Microsoft BI (MSBI) Pricing

“If you are part of an enterprise that is running daily reports to many users, and you want to up your game by making visually stunning, easy to follow reports, PowerBI is the tool for you and well... … Need to be proficient with Excel before diving into PowerBI Only available with a monthly subscription Steep learning curve for many users (including me).”

“The cost difference may be something worth taking into account if your company is on a very limited budget, but Microsoft BI is for sure a worthy investment.”

“Low cost and easy to learn and use Microsoft user community is very wide and its easy to identify resources to implement the solution in Microsoft technology With the introduction of Self service...”

“Where other vendors charge hundreds of thousands of dollars for database systems, ETL tools, MDM solutions, reporting portals, etc. Microsoft ties all this functionality and more together for the... … Premium support is available to us at no cost.”

“As it came "in the box" with necessary SQL Server RDBMS purchases, the ROI for the BI components are high as there was no incremental cost.”

“Having control over capabilities and sharing data across teams, is difficult when you have an expensive license and you need it for all of your company.”

“If you don't have Office Pro, pony up for that or get the monthly license. … In general, whenever I tell technically savvy people in the analytics/consulting space that there's a free visualization tool in Microsoft Excel that's 90-95% as good as Tableau, they are like...”

“We typically recommend using both to customers in certain situations.

Microstrategy - Comprehensive Multidimensional/HOLAP platform, expensive, visualizations are better than SAP BO, but not...”

“Forcasting Asset Management Pricing Sales Reporting Customer Satisfaction Reporting Detailed Account-level Cost and Revenue Reporting.”

“The desktop version is free, monthly updates, free training resources...what's not to love.”

“Take the free trial option and see if you can test your ideas fast and at a lower cost.”