Microsoft Power BI vs. Spotfire

Microsoft Power BI

1,906 Reviews and Ratings

Spotfire

824 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
Spotfire	Score8.1 out of 10	N/A	Spotfire, formerly known as TIBCO Spotfire, is a visual data science platform that combines visual analytics, data science, and data wrangling, so users can analyze data at-rest and at-scale to solve complex industry-specific problems.	N/A

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Microsoft Power BI

Spotfire

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

No setup fee

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Key User Insights
	Microsoft Power BI	Spotfire
Considered Both Products	Microsoft Peter Baker Senior Consultant Analyst in Professional Services at Praxidia (Management Consulting, 51-200 employees) Chose Microsoft Power BI Microsoft Power BI has a better UI for the most part, runs efficiently, and has an excellent data management & transformation mechanism. It is lacking some more advanced features of the latter (TIBCO Spotfire), but I firmly believe this is the better tool for most pieces of … Incentivized Helpful? Scott Kennedy Director, eCommerce Analytics and Digital Marketing in Marketing at Franklin Sports (Sporting Goods, 201-500 employees) Chose Microsoft Power BI Power BI from a price perspective is the lowest cost (probably even from a total cost of ownership perspective) of all the offerings I have ever evaluated. The piece that really stands out for Power BI is the data transformation layer called Power Query. This section allows you … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Power BI Power BI is, in my opinion, the overall best visualization tool on the market today. While there are niche areas where others may have small advantages, the overall feature/functionality, approachability, and value proposition that Power BI provides give it the edge. Cost is … Incentivized Helpful? Thomas Young Economist in Information Technology at Econometric Studios (Financial Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Microsoft Power BI Power BI has the advantage that it works well with other Microsoft products. The software is nowhere near as strong on speed and advances in modeling capabilities. The user base also seems less knowledgeable about optimal data practices and cutting edge data visualization. … Incentivized Helpful? Maria Carver Production Specialist in Engineering at The Dow Chemical Company (Chemicals, 10,001+ employees) Chose Microsoft Power BI R is very well integrated with Power BI. Also, Power BI is very well integrated with other Microsoft applications as compared to other applications which gives an edge to the application. Incentivized Helpful? Angad Singh Data Architecture Co-op in Information Technology at Johnson & Johnson (Hospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees) Chose Microsoft Power BI Tableau and Spotfire are all around better tools, but Power BI can be useful especially because of its cheap price. Incentivized Helpful? Sridhar Bojja Tax Manager in Finance and Accounting at Ernst & Young (Accounting, 10,001+ employees) Chose Microsoft Power BI Based on the latest reviews from Magic Quadrant, Tableau is rated high among all the applications in this category with its rich features in terms of connectivity, visualizations, and various other features. But the cost of using the application is bit high from my personal … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Power BI As mentioned earlier it is free of cost and easy to learn as it is part of the Microsoft suite product. It blends well with ETL package tools such as SSRS and SSIS. It is also easy to distribute the dashboard to users of Office 365. It is a a complete Microsoft product which … Incentivized Helpful?	Spotfire Verified User Chose Spotfire I find both Microsoft Power BI and Spotfire very easy to use. I would rate them on par with each other. There isn’t much to differentiate them. Maybe the learning curve on Spotfire is a bit steeper than Microsoft Power BI. Incentivized Helpful? Braeden Gilchrist Senior Analyst, Energy Analytics Group in Engineering at Enverus (Oil & Energy, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Spotfire Spotfire is much more powerful in terms of data visualization and data connections compared to Microsoft Power BI. Mapping and geographic analysis is another area where Spotfire is strong. Perhaps Power BI is the cost effective option. I see both being equally easy to use to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Spotfire Spotfire is stronger than other tools to built complex metrics within the tool, without needs of etl updates and query changing. It has lots of useful visualizations to deep dive data and give interesting analysis to business users. Moreover, with some studies and tests, you … Incentivized Helpful? James Fairley Software Engineer in Information Technology at Sage Solutions (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Spotfire Because of Spotfire's robust features and capabilities, I chose it as my preferred software. Spotfire's greater overall performance and scalability set it apart from other software solutions. It can handle Incentivized Helpful? mohamed mohamed in Information Technology at STMicroelectronics (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Spotfire Spotfire is more suited for manufacturing industries with regards the huge data to process to make relevant decision that use big data for making decisions, besides this Spotfire supports more and excels at Availability & Scalability, Data Sources Connectivity and Deployment … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Spotfire I prefer Spotfire greatly. While is may seem like a "one trick pony", it does that one trick really well. