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 easy to work with and very chic."
"The scalability is good. We have 20 people in my organization using this solution and plan to increase usage."
"The virtualization of Microsoft BI is very good."
"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 has provided customer purchase patterns and great visualization."
"The solution is very intuitive, you do not need to have too much programming knowledge to use it. Advanced Excel users can use it very easily."
"The initial setup is simple to do."
"I find Power BI's reporting feature the most valuable. The solution has improved a lot. There are new features getting added day by day. In the past, they didn't even have the printing feature, but now they have it."
"With the new version that's coming out, I think they have simplified a lot of things. Also, when it comes to the administration part, and sharing, and the collaboration features, they are really great. You can send out comments with a filter to someone in your organization, and if the person clicks on it, he actually sees what you are seeing. So that's really great."
"We use MicroStrategy as an integrated solution with some of their other CRM type applications."
"Simplifies and accelerates the attribute and maze creation process"
"Workstation and Desktop on the client side will speed up some development activities."
"Provides seamless integration between browser-based BI and Mobile BI."
"We are using mobile analytics, and it is amazing."
"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."
"Visual Insights (VI)"
"Power BI shows reports on actual data, not metadata."
"The report server feature is quite limited."
"The solution could improve the mobile application design. It is difficult to use compared to the desktop version."
"I would like to see a change in the premium capacity."
"The handling of the workspaces can be made more granular for user access rights. It can be managed a little bit better in terms of the connection to Active Directory so that we have more granular access rights. I am not sure if this is really possible or if we can solve it differently, but we need a lot of workspaces, and we are not sure how we can deal with it from the access rights perspective."
"I have been doing trial and error to figuring out how to do the data analyzing and modeling. There could be some improvement to simplify it."
"It has come a long way in terms of how it was working two years ago, but there are some things that you still can't do with it. For example, permission management and user access management are still a bit limited. It is basically based on the idea that everybody from the organization can see everything or limit the type of data they can see. If I want you to see only one report and the other guy to see another report, I can't do it. There should be a better way to manage permissions and users. It should also support external users much better."
"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."
"We had some problems with customer service and support."
"I would like to see a single standalone application to control everything from the administration perspective, and also to develop new applications."
"They need to do a better job In its ability to allow end users to produce their own reports, metrics, and self-service business intelligence."
"Enterprise Manager should be a little bit less quirky when you build out-of-the-box customization reports for it."
"The UI seems klutzy with its manual entry."
"There are a lot of offerings, and we are not fully using everything to its advantage."
"MicroStrategy is not cloud native today and some of their APIs are a little limiting."
"We have not invested nor are we planning to invest in MicroStrategy's mobile platform."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews while MicroStrategy is ranked 8th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 156 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, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, IBM Cognos, Qlik Sense and Oracle OBIEE. See our MicroStrategy vs. Microsoft Power BI report.
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