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.
"It ingegrates nicely with Office 365."
"Allows business users with a mission to solve their own problems, without an IT person."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The advantages of Microsoft Power BI stem from the fact that it is really easy to use. The drag and drop facilities provided by the product are good."
"The product can go easily go and extract data and it can put it into any format."
"If you are not very technical this tool could be very useful."
"They should add mobile access."
"We have been using it mostly for grid reports and its exporting features."
"It was easy to install and implement a report with it."
"It is a good tool to help our customers visually see loads of data."
"It has the potential to become a great evangelist for AI and other embedded analytics."
"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."
"The most valuable features of MicroStrategy are user-friendliness and integration with the different data warehouse systems."
"I like the user interface and the experience has been great."
"Visual Insight gives you the capability of doing self-service analytics. This has been the most powerful and valuable feature."
"Its desktop tool is a little bit memory CPU intensive, and it can be improved, but the machines nowadays come with a lot of memory. For the desktop users who are using it on the desktop, we recommend that they do an upgrade. It is a minor issue. We can fix it on the desktop."
"From an improvement perspective, I think if the Power BI developers of that platform would really focus on being more detailed and specific on the error messages, it would help a lot of developers troubleshoot and maintain the report ECT or the dashboard ECT."
"I feel the modeling page should be simplified."
"When I create measures, sometimes the error messages aren't clear. It makes me spend more time searching for solutions. I need the error messages to be more specific. So, I would like clearer error messages when creating measures."
"The solution's documentation needs improvement."
"My data is restricted to my DB and I'm not sure how this would handle an extremely large dataset."
"In the future, Microsoft BI can be better by increasing user-friendliness"
"The DAX in Microsoft BI is quite difficult."
"I would try to make it a little more basic, user-friendly. In terms of the UX, it's a bit sluggish there."
"Consolidate the functional offering to be more concise in the front-end for web reports, dashboards, and self-service."
"The solution lacks good visualization. They should work on the user interface to make it more slick and modern."
"The web developer tool for documents creation does not have all the features of the client version"
"The problem is the way that their metrics are designed. It can be difficult to understand what you're actually looking at. Then when you're comparing a document against the VI, you can't actually do that properly. So there are components, and there is a huge learning curve in the Enterprise Manager space. I think it would benefit them greatly if they were to exercise a significant amount of research and development in that space."
"In the developer, there are things that you able to do in a document or a report that you are not able to do in the Dossier."
"The areas that have room for improvement in MicroStrategy are mainly related to building additional tools. Specifically, the embedding process has been a bit of a struggle."
"We would really like to see MicroStrategy have some support teams based more in Europe, because for now it seems that there is one person for the whole CE region. That is not exactly what we would like to see. We do know that MicroStrategy supports most places, either in the US or India, but those are different time zones, people, and cultures."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews while MicroStrategy is ranked 9th 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 Databricks, 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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