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.
"The virtualization of Microsoft BI is very good."
"We like the drag and drop interactability visualization. We really like that. It's user-friendly."
"Good reporting and data analysis tool that's user-friendly, easy to deploy, stable, and scalable."
"The drill-down capabilities and automatic charts are the best ones. The visualization is also very good. In terms of visualization, no competing product, such as IBM Cognos or any other product, has the same capabilities."
"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."
"The product can go easily go and extract data and it can put it into any format."
"Microsoft BI is scalable."
"The product is intuitive and user-friendly."
"The solution has excellent features available on mobile."
"The most valuable features of MicroStrategy are user-friendliness and integration with the different data warehouse systems."
"I have shown our users how to stop using Excel. They would create these vast Excel files, and I showed them how to do the same thing with MicroStrategy, which saves a significant amount of time for them everyday."
"I think what we're currently excited about is the ability to integrate R. Most of our data scientists use R for their modeling. I heard at one of the sessions, here at MicroStrategy World 2018, that you can put your R scripts directly into MicroStrategy, so any modeling effort that you've done in the past can be transferred into MicroStrategy."
"This solution is the most scalable BI platform in the world."
"We are using mobile analytics, and it is amazing."
"Provides us charts and graphs for reporting."
"It keeps BI in the hands of everyone, rather than a developer or an analyst."
"You do need to do some hard coding for certain things in Microsoft BI."
"At times, I feel that the system needs improvement in single sign-on, especially for the on-premises side of the tool."
"Microsoft Power BI was born native on the cloud, however, it's quite difficult when it has to connect to on-premise data sources."
"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."
"The on-premises version lacks some technical features that are available with the Cloud version."
"The DAX in Microsoft BI is quite difficult."
"Automation could be improved and performance enhanced."
"I have found using Microsoft BI is not easy. For example, trying to use the auto-refresh feature is not simple."
"I would try to make it a little more basic, user-friendly. In terms of the UX, it's a bit sluggish there."
"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."
"They need to do a better job In its ability to allow end users to produce their own reports, metrics, and self-service business intelligence."
"Our users tend to say the interface is a pain."
"It is performing well, but sometimes we have complex requirements and the performance decreases, and then we have to find another way to make it perform again. That is what you encounter when use the project, but that's inevitable because if we would have used another product, we would've had the same thing."
"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."
"The learning curve is quite steep."
"Needs more visualizations out-of-the-box."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews while MicroStrategy is ranked 8th 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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