We performed a comparison between Anaconda and Microsoft Power BI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Databricks, Microsoft, Alteryx and others in Data Science Platforms."The most valuable feature is the set of libraries that are used to support the functionality that we require."
"The most advantageous feature is the logic building."
"It's interesting. It's user friendly. That's what makes it outstanding among the others. It has a collection of R, Python, and others. Their platform strategy has a collection of many other visualization tools, apart from Spyder and RStudio, which is really helpful for data science. For any data science professional, Anaconda is really handy. It has almost all the tools for data science."
"The documentation is excellent and the solution has a very large and active community that supports it."
"With Anaconda Navigator, we have been able to use multiple IDEs such as JupyterLab, Jupyter Notebook, Spyder, Visual Studio Code, and RStudio in one place. The platform-agnostic package manager, "Conda", makes life easy when it comes to managing and installing packages."
"The notebook feature is an improvement over RStudio."
"The solution is stable."
"Voice Configuration and Environmental Management Capabilities are the most valuable features."
"Connectivity, installation, and configuration are pretty fast and seamless compared to Cognos."
"Microsoft BI's most valuable features are the user interface, which is easy to use and light."
"The solution is not that difficult to install, although this will vary with the experience of the person responsible for its installation."
"My primary use is for view of the dashboard."
"The sharing features are vital, especially the ability to share and test different shared dashboards."
"We have found the product very stable and reliable."
"Microsoft BI is easy to use and to design. I found Microsoft BI a lot easier than Tableau."
"It is in the cloud, which makes it easy for mobile access of reports and data."
"A lot of people and companies are investing in creating automated data cleaning and processing environments. Anaconda is a bit behind in that area."
"The interface could be improved. Other solutions, like Visual Studio, have much better UI."
"Having a small guide or video on the tool would help learn how to use it and what the features are."
"When you install Anaconda for the first time, it's really difficult to update it."
"One feature that I would like to see is being able to use a different language in a different cell, which would allow me to mix R and Python together."
"I think that the framework can be improved to make it easier for people to discover and use things on their own."
"The solution would benefit from offering more automation."
"The ability to schedule scripts for the building and monitoring of jobs would be an advantage for this platform."
"The visualization aspect, while being the most visible to business users, also happens the be the weakest point in the entire Microsoft BI stack."
"This solution is resource-heavy."
"The solution could be more customizable and you do not have too much freedom on the code."
"Microsoft BI could improve by having better collaboration between developers working on the same dashboard. The developer platform is all done on a single laptop and it's difficult to have the same project files work. Two developers have to go back and forth. You have to have the project file on one developer's laptop making it difficult to co-develop."
"I would prefer that the solution not be shared. I'm concerned that if we make a mistake we could reveal information to people who shouldn't see it. I would like to have my own on-prem server, to buy my own server and have my own infrastructure for Microsoft BI, with only with my data."
"The UI looks awkward once the graphs have been generated in the console. This is what Microsoft can work on."
"It is too slow. I hope in future it will be a comparable big data tool, such as, for example, Data Lake."
"The accounting data needs improvement."
Anaconda is ranked 13th in Data Science Platforms with 17 reviews while Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews. Anaconda is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Anaconda writes "Offers free version and is helpful to handle small-scale workloads". 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)". Anaconda is most compared with Databricks, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio, Amazon SageMaker, IBM SPSS Statistics and IBM Watson Studio, whereas Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE.
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