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.
"PowerBI – Self-service BI."
"Microsoft BI's most valuable features are the user interface, which is easy to use and light."
"The most valuable features are the flexibility, how many ways you can interrogate the data, and the the graphical visualization."
"Very intuitive and easy to use."
"The virtualization of Microsoft BI is very good."
"It gives you an edge if you are on the Microsoft platform. If you have been using Microsoft products for a long time or if you have the Microsoft infrastructure, this is the right tool for you. It has seamless integration with Microsoft SQL Server and other sources, and you get the best of the three things (SSIS, SSAS, and SSRS) in one suite."
"The solution is easy to use and charts can be built quickly with the tools."
"It integrates with all of the Microsoft tools."
"Tech support has been great, very responsive. We usually hear back within a day. We usually email them and that works out perfect. The right person always gets back to us."
"MicroStrategy's solution for mobile is very good."
"We have been using it mostly for grid reports and its exporting features."
"The feature I found most valuable is the drop and drag functionality available."
"Having the analytics capabilities on a single platform."
"It has landing pages, and that makes life easy for exhibiting things."
"Technical support has sent us to rapid response before, when we really needed them."
"Mobile brings reports/dashboards closer to the business user."
"The only challenge I have found is that they do not have a Mac version."
"The setup took a lot of tinkering with InfoSec to allow us to do stuff."
"SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is not user friendly."
"I find the solution to be 70 percent stable."
"Integrating it with the physics build model or the engineering model should be included."
"The solution could benefit by allowing deeper data analytics."
"Sluggish performance when handling large amounts of data."
"The reporting part of Microsoft BI is rather limited compared to other reporting tools."
"We have seen some stability issues with MicroStrategy on cloud. We have a few unhappy customers."
"Needs more visualizations out-of-the-box."
"The solution's reports are not very flexible."
"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."
"Another feature to consider in the future would be adding some additional offline capabilities without using desktops."
"Training would be an area that they could improve upon."
"You can now do data blending at the document level and data blending allows you to show results from different data sets in one grid, so to speak. I want to be able to create a data set that can receive data from multiple cubes, have it in one data set, and then bring it to the document, because then I can reuse it for other documents. Now, I have to do it in a document and then it's less reusable, because if I want to share that functionality, I have to copy the document, strip a lot of things, and then work on that basic element that I've built in that document."
"Sometimes, it has become too complex to upgrade and adjust to the ecosystem."
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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