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 valuable feature is that it's easy to use. It's very useful for non-engineers and it is the ultimate solution for providing information and insights. Power BI is the best visualization tool I have ever worked with."
"The solution is very intuitive, you do not need to have too much programming knowledge to use it. Advanced Excel users can use it very easily."
"The most useful features are the ability to connect different databases to Microsoft BI and explore them. Once the database information has been extracted, you have the ability to construct indicators and dashboards from the information."
"The solution is easy to set up and implement."
"Its seamless integration with Microsoft products, such as Microsoft SQL Server or Microsoft Excel, is the most valuable."
"The solution overall is very useful. The reports that are generated and the reporting functionality management are beneficial."
"The amount of customization that you can do is good, and it's relatively straightforward to do."
"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."
"Our primary use case is to deliver all data insights to our company."
"You can build once and deploy to multiple operating systems. Also, it resizes in the way you want it to."
"Having the analytics capabilities on a single platform."
"The architecture is very solid."
"The mobile for MicroStrategy is the best of all the BI platforms. As a separate product for the mobile device, MicroStrategy is the entire BI platform. It is an enterprise solution, a separate unit, etc."
"Semi-automatic support of implementing date dimensions, including delta to prior year implementation."
"The usability for users to be able to drag and drop, then create their own reports."
"Dependency on development teams, as well as managing the platform, has reduced a lot with Visual Insight."
"There is no specific area that I have a problem with. It's just that, with whatever feature you come across, every visual has its own formatting and behavior. What you get in one visual for a feature, you don't seem to get in another."
"The UI looks awkward once the graphs have been generated in the console. This is what Microsoft can work on."
"The data source definition is all over the place."
"The only concern I have faced with Microsoft BI is the time it takes to find out an issue and rectify it."
"We need more integration capabilities."
"Its price could be better. Its licensing cost is very high."
"The dashboard could be simplified."
"The look is simple, and could be a little more professional."
"Enterprise Manager should be a little bit less quirky when you build out-of-the-box customization reports for it."
"I would like to see the enterprise version available in a demo or as a trial version."
"The UI seems klutzy with its manual entry."
"The solution's reports are not very flexible."
"It would be good if it had greater analytics so we could build these visualizations by ourselves with scripts."
"MicroStrategy is dragging behind other tools on the self-service visualizations, like Tableau. I would rate Tableau as a 10. For the same visualizations, I would say MicroStrategy is an eight, maybe nine. They're still behind on the self-service visualizations,"
"Another feature to consider in the future would be adding some additional offline capabilities without using desktops."
"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."
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, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, IBM Cognos, Qlik Sense and Oracle OBIEE. See our MicroStrategy vs. Microsoft Power BI report.
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