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 have found the quick reporting and the conductivity with all the data sources valuable."
"You don't need much support with Microsoft Power BI because it has such a large base of users who can answer your questions on their forums. There are also many video tutorials and webinars available online that offer solutions to whatever problems you may have."
"The most valuable feature would be the abundance of connectors. It is also easy to use."
"The most valuable features are the flexibility, how many ways you can interrogate the data, and the the graphical visualization."
"There is continual improvement year-over-year."
"Initial setup was very straightforward. Users can get up and running reporting on databases within minutes."
"Easy to use. End-users can make changes to the graphics."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Power BI is the drill-through feature that takes you to a details page the users want to see."
"The implementation was fairly straightforward."
"Getting more data to people more quickly. Providing more flexibility for how they use the data."
"It's useful if you need to create dashboards that you check every day. Also, we can create a queue, but it will be updated every day with scheduled updates."
"The technical support is quite good."
"We are embedding multimedia content in our apps... You can embed streaming video from websites, or you can host the video files on your internal media servers. The video is clear, absolutely."
"The stability of the product is good."
"In the past, when we had so many legacy systems, with Cognos and others, it was took multiple steps to get what we wanted. Now, it's a seamless integration. We can connect directly, in the form of In-Memory Cubes or live-publish cubes, to the data warehouse, and blend in the data with big data. Not only relational databases, but we can also integrate other third-party files, and create a single-source software."
"The data governance leads people to trust the data that they have, and they know where to get it."
"Anything they can do to improve enterprise collaboration is going to help people get set up and utilize the solution."
"The Power Query feature needs to be improved to handle large amounts of data. This feature is also slow for large data transfers making it better to use some kind of script."
"Microsoft BI's visualization could be better. Though Power BI's visualization has steadily improved over the years, it's not on the level tools like Tableau and SAS or some of the more expensive products on the market."
"Compared to other applications, like Tableau, Microsoft BI doesn't have as many functions that allow you to do more in-depth analysis and represent the findings."
"It should be more user-friendly and simple."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly interface with Microsoft BI."
"The solution could improve by simplifying the user interface and adding integration or compatibility with APA."
"It should have more report outputs. They should expand the report outputs. Its documentation should also be better."
"Consolidate the functional offering to be more concise in the front-end for web reports, dashboards, and self-service."
"One of the things that I want to see MicroStrategy do is become more cloud native. Right now, the deployment on cloud is very easy to ruin, it is very much like spinning up separate VMs."
"This solution is missing enhanced features in the dashboards."
"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."
"MicroStrategy's mobile dashboard is still not a RESTful design."
"I would like to see the enterprise version available in a demo or as a trial version."
"Our data warehouse is sort of static; negative load and that is it. It is not as real-time as we would like. We are working on building that out first to create more real-time, at which point we will work on some potential integrations with other applications, but I don't think we are there yet."
"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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