We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI and Yellowfin based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."This is a self-service BI tool, so it doesn't require a huge amount of technical training, knowledge, or a background in BI in order to induct new people into it."
"The best thing about this solution is that it is very user friendly. It is interactive in terms of visualizations. It is very eye-catching, and it attracts users. There are a lot of options to visualize the data in different drafts and views. I have used different visualization tools, and I found Power BI to be more efficient in terms of performance, user-friendliness, and ease of use."
"Its seamless integration with Microsoft products, such as Microsoft SQL Server or Microsoft Excel, is the most valuable."
"Microsoft BI is very easy to set up and use."
"Premium features that used to cost $5,000 per company per month recently became a lot more accessible. Microsoft recently implemented a per user feature in Power BI Premium; it's $20 per month."
"It is very well integrated with other Microsoft products, including PowerApps and Excel, as well as Access, so it fits well into our workflow."
"There is continual improvement year-over-year."
"The most valuable feature is shareability, where we can publish work to the cloud and share it with team members."
"It reduces time to reproduce reports, provides easy access to organisational data, and has the ability to generate a wide range of reports and analysis."
"It is a central source of up-to-date data and information."
"It is able to create information dashboards for various users' throughout."
"The formatting template could be improved."
"I think that the solution is harder to use for people who are not experts in data."
"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."
"Microsoft BI’s integration and visualization could be improved."
"The dashboard could be simplified."
"Most clients have MacBooks. Therefore, they use Tableau as Power BI Desktop is not available for the MacBook right now."
"Adding paginated reports to this tool could be of great help for users who want to move away from SSRS."
"The integration with other solutions could be improved for reporting aspects."
"It needs more presentation/charting capabilities and integration with GIS."
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Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews while Yellowfin is ranked 36th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while Yellowfin 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 Yellowfin writes "Very scalable design and easy to implement. It can reside alongside more complex enterprise systems". Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE, whereas Yellowfin is most compared with Apache Superset, 9 Spokes, Tableau and SAP Crystal Reports.
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