We performed a comparison between Alteryx and Microsoft Power BI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Predictive Analytics solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It has everything that one needs. Whatever you want to do with the data can be done with Alteryx."
"Geo features have made spatial mapping large retail universes possible."
"Alteryx helps me do a lot of automation. The best thing about Alteryx is that you don't have to repeat the workflow over and over again. Unlike Excel, where you need to write formulas for each new file, Alteryx follows a consistent process. You can schedule and automate the workflow, even if the files change."
"Data processing is most valuable. It is one of the fastest data blockers out there in the market, which is a fascinating thing about Alteryx."
"It saves time on a lot projects. "
"The feature that I have found most valuable for Alteryx is its geo-referencing feature, it is very good. I use it a lot, especially for supply chain."
"I believe that the ability to leverage the gallery for scalability, as well as the general data blending functionality, is most beneficial to our core-based users."
"Good data transformation."
"It seems stable. I haven't heard of any difficulties from my clients that utilize Power BI."
"Power BI, once made available, can connect to various data sources, irrespective of the application, whether it be HR or business applications. The bank has many applications, but all eventually need to generate reports for tracking, distribution, or problem-finding based on analysis. Power BI was made available as part of the productivity suite to all businesses, which can connect to their applications and provide the reports and analysis they require."
"There is a lot of help and documentation on the Internet, so no special training is needed to use the source code."
"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."
"What's most valuable in this tool is that it gives its users detailed error messages. It's a very stable data analytics tool, and it offers good scalability."
"The dashboards of Microsoft BI are easy to use."
"We like the drag and drop interactability visualization. We really like that. It's user-friendly."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"It would be nice if they can provide Alteryx with more options for In-DB connectivity. That functionality is there, but it doesn't include all software we are connecting."
"It's a technical product and those that don't have proper training will have to deal with a steep learning curve."
"The principal problem is the pricing. They're expensive products."
"The scalability worries me a lot at the moment because the cost of the solution is high and it is not growing considerably. Unfortunately, we started during early COVID times and because of the economic downturn, all the cost cuttings, and everything, it is not growing as expected."
"The technical support could have a little bit of improvement."
"They should work on its pricing."
"A feature which allows the user to be able to click on an output (in a file browser) and see the creation of the module would be fantastic."
"The event handling, such that the file system watcher, is in need of improvement."
"The DAX in Microsoft BI is quite difficult."
"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."
"I would like Microsoft to include some inbuilt machine learning so that it becomes point-and-click, rather than us developing models out of API and BI connecting to that and getting the results. That process gets in the way of continuity."
"It is getting better but still, there are opportunity areas in some aspects, especially the Windows OS dependency."
"A lot of people work on Excel, so being able to export an Excel file as part of a subscription would be an improvement."
"Real-time refreshing for SAP BW would be nice. We know its on the radar for the development team at MS. "
"The solution could improve the mobile application design. It is difficult to use compared to the desktop version."
"I would like to see Machine Learning for Power Bi Pro users or an intermediate license to enable Machine Learning if you don't have access to a Premium account."
Alteryx is ranked 1st in Predictive Analytics with 74 reviews while Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews. Alteryx is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Alteryx writes "Feature-rich ETL that condenses a number of functions into one tool". 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)". Alteryx is most compared with KNIME, Databricks, Dataiku Data Science Studio, RapidMiner and Qlik Sense, whereas Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE. See our Alteryx vs. Microsoft Power BI report.
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