"The solution is ideal for enterprise-level companies or corporations."
"This solution is the most scalable BI platform in the world."
"The interactive features that appear in the report were good. The external rendering option they give with multi servers was also good."
"The solution has excellent features available on mobile."
"MicroStrategy has what they call the Semantic Graph — an enterprise-grade semantic graph — and I think the technology is fantastic."
"The dashboard features and functionalities that come through the MicroStrategy Suite are the most valuable. It can be used by end users with minimum knowledge of the product. They can run a report or create a dashboard on their phones, which is kind of cool."
"It is very stable."
"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."
"Since Tableau is on the cloud, we haven't faced any challenges around scalability."
"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."
"Show Me is a feature to help with knowing which chart is an appropriate one for the selected variables, and it makes helps in creating appropriate visuals."
"It is easy to use, and it can handle a large amount of data."
"Tableau is highly scalable. Now that they've introduced Hyper, you can create an extract of more than 5 million rows in minutes and then do your analysis."
"The most valuable feature is the user experience."
"Very user friendly."
"Tableau is good for routine dashboards, and it has integration with Slack, through which it can send you daily updates."
"MicroStrategy needs to do some more development to make the platform easier to use. It's a complicated platform that requires a lot of skill to effectively utilize. So they could work on reducing the complexity to make it more accessible for a broader community of people."
"We've found the scalability to be very good. However, it depends on the environment. In general, it could be much better."
"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 would be good if it had greater analytics so we could build these visualizations by ourselves with scripts."
"The solution lacks good visualization. They should work on the user interface to make it more slick and modern."
"In the developer, there are things that you able to do in a document or a report that you are not able to do in the Dossier."
"MicroStrategy should become more user friendly. It should behave more like Tableau."
"The solution's reports are not very flexible."
"Implementation requires a technical background."
"Its price is a concern. It is more expensive than Power BI. The other thing that I never liked about Tableau is its ability to handle large sets of data. To present the data in the dashboards, we have to stage it up exactly like it is going to come into the dashboard. We use another tool called Alteryx that does that for us. So, we manipulate the data, get it staged, and then push it into Tableau. Tableau is terrible at handling large data sets, and we knew right away that we couldn't use Tableau to do data manipulation."
"I am not a frequent user of this solution, so I am not sure what they've been doing recently. The last time when I used it, I had to use other tools with it for data extraction and cleansing. Its price should also be improved. It is more expensive than Power BI. In terms of training, there is generally better online training for Power BI, but I am not sure of that. It would be helpful to know from where to access its training."
"They need to improve the icons and the filters, because they look too old, resembling Excel from 1997."
"Areas for improvement would be visualization and augmented analytics. In the next release, I would like to see automated insights from the data added to the dashboard."
"I have noticed that Tableau is not very compatible with ClickHouse. There's no direct connection to ClickHouse; you have to set up an ODBC connection."
"The data entered into Tableau must be clean. Otherwise, it won't work properly."
"Its price should be improved. Its price is much higher than Power BI and QlikView. Programming is not easy on Tableau. For programming, you have to have a separate model. They should include programming directly on the web portion of the Tableau desktop so that people can write Python or JavaScript code for customizations instead of using a different model. Currently, Tableau Data Prep is a separate application that you have to purchase. It would be helpful if they can include Tableau Data Prep and programming languages such as R, Python in the next version. Tableau Public, which is a community version, doesn't allow you to save your work on your desktop. They should allow it. Currently, you can only upload it in the community."
MicroStrategy is ranked 7th in Business Intelligence (BI) Tools with 18 reviews while Tableau is ranked 2nd in Business Intelligence (BI) Tools with 105 reviews. MicroStrategy is rated 8.0, while Tableau is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of MicroStrategy writes "Good technical support but quite technical and needs better integration capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tableau writes "Lets me train new users quickly, easily, and intuitively". MicroStrategy is most compared with Microsoft BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Qlik Sense, IBM Cognos and Oracle OBIEE, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft BI, SAP Analytics Cloud, Amazon QuickSight, SAS Visual Analytics and Qlik Sense. See our MicroStrategy vs. Tableau report.
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