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 has what they call the Semantic Graph — an enterprise-grade semantic graph — and I think the technology is fantastic."
"The most valuable features of MicroStrategy are user-friendliness and integration with the different data warehouse systems."
"The interactive features that appear in the report were good. The external rendering option they give with multi servers was also good."
"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."
"The solution is ideal for enterprise-level companies or corporations."
"The hyperintelligence is the most valuable feature."
"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."
"The product is very mature. It's quite robust and an excellent enterprise-level solution."
"The most valuable feature is the geographic data analysis."
"The stability seems to be very reliable."
"While using this solution I have found the valuable features to be ease of use and the visualization. It is a complete solution."
"It's easy to use."
"The solution has a lot of customization when comparing to Microsoft BI."
"Tableau is easy to use compared to some other solutions, such as Excel."
"The most valuable feature is the user experience."
"I have found many of the self-service features valuable."
"MicroStrategy should improve migration automation. Additionally, I would like there to be better partnership support."
"MicroStrategy should become more user friendly. It should behave more like Tableau."
"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."
"Its price should be lower. In terms of features, what we have is quite encompassing right now."
"I would like to see the enterprise version available in a demo or as a trial version."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to see more integration."
"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 used Power BI as well as Tableau. There are a couple of interesting features that I like in Power BI, but they are not present in Tableau. For example, in Power BI, if I am looking at country-wise population, I can type and ask for the country that has the maximum population, and it will automatically give an answer and address that query. This kind of feature is not there in Tableau. Similarly, in Power BI, for integrating with the latest ML algorithms, we have decision trees and primarily multiple machine learning algorithms. The decision tree essentially visualizes the patterns in the data. We don't have such a feature in Tableau. If Tableau can integrate with the machine learning algorithms and help us to do visualizations, it would be a wonderful combination. Most of the people are going for Tableau primarily for visualization purposes. However, in the data science industry, users want to do model building as well as tell a story. As of now, Tableau is fulfilling the requirements for visualization purposes. If they can bring it up to a level where I can use it for machine learning purposes as well as for visualization, it would be very helpful. Many people who want to do data science don't want to write a code. Tableau is anyway a drag and drop tool, and if they can provide those options as well, it will be a powerful combination."
"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."
"I would like Tableau Prep to be integrated with Tableau Desktop. I would also like more customizations for tables."
"They need to improve the icons and the filters, because they look too old, resembling Excel from 1997."
"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."
"The setup was easy but we are having some problems with the configuration that is taking a long time. We have done some initial tests and some of the delays could be from bandwidth issues. However, the whole installation process should be simplified."
"An area needing improvement involves the complexity of the product should you need to alter a lot of parameters. If you have technical servers, much interface, different providers and more serious processes, that will be time consuming."
MicroStrategy is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 12 reviews while Tableau is ranked 2nd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 96 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 "Lets me train new users quickly, easily, and intuitively". 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, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAS Visual Analytics and Oracle Analytics Cloud. See our MicroStrategy vs. Tableau report.
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