We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI and Yellowfin 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."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Microsoft B's beneficial features are that it is a Microsoft product and it is well known by the staff here in the company. It suited the available skills."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is an easy-to-use tool."
"The most interesting feature of Microsoft Power BI is that it's very user-friendly."
"Microsoft BI's most valuable feature is flexibility."
"Allows business users with a mission to solve their own problems, without an IT person."
"The fact that you can visualize items is great."
"It is a central source of up-to-date data and information."
"It is able to create information dashboards for various users' throughout."
"It reduces time to reproduce reports, provides easy access to organisational data, and has the ability to generate a wide range of reports and analysis."
"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 doesn't support some open-source data sources that are new, such as SnowSQL, Iceberg, or ClickHouse."
"The challenge of this product is in truncating the table data."
"There are some other visuals that are available in the Microsoft marketplace, however, you need to use them via trial and error. There needs to be a write-up about how to use them with a quick guide describing the visual."
"The UI is the main improvement that could be made. Specifically, there is something called DAX, in Power BI, which is complicated compared to calculated fields used in Tableau."
"Actionable insights could be better."
"The integration with third-party products could be more stable."
"I think that they can add more types of charts because the selection on the desktop version is limited."
"It needs more presentation/charting capabilities and integration with GIS."
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Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews while Yellowfin is ranked 36th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while Yellowfin is rated 8.0. 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 Yellowfin writes "Very scalable design and easy to implement. It can reside alongside more complex enterprise systems". Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE, whereas Yellowfin is most compared with Apache Superset, 9 Spokes and Tableau. See our Microsoft Power BI vs. Yellowfin report.
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