We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI and RapidMiner based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, SAP and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."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."
"The DAX coding language is good for creating formulae."
"I find Power BI's reporting feature the most valuable. The solution has improved a lot. There are new features getting added day by day. In the past, they didn't even have the printing feature, but now they have it."
"The solution is not that difficult to install, although this will vary with the experience of the person responsible for its installation."
"The user interface is easy to work with."
"Implementation is very quick and the solution is very user-friendly."
"It is more user-friendly compared to SSRS."
"The ease of integration and connectivity stands out as the most critical aspect, followed closely by the flexibility to customize reports and dashboards."
"We value the collaboration and governance features because it's a comprehensive platform that covers everything from data extraction to modeling operations in the ML language. RapidMiner is competitive in the ML space."
"RapidMiner is very easy to use."
"I like not having to write all solutions from code. Being able to drag and drop controls, enables me to focus on building the best model, without needing to search for syntax errors or extra libraries."
"Scalability is not really a concern with RapidMiner. It scales very well and can be used in global implementations."
"The GUI capabilities of the solution are excellent. Their Auto ML model provides for even non-coder data scientists to deploy a model."
"The documentation for this solution is very good, where each operator is explained with how to use it."
"It is easy to use and has a huge community that I can rely on for help. Moreover, it is interactive."
"The most valuable feature of RapidMiner is that it can read a large number of file formats including CSV, Excel, and in particular, SPSS."
"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."
"I would like to see a change in the premium capacity."
"The DAX features need some improvement. It's not as easy as Excel. They need more DAX formulas."
"The solution's documentation needs improvement."
"In Microsoft Excel, you are able to have tabs. However, in Microsoft BI you do not have this flexibility."
"Most clients have MacBooks. Therefore, they use Tableau as Power BI Desktop is not available for the MacBook right now."
"I think that they can add more types of charts because the selection on the desktop version is limited."
"It's not really complicated, but I didn't find the things I was looking for. The ones I used to work with within Dash are more open, and there are more choices. But with Power BI, there are only limited types of plots that I can use. For example, when I wanted to put the plots in Power BI, there was no extendable space. You have a limited page where you can place a maximum of three plots in that, and you can't do more than that on a single page. You have to create a new page, a different page for that. That made it a bit annoying, and the filtering part is limited, with basic functions. If you want to make custom filtering or custom functions, you can't do that."
"RapidMiner isn't cheap. It's a complete solution, but it's costly."
"If they could include video tutorials, people would find that quite helpful."
"Many things in the interface look nice, but they aren't of much use to the operator. It already has lots of variables in there."
"I would like to see more integration capabilities."
"One challenge I encountered while implementing RapidMiner was the lack of documentation. Since there aren't as many users, finding resources to learn the tool was initially difficult. To overcome this hurdle, I believe RapidMiner could improve by providing more tutorials tailored for new users."
"RapidMiner would be improved with the inclusion of more machine learning algorithms for generating time-series forecasting models."
"I think that they should make deep learning models easier."
"RapidMiner can improve deep learning by enhancing the features."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews while RapidMiner is ranked 2nd in Predictive Analytics with 20 reviews. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while RapidMiner is rated 8.6. 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 RapidMiner writes "A no-code tool that helps to build machine learning models ". Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE, whereas RapidMiner is most compared with KNIME, Alteryx, Dataiku, Tableau and SAS Enterprise Miner.
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