speak. I want to be able to create a data set that can receive data from multiple cubes, have it in one data set, and then bring it to the document, because then I can reuse it for other documents. Now, I have to do it in a document and then it's less reusable, because if I want to share that functionality, I have to copy the document, strip a lot of things, and then work on that basic element that I've built in that document."

"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."

"The graphs available for the new dashboard of version 10 are weak."

"Another feature to consider in the future would be adding some additional offline capabilities without using desktops."

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The licensing costs for Anaconda are reasonable."

"My company uses the free version of the tool. There is also a paid version of the tool available."

"The tool is open-source."

"Anaconda is free to use, but in terms of hardware costs, you might need heavy GPUs to run CUDA and other demanding tasks."

"The product is open-source and free to use."

"Additional costs are associated with maintenance."

"It is expensive. We would like to extend it to many users, but we are currently restricting that because the cost is a constraint. If we are given a chance, we would love to expand it."

"The solution is scalable. A little expensive perhaps, but it is scalable."

"I am unsure what the licensing costs are for this solution however, development costs are around $100,000 per year."

"There is no subscription, I am using the free version."

"All BI software vendors' list prices are high. It's about a price that fits the customer's needs. And I think MicroStrategy has some flexibility in its pricing model where we can easily demonstrate a total cost of ownership comparison against any of the other players."

"For larger businesses, the pricing is logical."

"The solution’s licensing cost is expensive."

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Product Manager at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

May 2, 2013

MicroStrategy vs. Tableau

After a recent presentation, several attendees asked me about the applications of Visual Insights and Tableau. Many companies are investing in both tools and are trying to figure out the right tool for specific applications Tableau has found its sweet-spot as an agile discovery tool that analysts…

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

University

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

10%

Retailer

Insurance Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Anaconda?

The tool's most valuable feature is its cloud-based nature, allowing accessibility from anywhere. Additionally, using Jupyter Notebook makes it easy to handle bugs and errors.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Anaconda?

Anaconda is an open-source tool, so I do not pay anything for it. It is compatible with every tool, regardless of whether it is open source or a paid package.

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What needs improvement with Anaconda?

There is room for improvement, especially regarding deployment. The process could be streamlined as the number of actions needed to deploy is quite large compared to other tools.

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What do you like most about MicroStrategy?

The stability of the product is good.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for MicroStrategy?

For larger businesses, I think the pricing is logical, but for smaller companies, it can be a bit costly.

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What needs improvement with MicroStrategy?

Areas of MicroStrategy that have room for improvement include pricing because it is costly. Organizations that are well-established and have more money can afford MicroStrategy, but startups and mi...

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Overview

Anaconda makes it easy for you to install and maintain Python environments. Our development team tests to ensure compatibility of Python packages in Anaconda. We support and provide open source assurance for packages in Anaconda to mitigate your risk in using open source and meet your regulatory compliance requirements.

Python is the fastest growing language for data science. Anaconda includes 720+ Python open source packages and now includes essential R packages. This powerful combination allows you to do everything you want from BI to advanced modeling on complex Big Data

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Company: Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR) is a leading worldwide provider of enterprise software platforms. With direct operations in 26 countries worldwide and approximately 2,000 employees, our mission is to provide enterprise analytics, mobility, and security platforms that are flexible, powerful, scalable and user-friendly. To learn more, visit MicroStrategy online, and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

Product portfoilio:

MicroStrategy 10 Secure Enterprise™ empowers leading organizations to analyze vast amounts of data and distribute actionable business insight throughout an enterprise through two distinct offerings: MicroStrategy Analytics™ and MicroStrategy Desktop™. MicroStrategy Analytics delivers reports and dashboards, and enables users to conduct ad hoc analysis and share insights anywhere, anytime, via mobile devices or the Web. It also combines the agility and productivity of self-service visual data discovery with the security, scalability, and governance features of enterprise-grade business intelligence. MicroStrategy Desktop is a standalone, on-premise visual data discovery tool designed to enable business users to analyze and understand their data. MicroStrategy Mobile™ enables organizations to rapidly build custom business applications that deliver analytics combined with transactions, multimedia, and custom workflows to mobile devices. MicroStrategy Secure Cloud™ combines all of the enterprise analytics, mobile, and security features in MicroStrategy 10 Secure Enterprise with powerful and scalable data integration, validation, and warehousing services — all delivered in an environment where organizations can deploy transformational analytics applications in minutes.

Usher, MicroStrategy’s breakthrough security solution, is a powerful mobile security platform designed to dematerialize traditional forms of identity verification (such as passwords, tokens, and physical badges) and replace them with a single mobile identity badge that is cryptographically linked to its owner’s smartphone and dynamically linked to an enterprise’s existing identity repositories. Usher works on standard Android and iOS smartphones, and also boasts an Apple Watch™ integration.

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Sample Customers

LinkedIn, NASA, Boeing, JP Morgan, Recursion Pharmaceuticals, DARPA, Microsoft, Amazon, HP, Cisco, Thomson Reuters, IBM, Bridgestone

Allstate Insurance, Barneys New York, Boston Children's Hospital, Buenos Aires Department of the Treasury, Campbell Soup Company, DHL, eBay, eHarmony, Facebook, Four Seasons Hotels Inc., Godiva, Hard Rock International, LinkedIn, Netflix, Pfizer, SECO (Swiss Government Unemployment Agency), Starbucks, Texas A&M University, Thomson Reuters Markets, US House of Representatives, and the US Postal Service.

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