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 is useful for bringing visualization to data. It calculates counts, ratios, etc."
"The advantages of Microsoft Power BI stem from the fact that it is really easy to use. The drag and drop facilities provided by the product are good."
"If you are not very technical this tool could be very useful."
"We are able to collaborate on things and get insightful data visualizations."
"It is a good platform for data analysis, organization, and all of the other interim performances that are necessary."
"Technical support is quite responsive."
"The initial setup is simple to do."
"The solution has a good toggling feature."
"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."
"It has the potential to become a great evangelist for AI and other embedded analytics."
"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."
"The product is very mature. It's quite robust and an excellent enterprise-level solution."
"Comprehensive security control and more."
"We have been using it mostly for grid reports and its exporting features."
"The ability to integrate with PPT is another plus. The platform's ability to write back data directly to the database is also good."
"The implementation was fairly straightforward."
"Needs single sign-on."
"If I have to update data automatically, where I have to pin the gateway, it doesn't update. There is a scheduled refresh functionality so that it refreshes automatically, but I find it very hard to make it work."
"The only challenge I have found is that they do not have a Mac version."
"It is easy enough. I don't see any real substantial improvements that are needed. It is great as it is, but its interface could be a bit modern."
"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."
"We would like it if they added more Python libraries in the Power BI service. For Power BI service right now, you can use Python, but it is limited to a few libraries or a few packages from Python."
"One of the more difficult things to do is to export some of the data from Power BI to Excel."
"There are some limitations in Power BI; you have to work in the Power BI base. However, if you want something not out-of-the-box and you want something custom, you have to do a lot of work."
"They need to improve on having more professional, well-equipped premium support."
"There might be opportunities for reporting or data analysis, perhaps even in the realm of simulation."
"The product is designed for enterprise. A lightweight version would be easier for a smaller workgroup."
"MicroStrategy should improve migration automation. Additionally, I would like there to be better partnership support."
"There are a lot of offerings, and we are not fully using everything to its advantage."
"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,"
"Another feature to consider in the future would be adding some additional offline capabilities without using desktops."
"The solution lacks good visualization. They should work on the user interface to make it more slick and modern."
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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