Microsoft Power BI vs. Tableau Cloud

Microsoft Power BI

1,906 Reviews and Ratings

Tableau Cloud

551 Reviews and Ratings

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
Tableau Cloud	Score7.9 out of 10	N/A	Tableau Cloud (formerly Tableau Online) is a self-service analytics platform that is fully hosted in the cloud. Tableau Cloud enables users to publish dashboards and invite colleagues to explore hidden opportunities with interactive visualizations and accurate data, from any browser or mobile device.	$15 per month per user

Pricing

Microsoft Power BI

Tableau Cloud

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Tableau Viewer: $15
per month billed annually per user
Enterprise Viewer: $35
per month billed annually per user
Tableau Explorer: $42
per month billed annually per user
Enterprise Explorer: $70
per month billed annually per user
Tableau Creator: $75
per month billed annually per user
Enterprise Creator: $115
per month billed annually per user
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Pricing Offerings
Microsoft Power BI	Tableau Cloud
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No setup fee

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Key User Insights
	Microsoft Power BI	Tableau Cloud
Considered Both Products	Microsoft Verified User Chose Microsoft Power BI We have used Microsoft Power BI for almost seven years. When looking for a reporting platform, remember that you are about to make a long-term choice. Moving reports to another system isn't easy. If you have, for example, more than 100 reports, the move to a different platform … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Power BI Microsoft PowerBI is easy to use, has leadership alignment, and is liked by everyone using it in the past and in the current setup. Thus, we decided to continue renewing Microsoft Power BI. We had also evaluated some competitors, but those platforms were not as easy to onboard. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Power BI In the case of Tableau or Google Charts, thay have a lack on customization and on the options they have. For Qlik Sense, you need to spend too much time on the data model for doing quick tests or data validation when comparing it to Microsoft Power BI. Also, Microsoft Power BI … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Power BI Power BI is a great tool to create reports and share data. However, it does not have the budgeting, forecasting and predictive modeling tools we need for our Financial Planning and Analysis part of our business. So we also implemented Vena for our financial reporting, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Power BI I selected Power BI because it is the best in all because of its ecosystem and its ability to connect with multiple data source like Microsoft Excel, Microsoft SQL Server, web, analysis services etc. Moreover, its available on both Cloud and Desktop with some pro and cons … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Power BI Compared to Amazon QuickSight, if your dataset is coming from Amazon S3, it is much easier to just use QuickSight. However, if you are building a pipeline using prefect to transfer data, MS Power BI would potentially be a good tool to use and visualize the data by some none … Incentivized Helpful? Blake Baron Senior Financial Analyst - Cost Analytics in Finance and Accounting at Lowe's Companies, Inc. (Retail, 10,001+ employees) Chose Microsoft Power BI We selected Power BI because we could push a single source out to a group of people for instant viewing and reporting. They could select from pre-created filters that we selected, but also land on a default view. It's intuitive to use and gets the job done in an enterprise … Incentivized Helpful? Luciana Montivero Data analytics in Information Technology at Swiss Medigal Group (Hospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees) Chose Microsoft Power BI Even though Power BI is not the only tool we use, is the most powerful one! Its easiness to integrate information and directly import queries makes it super easy to set up and start using it. Also, it's much faster handling a lot of data compared to other products like microstra… Incentivized Helpful? Anomita Chandra Business Analyst at University of Texas at Dallas (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Microsoft Power BI The membership is cheaper compared to others. Great UX. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Power BI MS Power BI is a bit more rigid than Tableau in terms of dynamic visualizations, but we chose it because we were already using the MS ecosystem. In terms of sharing and integrating with our MS Suite, MS Power BI was better in terms of licensing and integrations with our … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Power BI We liked Power BI over the other options we looked at (primarily Tableau) because of its super easy integration with other Microsoft products like Dynamics 365, MS Server, as well as desktop applications that we use company-wide that are base don Windows. The price was also a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Power BI Our team selected Power BI because its features rival that of Tableau's, we are a Microsoft O365 company and the price is much more competitive. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Power BI Both do a good job from a presentation layer. I feel that PowerBI has better data modeling capabilities, and Tableau has a slight edge on the visualizations and end-user experience. Power BI is more attractive to most of our B2B clients, and Tableau is more attractive for B2C … Incentivized Helpful? Purav Vaidya Vice President, Mobile technology in Information Technology at Bank of America Merrill Lynch (Financial Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Microsoft Power BI Microsoft BI tool does a better job than most of the other software. The reason is excellent visualizations and its capability to connect with various other software and data sources. Tableau does a better job when it comes to tutorials and being more user-friendly. Also … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Power BI Cheaper than Tableau but at the cost of certain functionality. However, PowerBI has an active developer forum and releases updates every month. Incentivized Helpful? Gabriel Chiararia Marketing Consultant in Marketing at Brigham Young University Marriott School of Business (Consumer Electronics, 201-500 employees) Chose Microsoft Power BI Power BI is usually the cheapest solution and most user-friendly for most people (since we are all used to the Microsoft Suite). However the connectivity to non-Microsoft soft tools (databases and data analysis tools) are somewhat limited, especially when compared to its … Incentivized Helpful? Rohit Acharya Business Intelligence Manager in Corporate at ZALORA Group (Internet, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Microsoft Power BI Power BI, Tableau, and QlikView are the market leaders when analyzed on