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.
"Management reporting solution that's very stable and scalable."
"There is a feature in Microsoft BI that allows JSON data to SQL on the dashboards effectively and quickly."
"I've seen no issues with BI's stability."
"I like that I can use Power BI to upload data. That is very important for me. The visualization is also convenient and easy to use."
"Its visualizations and dashboards are most valuable. Power BI is great in terms of visualizations and dashboards. The reports that we previously had were not very nice in terms of visualization. It also provides the ability to play with the data."
"Its ease of use is most valuable."
"There is also a chart store where we can download charts, which is extremely useful."
"It is very good, and it supports the Microsoft ecosystem, including Excel, etc."
"It is very stable."
"Reports are very easy to create. It takes a very short amount of time to build a report, which is very useful."
"It scales well. It used to have only a max of four I-servers, but I think recently, somewhere in version 10, they doubled that, so you can have eight I-servers now."
"Building apps is easy. You just drag in your data, and then you drag in all the elements that you want on your app. It's drag and drop design, and then you can customize your visuals. They make it all easy with plug and play widgets."
"We've made it an open BI platform, so that all our business analysts can build their own dashboards and Dossiers."
"The platform can be easily monitored. You have quite a good overview of tasks which are being run."
"The most valuable features of MicroStrategy are user-friendliness and integration with the different data warehouse systems."
"It is one tool which you can find everything. "
"The solution could improve the mobile application design. It is difficult to use compared to the desktop version."
"Microsoft is behind IBM when it comes to security features."
"I would like it to be a little bit more secure when I'm using the design feature on my desktop. For example, to have the ability to set up security passwords for opening the file. Currently, they don't have that. Tableau, for example, has a visual way of doing data processing steps, whereas the Power BI system still has some code, although it is very low code. It would be great to have the kind of view that Tableau has."
"I would like to see more visualization options."
"The visual outlet or the visualization aspect can be improved because the settings piece is quite problematic. It requires a lot of time to set the visuals and check. It is quite fiddly to change all the settings and font sizes. It just needs better ability in terms of using templates or visualization templates to get the vision. Our users always benchmark based on the product, and they don't appreciate everything under the bonnet. The only rating is based on the actual reports in the settings for the dashboard. They should make it look a bit funky and a bit more aesthetically pleasing on the eye. It is quite a fiddly tool, but other than that, it is pretty slick. Because it is community-driven, the marketplace tends to be changing forever. You get the standard visualizations, and you've also got all other marketplace visualizations that require you to spend a bit more money and purchase things in the marketplace. With certain visualizations, there is no longevity. I had used certain visualizations, but they discontinued them, and I had to rebuild my reports, which is obviously very frustrating. There should be some sort of stabilization around how the marketplace visuals impact the users when they expire."
"It is getting better but still, there are opportunity areas in some aspects, especially the Windows OS dependency."
"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."
"It should be easier to use when there are multiple system sources."
"It would be good if it had greater analytics so we could build these visualizations by ourselves with scripts."
"The In-Memory Capability (cubes) needs a lot of improvement."
"They should give proper industry-based tutorials so that one can learn it easily and implement it based on the requirements. They should give more MMP files so that we can import a whole project altogether and learn from that project."
"I would like to see more integration."
"Needs more visualizations out-of-the-box."
"Scalability is something which will need to be improved when it goes to a bigger audience."
"Training would be an area that they could improve upon."
"I think they're still lacking on customer service. I think historically, MicroStrategy's customer service was a lot better than it is today."
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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