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Hubble vs MicroStrategy comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Hubble
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
Business Performance Management (30th), Financial Performance and Strategy Management (9th), Data Visualization (27th), Financial Close Software (22nd)
MicroStrategy
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
158
Ranking in other categories
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (9th), Embedded BI (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Business Intelligence solutions, they serve different purposes. Hubble is designed for Business Performance Management and holds a mindshare of 0.3%, down 0.5% compared to last year.
MicroStrategy, on the other hand, focuses on BI (Business Intelligence) Tools, holds 3.6% mindshare, down 3.7% since last year.
Business Performance Management
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools
 

Featured Reviews

PG
Dec 21, 2021
Excellent for budgeting and forecasting, but long-term it will no longer be developed or supported
We use the Hubble budgeting tools for budgeting and forecasting Hubble provides faster calculations compared to Excel. The most valuable features are both its budgeting and forecasting. We have been advised by the owners that the budgeting tool is no longer going to be supported with future…
Pietro Saglietti - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 26, 2023
A robust solution for powerful data analytics
I use its Discovery Analytics feature, particularly in the context of KPI analysis for management It plays a vital role in establishing a connection with predictive continuous improvement. This approach proves highly valuable for teams involved in continuous improvement efforts, especially in…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most valuable features are both its budgeting and forecasting."
"On our mobile solution you can deploy up to 100,000 users. In our case, we're up to about 10,000 active users, and MicroStrategy's server technology behind the scenes, the Intelligence Server and the Mobile Servers, are very robust and they can handle the workload."
"It drives us away from Excel. For what it is for, it is good. You can't run a business on Excel."
"The mobile for MicroStrategy is the best of all the BI platforms. As a separate product for the mobile device, MicroStrategy is the entire BI platform. It is an enterprise solution, a separate unit, etc."
"We have ramped up user adoption."
"​Technical support is knowledgeable. The right person gets back to us whenever we email them."
"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."
"Our primary use case is to deliver all data insights to our company."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to build reports, then customize for different groups instead of having to build multiple reports. Therefore, the ability to build customization in the reports for different groups."
 

Cons

"We have been advised by the owners that the budgeting tool is no longer going to be supported with future development, so my recommendation would be for them to continue to invest in development. Otherwise, at some point we will have to migrate to another technology."
"Our users tend to say the interface is a pain."
"Needs ​tighter mapping integration."
"Currently, the client view looks completely different depending on what you are building."
"I would like to see a single standalone application to control everything from the administration perspective, and also to develop new applications."
"It would be good if it had greater analytics so we could build these visualizations by ourselves with scripts."
"Needs more visual essence and connectors for the ecosystems, which would be easy to use."
"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."
"They need to do a better job In its ability to allow end users to produce their own reports, metrics, and self-service business intelligence."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"They can improve its licensing. It is a bit expensive as compared to Microsoft and other tools."
"​They gave us a good deal.​"
"I am unsure what the licensing costs are for this solution however, development costs are around $100,000 per year."
"For larger businesses, the pricing is logical."
"There is no subscription, I am using the free version."
"They need to work on their license structure. They are not competitive against somebody like SAP BusinessObjects. We had a quote that was almost a third the price, coming from SAP BusinessObjects, and it's not a better platform. It's not cheaper. They do concurrent user licensing, while MicroStrategy does named user licensing, and that was literally the only difference. But it made a $500,000 difference. They've got to do something to make themselves more competitive. Maybe it's assessing your business users and what you really expect them to use, and maybe giving a reduced price on that. But they are already giving us a 60% discount and they were still a million or so above, over a three-year time period. That doesn't account for synergies as we get from on-site resources that are already available, but I thought that that was a big, big deficit for them."
"The licensing is a bit high per user."
"We have a license with packages, and there are additional costs for extra components."
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Comparison Review

it_user6330 - PeerSpot reviewer
May 2, 2013
MicroStrategy vs. Tableau
After a recent presentation, several attendees asked me about the applications of Visual Insights and Tableau. Many companies are investing in both tools and are trying to figure out the right tool for specific applications Tableau has found its sweet-spot as an agile discovery tool that analysts…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
17%
Government
11%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Computer Software Company
10%
Retailer
8%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

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What do you like most about MicroStrategy?
The stability of the product is good.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for MicroStrategy?
For larger businesses, I think the pricing is logical, but for smaller companies, it can be a bit costly.
What needs improvement with MicroStrategy?
There is room for improvement in data visualization. Compared to other BI tools like Power BI, MicroStrategy is stronger in data utilization but could be enhanced in the visualization aspect.
 

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Sample Customers

Dole, Ghiradelli, Ninetendo, Avon, Hallmark, Treasury Wine Estates, Kitchener-Wilmot Hydro, City of Prince George, Weingarten Realty Investors, Coloplast A/S, Western Forest Products Inc, The Deltic Group Ltd, Financial Times, Johnson & Johnson, Mitsubishi, National Geographic Maps
Allstate Insurance, Barneys New York, Boston Children's Hospital, Buenos Aires Department of the Treasury, Campbell Soup Company, DHL, eBay, eHarmony, Facebook, Four Seasons Hotels Inc., Godiva, Hard Rock International, LinkedIn, Netflix, Pfizer, SECO (Swiss Government Unemployment Agency), Starbucks, Texas A&M University, Thomson Reuters Markets, US House of Representatives, and the US Postal Service.
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