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 most interesting feature of Microsoft Power BI is that it's very user-friendly."
"Microsoft BI's dashboards are helpful."
"The use of graphics to show and view the data indicators is the most valuable feature. It is also very stable."
"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."
"The feature I find most valuable is the ability to publish Power Bi reports, using an embedded link, directly onto a website."
"It's a powerful platform."
"I have found the best features to be the dashboard creation, graphs, charts, and presentation bar graphs."
"We have a lot of servers and applications from which we want reports, and it allows us to create reports from an SQL source or some other source."
"The technical support is quite good."
"The most valuable features are ad hoc reporting and the ability to create dashboards."
"This solution has allowed us to become a top-class competitor among other consulting companies."
"It is a great tool and has the best offerings for doing data analysis."
"It plays a vital role in establishing a connection with predictive continuous improvement."
"The reporting, the dashboards, and the new visualization functions. It is very easy for users to understand their data and dashboards."
"The option to use various administrative tools, like Integrity Manager, is a valuable feature."
"This solution is the most scalable BI platform in the world."
"Things can slow down if you create too many pages."
"More connections with other systems should be added, which would allow for other integrations."
"I would like them to provide a license that just allows us to see dashboards. What I don't like about this solution is that in order to just watch a dashboard, you need a license. Currently, you need to purchase a full license of Power BI Pro just to see something, which is not attractive. If you have a license, you can see a shared dashboard, but you can also build a dashboard or you can collaborate with other people. However, if you only want to see a dashboard, there is no license for that. I only want to see the dashboard, and I don't want to do anything more than watching the information on the dashboard. There is no license that allows you to see a shared dashboard. This is one of the areas of opportunity because I would like a lot of people to be able to see a shared dashboard, not to interact with it or to collaborate online with it. I would like to see more compatibility with non-Microsoft data sources. Given the fact that everything is related to Microsoft Azure and all services available on Microsoft Azure, I see that they're building more connections to Microsoft Azure services instead of other non-Microsoft services. I understand the strategy, but it would be good to have more compatibility with non-Microsoft data sources."
"Real-time refreshing for SAP BW would be nice. We know its on the radar for the development team at MS. "
"It should be more user-friendly and simple."
"The setup took a lot of tinkering with InfoSec to allow us to do stuff."
"The smart phone application could be improved, along with better graphics and faster updating."
"Its price could be better. Its licensing cost is very high."
"I would like to see more Writeback capabilities that would allow our IT department not to be worried about the wild, Wild West of Writeback."
"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."
"The interface you can design in MicroStrategy is great, but I feel it needs to be refreshed, add a bit more functionality. I would like to see more capabilities on the mobile side, to bring it on par with apps that you see in the App Store."
"The UI seems klutzy with its manual entry."
"Native VI on mobile apps and better android support are lacking."
"The product could be improved by adding additional visualization."
"It needs row-level security, column-level security, on attributes. I want to be able to handle full-scale security model from the semantic layer, flat out."
"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."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 293 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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