Would like feedback on tool selection which has been narrowed to MicroStrategy 7.x and Business Objects 5I. What is your experience with either tool, specifically on the current release versions? Has the product met all of your needs? Have you found shortcomings from a functional standpoint? Can you comment on vendor training, vendor support, length of time to implement (less than expected, or longer than expected?), What about training, and vendor support? If you had to do it all over again, would you still have selected the vendor you selected? Why, or why not? Thanks in advance for your honest feedback!! Saving Changes...
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Vijay SankaranDirector, Application Development| Ford Motor CompanyAnn Arbor, Mi, United States
I have had great deal of experience with both tools and let me say they are VERY different depending on the needs of your business community. As a rule of thumb, Business Objects is an easy to implement, ad-hoc reporting and query tool that is very business user friendly. Its architecture is very client-centric. MicroStrategy on the other hand has a deep set of analytics, can handle large amounts of data, has a great server centric architecture and has many tools for report deployment across many channels such as pager, cell phone etc.
The implementation time on Microstrategy is longer as it requires the presence of a specialized star-schema to implement. It is not suited for non-star schema databases. I've used both tools so it all depends on what the needs of your business are. Saving Changes...
I agree with the previous post. Go with MicroStrategy. BO requires lots of maintenance. Cognos requires lots of effort to build the cubes. MicroStrategy is easy to maintain, uses cached ROLAP, and has the least number of interfaces. Saving Changes...
