When Good Enough is No Longer Good Enough: Strategy One vs. Power BI
Microsoft Power BI is a great dashboarding tool for individual users—but it just isn’t built or priced to drive analytics at scale. Strategy One is.

Almost every vendor can create a nice-looking dashboard. It doesn’t mean they can meet your strategic objectives in today's AI world.
Everything You Need No Hidden or Surprise Expenses
Strategy One is a single unified platform—not just a bundle of items marketed as one!
We know BI + AI
And we know that BI is about so much more than just dashboards. With Strategy One, you get everything in one predictable price so that you can deliver unlimited value without worrying about costs escalating out of control. There are no extra surprise charges as your analytics maturity grows. No extra charges for AI. And no extra charges to deliver data and insights in different formats to the same users. It’s your data after all.
Microsoft Power BI consists of a collection of disjointed software which was not built to work together seamlessly as one.
As your business needs grow, Power BI works to extract more revenue from you to deliver more information to the same users.
Low Total Cost of Ownership
Deploying analytics at scale doesn’t have to be a pain.
Lower Cost of Change Management
The Strategy Semantic Graph integrates data, business rules, relationships, and metadata into a globally reusable, privacy-aware data fabric that can be used from anywhere—including in other BI tools like Power BI.
Central logic changes are automatically reflected everywhere, decreasing change management costs while increasing trust.
Lower Cost of App Development
Low code apps built with Strategy are highly flexible. Not only can the UI be customized by role, every element, action, and even the data can be tailored to meet unique needs without spawning the need for yet another app.
A single Strategy app can serve a wider range of needs with less effort, decreasing the cost of development & updates.
Lower Risk of Performance Issues
Strategy is optimized for complex analytics on big data. The platform streamlines query routing by dynamically sourcing caches, cubes, or optimized queries with multi-pass SQL—enhancing performance at scale.
Strategy One doesn’t impose data volume or refresh limits, serving more users with cost predictability and less effort.
Why switch to Strategy One?
Strategy One delivers unmatched enterprise analytics at scale, offering capabilities ranging from high-volume pixel-perfect reporting, personalized report bursting, and self-service discovery to modern AI-powered bots. Its containerized architecture, available on all three major cloud hyperscalers, makes Strategy One the preferred platform for thousands of the world’s largest organizations.
“Switching to Strategy’s modern, cloud-native AI + BI platform improved performance for our customers, giving them access to powerful, customized analytics. The benefit is higher client satisfaction, which is always our number one goal.”
— Suresh Menon, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Software and Solutions at Zebra
BI is our passion and it shows
Strategy is the world’s largest independent analytics and BI vendor. Our long-standing mission is to ensure that our customers can deliver intelligence everywhere.
Our dedication and focus on this mission are key reasons that Strategy is the only vendor named as a Customers’ Choice by Gartner® Peer Insights™ for 3 years in a row.

Top Reasons Why Customers Choose to LEAVE Power BI for Strategy One
Discover why businesses are making the switch from Microsoft to Strategy. Explore a side-by-side comparison to see how Strategy delivers superior analytics, scalability, and innovation for enterprise success.
Microsoft Power BI | Strategy One |
✖️ Lack of flexibility and reusability ✖️ Escalating unpredictable costs ✖️ Lack of unified governance ✖️ Disjointed user experience ✖️ Inability to perform at scale | ✔️ Most advanced AI for end users ✔️ Lowest cost of ownership ✔️ High degree of customization ✔️ Built for enterprise success ✔️ Deep strategic partnership |
✖️ Microsoft representatives are strongly incentivized to cross sell and up sell their own products and services. | ✔️ Strategy has no vested interest in driving your strategic choices—only in making them possible. |
The Freedom to Innovate
Strategy's independence ensures no lock-in, promoting powerful yet flexible analytics.
No Cloud Vendor Lock-In
Strategy’s containerized cloud native architecture is available on all three major cloud marketplaces making it easy to leverage existing cloud credits and partnerships. We also offer additional options for highly regulated industries.
No Data Vendor Lock-In
Strategy’s GLOBAL semantic graph connects the dots between all your data providing a robust data fabric making it easy to pursue your data strategy without having to rebuild your analytics again and again along the way.
No Limits to Scale
Our ability to drive highly impactful analytics for both the data elite as well as for the front-line knowledge worker is exactly why we are the analytic backbone for some of the largest analytic deployments in the world.
Future Proof Enterprise Reporting with Strategy One
Enterprise reporting is as important as ever. Clinging to legacy software doesn’t just mean staying stagnant—it means falling behind.
How Strategy Fills Power BI & Fabric Gaps for the Enterprise
Strategy One offers a future-proof enterprise reporting solution, replacing outdated tools like Microsoft Power BI with modern, scalable, AI-driven analytics—all while reducing costs and empowering users.

Avoid the Cost of Doing Nothing
Sticking with outdated BI tools can lead to missed opportunities, wasted resources, competitive disadvantages, and poor decisions—ultimately costing more than if you invested in modernization.

Customer Success Stories
Hear Stories from Our Customers
Strategy has been around for over 30 years, and we are proud to have the strong relationships we have with large brands all over the world. Don't take our word for it though – hear what our customers have to say about Strategy.
Explore Strategy One Key Features
Traditional Bulk Reporting & Self Service Portals - All in One
Drive data driven decisions, ensure regulatory compliance, and enhance operational efficiency.
Data Insights from the Board Room to the Front Lines
Everything you need for pervasive analytics from AI bots to mobile analytics apps.
Eliminate Chaos with a Unified Data Fabric
Updates immediately flow everywhere making it easy to scale drowning your team.
Modern Containerized Cloud Architecture
Fully refactored for the cloud on all major hyperscalers, with additional options for regulated industries.
Key Product Feature
The Future of Enterprise Reporting
Discover how Strategy One delivers on the promise of modern enterprise reporting, even while legacy tools like Microsoft Power BI, IBM Cognos and SAP BusinessObjects are on life support.

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Unlock the Power of Advanced Analytics
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