We performed a comparison between Birst and MicroStrategy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Tableau, Qlik, MicroStrategy and others in Embedded BI."Dashboards and self-service reports. These are widely used by customers in the EPM domain."
"There are people who are using MicroStrategy as transaction services."
"The ability to integrate with PPT is another plus. The platform's ability to write back data directly to the database is also good."
"You can build once and deploy to multiple operating systems. Also, it resizes in the way you want it to."
"I find MicroStrategy the most suited to the enterprise-wide BI platform, because of its scalability and stability."
"We pretty much use the knowledge base. We feel that Microstrategy's community is a good forum to use."
"The hyperintelligence is the most valuable feature."
"Comprehensive security control and more."
"The solution is ideal for enterprise-level companies or corporations."
"Customer support takes lot of time to get a solution."
"When we come to them with a problem, they might know more of a generalized solution, but not one targeted to our industry."
"The learning curve is quite steep."
"There is room for improvement on the graphs."
"Scalability is something which will need to be improved when it goes to a bigger audience."
"There needs to be better visualization."
"It is actually pretty complicated to use. It is complicated enough that user adaptation is sometimes difficult. We developed more experts rather than people using it."
"I would like to see the enterprise version available in a demo or as a trial version."
"We would like access to more storage and access to more metadata to build the right programs that can construct all the stuff for us instead of us having to type it in all the time."
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Birst is ranked 14th in Embedded BI while MicroStrategy is ranked 4th in Embedded BI with 155 reviews. Birst is rated 7.4, while MicroStrategy is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Birst writes "The dashboards and Visualizer are valuable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MicroStrategy writes "A robust solution for powerful data analytics". Birst is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, ThoughtSpot and Alteryx, whereas MicroStrategy is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Qlik Sense.
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