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 best features to be the dashboard creation, graphs, charts, and presentation bar graphs."
"Previously we used Excel, which took a long time - two or three weeks - to bring the data into a uniform format, whereas BI can do the same job in a day."
"It is a little easier at buildings charts and graphs than Tableau."
"It offers a lot of information and is very flexible and interactive."
"The drag and drop facility to easily change the data correctly is the most valuable feature. I am happy to see visualizations. It's easier to talk about and make people understand what is going on."
"In contrast to what we were using before I think that Power BI has given us more extensive results."
"The uploading of information is very easy, as you just use an Excel sheet to start work right away and obtain the benefits of Power BI."
"My favorite feature is the power query editor, where it can do the data transformations."
"We have been using it mostly for grid reports and its exporting features."
"It definitely impacts people, who are excited to use it."
"Semi-automatic support of implementing date dimensions, including delta to prior year implementation."
"The most valuable features are ad hoc reporting and the ability to create dashboards."
"I find MicroStrategy the most suited to the enterprise-wide BI platform, because of its scalability and stability."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to build reports, then customize for different groups instead of having to build multiple reports. Therefore, the ability to build customization in the reports for different groups."
"MicroStrategy's best feature is that it is a user-friendly tool."
"The option to use various administrative tools, like Integrity Manager, is a valuable feature."
"The reporting part of Microsoft BI is rather limited compared to other reporting tools."
"The solution could be more customizable and you do not have too much freedom on the code."
"The solution could benefit by allowing deeper data analytics."
"It needs more graphics and overlays."
"When I create measures, sometimes the error messages aren't clear. It makes me spend more time searching for solutions. I need the error messages to be more specific. So, I would like clearer error messages when creating measures."
"Microsoft BI could improve by allowing large-size data sources. We have large data sources, and we have problems loading them in Microsoft BI."
"Its desktop tool is a little bit memory CPU intensive, and it can be improved, but the machines nowadays come with a lot of memory. For the desktop users who are using it on the desktop, we recommend that they do an upgrade. It is a minor issue. We can fix it on the desktop."
"Sometimes while developing, the front end is not easily customizable and it has limitations. We cannot go and do any UI we want. We have to stick to the limitations of the product."
"Sometimes you can do something in reports, but you cannot do the same thing in documents."
"I would like to see more integration."
"I would like to see a feature where migrations are easier. When you migrate from certain environments, it could probably be a little cleaner. Sometimes it seems to be somewhat clunky when you migrate from one environment, say a development to a test or production environment."
"Training would be an area that they could improve upon."
"We have not invested nor are we planning to invest in MicroStrategy's mobile platform."
"Getting our data to work with the tool is where we are having issues."
"We have the mobile server. We have not used it. That is because the people on our team have not been trained on it yet, but that is something that we want to do."
"Sometimes, it has become too complex to upgrade and adjust to the ecosystem."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews while MicroStrategy is ranked 8th 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 Databricks, 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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