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's user-friendly and provides data abstracting capabilities. We are also able to share reports with our colleagues very easily."
"Because this solution is very easy, and very visual, you can have results in minutes."
"It gives you an edge if you are on the Microsoft platform. If you have been using Microsoft products for a long time or if you have the Microsoft infrastructure, this is the right tool for you. It has seamless integration with Microsoft SQL Server and other sources, and you get the best of the three things (SSIS, SSAS, and SSRS) in one suite."
"Microsoft BI is scalable."
"We have found the product to be scalable."
"The flexibility of the program is valuable. We are able to add other information to the reporting information and expand upon it."
"We are able to collaborate on things and get insightful data visualizations."
"Microsoft BI's dashboards are helpful."
"Visual Insights (VI)"
"It is one tool which you can find everything. "
"Dependency on development teams, as well as managing the platform, has reduced a lot with Visual Insight."
"We prefer having the analytic capabilities in a single platform, like MicroStrategy provides, because it is easier. The customer gets used to one type of tool, then sticks with it."
"It is easy to use and visually very appealing. One thing that sets it apart is that it has got a great ETL tool. As compared to some of the other solutions, it is much easier to process data from other applications in MicroStrategy. That's why we prefer using it."
"The most valuable features are drill down, dashboards, documents, bringing everything under one roof, and visualizations."
"Stability is great, especially with package deployments. It is very consistent and stable."
"MicroStrategy has powerful data security features, which are crucial these days. For example, when users view data in MicroStrategy, they're only allowed to see a portion based on the permissions. When we evaluated other solutions like Power BI or Tableau, we found the security is very poor. They can't help us secure access to the data."
"It should be more user-friendly and simple."
"The cost of the solution can get high."
"Creating dashboards could be easier."
"If I have to update data automatically, where I have to pin the gateway, it doesn't update. There is a scheduled refresh functionality so that it refreshes automatically, but I find it very hard to make it work."
"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."
"The setup took a lot of tinkering with InfoSec to allow us to do stuff."
"It should have more report outputs. They should expand the report outputs. Its documentation should also be better."
"here are some limitations with the data models needed to build the report."
"They need to improve the web."
"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."
"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 online community page of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"MicroStrategy's mobile dashboard is still not a RESTful design."
"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."
"I don't think that they will, but I'd like to see parallel processing, scalable parallel processing."
"Scalability is something which will need to be improved when it goes to a bigger audience."
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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