We performed a comparison between Alteryx and Microsoft Power BI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Predictive Analytics solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution has excellent drag and drop functionality. There's no need for coding."
"I think the most valuable feature for Alteryx in a health facility is that it permits cleaning, organizing, and merging of databases such as Excel and Access."
"Alteryx helps me do a lot of automation. The best thing about Alteryx is that you don't have to repeat the workflow over and over again. Unlike Excel, where you need to write formulas for each new file, Alteryx follows a consistent process. You can schedule and automate the workflow, even if the files change."
"You get more support with Alteryx, and it's good for non-sophisticated users who can benefit from the support included in the price."
"Geo features have made spatial mapping large retail universes possible."
"It is one of the most complete and great customer service that I experienced with a software company/ecosystem."
"Alteryx is so advanced. It's just drag and drop."
"Technical support is very helpful."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft BI is its visualization and its ease of use."
"There is a feature in Microsoft BI that allows JSON data to SQL on the dashboards effectively and quickly."
"The solution is easy to set up and implement."
"The visuals are great and make everything look very professional. We can change the look and feel or manipulate the data according to our requirements. It's extremely flexible."
"It's similar to Excel, but it's much more powerful than Excel."
"It integrates with all of the Microsoft tools."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is real-time report tracking."
"I like the fact that Power BI lets me use Excel data. At least 90% of my state data is in Excel spreadsheets. Having the ability to just attach a spreadsheet as a data source is very, very important. It's also good for training and teaching. Sometimes you don't always have access to a live production database, so having a spreadsheet with sample data is always nice."
"The server is too expensive for what you get and it really a designer desktop on a server."
"From a commercial standpoint, more options should be available for pricing. The licensing model needs to be specific."
"The scalability worries me a lot at the moment because the cost of the solution is high and it is not growing considerably. Unfortunately, we started during early COVID times and because of the economic downturn, all the cost cuttings, and everything, it is not growing as expected."
"I think sometimes the solution doesn't load properly or takes so much time for the workflows. Though the workflow runs and completes the file in Excel, if you use the same formula, it's a bit slow. Also, the image processing is not so good because I tried to do some image processing and they were like, sometimes they put two to eight. In the document, it was two, but the OCR predicted it as eight."
"Even when it already includes some AI models, this area could be improved."
"I'd like to see more artificial intelligence business tools or features in Alteryx."
"More statistics tools: We can use to compare SPSS statistics with some automated advisory."
"Alteryx could be improved in the area of analytics and central governance."
"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."
"Its performance and stability can be improved. It takes time to load, and sometimes, it also breaks down for the whole region. Its usability could also be better, and it could also have more connections with different data sources."
"In my opinion, the software is a little bit limited in terms of the flexibility it offers, with regard to the design of the visualization."
"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing for the solution."
"The upgrade process could be improved."
"The orchestration module for refreshing data flows is something that is missing and we have to do it manually."
"The visualization aspect, while being the most visible to business users, also happens the be the weakest point in the entire Microsoft BI stack."
"Integration with artificial intelligence would help. Humans take time to review the data and eliminate errors. Artificial intelligence based on machine learning and understanding can bring the same functionality."
Alteryx is ranked 1st in Predictive Analytics with 74 reviews while Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews. Alteryx is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Alteryx writes "Feature-rich ETL that condenses a number of functions into one tool". 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)". Alteryx is most compared with KNIME, Databricks, Dataiku, RapidMiner and Tableau, whereas Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE. See our Alteryx vs. Microsoft Power BI report.
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