Magento BI vs. MS SharePoint / SQL

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Magento BI
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Magento BI (formerly RJMetrics) is an ecommerce analytics solution that provides data pipeline, warehouse and visualization capabilities. It was acquired by Magento, and is now owned and supported by Adobe.N/A
MS SharePoint / SQL
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
MS SharePoint / SQL refers to Microsoft Sharepoint, a web-based collaborative platform, being used in tandem with Microsoft SQL Server to provide business intelligence analytics and reporting. They can provide BI content such as data connections, reports, scorecards, dashboards, and more.N/A
Pricing
Magento BIMS SharePoint / SQL
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Magento BIMS SharePoint / SQL
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
Magento BIMS SharePoint / SQL
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Magento BI
9.0
2 Ratings
9% above category average
MS SharePoint / SQL
8.9
55 Ratings
8% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports9.02 Ratings8.936 Ratings
Customizable dashboards9.02 Ratings8.753 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates9.02 Ratings9.145 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Magento BI
9.3
2 Ratings
14% above category average
MS SharePoint / SQL
9.1
52 Ratings
12% above category average
Drill-down analysis9.02 Ratings8.942 Ratings
Formatting capabilities9.02 Ratings9.652 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages9.01 Ratings8.030 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration10.02 Ratings9.850 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Magento BI
9.0
1 Ratings
7% above category average
MS SharePoint / SQL
9.1
56 Ratings
9% above category average
Publish to Web9.01 Ratings8.852 Ratings
Publish to PDF9.01 Ratings8.048 Ratings
Report Versioning9.01 Ratings8.845 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling9.01 Ratings9.740 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers9.01 Ratings10.032 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Magento BI
9.0
2 Ratings
11% above category average
MS SharePoint / SQL
9.2
34 Ratings
13% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)9.02 Ratings8.933 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization9.01 Ratings10.032 Ratings
Predictive Analytics9.01 Ratings10.029 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Magento BI
8.5
2 Ratings
1% below category average
MS SharePoint / SQL
9.3
67 Ratings
8% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)9.02 Ratings10.059 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model8.02 Ratings9.062 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.02 Ratings9.666 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)9.01 Ratings9.053 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Magento BI
9.0
1 Ratings
12% above category average
MS SharePoint / SQL
9.2
57 Ratings
14% above category average
Responsive Design for Web Access9.01 Ratings9.754 Ratings
Mobile Application9.01 Ratings9.133 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile9.01 Ratings8.038 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Magento BI
9.2
1 Ratings
15% above category average
MS SharePoint / SQL
9.3
37 Ratings
16% above category average
REST API9.01 Ratings9.028 Ratings
Javascript API9.01 Ratings9.926 Ratings
iFrames9.01 Ratings9.027 Ratings
Java API9.01 Ratings9.025 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)9.01 Ratings9.032 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)10.01 Ratings9.923 Ratings
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User Ratings
Magento BIMS SharePoint / SQL
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(2 ratings)
8.8
(74 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(7 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(7 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.8
(7 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Magento BIMS SharePoint / SQL
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe
A company or organization that is in contact with the customer and wants to examine customer behavior in the purchase and selection of products and services should use this platform. It does not matter how many advertising tools and referral links or social media campaigns you use to attract customers. In any case, Magento BI integrates all the information and DB as a single platform and provides you with the best reports. Potential customers can be positioned according to location, city, country. Now we know exactly which product is most popular and where to put our advertising costs on which site or social network has the most audience.
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Microsoft
A simple and important scenario well suited is that you can configure alerts to notify you when the production server fails. another best feature is the report server is the central component of reporting services. For me something less appropriate is that the admin must ensure optimal performance for farm operations, they recommend that you install SQL Server on a dedicated server that does not run other farm roles and does not host databases for other applications.
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Pros
Adobe
  • It is relatively easy to manipulate the time period in which you want to see your report. This is important for our business because we are constantly analyzing sales month over month, quarter over quarter, and year over year. RJ makes it easy to toggle between these time ranges on the same report.
  • The visualizers available for reports are what you would expect out of a product like this. You have the ability to view your results in tables and a multitude of charts.
  • The ability to customize dashboards and rearrange reports quickly is great and intuitive!
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Microsoft
  • Flexible - able to make any changes we would like vs traditional service desk system.
