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.
"If you are not very technical this tool could be very useful."
"It is in the cloud, which makes it easy for mobile access of reports and data."
"Like all Microsoft products, it is very easy to set up initially."
"I liked that Microsoft Power BI handles a large amount of data. I can handle hundreds of rows from Postgres in a few minutes. I also like how it detects the relationship between the tables without explicitly saying that. It just detects the relationship automatically. That made it easier to work with the data."
"Ability to extract data from a variety of sources and systems."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"Provides a full platform (database, ETL, reporting, analysis, and so on)"
"Its visualizations and dashboards are most valuable. Power BI is great in terms of visualizations and dashboards. The reports that we previously had were not very nice in terms of visualization. It also provides the ability to play with the data."
"Speed for high level aggregation by using Intelligent Cubes."
"We've made it an open BI platform, so that all our business analysts can build their own dashboards and Dossiers."
"The reporting, the dashboards, and the new visualization functions. It is very easy for users to understand their data and dashboards."
"The single stack solution will always be more profitable, scalable, and elastic for organizational needs."
"I find MicroStrategy the most suited to the enterprise-wide BI platform, because of its scalability and stability."
"The drill-down functionality is also very good."
"MicroStrategy has what they call the Semantic Graph — an enterprise-grade semantic graph — and I think the technology is fantastic."
"Tech support has been great, very responsive. We usually hear back within a day. We usually email them and that works out perfect. The right person always gets back to us."
"For someone who is new, I think that Power BI can be a little complicated."
"I would like to see a change in the premium capacity."
"Drill-down in dashboards needs to improved. The capability only works in Power BI Desktop today. We need to have an alternative approach today."
"The smart phone application could be improved, along with better graphics and faster updating."
"The way you navigate the product, compared to other products in this industry, that could be improved a bit."
"I believe the price should be degressive, and we should have a lower, or better unit price if we have more users."
"Better mapping capabilities and easier administration access would be beneficial, especially for understanding who has viewed reports."
"There's always room for improvement for Microsoft Power BI, especially for the UX and the menus to make it more accessible to business users."
"They need to improve on distribution services. There are lack of features which were there earlier with Narrowcast, but they are not there in the distribution services."
"The pricing could be lower because it is costly."
"We had some problems with customer service and support."
"The interface you can design in MicroStrategy is great, but I feel it needs to be refreshed, add a bit more functionality. I would like to see more capabilities on the mobile side, to bring it on par with apps that you see in the App Store."
"We're starting to open it up to more and more people to give them the ability and start looking at these things themselves, but it's not the most intuitive system, Enterprise Manager that is, so it's tough. We're trying to bridge the gap between usability and who we let in the system, because you're not going to come in and just pick it up."
"I would like to see a feature where migrations are easier. When you migrate from certain environments, it could probably be a little cleaner. Sometimes it seems to be somewhat clunky when you migrate from one environment, say a development to a test or production environment."
"It would be good if it had greater analytics so we could build these visualizations by ourselves with scripts."
"It needs better visualizations."
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 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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