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 is stable enough. It has a lot of powerful functions. It can also be customized with the DAX language. It is also intuitive enough and incremental. You can start with something simple, and then step-by-step, you can increase the reports and dashboards according to your needs."
"Microsoft BI is better than most solutions we have. It's pretty easy to conduct analysis with it."
"Easy to use. End-users can make changes to the graphics."
"The interface is very easy to use."
"It is a powerful tool that helps our data analysis processes."
"The product is user-friendly."
"The product is easy to use and simple to navigate."
"Microsoft BI's dashboards are helpful."
"With all the APIs it's very scalable."
"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."
"The most valuable features are ad hoc reporting and the ability to create dashboards."
"The platform can be easily monitored. You have quite a good overview of tasks which are being run."
"Comprehensive security control and more."
"It is a reliable solution for our needs."
"We use MicroStrategy as an integrated solution with some of their other CRM type applications."
"The drill-down functionality is also very good."
"The maps in Power BI could be improved. You deal with many maps over the years, like maps of America and Saudi Arabia. The maps aren't detailed enough, and there aren't enough visualization tools. Whenever I want to use a map, I struggle with choosing the right visualization."
"The solution's documentation needs improvement."
"Power BI doesn't support some open-source data sources that are new, such as SnowSQL, Iceberg, or ClickHouse."
"There's always room for improvement for Microsoft Power BI, especially for the UX and the menus to make it more accessible to business users."
"Actionable insights could be better."
"Microsoft BI’s integration and visualization could be improved."
"It should be more user-friendly and simple."
"Maybe they can enhance the UI a bit. Right now, it's very basic, I would say, compared to the MicroStrategy or Qlik."
"They need to improve the web."
"The web developer tool for documents creation does not have all the features of the client version"
"The solution's reports are not very flexible."
"I would like to see a feature where migrations are easier. When you migrate from certain environments, it could probably be a little cleaner. Sometimes it seems to be somewhat clunky when you migrate from one environment, say a development to a test or production environment."
"MicroStrategy is not cloud native today and some of their APIs are a little limiting."
"They should provide more tutorials and include some project files."
"We've found the scalability to be very good. However, it depends on the environment. In general, it could be much better."
"MicroStrategy should improve migration automation. Additionally, I would like there to be better partnership support."
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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