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 B's beneficial features are that it is a Microsoft product and it is well known by the staff here in the company. It suited the available skills."
"Microsoft BI is easy to use and to design. I found Microsoft BI a lot easier than Tableau."
"It is a pretty straightforward and flexible solution for data integration and modeling. It is a low-code solution. When you are doing data integration, you can use the GUI, which is very simple and straightforward. You can also do very intricate custom queries and model it at different levels. It is very easy to use and scalable."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"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."
"I also find connecting to different data sources is quite simple. Other solutions we were using before were complicated."
"With the out-of-the-box Data Platform and Business Intelligence ecosystem, you get the entire platform with a single license."
"It is really flexible. The charts and reports are really nice. You have the flexibility of self-service."
"Getting more data to people more quickly. Providing more flexibility for how they use the data."
"Scalability is the best thing. You can really scale."
"Visual Insight gives you the capability of doing self-service analytics. This has been the most powerful and valuable feature."
"We are using mobile analytics, and it is amazing."
"It has the potential to become a great evangelist for AI and other embedded analytics."
"The product is very mature. It's quite robust and an excellent enterprise-level solution."
"Technical support has sent us to rapid response before, when we really needed them."
"The solution is a very good enterprise tool with excellent enterprise functionality for security and user access. It also works perfectly in distribution, with everyone getting their own reports. It is very complex, so you can do whatever you want. If you want to make some data limitations, you can do it. I also like the internal in-memory engine with the Symantec layer. This makes the solution pretty powerful."
"If you need data in real-time, it's not an ideal solution."
"The orchestration module for refreshing data flows is something that is missing and we have to do it manually."
"Power BI doesn't support some open-source data sources that are new, such as SnowSQL, Iceberg, or ClickHouse."
"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."
"The report server feature is quite limited."
"When there are large amounts of data being processed there are additional tools needed to handle it."
"They are improving it all the time. What would be nice is if they could respond to feature requests more quickly. They can provide faster support for new features."
"I think that the solution is harder to use for people who are not experts in data."
"This solution is missing enhanced features in the dashboards."
"There are a lot of offerings, and we are not fully using everything to its advantage."
"It would be good if it had greater analytics so we could build these visualizations by ourselves with scripts."
"They should give proper industry-based tutorials so that one can learn it easily and implement it based on the requirements. They should give more MMP files so that we can import a whole project altogether and learn from that project."
"Sometimes you can do something in reports, but you cannot do the same thing in documents."
"There might be opportunities for reporting or data analysis, perhaps even in the realm of simulation."
"Consolidate the functional offering to be more concise in the front-end for web reports, dashboards, and self-service."
"Training would be an area that they could improve upon."
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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