Gartner`s magic quadrant for business intelligence tool. One of the critical drawbacks of all these visionary tools is the absence or expensive back end that are needed to support the infrastructure. … Incentivized Helpful? Glenn Burnside Vice President, Operations & Strategy in Information Technology at Headspring (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose Microsoft Power BI We selected Power BI because it had more flexibility in modelling/measurement definition, excellent per-user pricing, easy self-implementation, integration with our other Office 365 tools, and easy distribution of content to others in the organization. Incentivized Helpful? Kunal Sonalkar Data Analytics Intern in Information Technology at University of Florida (Higher Education, 10,001+ employees) Chose Microsoft Power BI Power BI performs quite well in comparison to it's competitor's products. We compared it mainly to GoodData and Tableau. Power BI has a great pricing. It's affordable and efficient with mid-sized datasets. Hence many companies go for it. Competitive products like Tableau are … Incentivized Helpful?	Tableau Verified User Chose Tableau Cloud In my opinion, while Microsoft Power BI is a bit easier to build reports and dashboards with in part to its shared traits and connectivity with other Microsoft products, Tableau Online allows for a greater depth of customization, data sourcing, and most of all the sharing of … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Cloud There are lots of excellent products are available in market for data analysis like SAP BusinessObjects, IBM Cognos, MicroStrategy Analytics, Microsoft Power BI, etc. I found other products are specific to their tools like SAP BusinessObjects suits great with SAP Products … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Cloud Tableau works quite differently when compared to Microsoft Power BI. When using Tableau to generate reports, you are required to define your data field first, run the query, and only then format the visualisation options you wish to include in your reports. This is quite … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Cloud We formally used Microsoft Power BI as our reporting software throughout our organization. I believe Tableau Cloud is a step above Power BI and is our preferred program. The end reports are look cleaner and are easier to work with than Power BI. There are more options and … Incentivized Helpful? Kanchana Velaga Sr Software Engineer in Information Technology at Kipi.bi (Information Technology & Services, 501-1000 employees) Chose Tableau Cloud Tableau Cloud is ery powerful and user friendly with minimal cost when compared with other BI tools.Its robust features like switching toggles, supporting SQL queries for buiding charts and all stands out as the best.It reduces time in creating difficult and complex dashbords … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Cloud Tableau Cloud offers easier ways to make the content browsable by users. It also offers more flexible ways to set up self-service governance. Standard filtering functionalities are easier to use. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Cloud It seems more robust then the other platforms. There is a lot you can do from merging many different data sets together by joining them at like points, to creating visualizations of the data, or by showcasing some important data to any number of people within your organization. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Cloud Tableau has a way easier Intuitive UI compare to Power BI or Amplitude. AMplitude is great since anyone could create their own dashboard, but building it it's a different thing. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Cloud When weighing the pros and cons of Tableau Online vs. SAP ERP, two key considerations emerged as clear winners. SAP ERP is a powerful data purification tool, but it doesn't measure up to the competition in terms of data presentation. When it came to data visualization and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Cloud Breadth of services offered is good with Tableau Online Tableau Online offers advanced analytics and visualisations with easy implementation Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Cloud Tableau Online provides better data visualizations (especially when comparing out of the box visualizations that are available) than MS Power BI and historically we have connected more of our data sources to Tableau vs. other platforms like Google Analytics. Incentivized Helpful? Rounak Verma Data Analyst in Sales at Raymour and Flanigan (Retail, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Tableau Cloud Tableau provides more robust system to perform data analytics as compared to the alternatives like Power BI and Qlik. Moreover, Tableaus is super simple to use and is very reliable in terms of its connection with databases. The ability to manipulate data is another big reason … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Cloud Tableau has a wider adoption than the competition. Tableau Online can support interfaces built on Tableau. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Cloud Spotfire can do similar things, but Tableau's plots are prettier in my opinion. However, if one needs to perform complex calculations on the data first, Spotfire can do it better than Tableau. So, it depends on the task at hand. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Cloud Tableau is among the top applications out there in the space and at this level. It really comes down to personal preference and data visualization goals. All of the top products I listed do their job very well and are packed with features. I prefer Tableau online for analyzing … Incentivized Helpful? Kruti Vaidya Financial Analyst in Information Technology at Bank of America Merrill Lynch (Financial Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Tableau Cloud Tableau does a great job compared to all of these mentioned tools. Other tools also have a great shape-up of dashboards but obviously all have their advantages and disadvantages. The reason Tableau has an edge over all the other tools is because of its excellent visual design … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Cloud I believe Tableau is better for less experienced users. It is a straighforward interface for checking the dashboards. Incentivized Helpful? Kristopher Kroona Director of Finance Systems in Information Technology at ACT Aspire LLC (Education Management, 11-50 employees) Chose Tableau Cloud This is user friendly, no coding required, easy to set up, easy to put data into, has a connector to our CRM/ERP so there are low barriers to get data into. Tableau is really the smart and easy choice in the business intelligence software area. Ease of deployment and the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Cloud Tableau Cloud is very easy to create entire company's Data visualization and dashboards Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

