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.
"Power BI stands out because it provides considerable flexibility in creating reports, dashboards, and various types of analytics to meet those dynamic requirements. It is lightweight and easy to use with good support."
"There is also a chart store where we can download charts, which is extremely useful."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Power BI is the drill-through feature that takes you to a details page the users want to see."
"The best thing about this solution is that it is very user friendly. It is interactive in terms of visualizations. It is very eye-catching, and it attracts users. There are a lot of options to visualize the data in different drafts and views. I have used different visualization tools, and I found Power BI to be more efficient in terms of performance, user-friendliness, and ease of use."
"We have found the product very stable and reliable."
"The use of graphics to show and view the data indicators is the most valuable feature. It is also very stable."
"MS SQL & SQL Server Analysis Services."
"The visualization part and its inclusion in a cloud-based application are valuable features."
"The product is very mature. It's quite robust and an excellent enterprise-level solution."
"The simplicity of MicroStrategy is what I like the most."
"Comprehensive security control and more."
"Tech support has been great, very responsive. We usually hear back within a day. We usually email them and that works out perfect. The right person always gets back to us."
"The feature I found most valuable is the drop and drag functionality available."
"The solution has excellent features available on mobile."
"The most important feature is the way it handles ad hoc queries and provides formatted reports."
"We are using mobile analytics, and it is amazing."
"I would like to see better, undisturbed stability without any interruptions."
"Right now, their premium pricing is keeping us out of the premium market. The premium price per user just doesn't make sense for us, but we haven't reached the limit of 500 users to justify the premium."
"The reporting part of Microsoft BI is rather limited compared to other reporting tools."
"One of the more difficult things to do is to export some of the data from Power BI to Excel."
"We would like it if they added more Python libraries in the Power BI service. For Power BI service right now, you can use Python, but it is limited to a few libraries or a few packages from Python."
"If you need data in real-time, it's not an ideal solution."
"It is too slow. I hope in future it will be a comparable big data tool, such as, for example, Data Lake."
"You need to purchase upgraded support separately."
"The learning curve is quite steep."
"MicroStrategy should improve migration automation. Additionally, I would like there to be better partnership support."
"The problem is the way that their metrics are designed. It can be difficult to understand what you're actually looking at. Then when you're comparing a document against the VI, you can't actually do that properly. So there are components, and there is a huge learning curve in the Enterprise Manager space. I think it would benefit them greatly if they were to exercise a significant amount of research and development in that space."
"This solution is missing enhanced features in the dashboards."
"MicroStrategy lacks that community support. You're either stuck figuring things out yourself or paying expensive fees to MicroStrategy consultants for help."
"In the developer, there are things that you able to do in a document or a report that you are not able to do in the Dossier."
"I know we are not competing against Tableau, but MicroStrategy needs to step up its game on the GUI side."
"The pricing could be lower because it is costly."
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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