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.
"You can learn a lot of things quickly using resources like ChatGPT or Microsoft's own solutions, which are very helpful within the Microsoft ecosystem."
"It is easy to work with and very chic."
"The standard BI visualization capabilities are great."
"It's user-friendly and provides data abstracting capabilities. We are also able to share reports with our colleagues very easily."
"The most valuable feature of Power BI is its ability to provide customized visualizations and insights tailored to specific business needs."
"Everything that's in M Query and DAX is the heart of Power BI because with these tools you can make up for a lot of other missing features."
"Good CS and administration."
"The user interface is easy to work with."
"Project Schema/metadata- Very flexible, connects to a variety of different data sources and is very flexible for many specific tasks. Attributes/metrics/filters created once used by everyone."
"It's useful if you need to create dashboards that you check every day. Also, we can create a queue, but it will be updated every day with scheduled updates."
"It is a good tool to help our customers visually see loads of data."
"It is definitely customizable. We have been able to put in key metrics and performance indicators, thus it is customizable."
"The most valuable features of MicroStrategy are user-friendliness and integration with the different data warehouse systems."
"The technical support of MicroStrategy can be helpful through implementation."
"We are using it for operations analysis and sales data analysis."
"It helps all the store managers and supply chain people to obtain a view of the data and plan the next week, the next month, quarters, and so on."
"My data is restricted to my DB and I'm not sure how this would handle an extremely large dataset."
"I feel the modeling page should be simplified."
"The look is simple, and could be a little more professional."
"One thing I would like to have is the scripting language, as they already have within Excel. It's already within a Microsoft business product, because Excel is the number one business product out there. So it would be nice to have the scripting capability in order to automate certain processes."
"We did have some issues building the Microsoft blog."
"The challenge of this product is in truncating the table data."
"They asked you to pay if you want to synchronize more than eight times, you would have to go to a Power BI enterprise license, which is much more costly."
"Power BI could be improved by implementing more options for data integration. Nowadays, the cloud takes care of scalability and security. As we all know, data sources are increasing, so we get data from a variety of streams. But if we could get the downstream data into the database and update the reports more easily, Power BI would be better."
"The solution lacks good visualization. They should work on the user interface to make it more slick and modern."
"Needs more visual essence and connectors for the ecosystems, which would be easy to use."
"I would try to make it a little more basic, user-friendly. In terms of the UX, it's a bit sluggish there."
"They need to improve on having more professional, well-equipped premium support."
"Enterprise Manager should be a little bit less quirky when you build out-of-the-box customization reports for it."
"It would be good if it had greater analytics so we could build these visualizations by ourselves with scripts."
"The solution has a very non-logical user usage part. It has a library mode where users can access all the data, reports, and dashboards, but they also can be accessed from a platform. They have to log into the platform. The user experience is confusing for the users. MicroStrategy needs to define which one they will use. Some functionality isn’t available in library mode but is available in the portal. There should be Office integration. For example, if I do a presentation, then I should be able to add a chart to my presentation."
"The product could be improved by adding additional visualization."
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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