Microsoft Power BI

Tableau Cloud

Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Microsoft Power BI and Tableau Cloud
Feature	Microsoft Power BI 8.8 140 Ratings	Tableau Cloud 7.0 69 Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports	8.5120 Ratings	7.051 Ratings
Customizable dashboards	10.0140 Ratings	8.069 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates	8.0128 Ratings	6.058 Ratings

Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Microsoft Power BI and Tableau Cloud
Feature	Microsoft Power BI 8.2 140 Ratings	Tableau Cloud 6.9 69 Ratings
Drill-down analysis	7.0139 Ratings	8.069 Ratings
Formatting capabilities	9.0138 Ratings	6.066 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages	8.0103 Ratings	6.043 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration	9.0135 Ratings	7.567 Ratings

Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Microsoft Power BI and Tableau Cloud
Feature	Microsoft Power BI 8.6 134 Ratings	Tableau Cloud 7.1 67 Ratings
Publish to Web	8.0129 Ratings	7.063 Ratings
Publish to PDF	9.0122 Ratings	7.562 Ratings
Report Versioning	9.0102 Ratings	7.050 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling	8.0104 Ratings	8.055 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers	9.074 Ratings	6.034 Ratings

Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Microsoft Power BI and Tableau Cloud
Feature	Microsoft Power BI 8.7 136 Ratings	Tableau Cloud 6.8 65 Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)	9.0131 Ratings	7.562 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization	8.0122 Ratings	6.561 Ratings
Predictive Analytics	9.0102 Ratings	6.553 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining	9.01 Ratings	6.52 Ratings

Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Microsoft Power BI and Tableau Cloud
Feature	Microsoft Power BI 8.6 127 Ratings	Tableau Cloud 7.0 64 Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)	9.0121 Ratings	7.058 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model	9.0102 Ratings	7.051 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)	10.0111 Ratings	7.054 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control	7.01 Ratings	6.52 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)	8.394 Ratings	7.549 Ratings

Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Microsoft Power BI and Tableau Cloud
Feature	Microsoft Power BI 8.0 117 Ratings	Tableau Cloud 6.4 54 Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access	8.0111 Ratings	5.552 Ratings
Mobile Application	7.793 Ratings	6.039 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile	7.7112 Ratings	7.046 Ratings

Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Microsoft Power BI and Tableau Cloud
Feature	Microsoft Power BI 8.4 80 Ratings	Tableau Cloud 6.4 36 Ratings
REST API	8.072 Ratings	6.031 Ratings
Javascript API	9.956 Ratings	6.529 Ratings
iFrames	8.055 Ratings	6.529 Ratings
Java API	8.046 Ratings	6.026 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)	8.163 Ratings	6.530 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)	8.444 Ratings	7.029 Ratings

User Ratings
	Microsoft Power BI	Tableau Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (142 ratings)	8.0 (70 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	7.9 (58 ratings)	8.0 (23 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (53 ratings)	8.7 (20 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Data Sharing and Collaboration	8.5 (82 ratings)	8.0 (49 ratings)
Data Sources	9.0 (81 ratings)	8.3 (49 ratings)