Microsoft Power BI vs. ThingWorx

Microsoft Power BI

1,906 Reviews and Ratings

ThingWorx

16 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
ThingWorx	Score8 out of 10	N/A	ThingWorx is an IoT and machine-to-machine (M2M) development platform acquired by PTC in 2014 and merged with Axeda Machine Cloud in the same year, to expand PTC's development offerings.	N/A

Pricing

Microsoft Power BI

ThingWorx

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Pricing Offerings
Microsoft Power BI	ThingWorx
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Microsoft Power BI	ThingWorx
Considered Both Products	Microsoft Viktor Mulac Senior Consultant in Information Technology at A.T. Kearney (Management Consulting, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Microsoft Power BI We use in the overlapping areas as data preparation and advanced analytics, monitoring and allerting also other tools as IBM ThingWorx (for the IoT tasks), Splunk (production and banking), SAP Lumira and SAP HANA, SAP Designer (production) and also specialized process mining … Incentivized Helpful? 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 Helpful?	PTC Pranav Goel GDG Chandigarh Member in Engineering at GDG Chandigarh (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees) Chose ThingWorx Well-suited - multiple streams from many data sources, highly scalable application scenarios.Good for a quick test of internet of things (IoT) connectivity and for deploying access via the web. Smooth deployment, easy to couple to devices. Easy cooperation with Splunk, which we … Incentivized Helpful? Viktor Mulac Senior Consultant in Information Technology at A.T. Kearney (Management Consulting, 1001-5000 employees) Chose ThingWorx E.g. splunk and SAB BO, currently also Power BI Other areas: Blockchain development - Ethereum (EVM) on Solidity 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

ThingWorx

Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Microsoft Power BI and ThingWorx
Feature	Microsoft Power BI 8.8 140 Ratings	ThingWorx - Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports	8.5120 Ratings	00 Ratings
Customizable dashboards	10.0140 Ratings	00 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates	8.0128 Ratings	00 Ratings

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

Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Microsoft Power BI and ThingWorx
Feature	Microsoft Power BI 8.6 134 Ratings	ThingWorx - Ratings
Publish to Web	8.0129 Ratings	00 Ratings
Publish to PDF	9.0122 Ratings	00 Ratings
Report Versioning	9.0102 Ratings	00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling	8.0104 Ratings	00 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers	9.074 Ratings	00 Ratings

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

Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Microsoft Power BI and ThingWorx
Feature	Microsoft Power BI 8.6 127 Ratings	ThingWorx - Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)	9.0121 Ratings	00 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model	9.0102 Ratings	00 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)	10.0111 Ratings	00 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 ThingWorx
Feature	Microsoft Power BI 8.0 117 Ratings	ThingWorx - Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access	8.0111 Ratings	00 Ratings
Mobile Application	7.793 Ratings	00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile	7.7112 Ratings	00 Ratings

Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Microsoft Power BI and ThingWorx
Feature	Microsoft Power BI 8.4 80 Ratings	ThingWorx - 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

Comparison of Internet of Things features of Microsoft Power BI and ThingWorx
Feature	Microsoft Power BI - Ratings	ThingWorx 7.9 7 Ratings
IoT Device Management	00 Ratings	8.57 Ratings
Device Security	00 Ratings	7.97 Ratings
IoT Data Management	00 Ratings	7.56 Ratings
IoT Analytics	00 Ratings	7.37 Ratings
IoT Integration	00 Ratings	8.17 Ratings

User Ratings
	Microsoft Power BI	ThingWorx
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (142 ratings)	8.7 (10 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (2 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	7.9 (58 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (53 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Data Sharing and Collaboration	8.5 (82 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Data Sources	9.0 (81 ratings)	- (0 ratings)