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.
"The solution is not that difficult to install, although this will vary with the experience of the person responsible for its installation."
"Most of the clients I am interacting with are looking towards Power BI because of the cost and simplicities. It provides an entire feature set and a complete solution. It has tight integration with Office 365, Dynamics 365, Microsoft Technology Stack, and datatypes like R and Python."
"Microsoft BI is better than most solutions we have. It's pretty easy to conduct analysis with it."
"Its visualization capabilities are pretty good. It is very easy to use. You can easily make your dashboard."
"What I like most is that I can do everything in Power BI that I can do in Excel."
"The initial setup is easy."
"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 straightforward."
"It definitely impacts people, who are excited to use it."
"With all the APIs it's very scalable."
"The ability to create aesthetically pleasing information by providing dashboards."
"In the past, when we had so many legacy systems, with Cognos and others, it was took multiple steps to get what we wanted. Now, it's a seamless integration. We can connect directly, in the form of In-Memory Cubes or live-publish cubes, to the data warehouse, and blend in the data with big data. Not only relational databases, but we can also integrate other third-party files, and create a single-source software."
"MicroStrategy has what they call the Semantic Graph — an enterprise-grade semantic graph — and I think the technology is fantastic."
"It has landing pages, and that makes life easy for exhibiting things."
"It has had a direct impact on bottomline improvements."
"The most valuable features are drill down, dashboards, documents, bringing everything under one roof, and visualizations."
"When we have a big report with lots of data, the solution slows down quite a lot."
"Microsoft BI’s integration and visualization could be improved."
"Integration with products that are not Microsoft could be more improved."
"The solution doesn't integrate well with third-party tools."
"Real-time updating needs improvement."
"The visualization aspect, while being the most visible to business users, also happens the be the weakest point in the entire Microsoft BI stack."
"Sluggish performance when handling large amounts of data."
"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."
"The product could be improved by adding additional visualization."
"MicroStrategy's mobile dashboard is still not a RESTful design."
"We've found the scalability to be very good. However, it depends on the environment. In general, it could be much better."
"We would really like to see MicroStrategy have some support teams based more in Europe, because for now it seems that there is one person for the whole CE region. That is not exactly what we would like to see. We do know that MicroStrategy supports most places, either in the US or India, but those are different time zones, people, and cultures."
"Needs tighter mapping integration."
"One of the things that I want to see MicroStrategy do is become more cloud native. Right now, the deployment on cloud is very easy to ruin, it is very much like spinning up separate VMs."
"Lacks decent visualization and the process for creating new objects needs to be simplified."
"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."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 293 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, IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Qlik Sense and Oracle OBIEE. See our MicroStrategy vs. Microsoft Power BI report.
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