  • ROI - We were already using SharePoint for internal intranet, so we are simply getting more use out of licensing we had already committed to.
  • Easy to use for end users.
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Cons
Adobe
  • Educational videos and tutorials must be more simpler and more understandable language with subtitles
  • There should be the ability to select graphic diagrams with different shapes and graphs
  • The basic features of the Essential Paln can be increased with the current price so that startup companies can better use the features of this platform.
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Microsoft
  • It is hard to setup and nightmare
  • It requires a of infrastructure, thus it could be costly because of requirement and licensing required for everything to run smoothly
  • If it is not setup and organized properly from the beginning it could be maintenance nightmare
  • It is hard to have "test" environment to do patches or similar
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Likelihood to Renew
Adobe
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
This was a long-term buy-in from a corporate perspective, to remain in the SharePoint space. Migration is certainly possible, which is good for planning and having options further out. At this point, the only planned migration is to eventually move the architecture up to SharePoint/SQL 2013. At that point, we will be able to leverage some greater efficiencies, some enhanced content design and management features, and some more current social features. It is well worth a full consideration in any shop looking at a new implementation of or migration to SharePoint (although you will probably be considering 2013 versions or beyond in those discussions), but the platform should be a strong competitor to any alternatives. Realizing the capability of a fully-branded and customized website was not part of the original choice for the architecture at Lincoln, but seeing it implemented and functioning now with this capacity far beyond original expectations has certainly cemented plans to continue using it.
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Usability
Adobe
In addition to its features, it has made the Magento Commerce platform much better, more functional, and smarter, and through Magento BI dashboard they know very well what reports have been sent and all our business tools are summarized in one business platform. The ability to share report results is very popular and useful, and you can share content with anyone anywhere in the world.
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Microsoft
SharePoint is very complex. This makes usability somewhat difficult from an IT perspective. An IT generalist will be able to pick it up and run with basic tasks. More customized functions would require significant specialized training and therefore limit what a standard user would be able to achieve. From an end user perspective, it's pretty straightforward to use.
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Support Rating
Adobe
The very strong and knowledgeable support team and great help forums and documents, any questions and cases will be answered immediately or checked through tickets and resolved quickly. It is also possible to send comments and changes. Or our team , fast response and after-sales cooperation of the service company is always more than the product itself and its quality, and we want the service and support to support our interests.
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Microsoft
It's been fantastic in terms of Premier Support so far. If there is an issue and if you report if the product has an issue, they will act upon it immediately. In some cases, if you design/develop something using the platform, Microsoft appreciates it and... publishes it on their public website. But you have to wait for some time if it is a non-Premier Support issue as you may experience delays.
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Implementation Rating
Adobe
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
Not implemented in best practice way, there are many customizations
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Alternatives Considered
Adobe
The advantage of Magento BI is easier compatibility and adaptation with Adobe platforms and easier installation, configuration and customization with Mojto Store Builder and its various caskets, and I am very satisfied with it now and in every way I think it is a very good platform for integration in reporting.
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Microsoft
At the time of the two large projects, SharePoint was the enterprise solution so we were required to use that. We have since lobbied the enterprise teams to review and consider Atlassian Confluence and were successful. Confluence is cheaper than Sharepoint which is why we wanted to bring that in. The enterprise has now made Confluence an enterprise solution as an alternative to SharePoint. After using both I think SharePoint has many more add-ins than Confluence. It has much more customization ability than Confluence. SharePoint is not good for mobile readiness. Confluence is so there is a difference that might lead you to Confluence over SharePoint. I would also say that SharePoint is very document-centric and that Confluence has better KM than SharePoint does. even with the use of SQL Server. We were told that we could not use Google Drive even though it had features we liked.
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Return on Investment
Adobe
  • Very comprehensive and complete reports that give us a lot of information about the customer
  • Easy integration and features of pulling data directly from our recorded customer database
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Microsoft
  • I've installed SharePoint in many different industries and each industry has seen greater collaboration among their teams both locally and nationally. The ability to collaborate more efficiently has reduced the need to have employees centrally located.
  • Companies which have used SharePoint in a end user training portal have had great ROI, since they can create the content once and share with all their users who subscribe to their training service. The web content management aspect of SharePoint is a very helpful feature.
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