Data Science Workbench vs MicroStrategy Analytics

Likelihood to Recommend

Organizations which already implemented on-premise Hadoop based Cloudera Data Platform (CDH) for their Big Data warehouse architecture will definitely get more value from seamless integration of Cloudera Data Science Workbench (CDSW) with their existing CDH Platform. However, for organizations with hybrid (cloud and on-premise) data platform without prior implementation of CDH, implementing CDSW can be a challenge technically and financially.

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Professional in Information Technology

Telecommunications Company, 1001-5000 employees

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MSTR is great for any organization that is looking for a way to deliver complicated data in an uncomplicated way. From business teams to marketing and finance, several departments benefit from using MSTR to keep track of KPIs enabling teams to make optimizations along the way. MSTR provides great visual representations of data enabling team members to distill thousands of data points into easily digestible charts and graphs

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Employee in Marketing

Financial Services Company, 501-1000 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Data Science Workbench

MicroStrategy Analytics

Connect to Multiple Data Sources

Extend Existing Data Sources

Automatic Data Format Detection

MDM Integration

Data Science Workbench

MicroStrategy Analytics

Visualization

Interactive Data Analysis

Data Science Workbench

MicroStrategy Analytics

Interactive Data Cleaning and Enrichment

Data Transformations

Data Encryption

Built-in Processors

Data Science Workbench

MicroStrategy Analytics

Multiple Model Development Languages and Tools

Automated Machine Learning

Single platform for multiple model development

Self-Service Model Delivery

Data Science Workbench

MicroStrategy Analytics

Flexible Model Publishing Options

Security, Governance, and Cost Controls

Data Science Workbench

MicroStrategy Analytics

Pixel Perfect reports

Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

Data Science Workbench

MicroStrategy Analytics

Drill-down analysis

Formatting capabilities

Integration with R or other statistical packages

Report sharing and collaboration

Data Science Workbench

MicroStrategy Analytics

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Report Versioning

Report Delivery Scheduling

Delivery to Remote Servers

Data Science Workbench

MicroStrategy Analytics

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Predictive Analytics

Data Science Workbench

MicroStrategy Analytics

Multi-User Support (named login)

Role-Based Security Model

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Data Science Workbench

MicroStrategy Analytics

Responsive Design for Web Access

Dedicated iOS Application

Dedicated Android Application

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

Data Science Workbench

MicroStrategy Analytics

REST API

Javascript API

iFrames

Java API

Themeable User Interface (UI)

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

Pros

One single IDE (browser based application) that makes Scala, R, Python integrated under one tool
For larger organizations/teams, it lets you be self reliant
As it sits on your cluster, it has very easy access of all the data on the HDFS
Linking with Github is a very good way to keep the code versions intact

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Bharadwaj (Brad) Chivukula

Sr.Technical Manager/Delivery Manager

Nisum Technologies, Inc.Retail, 10,001+ employees

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I think the dashboards are quite helpful to visualize on the spot data.
Creation of facts and attributes is simple - I have no programming experience and was still able to create and modify these items.
Scheduling reports to be run on a daily, weekly, or hourly basis is simple. It provides updated data on a timed basis with no need to go back into the program.

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Analyst in Quality Assurance

Hospital & Health Care Company, 501-1000 employees

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Cons

Installation is difficult.
Upgrades are difficult.
Licensing options are not flexible.

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Professional in Research & Development

Utilities Company, 10,001+ employees

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Visual Insight have multiple limitations. Few of them are listed here - i)Cannot change default graph colors ii) text/graph formatting are very very limited iii)Add metric to Color by / Thresholds is not possible iv)one of the worst limitation of the VI in older versions is that it is not possible to create filters that apply only to a specific visualization. For example if there are 4 graphs in one dashboard & if you have filters then those filters would be applicable for all of them
Some formatting options are not there either on Web or Developer especially while dealing with a document. We have to use both Web & Developer to solve issues.
While connecting with MDX cube reporting loses a lot of features.

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Abanish Mishra

Business Intelligence Analyst

Match.comInternet, 201-500 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

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MicroStrategy Analytics 9.9

Based on 27 answers

I would always choose to renew MicroStrategy as long as they lead the market in features, functionality and price. The support of MicroStrategy is timely and professional, I frequently get answers to my questions within 24 hours and normally have solutions within 48 hours. Training available for MicroStrategy completely covers everything required to be able to expertly use MicroStrategy and understand data warehousing.

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Paul Campbell

Professional Services Engineer

Chartwise Medical SystemsInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Usability

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MicroStrategy Analytics 7.0

Based on 3 answers

The standard grid reporting could look more like the styling and object used for the Import and Visual Insight products. In addition, object properties almost seem to be hidden when first using the product. It's as if they are asking the engineers to only use the presets we make available...and, these presets are 10+ years old. On the positive side, Microstrategy seems to be the only product, not named Cognos, which can scale to Big Data. The product is "hackable" via the SDK or tricking the Intelligence Server to do uncommon things. The Microstrategy development team also seems to be very involved with their OEM partners; especially when it comes to features and enhancements. A large majority of the improvements we suggested have made it into the product or on the roadmap for future enhancements. Only suckas fall for the shiny objects from most other vendors; Microstrategy is really the only choice for Enterprise BI.

