We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI and TIBCO Spotfire 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."What I like most is that I can do everything in Power BI that I can do in Excel."
"It provides easy integration with Office tools."
"Premium features that used to cost $5,000 per company per month recently became a lot more accessible. Microsoft recently implemented a per user feature in Power BI Premium; it's $20 per month."
"It has greatly improved our reporting capabilities."
"The good part of it is that you can do whatever you want with it when it comes to building BI. In terms of languages, it supports Python, and it also natively supports R."
"Technical support has been great."
"It allows individuals to do the analysis themselves."
"The most valuable feature is shareability, where we can publish work to the cloud and share it with team members."
"We used it pretty heavily in gathering data, which goes to our VPs. They are able to base their next revenue planning based on this metric. So, it has been invaluable."
"The ability to create a real-time data mark, using just one piece of software, is the best feature of this product."
"The product's initial setup phase was simple."
"It's scalable."
"One of the main features is integrated statistical analysis."
"The solution is an affordable one."
"It allows users to quickly analyze data from a variety of sources and visualize it with powerful, interactive graphs, and charts."
"It’s stable and straightforward."
"In Microsoft Excel, you are able to have tabs. However, in Microsoft BI you do not have this flexibility."
"They can improve it in terms of rule-based security. Currently, it has very limited rules."
"Integration with products that are not Microsoft could be more improved."
"Power BI doesn't support some open-source data sources that are new, such as SnowSQL, Iceberg, or ClickHouse."
"The licensing needs improvement. There needs to be a middle option between Pro and Premium versions."
"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."
"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."
"The solution is somewhat costly in comparison with MSBI tools."
"The initial setup is complicated and needs experience and knowledge."
"When you do the data loading, it is slow."
"The data compression has room for improvement."
"We would like an easier way to get the product to the cloud. Right now, we have the on-premise version, and we would like to find a way to make it easier to migrate it over to the cloud."
"The initial setup can be difficult."
"Print capability and trigger-based events."
"The initial setup of TIBCO Spotfire is in the middle range of difficulty. The initial setup of Power BI is easier."
"One aspect where Spotfire could improve is its global recognition, especially in terms of support."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews while TIBCO Spotfire is ranked 10th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 67 reviews. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while TIBCO Spotfire is rated 8.4. 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 TIBCO Spotfire writes "A robust BI tool, with good dashboard features and adverse event tracking". Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE, whereas TIBCO Spotfire is most compared with Tableau, QlikView, Qlik Sense, Amazon QuickSight and TIBCO Jaspersoft. See our Microsoft Power BI vs. TIBCO Spotfire report.
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Hi @Esteban Fabiani - Thank you for posting this great question.
All the tools have base-level functionalities which could serve your day-to-day data analysis and visualizations.
There are various aspects that you would need to consider before choosing these tools such as
1. what are the primary use cases? Who will be using them? (Power BI is more user friendly)
2. Do they require a lot of customisations on the UI/UX ( Spotfire can be more flexible with IronPython scripts for custom UI development, Tableau has the best quality UI and charts)
3. Which cloud platform or server you would be using and what kind of computation power is required (if you are a Microsoft shop then Power BI should be preferred as it can be integrated with many MS applications at ease)
4. Cost - probably one of the key concerns (Power BI will be cheaper (desktop version is free) than Spotfire and Tableau)
5. Availability of talent within an organization as well as in the market (more talent available for Power BI and Tableau)
6. Many Oil & Gas, Manufacturing companies prefer Spotfire, but a slow move towards Power BI or Tableau or other visualization tools based on use cases. Many companies use Microstrategy for enterprise reporting
7. You may download free buyer guide reports from Peerspot, which would help you to choose the right one.
All the best.