We performed a comparison between Birst and Microsoft Power BI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in Reporting."Dashboards and self-service reports. These are widely used by customers in the EPM domain."
"There is a lot of help and documentation on the Internet, so no special training is needed to use the source code."
"Like all Microsoft products, it is very easy to set up initially."
"We are able to collaborate on things and get insightful data visualizations."
"We have found the solution to be stable."
"It's a great tool for visualization data, and it's free for engineers."
"The drill-down capabilities and automatic charts are the best ones. The visualization is also very good. In terms of visualization, no competing product, such as IBM Cognos or any other product, has the same capabilities."
"I've seen no issues with BI's stability."
"It is really flexible. The charts and reports are really nice. You have the flexibility of self-service."
"Customer support takes lot of time to get a solution."
"The reporting could be a bit better."
"It's not user-friendly; more tutorials, training, and better documentation would be helpful."
"The cost of the solution can get high."
"This solution is resource-heavy."
"One thing I would like to have is the scripting language, as they already have within Excel. It's already within a Microsoft business product, because Excel is the number one business product out there. So it would be nice to have the scripting capability in order to automate certain processes."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly interface with Microsoft BI."
"They are improving it all the time. What would be nice is if they could respond to feature requests more quickly. They can provide faster support for new features."
"Microsoft BI lacks some of the scheme features. It would be beneficial if there were a way to show how we move values in a different way."
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Birst is ranked 32nd in Reporting while Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in Reporting with 297 reviews. Birst is rated 7.4, while Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Birst writes "The dashboards and Visualizer are valuable". 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)". Birst is most compared with Alteryx and ThoughtSpot, whereas Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE.
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