We performed a comparison between Dundas BI and MicroStrategy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Embedded BI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."With Dundas BI, you have a lot of visualization choices, and you can also do customizations by using HTML coding and JavaScript. The ease of development was one of the main factors for going for Dundas BI. The client had different reporting tools, but they wanted something that could accommodate all requirements."
"We use Dundas to report on machine sensor data and create dashboards."
"It was quite easy to use. The UI was basically drag-and-drop based. So, even if you were a beginner at coding software or something else, it would be easy to catch up on Dundas BI."
"The Layers feature organizes my work and makes it easier, instead of having to use scripting to show and hide when drilling down."
"The solution has a good drag-and-drop feature for creating dashboards."
"We have now the ability to create interactive and complex reports without the need for software developers and code."
"Workstation and Desktop on the client side will speed up some development activities."
"The option to use various administrative tools, like Integrity Manager, is a valuable feature."
"With all the APIs it's very scalable."
"Getting more data to people more quickly. Providing more flexibility for how they use the data."
"We've made it an open BI platform, so that all our business analysts can build their own dashboards and Dossiers."
"Dependency on development teams, as well as managing the platform, has reduced a lot with Visual Insight."
"It's useful if you need to create dashboards that you check every day. Also, we can create a queue, but it will be updated every day with scheduled updates."
"The dashboard features and functionalities that come through the MicroStrategy Suite are the most valuable. It can be used by end users with minimum knowledge of the product. They can run a report or create a dashboard on their phones, which is kind of cool."
"It would be helpful if Dundas made the UI more user-friendly like the leading tools and decreased the learning curve. It should be simpler for a beginner to build dashboards."
"I would love to see more functions built in inside the application, instead of being scripted. They already did some of that in the new release, version 5, like forecasting, trend lines, etc., and I would love to see more of these kinds of calculations, which we used to do it by scripts before."
"For every object, references are generated, but sometimes, there was a problem with the references overlapping each other. Everything would go off. It would stop working, and then from the admin side, people had to do something to bring it up again."
"I cannot select a visualization and see what filters are connected to it."
"Working with the color palette is difficult in Dundas BI. They can work on different color palettes and make them organized and user-friendly. It would help a long way. Most of the time, the users face challenges in assigning colors to the fields that they have created or to the dimensions and measures in a chart."
"Lacks sufficient online support."
"They need to supply the support system that's just not there right now. They don't have Enterprise Manager classes. You need in-depth classes to understand what those metrics are doing, to understand the table associations from one to the other. You can't just go and pick it up and understand that DT_DAY connects to all of these tables, without going into Architect, looking at the source tables. I, as a analyst, a slightly technical user, I don't have the expertise to do that. Business users definitely don't have the expertise to do that."
"They should give proper industry-based tutorials so that one can learn it easily and implement it based on the requirements. They should give more MMP files so that we can import a whole project altogether and learn from that project."
"The UI seems klutzy with its manual entry."
"From a stability standpoint, from MicroStrategy, I would say it's fairly consistent. I would give it a "B" because there are times where we have issues that are just inexplicable. They go away and then we have no resolution. To me, that's not acceptable. There are just times where our users can't access things and we're not sure why, and that's a problem to me."
"Consolidate the functional offering to be more concise in the front-end for web reports, dashboards, and self-service."
"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."
"Another feature to consider in the future would be adding some additional offline capabilities without using desktops."
"Needs more visual essence and connectors for the ecosystems, which would be easy to use."
Dundas BI is ranked 11th in Embedded BI with 21 reviews while MicroStrategy is ranked 4th in Embedded BI with 155 reviews. Dundas BI is rated 8.6, while MicroStrategy is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Dundas BI writes "Has a lot of integration and visualization options, but can't be easily used by business users, and working with the color palette is difficult". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MicroStrategy writes "A robust solution for powerful data analytics". Dundas BI is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Logi Analytics, Angles Professional and Salient, whereas MicroStrategy is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, IBM Cognos and Qlik Sense. See our Dundas BI vs. MicroStrategy report.
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