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.
"I like Microsoft BI's drill-down feature and its overall ease of use."
"Its visualization capabilities are pretty good. It is very easy to use. You can easily make your dashboard."
"The product is easy to use and simple to navigate."
"The DAX coding language is good for creating formulae."
"Helped identify bad data, enabling the corrections needed to the data for management."
"Microsoft BI's initial setup is very straightforward."
"Microsoft BI's most valuable features are the user interface, which is easy to use and light."
"Microsoft BI was very helpful for me because I had a huge variety of connections. It is very convenient to build reports, even if somebody has no experience using BI tools or data visualizations. Additionally, the performance is very good when generating 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."
"I have never had any problems with the stability."
"It was easy to install and implement a report with it."
"The solution is ideal for enterprise-level companies or corporations."
"It offers us a lot of out-of-the-box tools, which give us the ability to automate a lot of our administrative tasks. Some things become menial: user creation, restarting a server at 10 o'clock on a Friday - simple things that they really give you the tools to be able to do. That's one thing I really like about the MicroStrategy platform from an administrative perspective."
"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."
"Dossiers are going to change the name of the game for us. We want to be able to have the executive committee go into a meeting and tell a story. We want them to tell us a story, not us."
"The platform can be easily monitored. You have quite a good overview of tasks which are being run."
"I am taking a course to be able to use the solution better. Some aspects of the solution are not straightforward."
"The solution struggles with large amounts of data."
"The admin view could be improved by making it more simplified to manage a users' activity and other things."
"I find the solution to be 70 percent stable."
"The product’s on-premise reporting servers could support real-time data refreshing capabilities like its on-cloud version."
"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."
"I would like to see more AI capabilities in future releases. There's a strong interest in AI, including technologies like GPT, which facilitate real-time interactions."
"The orchestration module for refreshing data flows is something that is missing and we have to do it manually."
"We have the mobile server. We have not used it. That is because the people on our team have not been trained on it yet, but that is something that we want to do."
"We've found the scalability to be very good. However, it depends on the environment. In general, it could be much better."
"It needs row-level security, column-level security, on attributes. I want to be able to handle full-scale security model from the semantic layer, flat out."
"The product is designed for enterprise. A lightweight version would be easier for a smaller workgroup."
"We have not invested nor are we planning to invest in MicroStrategy's mobile platform."
"In the developer, there are things that you able to do in a document or a report that you are not able to do in the Dossier."
"The implementation itself was pretty straightforward. The tricky part was understanding MicroStrategy's licensing model, which was a bit convoluted back then."
"The problem is the way that their metrics are designed. It can be difficult to understand what you're actually looking at. Then when you're comparing a document against the VI, you can't actually do that properly. So there are components, and there is a huge learning curve in the Enterprise Manager space. I think it would benefit them greatly if they were to exercise a significant amount of research and development in that space."
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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