We performed a comparison between MicroStrategy and Tableau 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."MicroStrategy's solution for mobile is very good."
"The interactive features that appear in the report were good. The external rendering option they give with multi servers was also good."
"The most valuable features of MicroStrategy are user-friendliness and integration with the different data warehouse systems."
"MicroStrategy has powerful data security features, which are crucial these days. For example, when users view data in MicroStrategy, they're only allowed to see a portion based on the permissions. When we evaluated other solutions like Power BI or Tableau, we found the security is very poor. They can't help us secure access to the data."
"MicroStrategy has what they call the Semantic Graph — an enterprise-grade semantic graph — and I think the technology is fantastic."
"It is a great tool and has the best offerings for doing data analysis."
"The simplicity of MicroStrategy is what I like the most."
"Has a great semantic layer."
"I like the calculation feature. I would not say it's such a good feature in Tableau, but if you have the knowledge, you can make that feature visible to everyone. It's not a feature that we can drag and drop and get the information. But whatever the data, whatever the calculation, I'm able to do. It's basically the knowledge base. Whatever knowledge I have, I can make that information public and publish it for management."
"Its performance is pretty good, and the development time is very low."
"The initial setup is simple."
"Tableau is good for routine dashboards, and it has integration with Slack, through which it can send you daily updates."
"All features are valuable. It is very user-friendly, and it is mostly drag-and-drop. If we have the dataset available, then we can develop any dashboard very quickly."
"I consider Tableau to be the best analytical tool available. It's really handy to use and can be used by non-technical people."
"The geospatial maps representation and the visualizations are nice."
"The UI part is the best. The end-users can easily get started with Tableau Desktop or Tableau Online because of its user-friendliness."
"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."
"Lacks decent visualization and the process for creating new objects needs to be simplified."
"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."
"Preparation, data loading and data management application is challenging with MicroStrategy. It lacks cube-based analytics as it is outdated, meaning there is no memory or fast processing analytics or MMA deployment."
"The pricing could be lower because it is costly."
"I would like to see more integration."
"I would like to see the enterprise version available in a demo or as a trial version."
"It would be good if it had greater analytics so we could build these visualizations by ourselves with scripts."
"Tableau support could be improved."
"Many things have to be improved in Tableau. Right now, we make the calculation, and then we get that information. It would be better if business users could do that. I would ask the people at Tableau to provide that option to business users to get that information in one click. It would be better if they automated some calculations. There should be more automation in Tableau. However, there are many things in automation mode, but it is very limited at the moment. We need automation for people who do not know much about Tableau. It would also be better if there were good community support like in Alteryx."
"When compared to Power BI, it is less user-friendly."
"Its documentation can be improved so that a user can get a good hands-on experience. Tableau is well documented, and on their website, there are a lot of tutorials that are available for free. I started my learning process through those tutorials, but there are certain loopholes in those tutorials, which only got filled through a couple of good YouTube channels that talk about Tableau. YouTube helped me a lot. So, the documentation could be better, I understand that it is evolving day by day, and with more usage, there would be more such documentation."
"The solution could improve the scalability, it is difficult to make changes."
"Tableau has so many functions, so sometimes it's hard to find the right solution quickly. I have to search multiple menu bars to find the right command."
"It's not an aesthetic platform at the moment."
"The development part should be better. We are putting a lot of effort in during development, so if we face any struggles, we have to find workaround solutions on the internet."
MicroStrategy is ranked 9th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 9 reviews while Tableau is ranked 2nd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 64 reviews. MicroStrategy is rated 8.2, while Tableau is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of MicroStrategy writes "Very good solution for mobile". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tableau writes "Provides fast data access with in-memory extracts, makes it easy to create visualizations, and saves time". MicroStrategy is most compared with Microsoft BI, IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Qlik Sense and Oracle OBIEE, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft BI, Amazon QuickSight, Domo, SAP Analytics Cloud and Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services. See our MicroStrategy vs. Tableau report.
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