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.
"Its ease of use is most valuable."
"I have found the best features to be the dashboard creation, graphs, charts, and presentation bar graphs."
"Two valuable most features are the ability to create columns and create measures."
"Premium features that used to cost $5,000 per company per month recently became a lot more accessible. Microsoft recently implemented a per user feature in Power BI Premium; it's $20 per month."
"Technical support is quite responsive."
"Many of my customers already use Microsoft products like Office 365, so I often propose Microsoft Power BI because it integrates well with all the standard Microsoft business tools. And it's the quickest tool to implement and start using daily."
"The solution is easy to use and flexible."
"Microsoft BI is better than most solutions we have. It's pretty easy to conduct analysis with it."
"Semi-automatic support of implementing date dimensions, including delta to prior year implementation."
"It keeps BI in the hands of everyone, rather than a developer or an analyst."
"Technical support is knowledgeable. The right person gets back to us whenever we email them."
"Dossiers are going to change the name of the game for us. We want to be able to have the executive committee go into a meeting and tell a story. We want them to tell us a story, not us."
"In the past, when we had so many legacy systems, with Cognos and others, it was took multiple steps to get what we wanted. Now, it's a seamless integration. We can connect directly, in the form of In-Memory Cubes or live-publish cubes, to the data warehouse, and blend in the data with big data. Not only relational databases, but we can also integrate other third-party files, and create a single-source software."
"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."
"We have ramped up user adoption."
"The most important feature is the way it handles ad hoc queries and provides formatted reports."
"Microsoft is behind IBM when it comes to security features."
"The DAX in Microsoft BI is quite difficult."
"There needs to be improved guidance and documentation for the initial setup of Power BI as it currently remains complex."
"One thing I would like to have is the scripting language, as they already have within Excel. It's already within a Microsoft business product, because Excel is the number one business product out there. So it would be nice to have the scripting capability in order to automate certain processes."
"If I compare it to Tableau, I'd say the visualizations can be better. We should have multiple options. By that I mean, while there are multiple options for the visualization, the look and feel of the dashboard when you compare to Tableau is on the lower side. Tableau has a much better visualization."
"I would like to see some AI incorporated into this solution in the future."
"I'm not overly technical, and so I can't really speak to any shortcomings from a technical standpoint."
"It needs more graphics and overlays."
"Enterprise Manager should be a little bit less quirky when you build out-of-the-box customization reports for it."
"MicroStrategy is not cloud native today and some of their APIs are a little limiting."
"The analytic speed would probably be what I would look for in terms of improvement because we have super huge data, and if I do not build views on top of data, then reports render really slowly."
"There might be opportunities for reporting or data analysis, perhaps even in the realm of simulation."
"The In-Memory Capability (cubes) needs a lot of improvement."
"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."
"There is room for improvement on the graphs."
"The web developer tool for documents creation does not have all the features of the client version"
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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