We performed a comparison between ManageEngine Exchange Reporter Plus and Microsoft Power BI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in Reporting."We can use the dashboard to see which Exchange servers are currently having issues, their health, and other details. The GUI is very good."
"The email traffic analysis feature is very useful."
"It's similar to Excel, but it's much more powerful than Excel."
"I have found the most valuable feature of this solution is the Natural Language tool."
"SSRS and the Tabular server/Vertipaq engine/DAX are probably the two most valuable components."
"I also find connecting to different data sources is quite simple. Other solutions we were using before were complicated."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is shareability, where we can publish work to the cloud and share it with team members."
"The solution's initial setup isn't too complicated."
"Power BI is a complete ecosystem. It has an integrated ETL tool and good connectivity with applications such as Office 365 and SQL. There are also solutions for RPA, such as Microsoft Power Automate and Microsoft Power Apps. Power BI now has integration with Power Query, which has an AI feature for text analytics. Text analytics is a very good feature. This feature is also there in Tableau, but I like it in Power BI because you can write something like, "What is the total sale in the Eastern region?", and it will give you the answer. For example, when you have different types of user opinions, you just run one algorithm and you will have the output that provides the number of positive and negative responses. You can even have a dashboard with positive remarks. This feature has been introduced recently. Power BI supports the DAX and Power Query M languages. These languages are making Power BI very strong in data analytics, and you can do many types of analysis."
"There is room for improvement in the reporting, maybe having more customizable reports would be good."
"I am primarily interested in reporting and automation improvements."
"Power BI shows reports on actual data, not metadata."
"I would like it to be a little bit more secure when I'm using the design feature on my desktop. For example, to have the ability to set up security passwords for opening the file. Currently, they don't have that. Tableau, for example, has a visual way of doing data processing steps, whereas the Power BI system still has some code, although it is very low code. It would be great to have the kind of view that Tableau has."
"here are still better UI designs they can go through. I'm assuming they are focusing more on capabilities rather than look-and-feel designs."
"It would be better if they had some video tutorials. Most people from an Excel background may struggle with measures in Microsoft BI."
"It's quite difficult to learn how to use Power BI."
"here are some limitations with the data models needed to build the report."
"I would like Microsoft to include some inbuilt machine learning so that it becomes point-and-click, rather than us developing models out of API and BI connecting to that and getting the results. That process gets in the way of continuity."
"I feel the modeling page should be simplified."
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ManageEngine Exchange Reporter Plus is ranked 15th in Reporting with 2 reviews while Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in Reporting with 297 reviews. ManageEngine Exchange Reporter Plus is rated 9.6, while Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of ManageEngine Exchange Reporter Plus writes "Helps track down missing emails and detects abnormal mail flow and identifies issues with the mail server". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Power BI writes "A complete ecosystem with an builtin ETL tool, good integrations with python and R, and support of DAX and Power Query (M languages)". ManageEngine Exchange Reporter Plus is most compared with , whereas Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE.
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