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 a good platform for data analysis, organization, and all of the other interim performances that are necessary."
"ou can pull reports, visualize them in real-time, and connect them to a variety of other data sources."
"We are able to collaborate on things and get insightful data visualizations."
"The most valuable features are the flexibility, how many ways you can interrogate the data, and the the graphical visualization."
"Microsoft BI's most valuable feature is flexibility."
"We have found the product very stable and reliable."
"Many of my customers already use Microsoft products like Office 365, so I often propose Microsoft Power BI because it integrates well with all the standard Microsoft business tools. And it's the quickest tool to implement and start using daily."
"PowerBI – Self-service BI."
"It scales well. It used to have only a max of four I-servers, but I think recently, somewhere in version 10, they doubled that, so you can have eight I-servers now."
"The simplicity of MicroStrategy is what I like the most."
"The solution's platform analytics gives us real-time analysis of how a particular user uses the report and how the systems behave."
"We have been using it mostly for grid reports and its exporting features."
"There's extensive logging capabilities, if something is wrong then we are able to find out why."
"The option to use various administrative tools, like Integrity Manager, is a valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to actually embed actions, comments, being able to leverage Transaction Services to embed the tool into a business process."
"The platform can be easily monitored. You have quite a good overview of tasks which are being run."
"They can improve the user interface a little bit to make it more user-friendly. When creating a dashboard, it is not very user-friendly. You have to click on a certain style and use your keyboard keys to move it. You cannot drag and drop it."
"Sluggish performance when handling large amounts of data."
"The solution could be more customizable and you do not have too much freedom on the code."
"I think that they can add more types of charts because the selection on the desktop version is limited."
"It is definitely a wonderful analytics tool. However, database ETL, data integration functionality would be absolutely perfect in many cases. Currently, it doesn't get the job done and we need to extract, transform, and load the data from faulty data sets into something more suitable for the deployment of the analytics tool."
"I have been doing trial and error to figuring out how to do the data analyzing and modeling. There could be some improvement to simplify it."
"From a scalability and performance perspective and based on my understanding and feedback from end users, there's room for improvement in data processing, scaling up, and leveraging the cloud. That could be an enhancement area for me to look into."
"It seems that the solution could use more analytics to help users draw more contextual business insights. Right now, you need other solutions for that."
"This solution is missing enhanced features in the dashboards."
"It would be good if it had greater analytics so we could build these visualizations by ourselves with scripts."
"Scalability is something which will need to be improved when it goes to a bigger audience."
"The areas that have room for improvement in MicroStrategy are mainly related to building additional tools. Specifically, the embedding process has been a bit of a struggle."
"We've found the scalability to be very good. However, it depends on the environment. In general, it could be much better."
"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."
"Getting our data to work with the tool is where we are having issues."
"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."
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 Databricks, 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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