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Microsoft Power BI

1,906 Reviews and Ratings

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878 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

    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 Power BITableau Server
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    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 Power BITableau Server
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Microsoft Power BITableau Server
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
    Verified User
    Chose Microsoft Power BI
    Microsoft Power BI is part of the MS product family, and since we are a Microsoft shop (Office365, Azure, SQL DB) it fits into our environment with centralized management/administration. This alone justified additional costs (licensing). Tableau and SAP Business Objects are …
    Incentivized
    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
    Mathieu Gaouette
    Consultant BI senior/Administrateur - spécialité SAS in Information Technology at Prospective MG inc. (Banking, 10,001+ employees)
    Chose Microsoft Power BI
    Integration of data sources feels more robust and strict. Definitely a more classic or formal approach to data integration. In terms of visuals, Power BI is not completely up to par with Tableau but is nonetheless a great tool especially for a new player in that field of …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Microsoft Power BI
    Power BI does not have the feel of a fully independent and robust BI Solution. It tackles smaller functional or department-level analytic needs and can operate in a small or solo roll-out environment. But scaling up to enterprise would be better suited for Qlik or Tableau. Same …
    Incentivized
    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
    Quan Khong
    Practice Lead - Corporate Performance Management in Information Technology at The Normandy Group (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees)
    Chose Microsoft Power BI
    Power BI is a lot easier to use. The designs are also much nicer. Costs to implement Power BI (minus the existing data infrastructure) is much lower than other tools commercially available. However, the tool is still relatively new and still lacks many common features that …
    Incentivized
    Tableau
    Verified User
    Chose Tableau Server
    Tableau Server can handle a large datasets without any lagging the data or slow updating the data, easily can use all the functions and formulas by using data up-to thousands of entry and easily can present in table, charts and dashboards formats and main thing to store and …
    Incentivized
    Gianluca Ruggiero
    CEO & Founder in Corporate at MASSIVE (Market Research, 1-10 employees)
    Chose Tableau Server
    Seemed to be the industry standard with a lot of support. The problem is their own support suck so much that if you use them you can only pray nothing will ever go wrong.
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Tableau Server
    The interface of Tableau Server is good.
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Tableau Server
    Today, if my shop is largely Microsoft-centric, I would be hard pressed to choose a product other than Power BI. Tableau was the visualization leader for years, but Microsoft has caught up with them in many areas, and surpassed them in some. Its ability to source, transform, …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Tableau Server
    We selected Tableau Server over other options because of the published feature set and capabilities. It appeared to be far more advanced than its competition. However, it failed to meet expectations. Moving forward we are going to give a more serious look at Google Data Studio …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Tableau Server
    We're currently evaluating Power BI as an alternative to Tableau Server.
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Tableau Server
    • Tableau is a stable and time tested product which can handle hundreds and thousands of users and a huge amount of content, plus tableau has also introduced a web authoring tool which you can [use to] edit dashboards using your browser.
    • However, the recent introduction of NLP …
    Incentivized
    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
    Sergio Martinez
    Director, Data Engineering & Automation in Information Technology at Buxton (Market Research, 51-200 employees)
    Chose Tableau Server
    Tableau is extremely self intuitive to use and has a large supporting community
    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 BITableau Server
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Microsoft Power BI and Tableau Server
    Feature
    Microsoft Power BI
    8.8
    140 Ratings
    Tableau Server
    9.5
    94 Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports8.5120 Ratings9.129 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards10.0140 Ratings9.793 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates8.0128 Ratings9.780 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Microsoft Power BI and Tableau Server
    Feature
    Microsoft Power BI
    8.2
    140 Ratings
    Tableau Server
    9.1
    94 Ratings
    Drill-down analysis7.0139 Ratings8.994 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities9.0138 Ratings8.892 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages8.0103 Ratings9.058 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration9.0135 Ratings9.888 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Microsoft Power BI and Tableau Server
    Feature
    Microsoft Power BI
    8.6
    134 Ratings
    Tableau Server
    8.4
    90 Ratings
    Publish to Web8.0129 Ratings9.884 Ratings
    Publish to PDF9.0122 Ratings9.783 Ratings
    Report Versioning9.0102 Ratings9.169 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.0104 Ratings8.376 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers9.074 Ratings5.19 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Microsoft Power BI and Tableau Server
    Feature
    Microsoft Power BI
    8.7
    136 Ratings
    Tableau Server
    8.7
    89 Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)9.0131 Ratings8.985 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.0122 Ratings8.984 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics9.0102 Ratings8.563 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 Tableau Server
    Feature
    Microsoft Power BI
    8.6
    127 Ratings
    Tableau Server
    8.3
    94 Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)9.0121 Ratings8.392 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model9.0102 Ratings8.389 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)10.0111 Ratings8.391 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)8.394 Ratings8.361 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Microsoft Power BI and Tableau Server
    Feature
    Microsoft Power BI
    8.0
    117 Ratings
    Tableau Server
    8.4
    78 Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access8.0111 Ratings8.276 Ratings
    Mobile Application7.793 Ratings8.160 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.7112 Ratings9.067 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Microsoft Power BI and Tableau Server
    Feature
    Microsoft Power BI
    8.4
    80 Ratings
    Tableau Server
    7.2
    45 Ratings
    REST API8.072 Ratings9.039 Ratings
    Javascript API9.956 Ratings9.036 Ratings
    iFrames8.055 Ratings9.039 Ratings
    Java API8.046 Ratings5.57 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)8.163 Ratings6.19 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)8.444 Ratings4.67 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Microsoft Power BITableau Server
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (142 ratings)
    8.1
    (110 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (20 ratings)
    Usability
    7.9
    (58 ratings)
    5.2
    (16 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.1
    (8 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (53 ratings)
    3.0
    (18 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (13 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.5
    (82 ratings)
    5.1
    (79 ratings)
    Data Sources
    9.0
    (81 ratings)
    6.6
    (82 ratings)