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Microsoft BI (MSBI)

934 Reviews and Ratings

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878 Reviews and Ratings

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Microsoft BI (MSBI)

    Score7.1 out of 10
    		N/AMicrosoft 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

    Tableau Server

    Score7.6 out of 10
    		N/ATableau Server allows Tableau Desktop users to publish dashboards to a central server to be shared across their organizations. The product is designed to facilitate collaboration across the organization. It can be deployed on a server in the data center, or it can be deployed on a public cloud.

    $12

    Per User Per Month

    Pricing
    Microsoft BI (MSBI)Tableau Server
    Editions & Modules
    Power BI Pro
    $14
    per month per user
    Power BI Premium
    $24
    per month per user
    Viewer
    $12.00
    Per User Per Month
    Explorer
    $35.00
    Per User Per Month
    Creator
    $70.00
    Per User Per Month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Microsoft BI (MSBI)Tableau Server
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    Microsoft BI (MSBI)Tableau Server
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
    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
    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
    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
    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
    Ved Mishra
    SharePoint/MS Project Server Engineer in Information Technology at Merck (Pharmaceuticals, 10,001+ employees)
    Chose Microsoft BI (MSBI)
    Microsoft BI is a great tool when it comes to various integration with line of business applications and its own ecosystem which contains office applications widely used all over the world. Hence, it is well suited for organizations that are complex and have global foot-print. …
    Incentivized
    Jerome Lambert, PhD
    Business Analyst | Digital Analytics in Professional Services at Anametrix Inc, an Ensighten Company (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)
    Chose Microsoft BI (MSBI)
    Microsoft BI stacks up against Tableau because Tableau cannot blend various data sources easily. Tableau produces nice reports with a single data source. Today, it's not what we need. We need to easily combine multiple data sources. I would recommend either Microsoft BI or …
    Tableau
    Elvin Cheng
    IT Specialist in Information Technology at LCY CHEMICAL CORP. (Chemicals, 1001-5000 employees)
    Chose Tableau Server
    Because our big data project team wants to show highly customized visualization for their complex data and analyzed results, only Tableau Desktop can support this target. After we developed many, many dashboards and other views, we wanted to share it with different users. We …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Tableau Server
    I didn't select Tableau but am very glad we have it! I have used several reporting tools and Tableau is the easiest to use and has the best user adoption. Other tools can involve lots of background work or just difficult to display the data as needed. Tableau is easy to use and …
    Incentivized
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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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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Microsoft BI (MSBI)Tableau Server
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Microsoft BI (MSBI) and Tableau Server
    Feature
    Microsoft BI (MSBI)
    8.7
    48 Ratings
    Tableau Server
    9.5
    94 Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports9.041 Ratings9.129 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards8.048 Ratings9.793 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates9.046 Ratings9.780 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Microsoft BI (MSBI) and Tableau Server
    Feature
    Microsoft BI (MSBI)
    8.8
    48 Ratings
    Tableau Server
    9.1
    94 Ratings
    Drill-down analysis9.043 Ratings8.994 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities8.048 Ratings8.892 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages9.038 Ratings9.058 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration9.048 Ratings9.888 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Microsoft BI (MSBI) and Tableau Server
    Feature
    Microsoft BI (MSBI)
    9.0
    47 Ratings
    Tableau Server
    8.4
    90 Ratings
    Publish to Web9.043 Ratings9.884 Ratings
    Publish to PDF9.043 Ratings9.783 Ratings
    Report Versioning9.039 Ratings9.169 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling9.042 Ratings8.376 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers9.023 Ratings5.19 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Microsoft BI (MSBI) and Tableau Server
    Feature
    Microsoft BI (MSBI)
    9.0
    47 Ratings
    Tableau Server
    8.7
    89 Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)9.046 Ratings8.985 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization9.043 Ratings8.984 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics9.041 Ratings8.563 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Microsoft BI (MSBI) and Tableau Server
    Feature
    Microsoft BI (MSBI)
    9.0
    48 Ratings
    Tableau Server
    8.3
    94 Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)9.045 Ratings8.392 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model9.042 Ratings8.389 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)9.045 Ratings8.391 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)9.027 Ratings8.361 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Microsoft BI (MSBI) and Tableau Server
    Feature
    Microsoft BI (MSBI)
    8.5
    38 Ratings
    Tableau Server
    8.4
    78 Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access8.035 Ratings8.276 Ratings
    Mobile Application8.026 Ratings8.160 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile10.035 Ratings9.067 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Microsoft BI (MSBI) and Tableau Server
    Feature
    Microsoft BI (MSBI)
    8.8
    20 Ratings
    Tableau Server
    7.2
    45 Ratings
    REST API9.018 Ratings9.039 Ratings
    Javascript API9.018 Ratings9.036 Ratings
    iFrames9.017 Ratings9.039 Ratings
    Java API9.016 Ratings5.57 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)9.017 Ratings6.19 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)8.016 Ratings4.67 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Microsoft BI (MSBI)Tableau Server
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (72 ratings)
    8.1
    (110 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (25 ratings)
    10.0
    (20 ratings)
    Usability
    8.9
    (14 ratings)
    5.2
    (16 ratings)
    Availability
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    Performance
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.1
    (8 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.9
    (15 ratings)
    3.0
    (18 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    6.9
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.5
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.6
    (7 ratings)
    9.1
    (13 ratings)
    Configurability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.5
    (42 ratings)
    5.1
    (79 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.4
    (41 ratings)
    6.6
    (82 ratings)