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 solution integrates with other Microsoft solutions very well."
"The solution has a good toggling feature."
"I like data modeling. You can connect with your database, which is quite useful for me. It is a good tool if you have a large amount of data and you want to gather different data and interconnect it. The Power Query functionality is quite an interesting feature. If you have a query in Excel, you can also copy your query and run it in Power BI. Its dashboard is also very nice and not complicated. You don't need to be a developer to be able to use it. I am not an IT guy, and it is quite easy to use for somebody who is not an IT person."
"We can see that it's really improved the way end users can do their own graphs and pick their own fields of information and present that in a nice way."
"I like the fact that Power BI lets me use Excel data. At least 90% of my state data is in Excel spreadsheets. Having the ability to just attach a spreadsheet as a data source is very, very important. It's also good for training and teaching. Sometimes you don't always have access to a live production database, so having a spreadsheet with sample data is always nice."
"Good CS and administration."
"It's similar to Excel, but it's much more powerful than Excel."
"The feature I find most valuable is the ability to publish Power Bi reports, using an embedded link, directly onto a website."
"Scalability is fantastic. It can go from a small operation up to a gigantic operation. "
"It has the potential to become a great evangelist for AI and other embedded analytics."
"Getting more data to people more quickly. Providing more flexibility for how they use the data."
"Technical support has sent us to rapid response before, when we really needed them."
"The convenience of it. Having it on the mobile, so someone has it right there in their pocket most of the time."
"The data governance leads people to trust the data that they have, and they know where to get it."
"It is scalable and integration-friendly."
"We are using it for operations analysis and sales data analysis."
"The solution could benefit by allowing deeper data analytics."
"Microsoft needs to provide more drivers to connect other data sources in a native way."
"I believe the price should be degressive, and we should have a lower, or better unit price if we have more users."
"I feel the modeling page should be simplified."
"They can improve the user interface a little bit to make it more user-friendly. When creating a dashboard, it is not very user-friendly. You have to click on a certain style and use your keyboard keys to move it. You cannot drag and drop it."
"The DAX features need some improvement. It's not as easy as Excel. They need more DAX formulas."
"Technical support could be a bit better."
"It has come a long way in terms of how it was working two years ago, but there are some things that you still can't do with it. For example, permission management and user access management are still a bit limited. It is basically based on the idea that everybody from the organization can see everything or limit the type of data they can see. If I want you to see only one report and the other guy to see another report, I can't do it. There should be a better way to manage permissions and users. It should also support external users much better."
"I think they're still lacking on customer service. I think historically, MicroStrategy's customer service was a lot better than it is today."
"There is room for improvement on the graphs."
"MicroStrategy lacks that community support. You're either stuck figuring things out yourself or paying expensive fees to MicroStrategy consultants for help."
"It would be good if it had greater analytics so we could build these visualizations by ourselves with scripts."
"It is actually pretty complicated to use. It is complicated enough that user adaptation is sometimes difficult. We developed more experts rather than people using it."
"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."
"It needs better visualizations."
"There are a lot of offerings, and we are not fully using everything to its advantage."
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.
See our list of best BI (Business Intelligence) Tools vendors.
We monitor all BI (Business Intelligence) Tools reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.