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 the flexibility it offers."
"In the early stage of an implementation, it not only helps decision making, but it allows people to have insight into problems with data so that they can go and get it corrected."
"It is low-cost and easy to deploy. It is fully-featured."
"Power BI allows you to create user defined charts which is really useful."
"They should add mobile access."
"The stability is good."
"Its connection to every database: Whatever and wherever it is."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The single stack solution will always be more profitable, scalable, and elastic for organizational needs."
"MicroStrategy's best feature is that it is a user-friendly tool."
"Mobile brings reports/dashboards closer to the business user."
"It has the potential to become a great evangelist for AI and other embedded analytics."
"It is easy to use and visually very appealing. One thing that sets it apart is that it has got a great ETL tool. As compared to some of the other solutions, it is much easier to process data from other applications in MicroStrategy. That's why we prefer using it."
"MicroStrategy has powerful data security features, which are crucial these days. For example, when users view data in MicroStrategy, they're only allowed to see a portion based on the permissions. When we evaluated other solutions like Power BI or Tableau, we found the security is very poor. They can't help us secure access to the data."
"The most valuable features are ad hoc reporting and the ability to create dashboards."
"Has a great semantic layer."
"You do need to do some hard coding for certain things in Microsoft BI."
"We would like improvements made to the paginated reports so that it produces quality similarly to SSRS."
"I believe the price should be degressive, and we should have a lower, or better unit price if we have more users."
"I'm missing collaborations functionality to operate or to work connected with multiple people on a data source or on virtualization. There should be more collaborations functions, such as in Confluence. We haven't explored the solution sufficiently in this area, but at this time it doesn't look sufficient."
"Their technical support can be better. They normally take too long to escalate and resolve a case."
"I have to write scripts to query data for analyzing performance."
"The solution could improve the mobile application design. It is difficult to use compared to the desktop version."
"Not having to login again after a mobile app upgrade. A simple login on mobile would be great."
"We have not invested nor are we planning to invest in MicroStrategy's mobile platform."
"They need to improve on having more professional, well-equipped premium support."
"Enterprise Manager should be a little bit less quirky when you build out-of-the-box customization reports for it."
"If you do not learn the ins or outs, it can be a difficult tool to use. You could do a PoC and get enough out of it to be able to use it. However, when it comes to administering it, you definitely need the training."
"MicroStrategy should become more user friendly. It should behave more like Tableau."
"The web developer tool for documents creation does not have all the features of the client version"
"It needs better visualizations."
"You can now do data blending at the document level and data blending allows you to show results from different data sets in one grid, so to speak. I want to be able to create a data set that can receive data from multiple cubes, have it in one data set, and then bring it to the document, because then I can reuse it for other documents. Now, I have to do it in a document and then it's less reusable, because if I want to share that functionality, I have to copy the document, strip a lot of things, and then work on that basic element that I've built in that document."
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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