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.
"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."
"We have found the product to be scalable."
"It gives us, the ability to do a lot of analysis quickly, similar to ad hoc analysis."
"I think the visualization part is valuable."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft BI is its visualization and its ease of use."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"I like Microsoft BI's drill-down feature and its overall ease of use."
"The querying capabilities are the most valuable because they allow me to build many automations. We have many workflows and many databases that we work on a daily basis. They need to be updated quite quickly. In order to not to take much of our time doing these updates manually, I have set up these automations using the systems. The process is just to ingest the data and reprocess it. Every time I click a button, everything is updated in almost real time. It is by far the easiest system not only for querying but also for data modeling, data visualization, and deployment. It is light years ahead of Tableau and even Microsoft Excel to do these kinds of things. It is very easy to use and set up, and it has a lot of videos on the internet."
"Provides us charts and graphs for reporting."
"The data governance leads people to trust the data that they have, and they know where to get it."
"We are using it for operations analysis and sales data analysis."
"In the past, when we had so many legacy systems, with Cognos and others, it was took multiple steps to get what we wanted. Now, it's a seamless integration. We can connect directly, in the form of In-Memory Cubes or live-publish cubes, to the data warehouse, and blend in the data with big data. Not only relational databases, but we can also integrate other third-party files, and create a single-source software."
"You can build once and deploy to multiple operating systems. Also, it resizes in the way you want it to."
"The scalability is great. It was one of the selling points for us on MicroStrategy."
"Provides seamless integration between browser-based BI and Mobile BI."
"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."
"I would like to see some AI incorporated into this solution in the future."
"The performance of Microsoft BI could improve for large datasets and it would be beneficial to have more visualization features."
"The solution could improve by having more attractive graphical charts."
"The solution could be quicker at rendering data."
"I would like to see a feature that connects with a Machine Learning platform like a RapidMiner or Azure Machine Learning Studio. It would be great to have a Machine Learning application link to connect."
"I would like to see a change in the premium capacity."
"Microsoft BI's visualization could be better. Though Power BI's visualization has steadily improved over the years, it's not on the level tools like Tableau and SAS or some of the more expensive products on the market."
"I would like for there to be some type of user manual that shows steps on how to navigate the solution."
"They need to improve the web."
"Lacks decent visualization and the process for creating new objects needs to be simplified."
"The pricing could be lower because it is costly."
"MicroStrategy lacks that community support. You're either stuck figuring things out yourself or paying expensive fees to MicroStrategy consultants for help."
"I think they're still lacking on customer service. I think historically, MicroStrategy's customer service was a lot better than it is today."
"I would like to see a feature where migrations are easier. When you migrate from certain environments, it could probably be a little cleaner. Sometimes it seems to be somewhat clunky when you migrate from one environment, say a development to a test or production environment."
"Consolidate the functional offering to be more concise in the front-end for web reports, dashboards, and self-service."
"The In-Memory Capability (cubes) needs a lot of improvement."
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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