Solid enterprise level reporting & BI with a cost (difficult to integrate new data sets)

I would see Business Objects as the main competitor to MSTR in the way we used the tool. I wouldn't see a reason to go through a change considering the level of effort the lack of significant differences between the two tools. For a smaller implementation I would strongly consider Tableau, however.

I would really try to understand what the colleague is looking to gain out of the tool. For example - things I'd suggest they ask themselves first and then their prospective vendors would include:

• Do you want to be able to bring in data on the fly, easily, or do you want to be limited to what lives in your data warehouse


• Do you want to be able to develop quick ad-hoc reports & insights, or are pre-built reports more important to you


• Is cost a main concern? Do you need to tie ROI to this tool in order to get funding?