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 most valuable feature is definitely the visual aspect and the DAX capabilities to virtually do anything."
"The data can be accessed from anywhere."
"I like how the Query Editor lets me manipulate the data, and the available visuals are good. You can do everything using the UI."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The sharing features are vital, especially the ability to share and test different shared dashboards."
"The standard BI visualization capabilities are great."
"I've seen no issues with BI's stability."
"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."
"I find MicroStrategy the most suited to the enterprise-wide BI platform, because of its scalability and stability."
"Provides us charts and graphs for reporting."
"With the new version that's coming out, I think they have simplified a lot of things. Also, when it comes to the administration part, and sharing, and the collaboration features, they are really great. You can send out comments with a filter to someone in your organization, and if the person clicks on it, he actually sees what you are seeing. So that's really great."
"The architecture is very solid."
"On our mobile solution you can deploy up to 100,000 users. In our case, we're up to about 10,000 active users, and MicroStrategy's server technology behind the scenes, the Intelligence Server and the Mobile Servers, are very robust and they can handle the workload."
"With all the APIs it's very scalable."
"Comprehensive security control and more."
"It keeps BI in the hands of everyone, rather than a developer or an analyst."
"It would be nice to use other connectors to link with the data."
"When it comes to improvement, I would say there could be more tutorials for students in universities who are just learning it. And it wouldn't have to be just for students in universities. It might also be for the people who use it in the real world."
"The accounting data needs improvement."
"The cost of the solution can get high."
"I would like to see a change in the premium capacity."
"The integration with third-party products could be more stable."
"I think that they can add more types of charts because the selection on the desktop version is limited."
"The reporting part of Microsoft BI is rather limited compared to other reporting tools."
"Another feature to consider in the future would be adding some additional offline capabilities without using desktops."
"Something I would be interested in is more visualizations, because right now we use SDK to create some. If there were more out-of-the-box options, we would be happy with that."
"I would like to see more Writeback capabilities that would allow our IT department not to be worried about the wild, Wild West of Writeback."
"MicroStrategy needs to do some more development to make the platform easier to use. It's a complicated platform that requires a lot of skill to effectively utilize. So they could work on reducing the complexity to make it more accessible for a broader community of people."
"The solution has a very non-logical user usage part. It has a library mode where users can access all the data, reports, and dashboards, but they also can be accessed from a platform. They have to log into the platform. The user experience is confusing for the users. MicroStrategy needs to define which one they will use. Some functionality isn’t available in library mode but is available in the portal. There should be Office integration. For example, if I do a presentation, then I should be able to add a chart to my presentation."
"This solution is missing enhanced features in the dashboards."
"Lacks decent visualization and the process for creating new objects needs to be simplified."
"Data writeback, and on-the-fly predictive analysis results from R and Python could be improved."
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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