We performed a comparison between Knowage and MicroStrategy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The concept of engines is quite powerful allowing the user to work with report authoring/provisioning tools of their choice."
"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."
"The embedding feature is great."
"The drill-down functionality is also very good."
"Transaction Services, that was really the part of the tool that made it very compelling for us, because it gave the opportunity to drive action."
"In terms of functionality, MicroStrategy is alright. It's a solid BI tool and can handle most tasks you'd expect."
"It's an open platform. That's also important. You can create your own data connectors. There's everything you can do with APIs. It's not closed like, perhaps, an SAP system might be."
"We have been using it mostly for grid reports and its exporting features."
"MicroStrategy's solution for mobile is very good."
"The single stack solution will always be more profitable, scalable, and elastic for organizational needs."
"It is definitely customizable. We have been able to put in key metrics and performance indicators, thus it is customizable."
"The dashboard components could be better."
"The only challenge here is that it's a Java-based platform. It requires very high technical skills."
"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."
"Development of SpagoBI has now been moved to Knowage. Users interested in further developments of the platform will have to look there."
"Sometimes you can do something in reports, but you cannot do the same thing in documents."
"I would like to see a single standalone application to control everything from the administration perspective, and also to develop new applications."
"We're starting to open it up to more and more people to give them the ability and start looking at these things themselves, but it's not the most intuitive system, Enterprise Manager that is, so it's tough. We're trying to bridge the gap between usability and who we let in the system, because you're not going to come in and just pick it up."
"Data writeback, and on-the-fly predictive analysis results from R and Python could be improved."
"I would like to see the enterprise version available in a demo or as a trial version."
"Getting our data to work with the tool is where we are having issues."
"The solution has a very non-logical user usage part. It has a library mode where users can access all the data, reports, and dashboards, but they also can be accessed from a platform. They have to log into the platform. The user experience is confusing for the users. MicroStrategy needs to define which one they will use. Some functionality isn’t available in library mode but is available in the portal. There should be Office integration. For example, if I do a presentation, then I should be able to add a chart to my presentation."
"It would be good if it had greater analytics so we could build these visualizations by ourselves with scripts."
Knowage is ranked 24th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools while MicroStrategy is ranked 9th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 155 reviews. Knowage is rated 7.6, while MicroStrategy is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Knowage writes "Easy to customize, cross-platform capable, and very stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MicroStrategy writes "A robust solution for powerful data analytics". Knowage is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Pentaho Business Analytics and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, whereas MicroStrategy is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, IBM Cognos and Qlik Sense.
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