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 querying capabilities are the most valuable because they allow me to build many automations. We have many workflows and many databases that we work on a daily basis. They need to be updated quite quickly. In order to not to take much of our time doing these updates manually, I have set up these automations using the systems. The process is just to ingest the data and reprocess it. Every time I click a button, everything is updated in almost real time. It is by far the easiest system not only for querying but also for data modeling, data visualization, and deployment. It is light years ahead of Tableau and even Microsoft Excel to do these kinds of things. It is very easy to use and set up, and it has a lot of videos on the internet."
"It is in the cloud, which makes it easy for mobile access of reports and data."
"The feature I find most valuable is the ability to publish Power Bi reports, using an embedded link, directly onto a website."
"Provides good data flow related to the container and control flow."
"Easy to use. End-users can make changes to the graphics."
"The scalability overall has been quite good."
"We've used Microsoft BI for the general use cases around reporting and dashboarding."
"We can see that it's really improved the way end users can do their own graphs and pick their own fields of information and present that in a nice way."
"The most valuable features are drill down, dashboards, documents, bringing everything under one roof, and visualizations."
"MicroStrategy's solution for mobile is very good."
"It is definitely customizable. We have been able to put in key metrics and performance indicators, thus it is customizable."
"Visual Insights (VI)"
"The solution is ideal for enterprise-level companies or corporations."
"I find MicroStrategy the most suited to the enterprise-wide BI platform, because of its scalability and stability."
"Provides seamless integration between browser-based BI and Mobile BI."
"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."
"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."
"From an improvement perspective, I think if the Power BI developers of that platform would really focus on being more detailed and specific on the error messages, it would help a lot of developers troubleshoot and maintain the report ECT or the dashboard ECT."
"The reporting part of Microsoft BI is rather limited compared to other reporting tools."
"Microsoft Power BI can be confusing, because it has two languages that you need to learn if you want to use it, and this makes it more difficult for nontechnical users."
"If you are having millions of rows of data or you have a large database, Microsoft BI's performance depends upon how powerful your hardware is. When I am handling large amounts of data I do not use Microsoft BI or Tableau because of this, I use D3."
"A few features available in Tableau are not available in Power BI. For example. Tableau has the ability to make up the physical layer and all other stuff at runtime. In Power BI, we have to develop a proper physical layer to connect it. The limitation that we normally face is related to the direct query mode. When it comes to the direct query mode, most of the functionality is not working, which is an issue for us. We have to use the direct query mode frequently because the client needs real-time data. They should work on this limitation. There are a lot of other technical things that need to be improved. I am also following the Power BI platform and Microsoft Support Center platform on the web where users have put their requirements. Microsoft is also working on improving this solution. In every update, they add new features to this solution."
"If I compare it to Tableau, I'd say the visualizations can be better. We should have multiple options. By that I mean, while there are multiple options for the visualization, the look and feel of the dashboard when you compare to Tableau is on the lower side. Tableau has a much better visualization."
"Microsoft is behind IBM when it comes to security features."
"I think they're still lacking on customer service. I think historically, MicroStrategy's customer service was a lot better than it is today."
"I would like to see more integration."
"The pricing could be lower because it is costly."
"Enterprise Manager should be a little bit less quirky when you build out-of-the-box customization reports for it."
"They need to improve on distribution services. There are lack of features which were there earlier with Narrowcast, but they are not there in the distribution services."
"We have not invested nor are we planning to invest in MicroStrategy's mobile platform."
"It needs better visualizations."
"They need to improve on having more professional, well-equipped premium support."
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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