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.
"SSRS and the Tabular server/Vertipaq engine/DAX are probably the two most valuable components."
"Other people can access data much more easily than before. Its usability is the main advantage, people in the company are using it."
"There was a lot of manual work involved with Excel, whereas once we moved on to Microsoft Power BI, it was a cleaner dashboard and it was faster too."
"Power BI has strong support from Microsoft. If you need help, they answer promptly. There are also several discussion groups where you can get information, like the product roadmap and any new things coming up."
"Microsoft BI is scalable."
"Management reporting solution that's very stable and scalable."
"The user experience is easy. Users get familiar with it quickly."
"The stability is great and continues to get better and better."
"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."
"Comprehensive security control and more."
"With the new version that's coming out, I think they have simplified a lot of things. Also, when it comes to the administration part, and sharing, and the collaboration features, they are really great. You can send out comments with a filter to someone in your organization, and if the person clicks on it, he actually sees what you are seeing. So that's really great."
"The most valuable features of MicroStrategy are user-friendliness and integration with the different data warehouse systems."
"It keeps BI in the hands of everyone, rather than a developer or an analyst."
"The solution is ideal for enterprise-level companies or corporations."
"Getting more data to people more quickly. Providing more flexibility for how they use the data."
"MicroStrategy's best feature is that it is a user-friendly tool."
"The solution is somewhat costly in comparison with MSBI tools."
"Its setup and support should be improved. We would like to see more material for developers that provides clear explanations about how we can do data mining by using Microsoft BI. It would also be good if we can connect a feature to other customized machine learning solutions."
"The cost of the solution can get high."
"I would like to see more visualization options."
"You need to purchase upgraded support separately."
"It is not the right tool to do deeper analysis or predictions. When you have some data and you want to do some deep analysis, there is no feature to help you with this."
"The solution doesn't integrate well with third-party tools."
"From any improvement perspective, I want the product to be made available to users free of cost...The stability and scalability of the product can be better."
"Something I would be interested in is more visualizations, because right now we use SDK to create some. If there were more out-of-the-box options, we would be happy with that."
"There are some challenges in our organization on how we store the data."
"I would like to see the enterprise version available in a demo or as a trial version."
"Preparation, data loading and data management application is challenging with MicroStrategy. It lacks cube-based analytics as it is outdated, meaning there is no memory or fast processing analytics or MMA deployment."
"The pricing could be lower because it is costly."
"The In-Memory Capability (cubes) needs a lot of improvement."
"MicroStrategy's mobile dashboard is still not a RESTful design."
"Needs more visualizations out-of-the-box."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 22 reviews while MicroStrategy is ranked 9th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 12 reviews. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while MicroStrategy is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Power BI writes "User friendly, easy to set up and great for analyzing data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MicroStrategy writes "A tool that offers great data visualization capabilities that needs to improve its online community page". 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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