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.
"What I have found valuable about Microsoft BI is its performance and ease of use. The interface is very simple and it is accessible to everyone. If someone is new to this type of solution it is straightforward to understand."
"It integrates better with other Microsoft products. It is very easy to use and has very powerful visualizations. It has also got a lot of development going on."
"What's most valuable in this tool is that it gives its users detailed error messages. It's a very stable data analytics tool, and it offers good scalability."
"The product can go easily go and extract data and it can put it into any format."
"It's a powerful platform."
"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."
"PowerBi is used to import our production data and generate dashboards, then integrates other Excel sheets to provide managers dashboards. This helps them get insights to make better OEE improvement decisions, mainly where to focus resources. We became able to see indicators from any time frame (day, week, month, or year), then could make better decisions."
"The virtualization of Microsoft BI is very good."
"The convenience of it. Having it on the mobile, so someone has it right there in their pocket most of the time."
"The platform can be easily monitored. You have quite a good overview of tasks which are being run."
"The ability to create aesthetically pleasing information by providing dashboards."
"The reporting, the dashboards, and the new visualization functions. It is very easy for users to understand their data and dashboards."
"MicroStrategy's best feature is that it is a user-friendly tool."
"The product is very mature. It's quite robust and an excellent enterprise-level solution."
"Now we can collaborate, in real time. In the past we had to wait for our business partners say if a visualization looked good or sufficed for their requirements. There was no real-time decision making. Now, with Dossier, it will accelerate the velocity of decision making."
"There's extensive logging capabilities, if something is wrong then we are able to find out why."
"Right now, their premium pricing is keeping us out of the premium market. The premium price per user just doesn't make sense for us, but we haven't reached the limit of 500 users to justify the premium."
"I think that there should be visuals for financial reporting videos. It should just be a plug and play because there is a lot of coding that goes into it with different clients."
"The initial setup is a little bit technical."
"The graphic interface could be better."
"Its setup and support should be improved. We would like to see more material for developers that provides clear explanations about how we can do data mining by using Microsoft BI. It would also be good if we can connect a feature to other customized machine learning solutions."
"One area for improvement in Microsoft Power BI is serviceability. Compared to one of its competitors: Tableau, there are a lot of things which you cannot do in this tool, that can be done in Tableau."
"Things can slow down if you create too many pages."
"The on-premises version lacks some technical features that are available with the Cloud version."
"The product is designed for enterprise. A lightweight version would be easier for a smaller workgroup."
"This solution is missing enhanced features in the dashboards."
"There are a lot of offerings, and we are not fully using everything to its advantage."
"We're starting to open it up to more and more people to give them the ability and start looking at these things themselves, but it's not the most intuitive system, Enterprise Manager that is, so it's tough. We're trying to bridge the gap between usability and who we let in the system, because you're not going to come in and just pick it up."
"They need to do a better job In its ability to allow end users to produce their own reports, metrics, and self-service business intelligence."
"In the developer, there are things that you able to do in a document or a report that you are not able to do in the Dossier."
"The graphs available for the new dashboard of version 10 are weak."
"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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