We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI, MicroStrategy, and Oracle OBIEE based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."The most valuable features of Microsoft BI are the variety of possibilities to connect to various data sources. The visualizations are easily done, have useful rollover functions, and there are continuous updates being made to the system. You can benefit from the various improvements."
"They should add mobile access."
"The initial setup is simple to do."
"Microsoft BI's most valuable features are the user interface, which is easy to use and light."
"It seems stable. I haven't heard of any difficulties from my clients that utilize Power BI."
"There is a lot of variety in Power BI. In particular, the visuals are quite rich and the feature set has been growing rapidly in the last two years. Possibly the best part for me is that there are a lot of ways to connect with data sources."
"Easy to use and the visualization is valuable."
"It's a pretty scalable product."
"MicroStrategy has powerful data security features, which are crucial these days. For example, when users view data in MicroStrategy, they're only allowed to see a portion based on the permissions. When we evaluated other solutions like Power BI or Tableau, we found the security is very poor. They can't help us secure access to the data."
"It is one tool which you can find everything. "
"It's user-friendly, also the MTDI cube is a very good approach, as it helps you to use the pre-format instead of using the standard objects from the schema of MicroStrategy."
"The usability for users to be able to drag and drop, then create their own reports."
"The convenience of it. Having it on the mobile, so someone has it right there in their pocket most of the time."
"Scalability is fantastic. It can go from a small operation up to a gigantic operation. "
"Reports are very easy to create. It takes a very short amount of time to build a report, which is very useful."
"It scales well. It used to have only a max of four I-servers, but I think recently, somewhere in version 10, they doubled that, so you can have eight I-servers now."
"User-friendly look and feel."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle OBIEE is it's designed for Oracle. It works well in the Oracle environment and can sit on top of any application."
"For me, it makes the difference is in terms of our users being able to take advantage of a product which allows you to get access to data, reports, make decisions quickly, and have better insights regarding operations."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the various scenarios the product offers and its stability."
"I have found the most valuable features are business intelligence and reporting."
"Dashboards provide us with various views and perspectives on our data, allowing us to analyze metrics such as revenue, occupancy rates, etc."
"I like that Oracle OBIEE comes with more options. For example, more options with data security, user security, and other security. It's more complicated than Microsoft, but it gives you more options. They also added the part for machine learning, which is good."
"It mostly supports enterprise level data. We have millions of records on a daily basis."
"here are some limitations with the data models needed to build the report."
"It's quite difficult to learn how to use Power BI."
"The data source definition is all over the place."
"The reporting needs to be improved."
"This solution is resource-heavy."
"The integration with third-party products could be more stable."
"One area for improvement in Microsoft Power BI is serviceability. Compared to one of its competitors: Tableau, there are a lot of things which you cannot do in this tool, that can be done in Tableau."
"It has limited performance capabilities in terms of connecting to large transactional databases, but it is fine for simple and quick queries from Excel spreadsheets or one table. The premium level is going to be more applicable for the higher transaction-level databases."
"The UI seems klutzy with its manual entry."
"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."
"Needs more visualizations out-of-the-box."
"When we come to them with a problem, they might know more of a generalized solution, but not one targeted to our industry."
"Consolidate the functional offering to be more concise in the front-end for web reports, dashboards, and self-service."
"If there are some advanced visualization features - maybe I'm not aware of them - but if there were a Vitara which could work on top of MicroStrategy, it would make sense for MicroStrategy to have that within their own library. So they should add more visualizations to the library."
"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."
"I prefer the capabilities of a single platform, but it does not always work. We are a huge company. Some areas do not use MicroStrategy, so you have to blend whatever systems they are using together to get the data points that you are looking for."
"From an improvement perspective, the technical team should be able to provide more accurate answers by taking into consideration the context of the issues faced by users."
"One significant improvement is the need for simplification. The set up could be more intuitive. An enterprise setup with HA and DR are pretty complex and to get a robust solution one has to play around with Real Application Cluster data sources and FAN notifications as well as WebLogic clustering and external load balancers. SSO also is not that simple to set up especially if you want all your Oracle systems to use the same SSO solution, i.e., no cheating with direct LDAP connectivity."
"BI Server"
"The functionality to customize and modify reports has been removed, and it would be beneficial to reinstall it, as it allows greater customization and flexibility in creating reports."
"There could be better integration with other solutions, such as Microsoft Office."
"The pricing of the solution should be bettered."
"The solution is too expensive for small firms."
"For a beginner, this is a product that is difficult to learn. You cannot learn it quickly."
