We performed a comparison between Metabase and Microsoft Power BI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."It is easy for a new user to learn the tool."
"Everything that's in M Query and DAX is the heart of Power BI because with these tools you can make up for a lot of other missing features."
"I have found the best features to be the dashboard creation, graphs, charts, and presentation bar graphs."
"The good part of it is that you can do whatever you want with it when it comes to building BI. In terms of languages, it supports Python, and it also natively supports R."
"Ease of development and maintenance."
"The visualization part and its inclusion in a cloud-based application are valuable features."
"With Power BI, you're able to store your data within spreadsheets and SharePoints, and then have Power BI pull the data out and report on it. So we actually saved a ton of money not needing to load the data into databases, which is a big prerequisite for many other reporting tools."
"The most valuable features are the flexibility, how many ways you can interrogate the data, and the the graphical visualization."
"Easy to use. End-users can make changes to the graphics."
"The tool must be made more user-friendly."
"The look and feel should be updated in terms of the types of dashboards and graphs that you can produce. They aren't as visual as some of its competitors."
"When there are large amounts of data being processed there are additional tools needed to handle it."
"SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is not user friendly."
"Sometimes while developing, the front end is not easily customizable and it has limitations. We cannot go and do any UI we want. We have to stick to the limitations of the product."
"Power BI could have better metadata management. It's easy to use for a single person. However, it lacks an enterprise-grade metadata management system, which can be a problem if you're doing an enterprise deployment with multiple users."
"I would like to see a change in the premium capacity."
"The initial setup is a little bit technical."
"My data is restricted to my DB and I'm not sure how this would handle an extremely large dataset."
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Metabase is ranked 51st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 1 review while Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews. Metabase is rated 6.0, while Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0. 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)". Metabase is most compared with Amazon QuickSight, whereas Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE.
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