We performed a comparison between ibi WebFOCUS 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."The most valuable feature is building ad hoc reports."
"I would rate the scalability a ten out of ten. It's highly scalable and can handle significant data volumes."
"The solution can read and write 500 different types of outputs."
"It stands out for its ability to work across different platforms, support mainframe data, offer cloud integration, automate report scheduling, and provide a robust scripting language."
"Microsoft BI was very helpful for me because I had a huge variety of connections. It is very convenient to build reports, even if somebody has no experience using BI tools or data visualizations. Additionally, the performance is very good when generating reports."
"It ingegrates nicely with Office 365."
"I like Microsoft BI's drill-down feature and its overall ease of use."
"Other people can access data much more easily than before. Its usability is the main advantage, people in the company are using it."
"The way data is presented is very valuable. The amount of information that we can get at a glance is also valuable. You can then drill-down and see data from many different angles in the same chart by selecting certain things. Based on the selection, everything changes automatically. If we have four parameters in a particular item, when you select a parameter, the remaining charts on that page automatically change for that particular parameter."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"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."
"We've used Microsoft BI for the general use cases around reporting and dashboarding."
"The challenge lies not in what the tool can do but in how you use it and understand the data."
"When it comes to customer support, we don't always reach the right person. Sometimes, we get junior-level reps who aren't as knowledgeable as we are."
"The solution can be improved by adding more automated options for reporting."
"If there were to be any improvements right now, their documentation needs to get in sync with their product."
"It's not user-friendly; more tutorials, training, and better documentation would be helpful."
"The Power Query feature needs to be improved to handle large amounts of data. This feature is also slow for large data transfers making it better to use some kind of script."
"Integrating it with the physics build model or the engineering model should be included."
"The handling of the workspaces can be made more granular for user access rights. It can be managed a little bit better in terms of the connection to Active Directory so that we have more granular access rights. I am not sure if this is really possible or if we can solve it differently, but we need a lot of workspaces, and we are not sure how we can deal with it from the access rights perspective."
"Power BI shows reports on actual data, not metadata."
"The formatting template could be improved."
"The accounting data needs improvement."
"People without private emails cannot publish and, frankly, this doesn't allow for easy training."
ibi WebFOCUS is ranked 6th in Predictive Analytics with 18 reviews while Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews. ibi WebFOCUS is rated 8.8, while Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of ibi WebFOCUS writes "A flexible mainframe product with unique file features and a rock solid scheduling feature". 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)". ibi WebFOCUS is most compared with Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Databricks, Alteryx and Amazon QuickSight, whereas Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE. See our Microsoft Power BI vs. ibi WebFOCUS report.
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