We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI, MicroStrategy, and QlikView based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."Reporting is the best thing about Power BI. And it could help improve decision-making in many ways. Power BI is flexible and easier to use compared to tools."
"I have found the best features to be the dashboard creation, graphs, charts, and presentation bar graphs."
"Tech support is very helpful."
"Management reporting solution that's very stable and scalable."
"There are some great automation elements in the product."
"I also find connecting to different data sources is quite simple. Other solutions we were using before were complicated."
"Initial setup was very straightforward. Users can get up and running reporting on databases within minutes."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the visual aspect and the DAX capabilities to virtually do anything."
"I have had a lot of projects where we had a lot of users, like thousands of users, and the data was in one report which could bring in six million records. MicroStrategy is doing a good job on scalability."
"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."
"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."
"Speed for high level aggregation by using Intelligent Cubes."
"The technical support of MicroStrategy can be helpful through implementation."
"Project Schema/metadata- Very flexible, connects to a variety of different data sources and is very flexible for many specific tasks. Attributes/metrics/filters created once used by everyone."
"Now we can collaborate, in real time. In the past we had to wait for our business partners say if a visualization looked good or sufficed for their requirements. There was no real-time decision making. Now, with Dossier, it will accelerate the velocity of decision making."
"Visual Insights (VI)"
"Scripting as per a customer's need, which is a pretty cool feature and not available in other tools."
"The scalability is there."
"We use QlikView for its cost-effectiveness and ease of integration with databases."
"Once you open it up, you see everything that you can do."
"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to view the entire data available for analysis."
"This solution has simplified getting to and understanding our data, no matter where it is housed."
"Its ability to build, very quickly, very complicated models."
"A well designed app brings freedom of inquiry to meetings, allowing me to answer questions in real time and this has transformed progress and outputs of our monthly group meeting."
"There's always room for improvement for Microsoft Power BI, especially for the UX and the menus to make it more accessible to business users."
"If you need data in real-time, it's not an ideal solution."
"I have found using Microsoft BI is not easy. For example, trying to use the auto-refresh feature is not simple."
"My main complaint is that the error messages need to be made more clear. Currently, they are either too generic or outright misleading, and finding the real problem is like searching for a needle in a haystack."
"In Microsoft Excel, you are able to have tabs. However, in Microsoft BI you do not have this flexibility."
"Microsoft should offer additional features for visualization and have additional features for slicing and dicing that data."
"Microsoft BI's visualization could be better. Though Power BI's visualization has steadily improved over the years, it's not on the level tools like Tableau and SAS or some of the more expensive products on the market."
"We have used other solutions and the reporting functionality should be user-friendly and have a drag and drop feature should be available, but Microsoft BI doesn't have these features. When you are creating reports and you can't change as a user. Every time you need one developer or one technical person to make the changes."
"The graphs available for the new dashboard of version 10 are weak."
"Data writeback, and on-the-fly predictive analysis results from R and Python could be improved."
"The product could be improved by adding additional visualization."
"MicroStrategy lacks that community support. You're either stuck figuring things out yourself or paying expensive fees to MicroStrategy consultants for help."
"I would like to see a single standalone application to control everything from the administration perspective, and also to develop new applications."
"We have seen some stability issues with MicroStrategy on cloud. We have a few unhappy customers."
"The implementation itself was pretty straightforward. The tricky part was understanding MicroStrategy's licensing model, which was a bit convoluted back then."
"Consolidate the functional offering to be more concise in the front-end for web reports, dashboards, and self-service."
"Sometimes the filters are disappearing, and I'm not sure why this is happening."
"If a user wanted to see something not included in the application the new object had to be created by a power user or developer because Qlik view's scripting has somewhat of a learning curve."
"Better source data connectors."
"There is a challenge on the frontend when it comes to browsing data through QlikView, as it isn't entirely compatible with other platforms we use."
"The solution is quite costly."
"I really wish the application was easier to use in the development phase."
"They could improve the speed."
"It needs work with visualization."
