We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI and Rapid7 InsightVM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."The fact that you can visualize items is great."
"It gives you an edge if you are on the Microsoft platform. If you have been using Microsoft products for a long time or if you have the Microsoft infrastructure, this is the right tool for you. It has seamless integration with Microsoft SQL Server and other sources, and you get the best of the three things (SSIS, SSAS, and SSRS) in one suite."
"It's a great tool for visualization data, and it's free for engineers."
"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."
"If you are not very technical this tool could be very useful."
"It's pretty easy to set up the product."
"Very intuitive and easy to use."
"We've used Microsoft BI for the general use cases around reporting and dashboarding."
"The solution is automatically scheduled so it runs by itself."
"When you connect any new device to the network, Rapid7 has the ability to detect the new device immediately. It can scan that device to detect if it has any vulnerability. It tells you what is vulnerable and what has been misconfigured. It also tells you what is the risk of that misconfiguration or lack of patches and how to resolve the problem."
"InsightVM's most valuable feature is risk scoring, a formula based on different vectors like the ease of exploitation and the availability of the machine."
"It is good and fits well with pretty much all of our use case needs."
"This solution is very easy to use and easy to install."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"This solution is much more user-friendly than past solutions I have used."
"Rapid7 InsightVM has given us a practical view of the vulnerabilities present in our organization."
"I'm missing collaborations functionality to operate or to work connected with multiple people on a data source or on virtualization. There should be more collaborations functions, such as in Confluence. We haven't explored the solution sufficiently in this area, but at this time it doesn't look sufficient."
"One of the more difficult things to do is to export some of the data from Power BI to Excel."
"Better mapping capabilities and easier administration access would be beneficial, especially for understanding who has viewed reports."
"The visual outlet or the visualization aspect can be improved because the settings piece is quite problematic. It requires a lot of time to set the visuals and check. It is quite fiddly to change all the settings and font sizes. It just needs better ability in terms of using templates or visualization templates to get the vision. Our users always benchmark based on the product, and they don't appreciate everything under the bonnet. The only rating is based on the actual reports in the settings for the dashboard. They should make it look a bit funky and a bit more aesthetically pleasing on the eye. It is quite a fiddly tool, but other than that, it is pretty slick. Because it is community-driven, the marketplace tends to be changing forever. You get the standard visualizations, and you've also got all other marketplace visualizations that require you to spend a bit more money and purchase things in the marketplace. With certain visualizations, there is no longevity. I had used certain visualizations, but they discontinued them, and I had to rebuild my reports, which is obviously very frustrating. There should be some sort of stabilization around how the marketplace visuals impact the users when they expire."
"The upgrade process could be improved."
"Trend data and dashboards need improvement."
"Not having to login again after a mobile app upgrade. A simple login on mobile would be great."
"It needs an AI which can choose the appropriate connection strings and provide options for connections."
"There should be containerization within the VM."
"The reporting could be better."
"A definite improvement would be to make it easier to run ad-hoc scans without needing to assign the asset to a site or group."
"All products have room for increased security and Rapid7 InsightVM is no exception."
"One area I would like to improve in InsightVM is its integration with other solutions."
"The solution should include a tighter integration with third-party threat modeling and threat intelligence tools."
"Their customer support should be improved, and the effectiveness of scans also needs to be improved."
"There is a significant learning curve, that non-technical individuals, especially those not specialized in computer science or the information security industry, might face."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews while Rapid7 InsightVM is ranked 4th in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with 55 reviews. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while Rapid7 InsightVM is rated 8.0. 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)". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rapid7 InsightVM writes "You can scan a network, and receive recommendations to address vulnerabilities with the click of a button". Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE, whereas Rapid7 InsightVM is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Qualys VMDR, Tenable Security Center, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and Rapid7 InsightIDR.
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