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."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"SSRS and the Tabular server/Vertipaq engine/DAX are probably the two most valuable components."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is an easy-to-use tool."
"Microsoft BI's dashboards are helpful."
"The initial setup is relatively simple."
"The DAX coding language is good for creating formulae."
"The scalability overall has been quite good."
"The Microsoft Power BI app is very good. It's also very flexible."
"Customer support takes lot of time to get a solution."
"The performance of Microsoft BI could improve for large datasets and it would be beneficial to have more visualization features."
"Our expectation is putting BI to work in real-time data collection systems in the maritime environment."
"It needs more graphics and overlays."
"We found out that you can't share a report with others unless you have an additional package. That caught us off guard. It came as a program that somebody could go in, build a report, and show it, but you can't share it without having additional licenses."
"The integration with third-party products could be more stable."
"In an upcoming release, the solution could be simplified and have a more complete product package rather than a suite of products that we have to put together."
"They can improve it in terms of rule-based security. Currently, it has very limited rules."
"Better mapping capabilities and easier administration access would be beneficial, especially for understanding who has viewed reports."
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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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