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.
"Good CS and administration."
"Previously we used Excel, which took a long time - two or three weeks - to bring the data into a uniform format, whereas BI can do the same job in a day."
"This product has a lot of features and most of them are user-friendly."
"As it was my first time using Power BI, I can say that it was fairly easy to learn, especially if you already know BI-type tools."
"It is easy to work with and very chic."
"My understanding is that the initial setup is pretty easy."
"With the out-of-the-box Data Platform and Business Intelligence ecosystem, you get the entire platform with a single license."
"It allows individuals to do the analysis themselves."
"It scales well. It used to have only a max of four I-servers, but I think recently, somewhere in version 10, they doubled that, so you can have eight I-servers now."
"The convenience of it. Having it on the mobile, so someone has it right there in their pocket most of the time."
"The whole repository side of things is beneficial because you develop it once, and you can use it anywhere, in the Enterprise grade."
"It drives us away from Excel. For what it is for, it is good. You can't run a business on Excel."
"The technical support is quite good."
"Provides seamless integration between browser-based BI and Mobile BI."
"I find MicroStrategy the most suited to the enterprise-wide BI platform, because of its scalability and stability."
"We prefer having the analytic capabilities in a single platform, like MicroStrategy provides, because it is easier. The customer gets used to one type of tool, then sticks with it."
"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing for the solution."
"The integration with third-party products could be more stable."
"The performance of Microsoft BI could improve for large datasets and it would be beneficial to have more visualization features."
"The accounting data needs improvement."
"Better mapping capabilities and easier administration access would be beneficial, especially for understanding who has viewed reports."
"I would like to be able to use more predicting data science features without having to use R."
"Microsoft BI has its own challenges in terms of user interface and how quickly somebody can learn how to use it."
"One opportunity for improvement would be on the Power Query side. As a consultant, I know Power Query is not the main strength of Power BI. It is not where Power BI shines, but many customers use Power Query to do full ETL workloads for deliverable cookies."
"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."
"They should give proper industry-based tutorials so that one can learn it easily and implement it based on the requirements. They should give more MMP files so that we can import a whole project altogether and learn from that project."
"The UI seems klutzy with its manual entry."
"The product is designed for enterprise. A lightweight version would be easier for a smaller workgroup."
"The solution's reports are not very flexible."
"Needs more visual essence and connectors for the ecosystems, which would be easy to use."
"I would like to see a feature where migrations are easier. When you migrate from certain environments, it could probably be a little cleaner. Sometimes it seems to be somewhat clunky when you migrate from one environment, say a development to a test or production environment."
"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."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews while MicroStrategy is ranked 9th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 156 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 Amazon QuickSight. See our MicroStrategy vs. Microsoft Power BI report.
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