We performed a comparison between MicroStrategy, Oracle OBIEE, and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."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."
"The whole repository side of things is beneficial because you develop it once, and you can use it anywhere, in the Enterprise grade."
"Visual Insight gives you the capability of doing self-service analytics. This has been the most powerful and valuable feature."
"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."
"I have never had any problems with the stability."
"Provides seamless integration between browser-based BI and Mobile BI."
"We prefer having the analytic capabilities in a single platform, like MicroStrategy provides, because it is easier. The customer gets used to one type of tool, then sticks with it."
"Mobile brings reports/dashboards closer to the business user."
"It has a lot workaround in order to do the report. data blending, and getting information from big data sources."
"The solution has great reporting and forecasting capabilities."
"The security is good. For example, we can implement column-level security."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"In terms of features, everything is good. It is also stable and scalable."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle OBIEE is its ease of use."
"I think having the conformed structures makes it a lot easier for end users and pulling reports together."
"The most valuable feature is the openness of the solution. It helps us integrate some of our clients."
"Tableau has data relationships that can be applied to a data source which helps build out a directory which is helpful. Data blending has also been valuable to us."
"This solution has improved insights into quantitative data."
"The solution allows for the possibility for end-users to do their own reporting."
"Tableau will automatically show charts for the related data that I choose making it very easy to use."
"The initial setup is quick and easy and you don't need special outside assistance to set everything up."
"It’s good for quick visualization and being able to quickly consume unstructured data to play around with."
"I have found Tableau easy to use and the features are superb."
"Although Tableau isn't the best for us when it comes to processing and working on live data, it is very good at extracting data for analysis."
"The web developer tool for documents creation does not have all the features of the client version"
"If you do not learn the ins or outs, it can be a difficult tool to use. You could do a PoC and get enough out of it to be able to use it. However, when it comes to administering it, you definitely need the training."
"There might be opportunities for reporting or data analysis, perhaps even in the realm of simulation."
"Data writeback, and on-the-fly predictive analysis results from R and Python could be improved."
"Sometimes you can do something in reports, but you cannot do the same thing in documents."
"Scalability is something which will need to be improved when it goes to a bigger audience."
"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."
"If you compare it with Power BI with the DAX language, it would be great to put that into MicroStrategy."
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"There should be more integration in the solution. For example, there should be one solution with multiple functionalities so that other solutions are not needed. Having one solution with all the needed functionality would be helpful."
"We needed some technical expertise during setup."
"We were not satisfied with the support, because we could not obtain answers or solutions."
"I would like to see Machine Learning included in this solution."
"The solution is too expensive for small firms."
"It takes a lot of maintenance to support the architecture, which is something that should be improved."
"There could be better integration with other solutions, such as Microsoft Office."
"The SQL programming functionality needs to be improved."
"It should offer better features for customization."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"I would like to have the product be more flexible in terms of creating online shared dashboards."
"We did have issues with Tableau 10.1 server with the brokers failing on heavy load but since moving to 10.2, then to 10.3, this issue seems to have been resolved and the environment is now quite stable."
"The pricing is high. I'm using a student license, however, I know that even this license is very expensive. I've tried to have this product in our organization, however, it's quite expensive. We don't have the internal budget."
"To be the best in the market, Tableau has to improve its user interface and also look into developing implementing the best machine learning algorithms."
"I would like the solution to have certain features allowing the delivery of reports to the email."
