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.
"Two valuable most features are the ability to create columns and create measures."
"There is a feature in Microsoft BI that allows JSON data to SQL on the dashboards effectively and quickly."
"It is useful for bringing visualization to data. It calculates counts, ratios, etc."
"Management reporting solution that's very stable and scalable."
"It is very good, and it supports the Microsoft ecosystem, including Excel, etc."
"There is a lot of help and documentation on the Internet, so no special training is needed to use the source code."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"There are some great automation elements in the product."
"On our mobile solution you can deploy up to 100,000 users. In our case, we're up to about 10,000 active users, and MicroStrategy's server technology behind the scenes, the Intelligence Server and the Mobile Servers, are very robust and they can handle the workload."
"The platform can be easily monitored. You have quite a good overview of tasks which are being run."
"The drill-down functionality is also very good."
"We use MicroStrategy as an integrated solution with some of their other CRM type applications."
"I have never had any problems with the stability."
"The stability of the product is good."
"We are using it for operations analysis and sales data analysis."
"We prefer having our analytics capabilities in a single platform, which MicroStrategy's offers."
"Real-time updating needs improvement."
"Anything they can do to improve enterprise collaboration is going to help people get set up and utilize the solution."
"The way you navigate the product, compared to other products in this industry, that could be improved a bit."
"The biggest thing with Microsoft right now is better support. There should be more timely support. We can do 90% of it ourselves by the same token. When we're into the 10%, we do not get timely support via Microsoft's support team."
"Things can slow down if you create too many pages."
"Power BI could have better metadata management. It's easy to use for a single person. However, it lacks an enterprise-grade metadata management system, which can be a problem if you're doing an enterprise deployment with multiple users."
"Power BI's drillthrough feature could be improved. I didn't like drillthrough and those options much, but I did like it in MicroStrategy."
"Microsoft BI's visualization could be better. Though Power BI's visualization has steadily improved over the years, it's not on the level tools like Tableau and SAS or some of the more expensive products on the market."
"Something I would be interested in is more visualizations, because right now we use SDK to create some. If there were more out-of-the-box options, we would be happy with that."
"It would be good if it had greater analytics so we could build these visualizations by ourselves with scripts."
"Enterprise Manager should be a little bit less quirky when you build out-of-the-box customization reports for it."
"The problem is the way that their metrics are designed. It can be difficult to understand what you're actually looking at. Then when you're comparing a document against the VI, you can't actually do that properly. So there are components, and there is a huge learning curve in the Enterprise Manager space. I think it would benefit them greatly if they were to exercise a significant amount of research and development in that space."
"Needs more visual essence and connectors for the ecosystems, which would be easy to use."
"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."
"Lacks decent visualization and the process for creating new objects needs to be simplified."
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 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 Databricks, 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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