Knowage vs MicroStrategy comparison

Knowage and MicroStrategy are both solutions in the BI (Business Intelligence) Tools category. Knowage is ranked #34, while MicroStrategy is ranked #7 with an average rating of 7.4. Knowage holds a 0.5% mindshare in BIT, compared to MicroStrategy’s 2.8% mindshare. Additionally, 85% of Knowage users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of MicroStrategy users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 1, 2025

Knowage and MicroStrategy are competing products in the business intelligence and analytics market. MicroStrategy has an edge due to its comprehensive feature set, even with a higher price point, justified by its advanced capabilities.

Features: Knowage offers open-source customization, data integration, and tailored reporting and dashboard capabilities. MicroStrategy provides robust analytics with advanced visualization, predictive analytics, and mobile access, catering to enterprises needing scalable solutions.

Room for Improvement: Knowage could enhance professional support, deployment, and community-driven limited assistance which may require more in-house expertise. MicroStrategy could improve by providing more competitive pricing options and simplifying deployment for smaller organizations.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Knowage features an accessible deployment process suited for flexible needs but relies on community-driven support. MicroStrategy provides structured deployment with professional services, appealing to enterprises prioritizing reliability.

Pricing and ROI: Knowage attracts small and mid-sized organizations with its lower setup cost and high ROI potential. MicroStrategy, though more expensive, offers significant ROI with its advanced features, making it a formidable choice for enterprises.

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Categories and Ranking

Knowage

Ranking in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools

34th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Reporting (25th)

MicroStrategy

Ranking in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools

7th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

161

Ranking in other categories

Embedded BI (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the BI (Business Intelligence) Tools category, the mindshare of Knowage is 0.5%, down from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of MicroStrategy is 2.8%, down from 3.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

AbdulshukoorMohammed

General Manager Information Technology & Enterprise Applications Manager at OXFORD HOLDING

Easy to customize, cross-platform capable, and very stable

The only challenge here is that it's a Java-based platform. It requires very high technical skills. When we come to the integration with the single sign-on facilities, that part is very challenging. In Power BI and other tools, it's very easy to integrate with active directory and single sign-on, and identity management is very easy in other business intelligence tools. However, when it comes to Knowage, it's a bit heavy, it's time-consuming sometimes, it's not very fast, and definitely not as fast as other business intelligence tools in terms of getting graphical reports. The solution could be cheaper.

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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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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The embedding feature is great."

"I can't name the features the way the Knowage community calls them because I still don't know the lingo. However, I can describe them. I like the ability to join more than one report, set all fields on one end, and replicate that on the other reports. I like that a lot. I think it's one of the features that got me using Knowage. They have tables, and I like that too. They took SQL scripts and many other scripts and enabled them to even correlate with Python. That's also one of the best things about Knowage. You could also decide to get information per user role, and this is also a feature that I like in Knowage."

"We can easily do our own customizations."

"The concept of engines is quite powerful allowing the user to work with report authoring/provisioning tools of their choice."

"It is a good tool to help our customers visually see loads of data."

"It scales well. It used to have only a max of four I-servers, but I think recently, somewhere in version 10, they doubled that, so you can have eight I-servers now."

"We've made a few enhancements to our Enterprise Manager system to allow self-reporting to grow. We see that as a very useful system. It's been incredibly beneficial in diagnosing production performance issues, diagnosing what reports are running slowly, where the SQL could be optimized, opportunities or metrics where we see long-time running performance. Enterprise Manager has been absolutely vital in giving us some of the insights about our system."

"It's user-friendly, also the MTDI cube is a very good approach, as it helps you to use the pre-format instead of using the standard objects from the schema of MicroStrategy."

"On our mobile solution you can deploy up to 100,000 users. In our case, we're up to about 10,000 active users, and MicroStrategy's server technology behind the scenes, the Intelligence Server and the Mobile Servers, are very robust and they can handle the workload."

"The drill-down functionality is also very good."

"Workstation and Desktop on the client side will speed up some development activities."

"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."

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Cons

"It would be better if more resources were available to help us learn how to use it. I wanted to use Knowage for a more extended period, but learning materials around the product were not really available and were not really straightforward. I've also seen inconsistencies between versions. For example, under the tools, especially in the cockpit, the way you create reports is now different. You will also find some configurations within a particular state, like a line chart, which differs from version to version. I think consistency is an essential feature in a product, especially for business intelligence products."

"The only challenge here is that it's a Java-based platform. It requires very high technical skills."

"Development of SpagoBI has now been moved to Knowage. Users interested in further developments of the platform will have to look there."

"The dashboard components could be better."

"The product could be improved by adding additional visualization."

"They need to do a better job In its ability to allow end users to produce their own reports, metrics, and self-service business intelligence."

"There might be opportunities for reporting or data analysis, perhaps even in the realm of simulation."

"There needs to be better visualization."

"There is room for improvement in data visualization."

"From a stability standpoint, from MicroStrategy, I would say it's fairly consistent. I would give it a "B" because there are times where we have issues that are just inexplicable. They go away and then we have no resolution. To me, that's not acceptable. There are just times where our users can't access things and we're not sure why, and that's a problem to me."

"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 have the mobile server. We have not used it. That is because the people on our team have not been trained on it yet, but that is something that we want to do."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It allows the implementation of an effective reporting system using internal skills at a limited upfront cost."

"Knowage is open-source, and an enterprise edition is also available."

"They offer yearly as well as perpetual licenses."

"The solution’s licensing cost is expensive."

"The pricing is fair."

"Pricing, in general, is high. With Power BI, you get mobile with the license, whereas with MicroStrategy, you have to purchase mobile for extra."

"They gave us a good deal."

"Now, the price is high."

"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."

"We have a license with packages, and there are additional costs for extra components."

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May 2, 2013

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Top Industries

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Government

16%

Real Estate/Law Firm

11%

Hospitality Company

Educational Organization

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

10%

Retailer

Insurance Company

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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What do you like most about MicroStrategy?

The stability of the product is good.

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

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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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Also Known As

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Overview

Knowage (formerly SpagoBI) has a 14-years history. The actual release is the 6.3.

Knowage offers FULL ANALYTICAL CAPABILITIES, with a special focus on big data analytics and comprehensive support to rich and multi-source data analysis. Knowage provides different modules, each one focused on a specific domain but mutually combinable (Big Data, Smart Intelligence, Enterprise Reporting, Location Intelligence, Performance Management, Predictive Analysis). Moreover, Knowage is an OPEN SOURCE solution: the source code is freely accessible, everyone is allowed to join the community and build the own business solution to ensure strategic decision-making and improved productivity.

Knowage suite is supported by Engineering Group, the leading Italian software and services company, with about 10,000 people and more than 50 offices worldwide. Maintenance and support services (such as trainings, migration support, proof-of-concepts, etc) are provided by Engineering Group (KNOWAGE Labs) under subscription.

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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

FIAT Group, Italian air navigation service provider, Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Telecom Italia, ASL Genovese, San Giovanni Battista University Hospital

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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