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Spotfire I choose Spotfire because of the following - custom visual using JavaScript - on the fly chart property update using iron python - easy report Deployment and update -easy to manage user access via so or ldap - best report data Extraction -mix data sources -custom data load … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Spotfire Spotfire is significantly ahead of both products from an ETL and data ingestion capability. Spotfire also has substantially better visualizations than Power BI, and although the native visualizations aren't as flexible in Tableau, Spotfire enables users to create completely … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Spotfire Spotfire's key strength les in extent of customization possible and it's inherent Data Analytics capabilities. With in-memory and in-database analysis capabilities, it comes out as a high performance and high efficiency BI solution. Adding to it, Spotfire integrates the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Spotfire I haven’t tried any other tools by TIBCO. The only tool we use in our company is Spotfire, so my analysis is limited to Spotfire. Incentivized Helpful? Jim Putnam Director, Advanced Analytics and Data Science at GOJO, Inc. (Hospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Spotfire Spotfire is the best application for power users by virtue of its wide variety of visualizations, incorporated analytics, superior data canvas, and ability to integrate code such as R or Python. The learning curve is steeper and the menus are Windows 7 once you are past some … Incentivized Helpful? Thomas Plumridge P.Geo Senior Geologist at Rife Resources Ltd. (Oil & Energy, 51-200 employees) Chose Spotfire I have only briefly used Power BI and I found the interface more familiar as it leverages a lot of familiar aspects that come from Excel. However, I did not find it was a clean an interface for visualizations as Spotfire was. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Spotfire It looks more complete, configurable, and easy to use compared to those. It is also expandable thanks to the other tools in the Spotfire Suite. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Spotfire We evaluated Power BI and Tableau 4 years ago. Power BI at that time was in its infancy, but over the last 4 years have made huge leaps of improvements. At that time, the two products weren't comparable. Tableau 4 years ago was a very strong product and the acquisition from … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Spotfire The latest version of Spotfire enables users to join data without any friction. For example, if the column in one table has different prefixes and/or postfixes, the tool would automatically join the two tables together without causing any potential debugging alarm or issues … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Spotfire Spotfire is much user-friendly and able to handle many million rows seamlessly. Automation is so easy. Connecting to various data sources is easy. Upgrade from one version to the latest version is easy. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Spotfire A few that are not listed are Metabase and ReDash--they are both open source. I like Spotfire the best by far. I was surprised how far behind it Tableau is. I could just never get the feel for Tableau, while I really enjoyed working in Spotfire. The open-source ones are nice … Incentivized Helpful? Soaib Ummar Technical Consultant in Information Technology at Chevron (Oil & Energy, 10,001+ employees) Chose Spotfire This tool was selected in my organization around 10 years back. It was suggested to be one of the best and it proved to be. My users are also satisfied with the performance of the tool, but we had some setbacks with SharePoint online and the Azure SQL database. Hopefully, if … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Spotfire Spotfire is a very good product and stacks up well against the competition for creating customized dashboards. It also has intuitive capabilities to create visualizations that could help the user see their data. Moreover, it also has a lot of options for customization in terms … Incentivized Helpful? Akos Krommer, CISA, ACDA Solution Specialist (Data Analytics) in Information Technology at Revival Europe Ltd. (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose Spotfire We are dealing with and evaluate as many data analytics and BI tools as it is feasible for us in order to be able to suggest the best tool to our clients. Spotfire is strong in intuitive and easy to learn analytics, plus it has built-in functionality to work with R, which is a … Incentivized Helpful? Sean (Wen) Xiao CADD/Cheminformatics in Research & Development at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (Pharmaceuticals, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Spotfire I have access to tools mentioned above, but I use Spotfire most, because most colleagues I'm working with have Spotfire access, and sharing data and visulization in Spotfire is the most convenient way. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Spotfire We use both Spotfire and Power BI. Spotfire is more used by technical and engineering folks. Power BI has won a nice following with people in finance/marketing/accounting. I think it speaks to the difference in data between these groups. Spotfire is better for discovery and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Spotfire Affordable infrastructure and flexibility over other platforms evaluated at the time Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Spotfire The flexibility of Spotfire provides a clear advantage above for instance Power BI. Incentivized Helpful? Rajiv Besant Business Systems Analyst (Semiconductors, 10,001+ employees) Chose Spotfire Tableau - Does not have the best ETL capabilities. SAC - Although it is on the cloud, speed seems to be an issue most times. Power BI - Data modeling is key to a good dashboard. Not a tool non-IT savvy people can easily use. Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

