We performed a comparison between MicroStrategy and SAP Analytics Cloud 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."Cube performance and easy integration with third-party tools/products, are valuable features."
"Speed for high level aggregation by using Intelligent Cubes."
"The implementation was fairly straightforward."
"Provides seamless integration between browser-based BI and Mobile BI."
"It has the potential to become a great evangelist for AI and other embedded analytics."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to actually embed actions, comments, being able to leverage Transaction Services to embed the tool into a business process."
"Provides us charts and graphs for reporting."
"We are using it for operations analysis and sales data analysis."
"Planning is the most valuable feature of the product because it's integrated and that means we don't need to rely on an independent planning environment."
"Its user-friendliness is valuable. It is a product for end-users and not for IT, which is an advantage."
"I have found that the feature to drag and drop widgets based on the data source, and import them into stories to be valuable. This way it helps the end user to create stories themselves."
"Visualization is quite seamless and awesome. Once the data messaging is set up, it's straightforward and simple to select how it should be displayed. So, that's another advantage of SAP."
"It is scalable."
"Data integration is very good."
"The visualization feature is the most valuable. SAP Analytics Cloud is also very easy to use."
"SAP Analytics Cloud is a very good tool. The feature that's most useful for me is the reporting as it can be done via Google Chrome. The solution is also very nice, user-friendly, and easy to build. It's very easy to use the features of SAP Analytics Cloud."
"There are some challenges in our organization on how we store the data."
"Native VI on mobile apps and better android support are lacking."
"MicroStrategy is not cloud native today and some of their APIs are a little limiting."
"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."
"Needs tighter mapping integration."
"Sometimes you can do something in reports, but you cannot do the same thing in documents."
"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."
"It is actually pretty complicated to use. It is complicated enough that user adaptation is sometimes difficult. We developed more experts rather than people using it."
"Some of the standard visualizations, such as a speedometer or a goal chart, are not there and should be added."
"When it comes to planning there is a concern about the ability to match the exact requirements of the customer with what the product offers."
"Custom visuals is another area of improvement. There are also some mobile features that are missing. There are features that aren't available on the mobile."
"The security, authorization, and live connection to the back-office system features can be improved. A business analyst colleague who creates complex financial management reports has mentioned that he wants to see more fact and visualization features. It would be helpful to have more visualization features to be able to prepare more stories or reports for executives. For example, Tableau has some visualization features that are not present in this solution."
"I am not happy with the predictive analytics features and smart features offered by the product, making them areas where improvements are required."
"We need to know that we are using the latest and greatest, and SAP appears as if it has lost some credit in the market."
"Could be more user-friendly; somewhat complicated to use."
"An additional feature that needs to be added to SAP Analytics Cloud is exporting because right now, you can only export to PDF and PowerPoint. It would be good to have multiple export options, for example, to Excel and other apps. Pricing is an area for improvement in SAP Analytics Cloud, apart from exporting."
MicroStrategy is ranked 9th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 155 reviews while SAP Analytics Cloud is ranked 4th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 57 reviews. MicroStrategy is rated 8.2, while SAP Analytics Cloud is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of MicroStrategy writes "A robust solution for powerful data analytics". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Analytics Cloud writes "Good for reporting but needs to improve its predictive analytics features". MicroStrategy is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Looker, whereas SAP Analytics Cloud is most compared with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Tableau, IBM Planning Analytics, Microsoft Power BI and Alteryx. See our MicroStrategy vs. SAP Analytics Cloud report.
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