We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI and TIBCO Spotfire based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two BI (Business Intelligence) Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature would be the abundance of connectors. It is also easy to use."
"Like all Microsoft products, it is very easy to set up initially."
"It is useful for bringing visualization to data. It calculates counts, ratios, etc."
"Technical support is quite good."
"In my opinion, Microsoft BI is a low-cost solution, and it could be an interesting solution for a tourism company."
"Reporting is the best thing about Power BI. And it could help improve decision-making in many ways. Power BI is flexible and easier to use compared to tools."
"It gives us, the ability to do a lot of analysis quickly, similar to ad hoc analysis."
"The product is intuitive and user-friendly."
"The out-of-the-box features are simple and easy to use across the board."
"The ability to connect to many different data sources is one of the key features. The other would then be the different ways in which that data can be visualized."
"From a scalability standpoint, I would say it's pretty fantastic."
"One of the main features is integrated statistical analysis."
"We used it pretty heavily in gathering data, which goes to our VPs. They are able to base their next revenue planning based on this metric. So, it has been invaluable."
"It allows users to quickly analyze data from a variety of sources and visualize it with powerful, interactive graphs, and charts."
"It's scalable."
"Data discovery is very simple."
"One of the more difficult things to do is to export some of the data from Power BI to Excel."
"The report server feature is quite limited."
"I am taking a course to be able to use the solution better. Some aspects of the solution are not straightforward."
"Microsoft is behind IBM when it comes to security features."
"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."
"The setup took a lot of tinkering with InfoSec to allow us to do stuff."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly interface with Microsoft BI."
"Trend data and dashboards need improvement."
"Personalising Spotfire, as a whole, is painful and is something that could be made easier."
"The initial setup of TIBCO Spotfire is in the middle range of difficulty. The initial setup of Power BI is easier."
"We would like to see some improvement in the default properties of the solution, so that there is less need for us to spend our time coding."
"The number of charts available out of the box in Spotfire can be enhanced."
"Print capability and trigger-based events."
"The initial setup can be difficult."
"The way TIBCO Spotfire is designed, in my opinion, is the reason why it lags a bit, especially compared to other BI tools like Qlik."
"We would like an easier way to get the product to the cloud. Right now, we have the on-premise version, and we would like to find a way to make it easier to migrate it over to the cloud."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews while TIBCO Spotfire is ranked 10th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 67 reviews. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while TIBCO Spotfire is rated 8.4. 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 TIBCO Spotfire writes "A robust BI tool, with good dashboard features and adverse event tracking". Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE, whereas TIBCO Spotfire is most compared with Tableau, QlikView, Qlik Sense, TIBCO Jaspersoft and Amazon QuickSight. See our Microsoft Power BI vs. TIBCO Spotfire report.
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Hi @Esteban Fabiani - Thank you for posting this great question.
All the tools have base-level functionalities which could serve your day-to-day data analysis and visualizations.
There are various aspects that you would need to consider before choosing these tools such as
1. what are the primary use cases? Who will be using them? (Power BI is more user friendly)
2. Do they require a lot of customisations on the UI/UX ( Spotfire can be more flexible with IronPython scripts for custom UI development, Tableau has the best quality UI and charts)
3. Which cloud platform or server you would be using and what kind of computation power is required (if you are a Microsoft shop then Power BI should be preferred as it can be integrated with many MS applications at ease)
4. Cost - probably one of the key concerns (Power BI will be cheaper (desktop version is free) than Spotfire and Tableau)
5. Availability of talent within an organization as well as in the market (more talent available for Power BI and Tableau)
6. Many Oil & Gas, Manufacturing companies prefer Spotfire, but a slow move towards Power BI or Tableau or other visualization tools based on use cases. Many companies use Microstrategy for enterprise reporting
7. You may download free buyer guide reports from Peerspot, which would help you to choose the right one.
All the best.