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.
"Like all Microsoft products, it is very easy to set up initially."
"What's most valuable in this tool is that it gives its users detailed error messages. It's a very stable data analytics tool, and it offers good scalability."
"Management reporting solution that's very stable and scalable."
"Microsoft BI's dashboards are helpful."
"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."
"It works well with SSAS, which we use to generate all different kinds of trending and analytics reports. Sometimes we use Power Query and DAX to build some aggregations on the Power BI side as well."
"The use of graphics to show and view the data indicators is the most valuable feature. It is also very stable."
"Helped identify bad data, enabling the corrections needed to the data for management."
"The hyperintelligence is the most valuable feature."
"The solution has excellent features available on mobile."
"Technical support has sent us to rapid response before, when we really needed them."
"It is a reliable solution for our needs."
"Having the analytics capabilities on a single platform."
"Stability is great, especially with package deployments. It is very consistent and stable."
"We are using mobile analytics, and it is amazing."
"The technical support is quite good."
"From any improvement perspective, I want the product to be made available to users free of cost...The stability and scalability of the product can be better."
"This solution's performance when handling big data could be improved. Right now, if you're handling big data, the application becomes slow and the performance is very low."
"Microsoft needs to provide more drivers to connect other data sources in a native way."
"Creating dashboards could be easier."
"It is not yet ready for enterprises. For a big enterprise data model, it is not so stable, and it also doesn't scale so well."
"I find the solution to be 70 percent stable."
"BI is scalable, but there are some problems with limited online storage."
"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 prefer the capabilities of a single platform, but it does not always work. We are a huge company. Some areas do not use MicroStrategy, so you have to blend whatever systems they are using together to get the data points that you are looking for."
"There are a lot of offerings, and we are not fully using everything to its advantage."
"It is performing well, but sometimes we have complex requirements and the performance decreases, and then we have to find another way to make it perform again. That is what you encounter when use the project, but that's inevitable because if we would have used another product, we would've had the same thing."
"I think they're still lacking on customer service. I think historically, MicroStrategy's customer service was a lot better than it is today."
"The solution's licensing could be improved because its cost is heavy on the pockets."
"It needs better visualizations."
"I would like to see more integration."
"MicroStrategy lacks that community support. You're either stuck figuring things out yourself or paying expensive fees to MicroStrategy consultants for help."
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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