We performed a comparison between Birst 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."Dashboards and self-service reports. These are widely used by customers in the EPM domain."
"Other people can access data much more easily than before. Its usability is the main advantage, people in the company are using it."
"The way data is presented is very valuable. The amount of information that we can get at a glance is also valuable. You can then drill-down and see data from many different angles in the same chart by selecting certain things. Based on the selection, everything changes automatically. If we have four parameters in a particular item, when you select a parameter, the remaining charts on that page automatically change for that particular parameter."
"The most valuable feature of Power BI is its ability to provide customized visualizations and insights tailored to specific business needs."
"I have found the best features to be the dashboard creation, graphs, charts, and presentation bar graphs."
"The solution has a good toggling feature."
"We have found the solution to be stable."
"The stability is great and continues to get better and better."
"The solution is easy to use and charts can be built quickly with the tools."
"Customer support takes lot of time to get a solution."
"If you need data in real-time, it's not an ideal solution."
"Power BI's administration could use some work, and the user experience needs to improve because it is a client-based tool. If you want to generate a model or report, you need to use client tools, but client tools are limited for end-users who don't have enough hardware. For example, maybe a client lacks enough memory or CPU power for report generators. If you use a model that requires a massive amount of data, your client will face several problems."
"I have been doing trial and error to figuring out how to do the data analyzing and modeling. There could be some improvement to simplify it."
"The formatting template could be improved."
"The reporting part of Microsoft BI is rather limited compared to other reporting tools."
"I would like for the next release to have better desktop performance, especially for big databases. Additionally, I would like to have more integrations with programs like Salesforce in order to get more live data coming in."
"The default parameters of the prompt could be improved by including a dynamic option."
"Microsoft Power BI was born native on the cloud, however, it's quite difficult when it has to connect to on-premise data sources."
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Birst is ranked 32nd in Reporting while Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in Reporting with 297 reviews. Birst is rated 7.4, while Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Birst writes "The dashboards and Visualizer are valuable". 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)". Birst is most compared with Alteryx and ThoughtSpot, whereas Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE.
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