We performed a comparison between Anaconda and Microsoft Power BI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Databricks, Microsoft, Alteryx and others in Data Science Platforms."With Anaconda Navigator, we have been able to use multiple IDEs such as JupyterLab, Jupyter Notebook, Spyder, Visual Studio Code, and RStudio in one place. The platform-agnostic package manager, "Conda", makes life easy when it comes to managing and installing packages."
"It has a lot of functionality available, supports many libraries, and the developers are continually improving it."
"The most valuable feature is the Jupyter notebook that allows us to write the Python code, compile it on the fly, and then look at the results."
"It helped us find find the optimal area for where our warehouse should be located."
"The solution is stable."
"The product is responsive, sleek and has a beautiful interface that is pleasant to use. It helps users to easily share code."
"Voice Configuration and Environmental Management Capabilities are the most valuable features."
"The most advantageous feature is the logic building."
"I like Microsoft BI's drill-down feature and its overall ease of use."
"The use of graphics to show and view the data indicators is the most valuable feature. It is also very stable."
"Like all Microsoft products, it is very easy to set up initially."
"It has greatly improved our reporting capabilities."
"It is easy to use. It has got a desktop where people can develop their own dashboards. Basically, we have figured out how to connect finance contracts and all programs for the government agency. So, they can see everything in a dashboard. So, it is very easy to use from a technical standpoint of view."
"What I have found valuable about Microsoft BI is its performance and ease of use. The interface is very simple and it is accessible to everyone. If someone is new to this type of solution it is straightforward to understand."
"We have found that the reporting and publishing are great."
"Microsoft BI allows us to connect to any database or any dataset."
"When you install Anaconda for the first time, it's really difficult to update it."
"Anaconda could benefit from improvement in its user interface to make it more attractive and user-friendly. Currently, it's boring."
"It crashes once in a while. In case of a reboot or something unexpected, the unseen code part will get diminished, and it relatively takes longer than other applications when a reboot is happening. They can improve in these areas. They can also bring some database software. They have software for analytics and virtualization. However, they don't have any software for the database."
"It also takes up a lot of space."
"Anaconda should be optimized for RAM consumption."
"One thing that hurts the product is that the company is not doing more to advertise it as a solution and make it more well known."
"Having a small guide or video on the tool would help learn how to use it and what the features are."
"I think better documentation or a step-by-step guide for installation would help, especially for on-premise users."
"Microsoft BI typically connects to a database, often SQL Server, but it's also capable of connecting to multiple databases, pulling data from them, and allowing for data consolidation. You can then aggregate and generate dashboards and reports from this combined data. Personally, I wouldn't claim to have the expertise to suggest significant changes or additional features, as it functions quite well as is."
"I believe there is room for improvement in terms of authentication and certain functionalities in Power BI. For instance, adjusting the width of columns is not easily done, as there is only an option to enable or disable automatic adjustment. This can be a significant drawback for clients who desire more flexibility."
"It should be more scalable for an enterprise-level implementation. When you deploy large data sets, the response has to be faster in Power BI. This is one thing that needs to be improved in it."
"I would like for there to be some type of user manual that shows steps on how to navigate the solution."
"Technical support could be a bit better."
"The UI looks awkward once the graphs have been generated in the console. This is what Microsoft can work on."
"I find the solution to be 70 percent stable."
"The report server feature is quite limited."
Anaconda is ranked 13th in Data Science Platforms with 17 reviews while Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews. Anaconda is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Anaconda writes "Offers free version and is helpful to handle small-scale workloads". 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)". Anaconda is most compared with Databricks, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio, Amazon SageMaker, IBM SPSS Statistics and IBM Watson Studio, whereas Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE.
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