We performed a comparison between Microsoft BI and MicroStrategy based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Users gave Microsoft BI higher ratings. Compared to MicroStrategy, Microsoft BI has slightly better features, and users were happy with the ROI.
"My favorite feature is the power query editor, where it can do the data transformations."
"Its connectivity with other Office applications, mostly with Excel, and the ability to deploy it very easily are the most valuable features. It comes sort of bundled with the cloud, so you don't need to set up a server and a standalone infrastructure. So, getting into the system or building something that you can deploy is very easy and very cheap. With other systems, you need to have a server, and you need to have a license for the server. The initial setup is very costly."
"Its seamless integration with Microsoft products, such as Microsoft SQL Server or Microsoft Excel, is the most valuable."
"Because this solution is very easy, and very visual, you can have results in minutes."
"We've used Microsoft BI for the general use cases around reporting and dashboarding."
"It's a powerful platform."
"Implementation is very quick and the solution is very user-friendly."
"The stability is good."
"Scalability is the best thing. You can really scale."
"Mobile brings reports/dashboards closer to the business user."
"It is scalable and integration-friendly."
"This solution is the most scalable BI platform in the world."
"The feature I found most valuable is the drop and drag functionality available."
"Building apps is easy. You just drag in your data, and then you drag in all the elements that you want on your app. It's drag and drop design, and then you can customize your visuals. They make it all easy with plug and play widgets."
"It has the potential to become a great evangelist for AI and other embedded analytics."
"Reports are very easy to create. It takes a very short amount of time to build a report, which is very useful."
"The cost of the solution can get high."
"It should have more report outputs. They should expand the report outputs. Its documentation should also be better."
"I believe there is room for improvement in terms of authentication and certain functionalities in Power BI. For instance, adjusting the width of columns is not easily done, as there is only an option to enable or disable automatic adjustment. This can be a significant drawback for clients who desire more flexibility."
"My main complaint is that the error messages need to be made more clear. Currently, they are either too generic or outright misleading, and finding the real problem is like searching for a needle in a haystack."
"It should have more integrations."
"The solution could be more customizable and you do not have too much freedom on the code."
"The DAX features need some improvement. It's not as easy as Excel. They need more DAX formulas."
"From any improvement perspective, I want the product to be made available to users free of cost...The stability and scalability of the product can be better."
"The areas that have room for improvement in MicroStrategy are mainly related to building additional tools. Specifically, the embedding process has been a bit of a struggle."
"If there are some advanced visualization features - maybe I'm not aware of them - but if there were a Vitara which could work on top of MicroStrategy, it would make sense for MicroStrategy to have that within their own library. So they should add more visualizations to the library."
"The product is designed for enterprise. A lightweight version would be easier for a smaller workgroup."
"MicroStrategy should improve migration automation. Additionally, I would like there to be better partnership support."
"Needs tighter mapping integration."
"The web developer tool for documents creation does not have all the features of the client version"
"They need to do a better job In its ability to allow end users to produce their own reports, metrics, and self-service business intelligence."
"In the developer, there are things that you able to do in a document or a report that you are not able to do in the Dossier."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews while MicroStrategy is ranked 8th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 155 reviews. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while MicroStrategy is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Power BI writes "A complete ecosystem with an builtin ETL tool, good integrations with python and R, and support of DAX and Power Query (M languages)". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MicroStrategy writes "A robust solution for powerful data analytics". Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and SAS Visual Analytics, whereas MicroStrategy is most compared with Tableau, IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Qlik Sense and Oracle OBIEE. See our MicroStrategy vs. Microsoft Power BI report.
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