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.
"The flexibility of the program is valuable. We are able to add other information to the reporting information and expand upon it."
"I like having the ability to connect Excel files as data inputs."
"Allows business users with a mission to solve their own problems, without an IT person."
"We are able to collaborate on things and get insightful data visualizations."
"The scalability is good. We have 20 people in my organization using this solution and plan to increase usage."
"It's pretty easy to set up the product."
"We have a lot of servers and applications from which we want reports, and it allows us to create reports from an SQL source or some other source."
"The solution's initial setup isn't too complicated."
"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."
"It drives us away from Excel. For what it is for, it is good. You can't run a business on Excel."
"The single stack solution will always be more profitable, scalable, and elastic for organizational needs."
"You can build once and deploy to multiple operating systems. Also, it resizes in the way you want it to."
"It is scalable and integration-friendly."
"The feature I found most valuable is the drop and drag functionality available."
"It is one tool which you can find everything. "
"Visual Insight gives you the capability of doing self-service analytics. This has been the most powerful and valuable feature."
"It should have more report outputs. They should expand the report outputs. Its documentation should also be better."
"We would like to have better SQL support for queries."
"Real-time updating needs improvement."
"They can improve the user interface a little bit to make it more user-friendly. When creating a dashboard, it is not very user-friendly. You have to click on a certain style and use your keyboard keys to move it. You cannot drag and drop it."
"This solution's performance when handling big data could be improved. Right now, if you're handling big data, the application becomes slow and the performance is very low."
"The admin view could be improved by making it more simplified to manage a users' activity and other things."
"If you are having millions of rows of data or you have a large database, Microsoft BI's performance depends upon how powerful your hardware is. When I am handling large amounts of data I do not use Microsoft BI or Tableau because of this, I use D3."
"BI is scalable, but there are some problems with limited online storage."
"There is room for improvement on the graphs."
"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 learning curve is quite steep."
"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."
"MicroStrategy needs to do some more development to make the platform easier to use. It's a complicated platform that requires a lot of skill to effectively utilize. So they could work on reducing the complexity to make it more accessible for a broader community of people."
"It needs better visualizations."
"It is performing well, but sometimes we have complex requirements and the performance decreases, and then we have to find another way to make it perform again. That is what you encounter when use the project, but that's inevitable because if we would have used another product, we would've had the same thing."
"The product could be improved by adding additional visualization."
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 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 SAS Visual Analytics, 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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