We performed a comparison between MicroStrategy, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, 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."It is easy to use and visually very appealing. One thing that sets it apart is that it has got a great ETL tool. As compared to some of the other solutions, it is much easier to process data from other applications in MicroStrategy. That's why we prefer using it."
"It helps all the store managers and supply chain people to obtain a view of the data and plan the next week, the next month, quarters, and so on."
"MicroStrategy's solution for mobile is very good."
"This solution is the most scalable BI platform in the world."
"The platform can be easily monitored. You have quite a good overview of tasks which are being run."
"The hyperintelligence is the most valuable feature."
"Workstation and Desktop on the client side will speed up some development activities."
"We have ramped up user adoption."
"The setup is pretty easy. It's not hard at all."
"If I were to compare it with Power BI and I wanted to build proper well-formatted reports, BusinessObjects Business Intelligence does that much better. Power BI is just getting into that space. They've concentrated more on visualization, which is what the SAP Lumira does. With Web Intelligence, you are able to build reports that users can interact with. They can also do a lot of querying themselves. It is robust in terms of security and integration. It is also quite scalable."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that we are able to build all dashboards with self-service BI and are able to provide our business users with self-service BI. We are building a repository on top of our data warehouse and building all the dashboards and KPIs."
"It allows the analysis of business data and enables decisions based on the analysis."
"We find that we can scale it as needed."
"It is solid and stable."
"Provides autonomy for all the business users to develop their own reports."
"Business analytics are the most valuable features of this solution; I don't have experience with the other functional features offered."
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"I really like the interactivity of the dashboards."
"The data visualization piece is most valuable. We do ad-hoc analysis or one-time shot things, but there are things that we have to track every single day. When our management and our customers want to see how things are changing, the dashboarding provides that information. Tableau is key in providing that data on a refresh basis. We use a data blending tool that pumps the data into Tableau, and we just schedule it to run every single day. So, the automation of the data and being able to present it to people who are interested are the most valuable features."
"From my perspective, it enables clients to better understand our data and make better decisions based on that information."
"The best part about Tableau is the visualization."
"Tableau is easy to use."
"Better interaction and less time spent with end users."
"There are already connectors to almost every single major database and service that you can possibly think of."
"The action feature which Tableau has is very useful for us. If we click on one visualization, it will pass the value to another visualization. That interactivity within different visualizations is the most valuable feature of Tableau."
"We have not invested nor are we planning to invest in MicroStrategy's mobile platform."
"It is performing well, but sometimes we have complex requirements and the performance decreases, and then we have to find another way to make it perform again. That is what you encounter when use the project, but that's inevitable because if we would have used another product, we would've had the same thing."
"Data preparation-wise, it was not so straightforward with respect to getting different sources. Preparing or transforming the data inside and then bringing it onto the dashboard was a bit difficult, and the experience could have been better."
"It needs better visualizations."
"If you compare it with Power BI with the DAX language, it would be great to put that into MicroStrategy."
"It crashes multiple times for even small changes that I make on the fly in the dashboard. After doing all the necessary changes, the MicroStrategy desktop or even the web version kicks the users out, and all the changes are lost. This functionality is buggy in MicroStrategy. It is hard to keep track of all the changes that I have done before. I don't want to make copies of each change that I have made because I would end up creating a hundred dashboards. It is not feasible in a real environment. I haven't worked on integrating MicroStrategy with the cloud. I am not sure how it behaves in the cloud, but I have heard from a few of my friends that there are some hiccups when you kind of sync to the cloud through MicroStrategy."
"MicroStrategy should become more user friendly. It should behave more like Tableau."
"I don't think that they will, but I'd like to see parallel processing, scalable parallel processing."
"The financial area in the solution has certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"The performance could be improved, like when we extract a large amount of data."
"Integrations with things like Active Directory and LDAP tend to be a little complex."
"The UI could be updated a bit."
"It could be a lighter solution."
"Its price should be better. It is expensive and not cost-effective. It should also be improved in terms of end-user experience. It requires further improvements for usability and ease of use. It should have more dashboarding metrics and much faster integration with ERP so that when you double click, you can instantly see the scenario-based result."
"It is not simple to use."
"Technical support may not always be timely or effective."
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"Most of the problems in Tableau Online that I have noticed have to do with performance or weird, inexplicable bugs that I can't pin down. For example, you might try unloading some data, and you'll be waiting for a long time without anything happening."
"Improvements can be made in template support. The workbook file structure is really hard to version control. If there was some sort of version control support offered particularly for workbooks, that would help big time."
"Tableau is a company that does not respect partners."
"People are migrating to Microsoft BI due to the speed, which is quite slow to load, and the lack of visualization options."
"There should be more widgets that would help less trained individuals create charts with less difficulty."
"There could be improvements on the mobile application, it is lacking features."
"The data preparation could integrate better with Tableau."
"Other tools are more competitively priced."
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