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 easy to use. It has got a desktop where people can develop their own dashboards. Basically, we have figured out how to connect finance contracts and all programs for the government agency. So, they can see everything in a dashboard. So, it is very easy to use from a technical standpoint of view."
"The solution integrates with other Microsoft solutions very well."
"The visualization part and its inclusion in a cloud-based application are valuable features."
"It has provided customer purchase patterns and great visualization."
"It is a pretty straightforward and flexible solution for data integration and modeling. It is a low-code solution. When you are doing data integration, you can use the GUI, which is very simple and straightforward. You can also do very intricate custom queries and model it at different levels. It is very easy to use and scalable."
"The advantages of Microsoft Power BI stem from the fact that it is really easy to use. The drag and drop facilities provided by the product are good."
"Its data visualization provides the user the ability to quickly look at data and focus on relevant information, allowing them to make an immediate decision."
"The most valuable feature is shareability, where we can publish work to the cloud and share it with team members."
"The convenience of it. Having it on the mobile, so someone has it right there in their pocket most of the time."
"There are people who are using MicroStrategy as transaction services."
"The most important feature is the way it handles ad hoc queries and provides formatted reports."
"On our mobile solution you can deploy up to 100,000 users. In our case, we're up to about 10,000 active users, and MicroStrategy's server technology behind the scenes, the Intelligence Server and the Mobile Servers, are very robust and they can handle the workload."
"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."
"Our primary use case is to deliver all data insights to our company."
"The stability of the product is good."
"Comprehensive security control and more."
"Trend data and dashboards need improvement."
"People without private emails cannot publish and, frankly, this doesn't allow for easy training."
"The initial setup is a little bit technical."
"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."
"We would like to have better SQL support for queries."
"I would like to be able to use more predicting data science features without having to use R."
"I am taking a course to be able to use the solution better. Some aspects of the solution are not straightforward."
"The web developer tool for documents creation does not have all the features of the client version"
"We would like access to more storage and access to more metadata to build the right programs that can construct all the stuff for us instead of us having to type it in all the time."
"They need to improve the web."
"Scalability is something which will need to be improved when it goes to a bigger audience."
"If they can make it more stable, in terms of the connectivity, that would help."
"Another feature to consider in the future would be adding some additional offline capabilities without using desktops."
"There might be opportunities for reporting or data analysis, perhaps even in the realm of simulation."
"Its price should be lower. In terms of features, what we have is quite encompassing right now."
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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