We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI, MicroStrategy, and Pentaho Business Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."I think the visualization part is valuable."
"You don't need much support with Microsoft Power BI because it has such a large base of users who can answer your questions on their forums. There are also many video tutorials and webinars available online that offer solutions to whatever problems you may have."
"The drag and drop facility to easily change the data correctly is the most valuable feature. I am happy to see visualizations. It's easier to talk about and make people understand what is going on."
"The scalability is good. We have 20 people in my organization using this solution and plan to increase usage."
"This product has a lot of features and most of them are user-friendly."
"The one feature most of our customers like is data visualization. When we were doing BI directly from SQL, most users found it challenging to create their own reports. Power BI has self-serve analytics that the end-users can do themselves. On most projects, people are primarily using data visualization and self-serve analytics."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"In the process of using data there is the Extract, Transform and Load (ETL). For extracting we are using another software, for transforming we are using our own coding in C#, and then we use Microsoft BI for loading the information. Microsoft BI displays information very well."
"It is always nice to have one solution in a single platform. You can do pretty much everything, instead of having to get a little bit here or a little bit there."
"There's extensive logging capabilities, if something is wrong then we are able to find out why."
"The hyperintelligence is the most valuable feature."
"Building apps is easy. You just drag in your data, and then you drag in all the elements that you want on your app. It's drag and drop design, and then you can customize your visuals. They make it all easy with plug and play widgets."
"Having the analytics capabilities on a single platform."
"It has had a direct impact on bottomline improvements."
"The most valuable features are ad hoc reporting and the ability to create dashboards."
"It definitely impacts people, who are excited to use it."
"Easy to use components to create the job."
"We were able to install it without any assistance from tech support."
"I use the BI Server, CDE Dashboards, Saiku, and Kettle, because these tools are very good and highly experienced."
"Pentaho Business Analytics' best features include the ease of developing data flows and the wide range of options to connect to databases, including those on the cloud."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of Pentaho is the Tableau report."
"Pentaho is an analytics platform that can be used when an organization has a lot of big data storage systems already installed and needs to manage and analyze that data. It has a specific use case for unstructured data, such as documents, and needs to be able to search and analyze it."
"The interface could be improved."
"I find the solution to be 70 percent stable."
"It's quite difficult to learn how to use Power BI."
"In my opinion, the software is a little bit limited in terms of the flexibility it offers, with regard to the design of the visualization."
"They can improve it in terms of rule-based security. Currently, it has very limited rules."
"The data source definition is all over the place."
"When you go to the cloud, its licensing is not intuitive. It is a little bit complex. When you have to purchase a new license, it is difficult to understand on their website what exactly you need to pay and how you can group. It is something that is applicable to all Microsoft products. They're not always so simple and clear when it comes to licensing. Their support can also be better in terms of explaining how they resolved an issue and what steps they took to resolve it. They are able to resolve the issue, but they can be better at explaining the approach they took to resolve the issue. It could have something in the direction of machine learning. It can have some kind of integration with machine learning where you can ask for some reports with natural language."
"Integration with products that are not Microsoft could be more improved."
"Native VI on mobile apps and better android support are lacking."
"I would like to see more integration."
"MicroStrategy's mobile dashboard is still not a RESTful design."
"When we come to them with a problem, they might know more of a generalized solution, but not one targeted to our industry."
"We have seen some stability issues with MicroStrategy on cloud. We have a few unhappy customers."
"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."
"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."
"There are some challenges in our organization on how we store the data."
"Another concern is that Pentaho is not customizable or interactive."
"Logging capability is needed."
"Pentaho, at the general level, should greatly improve the easy construction of its dashboards and easy integration of information from different sources without technical user intervention."
"Pentaho Business Analytics' user interface is outdated."
"The repository should be improved."
"We did not achieve the ROI. The work delivered to users had lesser value than the subscription cost."
"Deployment is not simple. It is not simple because we are dealing with a lot of data; we are dealing with a lot of storage. So, it's not a simple process."
"Version control would be a good addition."
