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Comparision Business Objecs and Microstrategy
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Hi
BO And Microstrategy are both reporting tool to be deployed on Data warehouse. From what i know about Microstrategy it is a high end tool and has a long learning curve. It is best suited for financial reporting and complex aggregation report.
on the other hand BO is a user friendly tool with cater to easy to medium complex reporting needs
the price difference is also not quite much but small setup can go for BO
BO And Microstrategy are both reporting tool to be deployed on Data warehouse. From what i know about Microstrategy it is a high end tool and has a long learning curve. It is best suited for financial reporting and complex aggregation report.
on the other hand BO is a user friendly tool with cater to easy to medium complex reporting needs
the price difference is also not quite much but small setup can go for BO
I agree with Subhash. They are both reporting tool with different architecture and different user needs. Microstrategy is more for Power Users who want to do Advanced Reporting suited for Huge Warehouses. BO is more of Desktop Reporting tool and easy to learn and report with. I've have worked on both and it all boils down to the user needs.
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RogerCruse
MIS
Further agreement from me. And I've evaluated both products in my time.
I think you also need to think about market-share. Business Objects simply has more customers than MicroStrategy and therefore, has more money to invest in its future.
Roger...
I think you also need to think about market-share. Business Objects simply has more customers than MicroStrategy and therefore, has more money to invest in its future.
Roger...
deaco
MIS
- Sep 20, 2002
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Microstrategy is a more specialist tool that requires good knowledge from the users about how these things fit together. BO is designed as a user friendly end user tool that requires little or no knowledge of what's happening behind the reporting tool. You can get complete novices using it with very little training, I wouldn't like to do that with Microstrategy unless the end user had used BO or another tool for a few years so that they understood how database structure end up in a report. No simple SQL experience.
Cabs, MSTR vs BOBJ? There's a familiar situation...now, I don't know BOBJ that well, but I do have a couple of things to say about MSTR...
I think it's fair to see MSTR as more high-end, power-user type development environment in it's out-of-the-box form, but that doesn't necessarily mean that you can't build the simplest, most user-friendly reporting system with it. IMO MSTR have gone to great lengths to simplify the reporting environment to the extent that you can pretty much choose the level of complexity you deem fit for your users. Broadly speaking, Desktop is for the power-user; Web is for the user who you want to guide through the reporting environment; and Narrowcaster is for the user who you just want to send information to. Or to put it another way, Desktop is for 10 users, Web is for 1000 users, and Narrowcast is for 100000 users. And you can customise each to the nth degree as you see fit.
As far as the users needing to understand databases, and schemas, and SQL, the whole point of the environment is that you can hide all that complexity away and present the reporting environment in the way the user understands - as his business works. And his business might well be highly complex behind the scenes, but so what? You have an engine and an environment that can support it.
I would suggest you take a look at the OLAP Report for more information.
And just to end, if we all bought software based on market share, then you should perhaps be looking at Microsoft and Cognos.
I think it's fair to see MSTR as more high-end, power-user type development environment in it's out-of-the-box form, but that doesn't necessarily mean that you can't build the simplest, most user-friendly reporting system with it. IMO MSTR have gone to great lengths to simplify the reporting environment to the extent that you can pretty much choose the level of complexity you deem fit for your users. Broadly speaking, Desktop is for the power-user; Web is for the user who you want to guide through the reporting environment; and Narrowcaster is for the user who you just want to send information to. Or to put it another way, Desktop is for 10 users, Web is for 1000 users, and Narrowcast is for 100000 users. And you can customise each to the nth degree as you see fit.
As far as the users needing to understand databases, and schemas, and SQL, the whole point of the environment is that you can hide all that complexity away and present the reporting environment in the way the user understands - as his business works. And his business might well be highly complex behind the scenes, but so what? You have an engine and an environment that can support it.
I would suggest you take a look at the OLAP Report for more information.
And just to end, if we all bought software based on market share, then you should perhaps be looking at Microsoft and Cognos.
I would also like to throwm my humble opinion in the ring. I rolled out MSTR to dozens of business users without any trouble on their part. I find them to be equally easy/comlex for the end-user. As a developer, I find BO much more diifficult to work with. Especially when using SQL Server as you DB (I was appalled to see BO generating joins in the WHERE clause, where SQL Server is optimized for ANSI-style joins!). Both require set-up that is not insignificant, especially if you don't have a reporting database or warehouse established.
I have read the OLAP report (referenced above) and being familiar with both technologies, I can assure you that MSTR is more mature and robust in it's technology. You just can't beat the multi-pass SQL that MSTR generates.
As for market share, BO has better salespeople, that's for sure. They promise you can install BO right on top of your transactional OLTP DB in a matter opf a few weeks. It's up toyou if you want to believe them.
Respectfully.
Dave
I have read the OLAP report (referenced above) and being familiar with both technologies, I can assure you that MSTR is more mature and robust in it's technology. You just can't beat the multi-pass SQL that MSTR generates.
As for market share, BO has better salespeople, that's for sure. They promise you can install BO right on top of your transactional OLTP DB in a matter opf a few weeks. It's up toyou if you want to believe them.
Respectfully.
Dave
FYI - You can easily make BO put the joins in the FROM clause. It requires a very small change to the .PRM file.
Steve Krandel
BASE Consulting Group
skrandel@baseconsulting.com
Steve Krandel
BASE Consulting Group
skrandel@baseconsulting.com
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