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.
"It is quite easy to use and it helps me to achieve the projects that I've been assigned."
"Connectivity, installation, and configuration are pretty fast and seamless compared to Cognos."
"Technical support has been great."
"Good CS and administration."
"Constant collaboration is the most valuable. I can build a dashboard, and several co-workers can access this dashboard. We can share information that is important for decision-making. It is a very easy-to-deploy solution. It is compatible with a lot of data sources. It is also very stable and scalable. There is also a very good forum and a lot of help and online training."
"MS SQL & SQL Server Analysis Services."
"Power BI, once made available, can connect to various data sources, irrespective of the application, whether it be HR or business applications. The bank has many applications, but all eventually need to generate reports for tracking, distribution, or problem-finding based on analysis. Power BI was made available as part of the productivity suite to all businesses, which can connect to their applications and provide the reports and analysis they require."
"My primary use is for view of the dashboard."
"Scalability is fantastic. It can go from a small operation up to a gigantic operation. "
"I haven't come across any bugs."
"We prefer having our analytics capabilities in a single platform, which MicroStrategy's offers."
"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 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."
"Technical support is knowledgeable. The right person gets back to us whenever we email them."
"It's user-friendly, also the MTDI cube is a very good approach, as it helps you to use the pre-format instead of using the standard objects from the schema of MicroStrategy."
"It keeps BI in the hands of everyone, rather than a developer or an analyst."
"There needs to be improved guidance and documentation for the initial setup of Power BI as it currently remains complex."
"Powerpoints are not available in the report server."
"Power BI shows reports on actual data, not metadata."
"Power BI could be improved by implementing more options for data integration. Nowadays, the cloud takes care of scalability and security. As we all know, data sources are increasing, so we get data from a variety of streams. But if we could get the downstream data into the database and update the reports more easily, Power BI would be better."
"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing for the solution."
"For someone who is new, I think that Power BI can be a little complicated."
"We haven't used it that long and I haven't come across anything that's stood out as needing to be fixed."
"The performance of Microsoft BI could improve for large datasets and it would be beneficial to have more visualization features."
"Native VI on mobile apps and better android support are lacking."
"We would like access to more storage and access to more metadata to build the right programs that can construct all the stuff for us instead of us having to type it in all the time."
"We've found the scalability to be very good. However, it depends on the environment. In general, it could be much better."
"MicroStrategy lacks that community support. You're either stuck figuring things out yourself or paying expensive fees to MicroStrategy consultants for help."
"Another feature to consider in the future would be adding some additional offline capabilities without using desktops."
"There is room for improvement on the graphs."
"Its price should be lower. In terms of features, what we have is quite encompassing right now."
"There are some challenges in our organization on how we store the data."
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 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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