Microsoft Power BI vs. Phocas Business Intelligence

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Microsoft Power BI	Score8.6 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft 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
Phocas Business Intelligence	Score8 out of 10	N/A	Phocas helps users discover data and provides results in real time. It is designed for non-technical users and delivers a simple yet powerful analytical capability that quickly turns data into a chart, graph or map. It brings up data on local, regional or global sales, inventory, forecasts, prices, profit margins, budgets and more. Phocas, based in the United Kingdom, is a business intelligence firm with offices in…	N/A

Phocas has built its business model on exceeding customer expectations. We’ve operated on a subscription basis from the start and in the words of Phocas Group chairman and co-founder Paul Magee: ‘That puts the onus on us to perform’. And we like that. In fact, our whole company ecosystem is built around that ‘light bulb moment’ when customers achieve a breakthrough by seeing their business through fresh eyes.

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Key User Insights
	Microsoft Power BI	Phocas Business Intelligence
Considered Both Products	Microsoft Verified User Chose Microsoft Power BI Power BI integrates very easily with Microsoft based products like excel and sql server database and makes it easy to modify data. It also provides several different types of visualization and forecasting tools that are absent from other products. It is comparatively cheaper … Incentivized Helpful?	Phocas Verified User Chose Phocas Business Intelligence Phocas is easy to use for end users and can be used on desktops, laptops, and phones. Incentivized Helpful?
	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 BI

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Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Microsoft Power BI and Phocas Business Intelligence
Feature	Microsoft Power BI 8.8 140 Ratings	Phocas Business Intelligence 9.0 4 Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports	8.5120 Ratings	00 Ratings
Customizable dashboards	10.0140 Ratings	9.04 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates	8.0128 Ratings	9.04 Ratings

Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Microsoft Power BI and Phocas Business Intelligence
Feature	Microsoft Power BI 8.2 140 Ratings	Phocas Business Intelligence 9.6 4 Ratings
Drill-down analysis	7.0139 Ratings	10.04 Ratings
Formatting capabilities	9.0138 Ratings	9.04 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages	8.0103 Ratings	00 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration	9.0135 Ratings	10.04 Ratings

Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Microsoft Power BI and Phocas Business Intelligence
Feature	Microsoft Power BI 8.6 134 Ratings	Phocas Business Intelligence 9.3 4 Ratings
Publish to Web	8.0129 Ratings	00 Ratings
Publish to PDF	9.0122 Ratings	10.04 Ratings
Report Versioning	9.0102 Ratings	8.03 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling	8.0104 Ratings	9.94 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers	9.074 Ratings	00 Ratings

Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Microsoft Power BI and Phocas Business Intelligence
Feature	Microsoft Power BI 8.7 136 Ratings	Phocas Business Intelligence 8.3 4 Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)	9.0131 Ratings	8.04 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization	8.0122 Ratings	9.03 Ratings
Predictive Analytics	9.0102 Ratings	8.04 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining	9.01 Ratings	00 Ratings

Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Microsoft Power BI and Phocas Business Intelligence
Feature	Microsoft Power BI 8.6 127 Ratings	Phocas Business Intelligence 9.9 4 Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)	9.0121 Ratings	9.94 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model	9.0102 Ratings	9.94 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)	10.0111 Ratings	9.93 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control	7.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)	8.394 Ratings	00 Ratings

Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Microsoft Power BI and Phocas Business Intelligence
Feature	Microsoft Power BI 8.0 117 Ratings	Phocas Business Intelligence 9.5 3 Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access	8.0111 Ratings	9.03 Ratings
Mobile Application	7.793 Ratings	00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile	7.7112 Ratings	10.03 Ratings

Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Microsoft Power BI and Phocas Business Intelligence
Feature	Microsoft Power BI 8.4 80 Ratings	Phocas Business Intelligence - Ratings
REST API	8.072 Ratings	00 Ratings
Javascript API	9.956 Ratings	00 Ratings
iFrames	8.055 Ratings	00 Ratings
Java API	8.046 Ratings	00 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)	8.163 Ratings	00 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)	8.444 Ratings	00 Ratings

User Ratings
	Microsoft Power BI	Phocas Business Intelligence
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (142 ratings)	8.1 (4 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	7.9 (58 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (53 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Data Sharing and Collaboration	8.5 (82 ratings)	8.0 (3 ratings)
Data Sources	9.0 (81 ratings)	10.0 (3 ratings)

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