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.
"We have found that the reporting and publishing are great."
"Allows business users with a mission to solve their own problems, without an IT person."
"It ingegrates nicely with Office 365."
"PowerBI – Self-service BI."
"I like how the Query Editor lets me manipulate the data, and the available visuals are good. You can do everything using the UI."
"Microsoft BI is scalable."
"The most interesting feature of Microsoft Power BI is that it's very user-friendly."
"It provides good visibility."
"The dashboard features and functionalities that come through the MicroStrategy Suite are the most valuable. It can be used by end users with minimum knowledge of the product. They can run a report or create a dashboard on their phones, which is kind of cool."
"We are using mobile analytics, and it is amazing."
"It is definitely customizable. We have been able to put in key metrics and performance indicators, thus it is customizable."
"This solution has allowed us to become a top-class competitor among other consulting companies."
"It drives us away from Excel. For what it is for, it is good. You can't run a business on Excel."
"The most valuable features are the Visual Insights and the visualizations."
"The usability for users to be able to drag and drop, then create their own reports."
"The technical support is quite good."
"Creating dashboards could be easier."
"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."
"The maps in Power BI could be improved. You deal with many maps over the years, like maps of America and Saudi Arabia. The maps aren't detailed enough, and there aren't enough visualization tools. Whenever I want to use a map, I struggle with choosing the right visualization."
"If you have to pull multiple data sources performance is somewhat lacking."
"There are some limitations in Power BI; you have to work in the Power BI base. However, if you want something not out-of-the-box and you want something custom, you have to do a lot of work."
"The product doesn't support unstructured data. It doesn't support video, streaming, and strings of files."
"The interface could be improved."
"I have found using Microsoft BI is not easy. For example, trying to use the auto-refresh feature is not simple."
"We haven't invested in the mobile platform. We want to invest, but the problem is the security. We are in the health domain, so we have PHI data."
"It is performing well, but sometimes we have complex requirements and the performance decreases, and then we have to find another way to make it perform again. That is what you encounter when use the project, but that's inevitable because if we would have used another product, we would've had the same thing."
"The solution's licensing could be improved because its cost is heavy on the pockets."
"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."
"Needs more visualizations out-of-the-box."
"I would like to see a single standalone application to control everything from the administration perspective, and also to develop new applications."
"I would try to make it a little more basic, user-friendly. In terms of the UX, it's a bit sluggish there."
"I prefer the capabilities of a single platform, but it does not always work. We are a huge company. Some areas do not use MicroStrategy, so you have to blend whatever systems they are using together to get the data points that you are looking for."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 22 reviews while MicroStrategy is ranked 9th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 12 reviews. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while MicroStrategy is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Power BI writes "User friendly, easy to set up and great for analyzing data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MicroStrategy writes "A tool that offers great data visualization capabilities that needs to improve its online community page". 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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