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.
"We have a lot of servers and applications from which we want reports, and it allows us to create reports from an SQL source or some other source."
"Initial setup was very straightforward. Users can get up and running reporting on databases within minutes."
"The scalability is good. We have 20 people in my organization using this solution and plan to increase usage."
"The virtualization of Microsoft BI is very good."
"This solution has improved our ability in making decisions and explaining data."
"It provides good visibility."
"In contrast to what we were using before I think that Power BI has given us more extensive results."
"It's a powerful platform."
"This solution has allowed us to become a top-class competitor among other consulting companies."
"Having the intelligence server sit in the middle is huge for us. It is going to save us a lot of time, make our work a lot simpler, make it easier for deployment, and getting the reports in the hands of our users sooner."
"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."
"Now we can collaborate, in real time. In the past we had to wait for our business partners say if a visualization looked good or sufficed for their requirements. There was no real-time decision making. Now, with Dossier, it will accelerate the velocity of decision making."
"It plays a vital role in establishing a connection with predictive continuous improvement."
"It is always nice to have one solution in a single platform. You can do pretty much everything, instead of having to get a little bit here or a little bit there."
"It's user-friendly, also the MTDI cube is a very good approach, as it helps you to use the pre-format instead of using the standard objects from the schema of MicroStrategy."
"We are using it for operations analysis and sales data analysis."
"The interface could be improved."
"Its setup and support should be improved. We would like to see more material for developers that provides clear explanations about how we can do data mining by using Microsoft BI. It would also be good if we can connect a feature to other customized machine learning solutions."
"here are still better UI designs they can go through. I'm assuming they are focusing more on capabilities rather than look-and-feel designs."
"There are some problems with the functionality of this solution. The dashboard is not very user friendly and is quite complicated."
"The smart phone application could be improved, along with better graphics and faster updating."
"I would like to see some AI incorporated into this solution in the future."
"Better mapping capabilities and easier administration access would be beneficial, especially for understanding who has viewed reports."
"Drill-down in dashboards needs to improved. The capability only works in Power BI Desktop today. We need to have an alternative approach today."
"If you do not learn the ins or outs, it can be a difficult tool to use. You could do a PoC and get enough out of it to be able to use it. However, when it comes to administering it, you definitely need the training."
"MicroStrategy should improve migration automation. Additionally, I would like there to be better partnership support."
"We had some problems with customer service and support."
"Our users tend to say the interface is a pain."
"MicroStrategy's mobile dashboard is still not a RESTful design."
"Scalability is something which will need to be improved when it goes to a bigger audience."
"I know we are not competing against Tableau, but MicroStrategy needs to step up its game on the GUI side."
"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 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 SAS Visual Analytics, whereas MicroStrategy is most compared with Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, IBM Cognos, Qlik Sense and Oracle OBIEE. See our MicroStrategy vs. Microsoft Power BI report.
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