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 initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"Constant collaboration is the most valuable. I can build a dashboard, and several co-workers can access this dashboard. We can share information that is important for decision-making. It is a very easy-to-deploy solution. It is compatible with a lot of data sources. It is also very stable and scalable. There is also a very good forum and a lot of help and online training."
"There are some great automation elements in the product."
"The uploading of information is very easy, as you just use an Excel sheet to start work right away and obtain the benefits of Power BI."
"I like that I can use Power BI to upload data. That is very important for me. The visualization is also convenient and easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is an easy-to-use tool."
"We have found the solution to be stable."
"It is low-cost and easy to deploy. It is fully-featured."
"We've made it an open BI platform, so that all our business analysts can build their own dashboards and Dossiers."
"Dossiers are going to change the name of the game for us. We want to be able to have the executive committee go into a meeting and tell a story. We want them to tell us a story, not us."
"The solution is ideal for enterprise-level companies or corporations."
"The platform can be easily monitored. You have quite a good overview of tasks which are being run."
"We pretty much use the knowledge base. We feel that Microstrategy's community is a good forum to use."
"Dependency on development teams, as well as managing the platform, has reduced a lot with Visual Insight."
"This solution is the most scalable BI platform in the world."
"The ability to create aesthetically pleasing information by providing dashboards."
"The orchestration module for refreshing data flows is something that is missing and we have to do it manually."
"Anything they can do to improve enterprise collaboration is going to help people get set up and utilize the solution."
"If you are having millions of rows of data or you have a large database, Microsoft BI's performance depends upon how powerful your hardware is. When I am handling large amounts of data I do not use Microsoft BI or Tableau because of this, I use D3."
"The only concern I have faced with Microsoft BI is the time it takes to find out an issue and rectify it."
"Adding paginated reports to this tool could be of great help for users who want to move away from SSRS."
"Needs single sign-on."
"I'm looking for something that can make it much easier to incorporate Power BI visuals or dashboards into, let's say, Power Apps – custom Power Apps or anything like that. The most important thing would be to seamlessly embed reports in applications. For example, to have buttons that can be navigated through multiple solutions – from Power Apps to Power BI to SharePoint – via links or something like that."
"If you have to pull multiple data sources performance is somewhat lacking."
"The In-Memory Capability (cubes) needs a lot of improvement."
"We've found the scalability to be very good. However, it depends on the environment. In general, it could be much better."
"The solution's licensing could be improved because its cost is heavy on the pockets."
"It needs better visualizations."
"They should provide more tutorials and include some project files."
"They should give proper industry-based tutorials so that one can learn it easily and implement it based on the requirements. They should give more MMP files so that we can import a whole project altogether and learn from that project."
"The UI seems klutzy with its manual entry."
"MicroStrategy is dragging behind other tools on the self-service visualizations, like Tableau. I would rate Tableau as a 10. For the same visualizations, I would say MicroStrategy is an eight, maybe nine. They're still behind on the self-service visualizations,"
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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