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.
"The product is intuitive and user-friendly."
"Like all Microsoft products, it is very easy to set up initially."
"The best feature for me is Power Query. I know that probably sounds strange, but you can't do too much with visuals and reports if the backend stuff is horribly dirty and just bad. But for me, that is absolutely fantastic. I can load the data and do the transformation and be able to load it in a useful way. There are tons of connections, which is absolutely fantastic as well. It's been fairly easy, and it's intuitive."
"The user interface is easy to work with."
"The most valuable features are the easy creation of reports, dashboards, and the ability to perform analysis. It is important for us to create reports because we have some operations during certain hours and we can use this tool to track the information."
"It's a powerful platform."
"Its visualization capabilities are pretty good. It is very easy to use. You can easily make your dashboard."
"The feature I find most valuable is the ability to publish Power Bi reports, using an embedded link, directly onto a website."
"It definitely impacts people, who are excited to use it."
"The ability to create aesthetically pleasing information by providing dashboards."
"Mobile brings reports/dashboards closer to the business user."
"The data governance leads people to trust the data that they have, and they know where to get it."
"It plays a vital role in establishing a connection with predictive continuous improvement."
"We've made a few enhancements to our Enterprise Manager system to allow self-reporting to grow. We see that as a very useful system. It's been incredibly beneficial in diagnosing production performance issues, diagnosing what reports are running slowly, where the SQL could be optimized, opportunities or metrics where we see long-time running performance. Enterprise Manager has been absolutely vital in giving us some of the insights about our system."
"The mobile for MicroStrategy is the best of all the BI platforms. As a separate product for the mobile device, MicroStrategy is the entire BI platform. It is an enterprise solution, a separate unit, etc."
"Getting more data to people more quickly. Providing more flexibility for how they use the data."
"The only challenge I have found is that they do not have a Mac version."
"The solution could improve by having more attractive graphical charts."
"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."
"The only concern I have faced with Microsoft BI is the time it takes to find out an issue and rectify it."
"Their technical support can be better. They normally take too long to escalate and resolve a case."
"The reporting needs to be improved."
"The data source definition is all over the place."
"If you need data in real-time, it's not an ideal solution."
"The solution's licensing could be improved because its cost is heavy on the pockets."
"Enterprise Manager should be a little bit less quirky when you build out-of-the-box customization reports for it."
"There is room for improvement on the graphs."
"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."
"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."
"Currently, the client view looks completely different depending on what you are building."
"The pricing could be lower because it is costly."
"There are a lot of offerings, and we are not fully using everything to its advantage."
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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