MicroStrategy and SAP Analytics Cloud both compete in the business intelligence and analytics category. SAP Analytics Cloud seems to have an upper hand for organizations already in the SAP ecosystem due to its seamless integration capabilities and strong machine learning features.
Features: MicroStrategy offers development flexibility, robust analytics without the need for ETL, and scalable SQL engines. Its robust mobile BI capabilities and centralized metadata make it suitable for complex requirements. SAP Analytics Cloud provides strong predictive analytics and machine learning features. It integrates seamlessly with SAP products, offering a unified platform for BI, planning, and predictive analytics, making it effective for SAP-centric organizations.
Room for Improvement: MicroStrategy users seek improvements in its report development interface, enhanced visualization options, and a more intuitive setup process. Better customer support is also desired. SAP Analytics Cloud needs to enhance third-party integration, improve data extraction, and offere more competitive pricing for smaller firms. Additionally, more flexible planning features and seamless big data integration are requested by users.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: MicroStrategy is traditionally focused on on-premises solutions, which can be complex. While its customer service receives mixed reviews, efforts are being made for improvement. SAP Analytics Cloud, being cloud-centric, offers ease of deployment and effective customer service with timely responses, aligning with its integrated support for SAP environments.
Pricing and ROI: MicroStrategy's pricing is high but can offer lower TCO through reusability. Negotiated discounts may be available, making it costly for smaller businesses. SAP Analytics Cloud's pricing is also high but justified by its integration within the SAP suite, offering tiered subscription plans. Both platforms provide significant ROI when leveraged within their specific use cases.
I would rate the technical support from MicroStrategy as nine out of 10.
The technical support is a very well-organized service, with a lot of tools for me as a consultant and for the end user on how to contact SAP support and get issues solved.
We are satisfied with the technical support from SAP because when we reached out, we were able to get very good support from SAP colleagues.
I am satisfied with SAP's technical support team; they provide very good support.
MicroStrategy's scalability is good, as it has the possibility to read a lot of data and works fine with all the information that we have.
SAP Analytics Cloud can be used by a small company, and it can be used by a large corporate.
I would rate its scalability up to nine on a scale of one to ten.
I would rate the stability of MicroStrategy as nine out of 10.
You have a chance to test it on your test tenant in small increments, so it should not break your productive reports and productive environment.
Organizations that are well-established and have more money can afford MicroStrategy, but startups and mid-level organizations who do not have this much budget have to opt for other cheaper tools.
MicroStrategy could learn from Power BI's user-friendly interface.
I would appreciate improvements in MicroStrategy related to integration or sharing features with Power BI.
On the other hand, it is perfectly fitting to the SAP environment, with seamless integration to all SAP modules, not only ERP but also SuccessFactors and other tools from the SAP family.
Documentation-wise, we see some gaps when trying to connect different solutions.
It's important because with MicroStrategy we can manage all our cubes and show data to our clients.
The MicroStrategy interface is not as good as Power BI, especially concerning the user-friendly aspects.
The most effective features of MicroStrategy for data analysis in my experience are the security, the metadata management, and the administration, along with the options of different workarounds available to accommodate different types of requirements.
For SuccessFactors and S/4HANA Cloud, there are pre-built reports available which are commonly used by customers.
The capabilities of SAP Analytics Cloud that I consider the most valuable are that all three functionalities are in one tool.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| SAP Analytics Cloud | 2.2% |
| MicroStrategy | 1.3% |
| Other | 96.5% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 37 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 26 |
| Large Enterprise | 100 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 24 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 13 |
| Large Enterprise | 39 |
Company: Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR) is a leading worldwide provider of enterprise software platforms. With direct operations in 26 countries worldwide and approximately 2,000 employees, our mission is to provide enterprise analytics, mobility, and security platforms that are flexible, powerful, scalable and user-friendly. To learn more, visit MicroStrategy online, and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
Product portfoilio:
MicroStrategy 10 Secure Enterprise™ empowers leading organizations to analyze vast amounts of data and distribute actionable business insight throughout an enterprise through two distinct offerings: MicroStrategy Analytics™ and MicroStrategy Desktop™. MicroStrategy Analytics delivers reports and dashboards, and enables users to conduct ad hoc analysis and share insights anywhere, anytime, via mobile devices or the Web. It also combines the agility and productivity of self-service visual data discovery with the security, scalability, and governance features of enterprise-grade business intelligence. MicroStrategy Desktop is a standalone, on-premise visual data discovery tool designed to enable business users to analyze and understand their data. MicroStrategy Mobile™ enables organizations to rapidly build custom business applications that deliver analytics combined with transactions, multimedia, and custom workflows to mobile devices. MicroStrategy Secure Cloud™ combines all of the enterprise analytics, mobile, and security features in MicroStrategy 10 Secure Enterprise with powerful and scalable data integration, validation, and warehousing services — all delivered in an environment where organizations can deploy transformational analytics applications in minutes.
Usher, MicroStrategy’s breakthrough security solution, is a powerful mobile security platform designed to dematerialize traditional forms of identity verification (such as passwords, tokens, and physical badges) and replace them with a single mobile identity badge that is cryptographically linked to its owner’s smartphone and dynamically linked to an enterprise’s existing identity repositories. Usher works on standard Android and iOS smartphones, and also boasts an Apple Watch™ integration.
SAP Analytics Cloud is an all-in-one Software-as-a-Service business intelligence tool that provides the key functionalities of an analytics tool to SAP business users. This tool is built on HANA Business Intelligence (BI) platform, providing analytics from data collected from multiple sources, such as ERP, Microsoft SQL, and Salesforce, among other solutions.
You can use SAP Analytics Cloud to compile data and perform ad-hoc reporting and analysis for predictive planning. SAP Analytics Cloud collects and analyzes the raw data from transactional systems into intelligent insights that allow you to make better decisions.
SAP Analytics Cloud uses machine learning to clean up data, identify errors, and issues, and suggest optimization or filtering options. You can use the modeling feature in Analytics Cloud to create hierarchies and get deeper data insights.
The three core functions of SAP Analytics Cloud consist of Planning, Predictive Analysis, and Business Intelligence as a holistic SaaS solution that offers real-time analysis to business leaders.
SAP Analytics Cloud Capabilities
SAP Analytics Cloud Key Features
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Reviews from Real Users
Segun O., SAP HANA Developer at SOA PEOPLE, says that "The most valuable features are on the application side, where you can design applications into your analytics on the platform."
The Head of Finance Enterprise Application at a computer software company adds that "The visualization feature is the most valuable. SAP Analytics Cloud is also very easy to use."
"Its many features make it the best in the market," sums up a Consultor SAP Business Object, Sap Analytics Cloud at a tech services company.
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