Microsoft BI (MSBI)

Microsoft BI (MSBI)

934 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Microsoft BI (MSBI)	Score7.1 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft BI is a business intelligence product used for data analysis and generating reports on server-based data. It features unlimited data analysis capacity with its reporting engine, SQL Server Reporting Services alongside ETL, master data management, and data cleansing.	$14 per month per user

Pricing

Microsoft BI (MSBI)

Power BI Pro: $14
per month per user
Power BI Premium: $24
per month per user

Pricing Offerings
Microsoft BI (MSBI)
Free Trial
No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

No setup fee

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	Microsoft BI (MSBI)
Considered Both Products	Microsoft Verified User Chose Microsoft BI (MSBI) MSBI for my company is a like using a car that has a good balance of features, is easy to use, has good support, and works well with other things or requirement you may have. We specifically chose it because it is one of the promising platform whose support team will never let … Incentivized Helpful? Al Mubassir Muin Software Engineer in Information Technology at Prime Tech Solutions Ltd. (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Microsoft BI (MSBI) Better integration with Microsoft products is one of the advantages of using Business Intelligence (BI). It's simple to understand, and plenty of resources are available to outsource it. Many of our existing clients have Microsoft licensing agreements. It's an obvious path when … Incentivized Helpful? Aononna Tazin Customer Relationship Management Specialist in Information Technology at Green Light Ltd (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Microsoft BI (MSBI) Outsourcing work is easy to understand, and there are plenty of resources available in the marketplace. It is expensive, but it is still significantly less costly than the alternatives. Results from Microsoft BI (MSBI) are dependable; therefore, there is no problem with trust. … Incentivized Helpful? Nilufa Hossain IT Specialist in Research & Development at Lamda I-TECH (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Microsoft BI (MSBI) MSBI is great for data collection and reporting, but it lacks the visual appeal and features of Power BI. Even though it's still useful, it falls short of Power BI in terms of features. There's no reason to doubt MSBI's findings. MSBI has a proactive customer service team that … Incentivized Helpful? Shyam Agrawal Business Systems Analyst in Information Technology at NetApp (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Microsoft BI (MSBI) Easy data load through Excel. Data load using standard API is possible. Data synchronized and harmonized. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft BI (MSBI) BI is a little more user-friendly along with tighter integration with Microsoft apps. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft BI (MSBI) Each of the solutions has their pros and cons, but Microsoft's BI offerings provide the best "bang for the buck." Few solutions available offer the breadth of feature functionality in a single package, with BI and database generally being sold as separate offerings. However, … Incentivized Helpful? Aniket Sawant Product Manager in Product Management at Massey Services Inc (Environmental Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Microsoft BI (MSBI) The biggest player against Microsoft BI (MSBI) was Tableau, which was acquired by Salesforce. Recently there have been other standalone software/applications that provide similar functionality to Microsoft BI (MSBI). Because my company is a Microsoft shop, we have not explored … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft BI (MSBI) Tableau's feature set is comparable to Microsoft BI at a potentially lower cost, however, Microsoft provides better integration into a Microsoft Environment and more flexible deployment options. Microsoft also provides better enterprise support than Tableau (although this may … Incentivized Helpful? Bradley Geppert Director of IT Services in Information Technology at CompuType IT Solutions (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Microsoft BI (MSBI) We have used the built in ConnectWise Manager reports and custom reports. The reports provide static data. PowerBI shows us live data we can drill down into and easily adjust parameters. It's much more useful than a static PDF report. Incentivized Helpful? Ashutosh Gaikwad Revenue Assurance and Fraud Managment in Information Technology at Reliance INFOCOMM Limited (Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees) Chose Microsoft BI (MSBI) Tableau is very slow, and it's very complicated to use, whereas Microsoft BI is faster and more efficient. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft BI (MSBI) Ease of use and it's fluent with Office products for exporting and presentations of data. Incentivized Helpful? Hrishikesh Kardile Logistics Analyst in Corporate at Jack Cooper Transport & Logistics (Logistics and Supply Chain, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Microsoft BI (MSBI) Microsoft BI is much cheaper. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft BI (MSBI) A lot of our existing client base has licensing agreements in place with Microsoft, couple that with decision-makers wanting to achieve the outcome with the least amount of additional licensing costs added, and it becomes an obvious path, however, it is very crucial to first … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft BI (MSBI) Unlike Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service (OBICS), Microsoft BI offers a good range of visualisation options. However, it falls behind in terms of data management capabilities. If your requirements are more data intensive and less reporting intensive, then Microsoft BI … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft BI (MSBI) We initially considered Google Analytics, but eventually decided against it due to the licensing terms and the associated software that we would need to incorporate. IBM Cognos is great at what it does, as long as you are trying to integrate with software that is on their … Incentivized Helpful? Shelby Bowden Graduate Research Assistant in Research & Development at Western Kentucky University (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Microsoft BI (MSBI) Specific data displays are some of the strongest aspects of Microsoft BI when compared to alternate programs. It also does a superior job in compatibility with many programs, especially those from Microsoft. Since my company primarily uses Office 365 and other Microsoft … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft BI (MSBI) The other programs listed are excellent. I have always been a fan of Google products because they are user-friendly and easily accessible by most. They also produce excellent data outputs. Google is still great for companies of any size but I believe Microsoft BI is an even … Incentivized Helpful? Michael Timms Information Technology Supervisor in Information Technology at iQor (Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees) Chose Microsoft BI (MSBI) To be honest, I have never used anything similar to PowerBI. I have seen reports that come from Whatagraph, but I have never used it myself, so that is the only application that I can sort of compare it too. Just looking at the visuals from both, PowerBI reports are better … Incentivized Helpful? Ivan Leung Data Analytics in Engineering at Oxy (Oil & Energy, 10,001+ employees) Chose Microsoft BI (MSBI) Microsoft BI is definitely catching up, especially with monthly updates. Incentivized Helpful? Lakhan Suri SQL AND BI Developer in Information Technology at Carmen Solutions (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Microsoft BI (MSBI) Easy to understand, resources easily available in market to outsource the work. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft BI (MSBI) SQL server allows for a member of the database administrators team to assist the end users with queries designed to pull information out of the back end databases. With Microsoft BI the end users can be given connections that allow them to create their own queries, pull the … Incentivized Helpful? Yemsi Pino Planificador Territorial II in Research & Development at MPPP (Environmental Services, 501-1000 employees) Chose Microsoft BI (MSBI) The software stacks [well] because it has more graphics resolution and the colors are fresh and actualized. On the other hand, there is the Microsoft family software and this is an advantage. Microsoft has a lot of users around the world and it's like everyone knows how to do … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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Features