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Wm. Dexter Jones

Manager, Business Intelligence and Reporting Services

IgnitionOneInternet, 201-500 employees

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Reliability and Availability

No score

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MicroStrategy Analytics 10.0

Based on 2 answers

I've never had an issue with MicroStrategy not being available due to MicroStrategy application malfunction. It is very robust and only failures I've seen were due to user error or the platform the machine running the service failed some how.

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Paul Campbell

Professional Services Engineer

Chartwise Medical SystemsInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Performance

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MicroStrategy Analytics 10.0

Based on 2 answers

Being able to customize the performance based on the business need is extremely powerful. Proper configuration and understanding of the usage pattern is key, if the technical ability of the architect is not at top level, then the product will not be configured correctly which will lead to poor performance.

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Paul Campbell

Professional Services Engineer

Chartwise Medical SystemsInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Support Rating

Data Science Workbench 6.7

Based on 2 answers

Cloudera Data Science Workbench has excellence online resources support such as documentation and examples. On top of that the enterprise license also comes with SLA on opening a ticket to Cloudera Services and support for complaint handling and troubleshooting by email or through a phone call. On top of that it also offers additional paid training services.

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Telecommunications Company, 1001-5000 employees

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MicroStrategy Analytics 10.0

Based on 6 answers

If the staff does not know they answer they either find it out at some point, or put in a feature request. I have never been left hanging or been given an answer that is unsatisfactory to the solution. Even if there was no current solution, I was still told the logical reason and why.

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Paul Campbell

Professional Services Engineer

Chartwise Medical SystemsInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Online Training

No score

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MicroStrategy Analytics 7.8

Based on 4 answers

I have attended many trainings offered by MicroStrategy; both distance and in-person training. I earned my CRD (Certified Report Developer) certification via the online training. I found the training to be well organized and concise. Overall I will definitely continue to increase my knowledge with MicroStrategy via the online training offering.

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Shawn Stephens

Senior BI Developer

HMS1001-5000 employees

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Implementation Rating

No score

No answers yet

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MicroStrategy Analytics 8.0

Based on 6 answers

Implementation is not easy, but also not difficult. With enough training on how to create a schema, and with the proper data warehouse schema the implementation can be very quick. If there are a lot of unknowns in the beginning phase of modeling, that can greatly extend the overall time taken for a fully implemented project.

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Paul Campbell

Professional Services Engineer

Chartwise Medical SystemsInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Both the tools have similar features and have made it pretty easy to install/deploy/use. Depending on your existing platform (Cloudera vs. Azure) you need to pick the Workbench. Another observation is that Cloudera has better support where you can get feedback on your questions pretty fast (unlike MS). As its a new product, I expect MS to be more efficient in handling customers questions.

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Bharadwaj (Brad) Chivukula

Sr.Technical Manager/Delivery Manager

Nisum Technologies, Inc.Retail, 10,001+ employees

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Tableau is probably MicroStrategy Analytic's biggest competitor I've noticed over time, and I'm not sure why. Tableau only covers visualizations independently for each business user, which then creates the issues of every employee creating their own version of the data, and then you have 20 versions of the truth. A enterprise data warehouse and MicroStrategy's Visual Insight is a better method.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Internet Company, 201-500 employees

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Scalability

No score

No answers yet

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MicroStrategy Analytics 10.0

Based on 1 answer

This software is extremely scaleable, one can add more core servers which performs as a load balancing. The configurations available to manage usage patterns and daily activity are as high a caliber as any other enterprise level software. This product can be installed on both a windows and unix platform allow for integration on a budget.

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Paul Campbell

Professional Services Engineer

Chartwise Medical SystemsInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Return on Investment

Paid off for demonstration purposes.

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Professional in Research & Development

Utilities Company, 10,001+ employees

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MicroStrategy was helpful for reducing the amount of time we needed to spend number crunching large data sets, and in doing so, allowed me as the primary users to spend more time gleaning insights from the data that in turn informed our leadership team to make strategic decisions.
By creating numerous canned reports available to all members of the team through email distribution or basic access to the platform, we were able to reduce the time I spent showing people how to pull the data in Microsoft Excel by nearly 40% .
We ended up needing to make many changes to the way our DMP was feeding data into MicroStrategy due to incorrect reporting that caused complications in accounting and finance.

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Toreyan Clarke

Strategy and Market Development Analyst

MediaMathBanking, 10,001+ employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Data Science Workbench Editions & Modules

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

MicroStrategy Analytics Editions & Modules

On-premise Edition

Desktop	$600¹

per named user

SaaS Edition

Web	$600¹
Web	$300,000²
Mobile	$600³
Mobile	$300,000⁴

per named user
per CPU core
per named user
per CPU core

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Rating Summary

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