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.
"One of the most valuable aspects of this tool is its ease of use and the ability to easily share information with others."
"I have found the best features to be the dashboard creation, graphs, charts, and presentation bar graphs."
"What Power BI is, is a whole collection of templates of small amounts of data that can be used to do something for a real world project, that can be easily set up and become the business intelligence environment or a data warehouse for a large amount of data, for a real world customer. That's what is remarkable."
"The data can be accessed from anywhere."
"The solution is easy to use and flexible."
"I have found the most valuable feature of this solution is the Natural Language tool."
"The good part of it is that you can do whatever you want with it when it comes to building BI. In terms of languages, it supports Python, and it also natively supports R."
"The visualization and reporting are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The feature I found most valuable is the drop and drag functionality available."
"It plays a vital role in establishing a connection with predictive continuous improvement."
"The hyperintelligence is the most valuable feature."
"Technical support is knowledgeable. The right person gets back to us whenever we email them."
"I think we have a huge enterprise-wide push to Visual Insight. Our environment has transformed over the last year. We were a strong "grid to PDF," "document to PDF," that's all we did. And then they came in with these Visual Insights and everyone was like, "Wow, that's kind of cool." We created a static reporting portal behind it and now, it's just taken our reports to another level. The level of insight that you get in a 30-second glimpse, it just revolutionized it for us. It gives the user a larger subset of the data so that they can actually maneuver around, rather than being specifically pointed at whatever your document is designed for."
"The reporting, the dashboards, and the new visualization functions. It is very easy for users to understand their data and dashboards."
"Provides us charts and graphs for reporting."
"We prefer having the analytic capabilities in a single platform, like MicroStrategy provides, because it is easier. The customer gets used to one type of tool, then sticks with it."
"The solution could improve by simplifying the user interface and adding integration or compatibility with APA."
"The solution could improve by providing more free visuals. A lot of them are very nice but you have to purchase them."
"Integration with artificial intelligence would help. Humans take time to review the data and eliminate errors. Artificial intelligence based on machine learning and understanding can bring the same functionality."
"Some kind of expression wizard, where the user can build a complex expression without any knowledge of DAX, can be a good addition to the product."
"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."
"It should have more integrations."
"There are some limitations in Power BI; you have to work in the Power BI base. However, if you want something not out-of-the-box and you want something custom, you have to do a lot of work."
"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."
"The web developer tool for documents creation does not have all the features of the client version"
"Its price should be lower. In terms of features, what we have is quite encompassing right now."
"Native VI on mobile apps and better android support are lacking."
"The solution's licensing could be improved because its cost is heavy on the pockets."
"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."
"We have not invested nor are we planning to invest in MicroStrategy's mobile platform."
"We would really like to see MicroStrategy have some support teams based more in Europe, because for now it seems that there is one person for the whole CE region. That is not exactly what we would like to see. We do know that MicroStrategy supports most places, either in the US or India, but those are different time zones, people, and cultures."
"I would like to see a single standalone application to control everything from the administration perspective, and also to develop new applications."
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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