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.
"Key features are its dashboard functionality and ease of integration with various data sources."
"This is a self-service BI tool, so it doesn't require a huge amount of technical training, knowledge, or a background in BI in order to induct new people into it."
"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."
"Microsoft BI's initial setup is very straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is shareability, where we can publish work to the cloud and share it with team members."
"The solution is stable with reasonable performance."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft BI are the variety of possibilities to connect to various data sources. The visualizations are easily done, have useful rollover functions, and there are continuous updates being made to the system. You can benefit from the various improvements."
"Microsoft BI's most valuable features are the user interface, which is easy to use and light."
"Mobile brings reports/dashboards closer to the business user."
"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."
"We use MicroStrategy as an integrated solution with some of their other CRM type applications."
"It has landing pages, and that makes life easy for exhibiting things."
"Provides us charts and graphs for reporting."
"We are embedding multimedia content in our apps... You can embed streaming video from websites, or you can host the video files on your internal media servers. The video is clear, absolutely."
"In terms of functionality, MicroStrategy is alright. It's a solid BI tool and can handle most tasks you'd expect."
"I would like to see the product offer more graphics to impact different audiences."
"SSMS & SSRS."
"Better mapping capabilities and easier administration access would be beneficial, especially for understanding who has viewed reports."
"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing for the solution."
"I think that they can add more types of charts because the selection on the desktop version is limited."
"It is getting better but still, there are opportunity areas in some aspects, especially the Windows OS dependency."
"I have a little problem with Synapse Analytics because it's very new. It's a product that has many capabilities, but it is not very well developed. I have to see the list of permissions from one object. I can't do this in Synapse. I have to search on the web for a solution because I don't have the tool for it."
"The solution could be quicker at rendering data."
"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."
"The solution lacks good visualization. They should work on the user interface to make it more slick and modern."
"Lacks decent visualization and the process for creating new objects needs to be simplified."
"There is room for improvement on the graphs."
"Enterprise Manager should be a little bit less quirky when you build out-of-the-box customization reports for it."
"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."
"We have not invested nor are we planning to invest in MicroStrategy's mobile platform."
"I would like to see a single standalone application to control everything from the administration perspective, and also to develop new applications."
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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