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 is more powerful than other tools because it is new for us. Each new version has more capabilities, and we're expecting AI and ML features in the next version."
"The solution is not that difficult to install, although this will vary with the experience of the person responsible for its installation."
"It is really flexible. The charts and reports are really nice. You have the flexibility of self-service."
"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."
"They find Power BI's data pull mechanism to be sufficient and cost-effective, especially considering the stability it provides. In comparison with other solutions, Power BI stands out as a fantastic choice. Therefore, I would definitely recommend sticking with the Pro license."
"The most useful features are the ability to connect different databases to Microsoft BI and explore them. Once the database information has been extracted, you have the ability to construct indicators and dashboards from the information."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"We can see that it's really improved the way end users can do their own graphs and pick their own fields of information and present that in a nice way."
"Dependency on development teams, as well as managing the platform, has reduced a lot with Visual Insight."
"The interactive features that appear in the report were good. The external rendering option they give with multi servers was also good."
"We are using it for operations analysis and sales data analysis."
"Visual Insight gives you the capability of doing self-service analytics. This has been the most powerful and valuable feature."
"The convenience of it. Having it on the mobile, so someone has it right there in their pocket most of the time."
"It has landing pages, and that makes life easy for exhibiting things."
"The drill-down functionality is also very good."
"The solution is ideal for enterprise-level companies or corporations."
"It could have more of a hold on big data. Manipulating big data on this solution complicates things. This needs to be improved."
"Integrating it with the physics build model or the engineering model should be included."
"The performance of Microsoft BI could improve for large datasets and it would be beneficial to have more visualization features."
"Most clients have MacBooks. Therefore, they use Tableau as Power BI Desktop is not available for the MacBook right now."
"I would like to see more AI capabilities in future releases. There's a strong interest in AI, including technologies like GPT, which facilitate real-time interactions."
"Microsoft is behind IBM when it comes to security features."
"Integration with products that are not Microsoft could be more improved."
"It's quite difficult to learn how to use Power BI."
"If you do not learn the ins or outs, it can be a difficult tool to use. You could do a PoC and get enough out of it to be able to use it. However, when it comes to administering it, you definitely need the training."
"MicroStrategy is dragging behind other tools on the self-service visualizations, like Tableau. I would rate Tableau as a 10. For the same visualizations, I would say MicroStrategy is an eight, maybe nine. They're still behind on the self-service visualizations,"
"I don't think that they will, but I'd like to see parallel processing, scalable parallel processing."
"We're starting to open it up to more and more people to give them the ability and start looking at these things themselves, but it's not the most intuitive system, Enterprise Manager that is, so it's tough. We're trying to bridge the gap between usability and who we let in the system, because you're not going to come in and just pick it up."
"Getting our data to work with the tool is where we are having issues."
"We have the mobile server. We have not used it. That is because the people on our team have not been trained on it yet, but that is something that we want to do."
"We did have issues with stability, and that was because we were co-located with another business unit, and we outgrew them on the unit. So we had to get to a separate physical instance."
"The In-Memory Capability (cubes) needs a lot of improvement."
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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