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.
"It integrates with all of the Microsoft tools."
"The DAX coding language is good for creating formulae."
"Microsoft BI allows us to connect to any database or any dataset."
"This is a self-service BI tool, so it doesn't require a huge amount of technical training, knowledge, or a background in BI in order to induct new people into it."
"The solution is very intuitive, you do not need to have too much programming knowledge to use it. Advanced Excel users can use it very easily."
"I like the flexibility it offers."
"We have found the product to be scalable."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The whole repository side of things is beneficial because you develop it once, and you can use it anywhere, in the Enterprise grade."
"It is scalable and integration-friendly."
"The stability of the product is good."
"On our mobile solution you can deploy up to 100,000 users. In our case, we're up to about 10,000 active users, and MicroStrategy's server technology behind the scenes, the Intelligence Server and the Mobile Servers, are very robust and they can handle the workload."
"There's extensive logging capabilities, if something is wrong then we are able to find out why."
"The feature I found most valuable is the drop and drag functionality available."
"The drill-down functionality is also very good."
"MicroStrategy's solution for mobile is very good."
"I believe there is room for improvement in terms of authentication and certain functionalities in Power BI. For instance, adjusting the width of columns is not easily done, as there is only an option to enable or disable automatic adjustment. This can be a significant drawback for clients who desire more flexibility."
"The product’s on-premise reporting servers could support real-time data refreshing capabilities like its on-cloud version."
"I have found using Microsoft BI is not easy. For example, trying to use the auto-refresh feature is not simple."
"Microsoft BI’s integration and visualization could be improved."
"I think that they can add more types of charts because the selection on the desktop version is limited."
"Technical support could be a bit better."
"It should be easier to use when there are multiple system sources."
"Better mapping capabilities and easier administration access would be beneficial, especially for understanding who has viewed reports."
"There needs to be better visualization."
"I want to be able to have one report that's delivered to 30 different people and all 30 different people see something different. Now, you can do that today with metrics. You cannot do that with attributes. There's a component of that which, if an attribute is on granularity-one and another is on granularity-two, and you remove granularity-one, you're now going to be summing to a level that you did not expect before."
"Currently, the client view looks completely different depending on what you are building."
"The UI seems klutzy with its manual entry."
"They need to improve on having more professional, well-equipped premium support."
"I would try to make it a little more basic, user-friendly. In terms of the UX, it's a bit sluggish there."
"I don't think that they will, but I'd like to see parallel processing, scalable parallel processing."
"MicroStrategy is dragging behind other tools on the self-service visualizations, like Tableau. I would rate Tableau as a 10. For the same visualizations, I would say MicroStrategy is an eight, maybe nine. They're still behind on the self-service visualizations,"
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, IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Qlik Sense and Oracle OBIEE. See our MicroStrategy vs. Microsoft Power BI report.
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