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Microsoft Power BI vs. Microsoft SharePoint

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Microsoft Power BI

1,906 Reviews and Ratings

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2,522 Reviews and Ratings

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Microsoft Power BI

    Score8.6 out of 10
    		N/AMicrosoft Power BI is a visualization and data discovery tool from Microsoft. It allows users to convert data into visuals and graphics, visually explore and analyze data, collaborate on interactive dashboards and reports, and scale across their organization with built-in governance and security.

    $10

    per month per user

    SharePoint

    Score7.5 out of 10
    		N/AMicrosoft's SharePoint is an Intranet solution that enables users to share and manage content, knowledge, and applications to empower teamwork, quickly find information, and collaborate across the organization.

    $5

    Per User Per Month

    Pricing
    Microsoft Power BISharePoint
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Plan 1
    $5.00
    Per User Per Month
    Plan 2
    $10.00
    Per User Per Month
    Office 365 E3
    $20.00
    Per User Per Month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Microsoft Power BISharePoint
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Microsoft Power BISharePoint
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
    Verified User
    Chose Microsoft Power BI
    Microsoft Power BI is more flexible and can also handle more complex reporting scenarios. While Microsoft Excel is a great tool for analyzing data building visuals is not what it is made for. It is complicated to create Excel reports that will be interactive as a use wants to …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Microsoft Power BI
    Microsoft Power BI has better pricing, better features in the trial version. Power BI is also integrated with other Microsoft products, so you can publish dashboards to SharePoint pages and to Teams.
    Power BI is also the easiest to use. It has more wizards and all the pop-ups …
    Incentivized
    Gabriel Oliveira
    Programmer Analyst in Information Technology at Alcoa Aluminio S.A (Mining & Metals, 10,001+ employees)
    Chose Microsoft Power BI
    Microsoft Power BI as I said earlier is unfortunate in relation to the panels but compared to Tableau.
    Although Microsoft Power BI has a general interface easier to understand in my company because we already have a signature with the package Office 365 that the integration of …
    Incentivized
    Microsoft
    Helmi Tatanaki
    Data Management Consultant in Information Technology at Shell (Oil & Energy, 10,001+ employees)
    Chose SharePoint
    The reasons for selecting MS SharePoint are: SharePoint provides ease of use and web design assistance and support SharePoint helps you schedule your content for publishing. enables users to share documents with external parties and offers a better internal structure of the …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose SharePoint
    I personally haven't seen anything else that compares to SharePoint. There are other tools out there that do a small portion of what SharePoint does, and in some cases, it still makes sense to use some of those, if the requirements are there. For example, the Task list in …
    Incentivized
    Adriano Rosa
    Programmer in Information Technology at Alcoa Inc (Mining & Metals, 10,001+ employees)
    Chose SharePoint
    We use OneDrive here too. But it is different than MS Sharepoint. OneDrive is essentially an online folder system for file storage and uploading. On the otherside MS Sharepoint includes many more features than OneDrive, such as collaboration, CMS, dashboards etc. MS Sharepoint …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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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 Power BISharePoint
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft SharePoint
    Feature
    Microsoft Power BI
    8.8
    140 Ratings
    Microsoft SharePoint
    -
    Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports8.5120 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards10.0140 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates8.0128 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft SharePoint
    Feature
    Microsoft Power BI
    8.2
    140 Ratings
    Microsoft SharePoint
    -
    Ratings
    Drill-down analysis7.0139 Ratings00 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities9.0138 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages8.0103 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration9.0135 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft SharePoint
    Feature
    Microsoft Power BI
    8.6
    134 Ratings
    Microsoft SharePoint
    -
    Ratings
    Publish to Web8.0129 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to PDF9.0122 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Versioning9.0102 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.0104 Ratings00 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers9.074 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft SharePoint
    Feature
    Microsoft Power BI
    8.7
    136 Ratings
    Microsoft SharePoint
    -
    Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)9.0131 Ratings00 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.0122 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics9.0102 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft SharePoint
    Feature
    Microsoft Power BI
    8.6
    127 Ratings
    Microsoft SharePoint
    -
    Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)9.0121 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model9.0102 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)10.0111 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)8.394 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft SharePoint
    Feature
    Microsoft Power BI
    8.0
    117 Ratings
    Microsoft SharePoint
    -
    Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access8.0111 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Application7.793 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.7112 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft SharePoint
    Feature
    Microsoft Power BI
    8.4
    80 Ratings
    Microsoft SharePoint
    -
    Ratings
    REST API8.072 Ratings00 Ratings
    Javascript API9.956 Ratings00 Ratings
    iFrames8.055 Ratings00 Ratings
    Java API8.046 Ratings00 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)8.163 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)8.444 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Microsoft Power BISharePoint
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (142 ratings)
    9.5
    (194 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.8
    (21 ratings)
    Usability
    7.9
    (58 ratings)
    8.2
    (17 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (53 ratings)
    8.6
    (11 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.0
    (4 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.5
    (82 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Data Sources
    9.0
    (81 ratings)
    6.1
    (2 ratings)