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.
"It has greatly improved our reporting capabilities."
"It is easy to work with and very chic."
"It is useful for bringing visualization to data. It calculates counts, ratios, etc."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Easy to use and the visualization is valuable."
"Two valuable most features are the ability to create columns and create measures."
"Most of the clients I am interacting with are looking towards Power BI because of the cost and simplicities. It provides an entire feature set and a complete solution. It has tight integration with Office 365, Dynamics 365, Microsoft Technology Stack, and datatypes like R and Python."
"It's a powerful platform."
"Visual Insights (VI)"
"The option to use various administrative tools, like Integrity Manager, is a valuable feature."
"Having the analytics capabilities on a single platform."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to actually embed actions, comments, being able to leverage Transaction Services to embed the tool into a business process."
"We are using it for operations analysis and sales data analysis."
"The most valuable features are the Visual Insights and the visualizations."
"It was easy to install and implement a report with it."
"I have shown our users how to stop using Excel. They would create these vast Excel files, and I showed them how to do the same thing with MicroStrategy, which saves a significant amount of time for them everyday."
"The formatting template could be improved."
"BI is scalable, but there are some problems with limited online storage."
"There needs to be improved guidance and documentation for the initial setup of Power BI as it currently remains complex."
"The smart phone application could be improved, along with better graphics and faster updating."
"Our expectation is putting BI to work in real-time data collection systems in the maritime environment."
"We haven't used it that long and I haven't come across anything that's stood out as needing to be fixed."
"If you have to pull multiple data sources performance is somewhat lacking."
"Sometimes while developing, the front end is not easily customizable and it has limitations. We cannot go and do any UI we want. We have to stick to the limitations of the product."
"The solution has a very non-logical user usage part. It has a library mode where users can access all the data, reports, and dashboards, but they also can be accessed from a platform. They have to log into the platform. The user experience is confusing for the users. MicroStrategy needs to define which one they will use. Some functionality isn’t available in library mode but is available in the portal. There should be Office integration. For example, if I do a presentation, then I should be able to add a chart to my presentation."
"If you compare it with Power BI with the DAX language, it would be great to put that into MicroStrategy."
"The solution's licensing could be improved because its cost is heavy on the pockets."
"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."
"The web developer tool for documents creation does not have all the features of the client version"
"I don't think that they will, but I'd like to see parallel processing, scalable parallel processing."
"They should provide more tutorials and include some project files."
"MicroStrategy is not cloud native today and some of their APIs are a little limiting."
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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