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.
"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 product can go easily go and extract data and it can put it into any format."
"There is a feature in Microsoft BI that allows JSON data to SQL on the dashboards effectively and quickly."
"It is a little easier at buildings charts and graphs than Tableau."
"Microsoft BI is better than most solutions we have. It's pretty easy to conduct analysis with it."
"We have found the product very stable and reliable."
"The solution is very intuitive, you do not need to have too much programming knowledge to use it. Advanced Excel users can use it very easily."
"We have found the solution to be stable."
"Dependency on development teams, as well as managing the platform, has reduced a lot with Visual Insight."
"We use MicroStrategy as an integrated solution with some of their other CRM type applications."
"The scalability is great. It was one of the selling points for us on MicroStrategy."
"The single stack solution will always be more profitable, scalable, and elastic for organizational needs."
"The option to use various administrative tools, like Integrity Manager, is a valuable feature."
"Technical support is knowledgeable. The right person gets back to us whenever we email them."
"The implementation was fairly straightforward."
"I like that they're trying to incorporate Developer into Workstation and Desktop into Workstation, so you get the all-in-one encompassing, highly technical Developer Workstation where you can do the VI, you can do the Dossier."
"It should be more user-friendly and simple."
"When it comes to improvement, I would say there could be more tutorials for students in universities who are just learning it. And it wouldn't have to be just for students in universities. It might also be for the people who use it in the real world."
"The product doesn't support unstructured data. It doesn't support video, streaming, and strings of files."
"I have to write scripts to query data for analyzing performance."
"There are some other visuals that are available in the Microsoft marketplace, however, you need to use them via trial and error. There needs to be a write-up about how to use them with a quick guide describing the visual."
"The look is simple, and could be a little more professional."
"The solution could benefit by allowing deeper data analytics."
"In Microsoft Excel, you are able to have tabs. However, in Microsoft BI you do not have this flexibility."
"Training would be an area that they could improve upon."
"We had some problems with customer service and support."
"I know we are not competing against Tableau, but MicroStrategy needs to step up its game on the GUI side."
"It is actually pretty complicated to use. It is complicated enough that user adaptation is sometimes difficult. We developed more experts rather than people using 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."
"From a stability standpoint, from MicroStrategy, I would say it's fairly consistent. I would give it a "B" because there are times where we have issues that are just inexplicable. They go away and then we have no resolution. To me, that's not acceptable. There are just times where our users can't access things and we're not sure why, and that's a problem to me."
"Our data warehouse is sort of static; negative load and that is it. It is not as real-time as we would like. We are working on building that out first to create more real-time, at which point we will work on some potential integrations with other applications, but I don't think we are there yet."
"I don't think that they will, but I'd like to see parallel processing, scalable parallel processing."
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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