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."
"It has provided customer purchase patterns and great visualization."
"The interface is very fluid."
"We have found the product to be scalable."
"The product can go easily go and extract data and it can put it into any format."
"We have found that the reporting and publishing are great."
"Microsoft BI is better than most solutions we have. It's pretty easy to conduct analysis with it."
"What I like about Power BI is how fast you are able to create dashboards and how fast you are able to fetch the data. You can connect to the database or data source, and then you can design your dashboards very easily."
"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."
"Customer support takes lot of time to get a solution."
"The solution could be quicker at rendering data."
"We would like to have better SQL support for queries."
"It is too slow. I hope in future it will be a comparable big data tool, such as, for example, Data Lake."
"Real-time updating needs improvement."
"I am a SAP user and I would like this tool to have more connectors - and to more easily connect to - the ERP or SAP environment."
"The mobile app is very poor."
"Sluggish performance when handling large amounts of data."
"At times, I feel that the system needs improvement in single sign-on, especially for the on-premises side of the tool."
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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 ThoughtSpot and Alteryx, whereas Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE.
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