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.
"Its seamless integration with Microsoft products, such as Microsoft SQL Server or Microsoft Excel, is the most valuable."
"The capability to add custom visuals and create Power BI apps. You can package datasets, synchronization details, and dashboards into a single app."
"Microsoft BI's most valuable features are the user interface, which is easy to use and light."
"It integrates with all of the Microsoft tools."
"They should add mobile access."
"It has provided customer purchase patterns and great visualization."
"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."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Provides seamless integration between browser-based BI and Mobile BI."
"The usability for users to be able to drag and drop, then create their own reports."
"It keeps BI in the hands of everyone, rather than a developer or an analyst."
"The single stack solution will always be more profitable, scalable, and elastic for organizational needs."
"The hyperintelligence is the most valuable feature."
"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."
"Scalability is the best thing. You can really scale."
"You can build once and deploy to multiple operating systems. Also, it resizes in the way you want it to."
"One thing I would like to have is the scripting language, as they already have within Excel. It's already within a Microsoft business product, because Excel is the number one business product out there. So it would be nice to have the scripting capability in order to automate certain processes."
"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."
"Powerpoints are not available in the report server."
"It would be better if they had some video tutorials. Most people from an Excel background may struggle with measures in Microsoft BI."
"It would be nice to use other connectors to link with the data."
"The solution struggles with large amounts of data."
"It needs more graphics and overlays."
"I believe the price should be degressive, and we should have a lower, or better unit price if we have more users."
"Getting our data to work with the tool is where we are having issues."
"The solution's licensing could be improved because its cost is heavy on the pockets."
"They need to improve on distribution services. There are lack of features which were there earlier with Narrowcast, but they are not there in the distribution services."
"Consolidate the functional offering to be more concise in the front-end for web reports, dashboards, and self-service."
"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."
"The solution lacks good visualization. They should work on the user interface to make it more slick and modern."
"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."
"I don't think that they will, but I'd like to see parallel processing, scalable parallel processing."
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, IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Qlik Sense and Oracle OBIEE. See our MicroStrategy vs. Microsoft Power BI report.
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