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 interface is very easy to use."
"I find Power BI's reporting feature the most valuable. The solution has improved a lot. There are new features getting added day by day. In the past, they didn't even have the printing feature, but now they have it."
"The solution is easy to set up and implement."
"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 most valuable feature is definitely the visual aspect and the DAX capabilities to virtually do anything."
"The scalability overall has been quite good."
"The Microsoft Power BI app is very good. It's also very flexible."
"The visualization and reporting are the most valuable features of this solution."
"It is a good tool to help our customers visually see loads of data."
"I haven't come across any bugs."
"The implementation was fairly straightforward."
"It is a great tool and has the best offerings for doing data analysis."
"It's a stand-alone mobile development app that you don't even have to do business intelligence on. You can just use it to build apps."
"I like the user interface and the experience has been great."
"There's extensive logging capabilities, if something is wrong then we are able to find out why."
"The usability for users to be able to drag and drop, then create their own reports."
"The solution's documentation needs improvement."
"Our expectation is putting BI to work in real-time data collection systems in the maritime environment."
"I'm not overly technical, and so I can't really speak to any shortcomings from a technical standpoint."
"It needs more graphics and overlays."
"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."
"It is not the right tool to do deeper analysis or predictions. When you have some data and you want to do some deep analysis, there is no feature to help you with this."
"One area for improvement in Microsoft Power BI is serviceability. Compared to one of its competitors: Tableau, there are a lot of things which you cannot do in this tool, that can be done in Tableau."
"They can improve it in terms of rule-based security. Currently, it has very limited rules."
"The product could be improved by adding additional visualization."
"They need to improve on having more professional, well-equipped premium support."
"The analytic speed would probably be what I would look for in terms of improvement because we have super huge data, and if I do not build views on top of data, then reports render really slowly."
"I don't think that they will, but I'd like to see parallel processing, scalable parallel processing."
"The online community page of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"We have seen some stability issues with MicroStrategy on cloud. We have a few unhappy customers."
"The In-Memory Capability (cubes) needs a lot of improvement."
"They should provide more tutorials and include some project files."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 293 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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