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.
"Power BI allows you to create user defined charts which is really useful."
"It is low-cost and easy to deploy. It is fully-featured."
"The solution is easy to use and flexible."
"It's a great tool for visualization data, and it's free for engineers."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"Data integration is very useful in Power BI. It lets me collect data from many sources. For example, I can get data from Oracle databases and SQL Server databases at the same time."
"There is continual improvement year-over-year."
"The Microsoft Power BI app is very good. It's also very flexible."
"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."
"It's a stand-alone mobile development app that you don't even have to do business intelligence on. You can just use it to build apps."
"The architecture is very solid."
"Scalability is the best thing. You can really scale."
"The reporting, the dashboards, and the new visualization functions. It is very easy for users to understand their data and dashboards."
"I have had a lot of projects where we had a lot of users, like thousands of users, and the data was in one report which could bring in six million records. MicroStrategy is doing a good job on scalability."
"It keeps BI in the hands of everyone, rather than a developer or an analyst."
"I really like the visualizations. I like how you can put large data sets in there, then the user can quickly go through the data and drill down at various levels to understand things."
"I would like to see a change in the premium capacity."
"The solution's documentation needs improvement."
"I would like to see a feature that connects with a Machine Learning platform like a RapidMiner or Azure Machine Learning Studio. It would be great to have a Machine Learning application link to connect."
"There are some problems with the functionality of this solution. The dashboard is not very user friendly and is quite complicated."
"This solution needs integration with SAS and more deep analysis functionality."
"In the future, Microsoft BI can be better by increasing user-friendliness"
"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."
"They can improve it in terms of rule-based security. Currently, it has very limited rules."
"We would really like to see MicroStrategy have some support teams based more in Europe, because for now it seems that there is one person for the whole CE region. That is not exactly what we would like to see. We do know that MicroStrategy supports most places, either in the US or India, but those are different time zones, people, and cultures."
"Needs more visualizations out-of-the-box."
"I think they're still lacking on customer service. I think historically, MicroStrategy's customer service was a lot better than it is today."
"We haven't invested in the mobile platform. We want to invest, but the problem is the security. We are in the health domain, so we have PHI data."
"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."
"Its price should be lower. In terms of features, what we have is quite encompassing right now."
"I would like to see a single standalone application to control everything from the administration perspective, and also to develop new applications."
"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."
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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