Microsoft Power BI

Spotfire

Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Microsoft Power BI and Spotfire
Feature	Microsoft Power BI 8.8 140 Ratings	Spotfire - 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 Spotfire
Feature	Microsoft Power BI 8.2 140 Ratings	Spotfire - 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 Spotfire
Feature	Microsoft Power BI 8.6 134 Ratings	Spotfire - 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 Spotfire
Feature	Microsoft Power BI 8.7 136 Ratings	Spotfire - 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 Spotfire
Feature	Microsoft Power BI 8.6 127 Ratings	Spotfire - 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 Spotfire
Feature	Microsoft Power BI 8.0 117 Ratings	Spotfire - 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 Spotfire
Feature	Microsoft Power BI 8.4 80 Ratings	Spotfire - 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 Platform Connectivity features of Microsoft Power BI and Spotfire
Feature	Microsoft Power BI - Ratings	Spotfire 7.2 8 Ratings
Connect to Multiple Data Sources	00 Ratings	7.88 Ratings
Extend Existing Data Sources	00 Ratings	7.48 Ratings
Automatic Data Format Detection	00 Ratings	7.88 Ratings
MDM Integration	00 Ratings	6.05 Ratings

Comparison of Data Exploration features of Microsoft Power BI and Spotfire
Feature	Microsoft Power BI - Ratings	Spotfire 9.1 8 Ratings
Visualization	00 Ratings	9.08 Ratings
Interactive Data Analysis	00 Ratings	9.28 Ratings

Comparison of Data Preparation features of Microsoft Power BI and Spotfire
Feature	Microsoft Power BI - Ratings	Spotfire 7.4 8 Ratings
Interactive Data Cleaning and Enrichment	00 Ratings	7.28 Ratings
Data Transformations	00 Ratings	8.08 Ratings
Data Encryption	00 Ratings	7.05 Ratings
Built-in Processors	00 Ratings	7.55 Ratings

Comparison of Platform Data Modeling features of Microsoft Power BI and Spotfire
Feature	Microsoft Power BI - Ratings	Spotfire 7.6 8 Ratings
Multiple Model Development Languages and Tools	00 Ratings	7.57 Ratings
Automated Machine Learning	00 Ratings	8.55 Ratings
Single platform for multiple model development	00 Ratings	7.68 Ratings
Self-Service Model Delivery	00 Ratings	6.76 Ratings

Comparison of Model Deployment features of Microsoft Power BI and Spotfire
Feature	Microsoft Power BI - Ratings	Spotfire 7.4 7 Ratings
Flexible Model Publishing Options	00 Ratings	7.87 Ratings
Security, Governance, and Cost Controls	00 Ratings	7.07 Ratings

User Ratings
	Microsoft Power BI	Spotfire
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (142 ratings)	8.4 (351 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (2 ratings)	9.6 (30 ratings)
Usability	7.9 (58 ratings)	8.0 (27 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (14 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	7.1 (14 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (53 ratings)	8.7 (27 ratings)
In-Person Training	- (0 ratings)	8.3 (52 ratings)
Online Training	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (55 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.0 (1 ratings)	8.4 (17 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	7.1 (3 ratings)
Data Sharing and Collaboration	8.5 (82 ratings)	8.5 (36 ratings)
Data Sources	9.0 (81 ratings)	9.3 (36 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (2 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (4 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	- (0 ratings)	5.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	- (0 ratings)	5.0 (1 ratings)