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."The convenience of it. Having it on the mobile, so someone has it right there in their pocket most of the time."
"The ability to integrate with PPT is another plus. The platform's ability to write back data directly to the database is also good."
"You can build once and deploy to multiple operating systems. Also, it resizes in the way you want it to."
"The most valuable features of MicroStrategy are user-friendliness and integration with the different data warehouse systems."
"The usability for users to be able to drag and drop, then create their own reports."
"Has a great semantic layer."
"It's an open platform. That's also important. You can create your own data connectors. There's everything you can do with APIs. It's not closed like, perhaps, an SAP system might be."
"We've made it an open BI platform, so that all our business analysts can build their own dashboards and Dossiers."
"Considering the reporting part, I rate the tool a nine out of ten."
"The most valuable feature of SAP Analytics Cloud is its integration with SAP."
"I like the product's capabilities. The clarity and scenarios are the main features that allow us to forecast using machine learning algorithms and make decisions."
"Technical support is helpful."
"There is a seamless integration with SAP S4HANA which is really valuable to our organization and its functions. Since the data is stored in the same ecosystem, it creates a simple process of building dashboards, without making the process cumbersome The Analytics Cloud provides standardized templates and storage options, making it easy to plug into existing structures. We're utilizing custom stories that have already been developed, streamlining the development process. It serves as a convenient starting point and contributes to the overall ease of development. Another advantage is that it doesn't provide the same level of calculation power as Power BI and Tableau. SAP Analytics Cloud emphasizes pushing analytics back into the database, recommending data manipulation and preparation outside of the platform. This approach is seen as an advantage, as it allows for more robust data handling."
"SAP Analytics Cloud is easy to create charts with, and is a stable business intelligence platform. Easy to set up solution."
"It integrates with third-party applications such as Google Drive and Excel,"
"The ease of use of the solution is its most valuable feature. We haven't tried all of the features yet. The graphing and the ease of using the analytics tools have been great. It's all drag and drop; you don't need to code anything."
"We did have issues with stability, and that was because we were co-located with another business unit, and we outgrew them on the unit. So we had to get to a separate physical instance."
"Sometimes you can do something in reports, but you cannot do the same thing in documents."
"We have not invested nor are we planning to invest in MicroStrategy's mobile platform."
"The product could be improved by adding additional visualization."
"It needs row-level security, column-level security, on attributes. I want to be able to handle full-scale security model from the semantic layer, flat out."
"I think they're still lacking on customer service. I think historically, MicroStrategy's customer service was a lot better than it is today."
"MicroStrategy should improve migration automation. Additionally, I would like there to be better partnership support."
"The pricing could be lower because it is costly."
"Some of the standard visualizations, such as a speedometer or a goal chart, are not there and should be added."
"The business intelligence features should be improved because there is a lack of functionality regarding that part."
"The general management of this solution could be improved. The graphics or icons could also be improved to allow them to integrate with other environments on the web."
"Live Data Models are very slow and the setup can be improved, with tools such as Cloud Connector being inbuilt into SAP Analytics Cloud. Likewise, we need to write application code from scratch, rather than tweaking existing code, as we might with Excel macros. Moreover, when using responsive pages, the widgets get adjusted according to the mobile screen. As a result, when I place two or three KPI tiles, they can only be viewed tile-by-tile. We want to see the full dashboard on the mobile screen and zoom in to click on a particular section of the dashboard and go further into that. But displaying tile-by-tile makes it very annoying and the upper management using this dashboard might not be aware there are any more tiles to view."
"One area for improvement in SAP Analytics Cloud is incorporating Python into the coding. That functionality is available, but it's not as efficient, and it's a bit difficult sometimes to do it, so that could be improved."
"Pricing is fine for the BI license, but when it comes to client license, that fee is a bit high."
"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."
"We are currently working on connectivity with S/4HANA, but we would like to have better connectivity with our legacy systems."
MicroStrategy is ranked 8th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 155 reviews while SAP Analytics Cloud is ranked 5th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 58 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 Databricks, whereas SAP Analytics Cloud is most compared with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Tableau, IBM Planning Analytics, Microsoft Power BI and Oracle Essbase. See our MicroStrategy vs. SAP Analytics Cloud report.
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