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.
"Microsoft BI's dashboards are helpful."
"It ingegrates nicely with Office 365."
"It's a powerful platform."
"Management reporting solution that's very stable and scalable."
"The amount of customization that you can do is good, and it's relatively straightforward to do."
"It integrates with all of the Microsoft tools."
"It gives us, the ability to do a lot of analysis quickly, similar to ad hoc analysis."
"PowerBI – Self-service BI."
"The most important feature is the way it handles ad hoc queries and provides formatted reports."
"I like that they're trying to incorporate Developer into Workstation and Desktop into Workstation, so you get the all-in-one encompassing, highly technical Developer Workstation where you can do the VI, you can do the Dossier."
"It's a stand-alone mobile development app that you don't even have to do business intelligence on. You can just use it to build apps."
"Technical support has sent us to rapid response before, when we really needed them."
"It is one tool which you can find everything. "
"I have had a lot of projects where we had a lot of users, like thousands of users, and the data was in one report which could bring in six million records. MicroStrategy is doing a good job on scalability."
"It has had a direct impact on bottomline improvements."
"With all the APIs it's very scalable."
"Trend data and dashboards need improvement."
"For someone who is new, I think that Power BI can be a little complicated."
"My main complaint is that the error messages need to be made more clear. Currently, they are either too generic or outright misleading, and finding the real problem is like searching for a needle in a haystack."
"I would like to see the product offer more graphics to impact different audiences."
"This solution is resource-heavy."
"The report server feature is quite limited."
"Integrating it with the physics build model or the engineering model should be included."
"The solution could benefit by allowing deeper data analytics."
"We did have issues with stability, and that was because we were co-located with another business unit, and we outgrew them on the unit. So we had to get to a separate physical instance."
"Sometimes you can do something in reports, but you cannot do the same thing in documents."
"They need to improve on having more professional, well-equipped premium support."
"It is performing well, but sometimes we have complex requirements and the performance decreases, and then we have to find another way to make it perform again. That is what you encounter when use the project, but that's inevitable because if we would have used another product, we would've had the same thing."
"The product could be improved by adding additional visualization."
"MicroStrategy is not cloud native today and some of their APIs are a little limiting."
"Needs more visualizations out-of-the-box."
"Lacks decent visualization and the process for creating new objects needs to be simplified."
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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