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."
"The fact that you can visualize items is great."
"I like having the ability to connect Excel files as data inputs."
"I liked that Microsoft Power BI handles a large amount of data. I can handle hundreds of rows from Postgres in a few minutes. I also like how it detects the relationship between the tables without explicitly saying that. It just detects the relationship automatically. That made it easier to work with the data."
"The most valuable feature of Power BI is its ability to provide customized visualizations and insights tailored to specific business needs."
"There is also a chart store where we can download charts, which is extremely useful."
"Initial setup was very straightforward. Users can get up and running reporting on databases within minutes."
"Provides a full platform (database, ETL, reporting, analysis, and so on)"
"Dependency on development teams, as well as managing the platform, has reduced a lot with Visual Insight."
"Comprehensive security control and more."
"It offers us a lot of out-of-the-box tools, which give us the ability to automate a lot of our administrative tasks. Some things become menial: user creation, restarting a server at 10 o'clock on a Friday - simple things that they really give you the tools to be able to do. That's one thing I really like about the MicroStrategy platform from an administrative perspective."
"The hyperintelligence is the most valuable feature."
"Technical support is knowledgeable. The right person gets back to us whenever we email them."
"The ability to create aesthetically pleasing information by providing dashboards."
"The most valuable features are ad hoc reporting and the ability to create dashboards."
"It is definitely customizable. We have been able to put in key metrics and performance indicators, thus it is customizable."
"In Microsoft Excel, you are able to have tabs. However, in Microsoft BI you do not have this flexibility."
"Things can slow down if you create too many pages."
"I am taking a course to be able to use the solution better. Some aspects of the solution are not straightforward."
"Microsoft BI lacks integration capabilities, so it needs to consider increasing its integration capabilities."
"The look is simple, and could be a little more professional."
"Needs single sign-on."
"From a scalability and performance perspective and based on my understanding and feedback from end users, there's room for improvement in data processing, scaling up, and leveraging the cloud. That could be an enhancement area for me to look into."
"The Power Query feature needs to be improved to handle large amounts of data. This feature is also slow for large data transfers making it better to use some kind of script."
"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."
"There needs to be better visualization."
"Enterprise Manager should be a little bit less quirky when you build out-of-the-box customization reports for it."
"It would be good if it had greater analytics so we could build these visualizations by ourselves with scripts."
"Its price should be lower. In terms of features, what we have is quite encompassing right now."
"We would like access to more storage and access to more metadata to build the right programs that can construct all the stuff for us instead of us having to type it in all the time."
"I would like to see more integration."
"I want to be able to have one report that's delivered to 30 different people and all 30 different people see something different. Now, you can do that today with metrics. You cannot do that with attributes. There's a component of that which, if an attribute is on granularity-one and another is on granularity-two, and you remove granularity-one, you're now going to be summing to a level that you did not expect before."
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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