We performed a comparison between Meraki Location Analytics and Microsoft Power BI 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."Technical support has always been very good."
"In general, it is helpful because it allows administrators to see where the Wi-Fi and network services are being most used."
"The initial setup process is easy."
"I like Location Analytics' geofencing features for devices. You can manage thousands of devices with just a push of a button and deploy applications in seconds. For example, in schools, you can deploy an app update for thousands of iPads in just two clicks."
"The solution is stable with reasonable performance."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Power BI is the drill-through feature that takes you to a details page the users want to see."
"We find the solution offers good stability."
"If you are not very technical this tool could be very useful."
"I like how the Query Editor lets me manipulate the data, and the available visuals are good. You can do everything using the UI."
"ou can pull reports, visualize them in real-time, and connect them to a variety of other data sources."
"It gives us, the ability to do a lot of analysis quickly, similar to ad hoc analysis."
"I like all the tools in Microsoft BI because they all have different purposes. There are a lot of people using Microsoft BI, and everybody is using it. The users have adapted well to the technology."
"The pricing is a pain point for us. It's a bit expensive."
"The biggest issue is negotiating the price with a client. That's the most complicated part, but the product is worth it."
"I would like to see all of the features included in a single package."
"The technical support before implementation could be better for premium partners."
"Microsoft Power BI can be confusing, because it has two languages that you need to learn if you want to use it, and this makes it more difficult for nontechnical users."
"From an improvement perspective, I think if the Power BI developers of that platform would really focus on being more detailed and specific on the error messages, it would help a lot of developers troubleshoot and maintain the report ECT or the dashboard ECT."
"The solution struggles with large amounts of data."
"The formatting template could be improved."
"I think that they can add more types of charts because the selection on the desktop version is limited."
"The product’s on-premise reporting servers could support real-time data refreshing capabilities like its on-cloud version."
"here are still better UI designs they can go through. I'm assuming they are focusing more on capabilities rather than look-and-feel designs."
"One area for improvement in Microsoft Power BI is serviceability. Compared to one of its competitors: Tableau, there are a lot of things which you cannot do in this tool, that can be done in Tableau."
Meraki Location Analytics is ranked 35th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 4 reviews while Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews. Meraki Location Analytics is rated 10.0, while Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Meraki Location Analytics writes "Straightforward to deploy, easy to maintain, provides good visibility into service usage". 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)". Meraki Location Analytics is most compared with Rapid7 InsightVM and Tableau, whereas Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE. See our Meraki Location Analytics vs. Microsoft Power BI report.
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