Microsoft BI (MSBI)

Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Microsoft BI (MSBI)
Feature	Microsoft BI (MSBI) 8.7 48 Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports	9.041 Ratings
Customizable dashboards	8.048 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates	9.046 Ratings

Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Microsoft BI (MSBI)
Feature	Microsoft BI (MSBI) 8.8 48 Ratings
Drill-down analysis	9.043 Ratings
Formatting capabilities	8.048 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages	9.038 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration	9.048 Ratings

Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Microsoft BI (MSBI)
Feature	Microsoft BI (MSBI) 9.0 47 Ratings
Publish to Web	9.043 Ratings
Publish to PDF	9.043 Ratings
Report Versioning	9.039 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling	9.042 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers	9.023 Ratings

Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Microsoft BI (MSBI)
Feature	Microsoft BI (MSBI) 9.0 47 Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)	9.046 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization	9.043 Ratings
Predictive Analytics	9.041 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining	9.01 Ratings

Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Microsoft BI (MSBI)
Feature	Microsoft BI (MSBI) 9.0 48 Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)	9.045 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model	9.042 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)	9.045 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control	9.01 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)	9.027 Ratings

Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Microsoft BI (MSBI)
Feature	Microsoft BI (MSBI) 8.5 38 Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access	8.035 Ratings
Mobile Application	8.026 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile	10.035 Ratings

Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Microsoft BI (MSBI)
Feature	Microsoft BI (MSBI) 8.8 20 Ratings
REST API	9.018 Ratings
Javascript API	9.018 Ratings
iFrames	9.017 Ratings
Java API	9.016 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)	9.017 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)	8.016 Ratings

User Ratings
	Microsoft BI (MSBI)
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (72 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.0 (25 ratings)
Usability	8.9 (14 ratings)
Availability	9.5 (2 ratings)
Performance	7.0 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	8.9 (15 ratings)
In-Person Training	6.9 (3 ratings)
Online Training	8.5 (2 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.6 (7 ratings)
Configurability	10.0 (2 ratings)
Data Sharing and Collaboration	8.5 (42 ratings)
Data Sources	8.4 (41 ratings)