We performed a comparison between IBM SPSS Modeler and Microsoft Power BI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Knime, Weka, IBM and others in Data Mining."IBM was chosen because of usability. It's point and click, whereas the other out-of-the box-solution, or open-source solutions, require full-on programming and a much higher skill level."
"The quality is very good."
"You take two quarters and compare them and this tool is ideal because it gives you a lot of visibility on the before and after."
"Very good data aggregation."
"It will scale up to anything we need."
"It is pretty scalable."
"We use analytics with the visual modeling capability to leverage productivity improvements."
"It works fine. I have not had any stability issues; it is always up."
"The virtualization of Microsoft BI is very good."
"The most useful features are the ability to connect different databases to Microsoft BI and explore them. Once the database information has been extracted, you have the ability to construct indicators and dashboards from the information."
"It is a pretty straightforward and flexible solution for data integration and modeling. It is a low-code solution. When you are doing data integration, you can use the GUI, which is very simple and straightforward. You can also do very intricate custom queries and model it at different levels. It is very easy to use and scalable."
"Power BI allows you to create user defined charts which is really useful."
"The solution's initial setup isn't too complicated."
"It is in the cloud, which makes it easy for mobile access of reports and data."
"The most valuable features are the flexibility, how many ways you can interrogate the data, and the the graphical visualization."
"Its visualizations and dashboards are most valuable. Power BI is great in terms of visualizations and dashboards. The reports that we previously had were not very nice in terms of visualization. It also provides the ability to play with the data."
"The platform that you can deploy it on needs improvement because I think it is Windows only. I do not think it can run off a Red Hat, like the server products. I am pretty sure it is Windows and AIX only."
"It would be good if IBM added help resources to the interface."
"Formula writing is not straightforward for an Excel user. Totally new set of functions, which takes time to learn and teach."
"I would not rate the technical support very well. The technicians have accents. When you do find someone, it is very hard to get somebody able to answer the technical questions."
"It's not as user friendly as it could be."
"When you are not using the product, such as during the pandemic where we had worldwide lockdowns, you still have to pay for the licensing."
"The standard package (personal) is not supported for database connection."
"I would like see more programming languages added, like MATLAB. That would be better."
"The only challenge I have found is that they do not have a Mac version."
"There needs to be improved guidance and documentation for the initial setup of Power BI as it currently remains complex."
"It should have more report outputs. They should expand the report outputs. Its documentation should also be better."
"It would be nice to use other connectors to link with the data."
"SSMS & SSRS."
"There could be an integrated AI that can automatically analyze some of your data and highlight or provide suggestions. For example, when you are looking at a data set, it can suggest putting it into a certain type of chart so that you gain different insights or a trend line. You would almost have templates that it would recommend for you."
"They can improve the user interface a little bit to make it more user-friendly. When creating a dashboard, it is not very user-friendly. You have to click on a certain style and use your keyboard keys to move it. You cannot drag and drop it."
"The smart phone application could be improved, along with better graphics and faster updating."
IBM SPSS Modeler is ranked 4th in Data Mining with 38 reviews while Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews. IBM SPSS Modeler is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM SPSS Modeler writes "Easy to use, quick to learn, and offers many ways to analyze data". 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)". IBM SPSS Modeler is most compared with KNIME, IBM SPSS Statistics, RapidMiner, Alteryx and SAS Visual Analytics, whereas Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE.
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