We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The initial setup is easy."
"Good reporting and data analysis tool that's user-friendly, easy to deploy, stable, and scalable."
"The standard BI visualization capabilities are great."
"The best thing about this solution is that it is very user friendly. It is interactive in terms of visualizations. It is very eye-catching, and it attracts users. There are a lot of options to visualize the data in different drafts and views. I have used different visualization tools, and I found Power BI to be more efficient in terms of performance, user-friendliness, and ease of use."
"The solution is quite scalable."
"It is in the cloud, which makes it easy for mobile access of reports and data."
"The visuals are great and make everything look very professional. We can change the look and feel or manipulate the data according to our requirements. It's extremely flexible."
"The advantages of Microsoft Power BI stem from the fact that it is really easy to use. The drag and drop facilities provided by the product are good."
"It gives you a lot of flexibility in designing your dashboards."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that we are able to build all dashboards with self-service BI and are able to provide our business users with self-service BI. We are building a repository on top of our data warehouse and building all the dashboards and KPIs."
"The scheduling and publication features are very useful."
"We use it to identify critical KPIs to senior management."
"The solution is stable."
"It is more user-friendly and easier to work with the report creation part, creating reports out of an established universe. Maybe a business person could liberate the existing universe and create a report on top of it, as well. So that's one cool feature."
"The ability to merge dimensions in a report is great."
"It is solid and stable."
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"It is easy to adapt visualizers to have interactive conversations among decision-makers."
"Compared to other products, visualization features are really good."
"When compared with Power BI, Tableau is much easier."
"The best part about Tableau is the visualization."
"Tableau has data relationships that can be applied to a data source which helps build out a directory which is helpful. Data blending has also been valuable to us."
"Tableau is easy to use and it has great predictive features."
"It is definitely easy to use. It is intuitive, and more or less, everything can be done from the front end. As such, there is no concept of metadata. You can just take data from a database and start building your own stuff, such as OLAP data warehouse. You don't need extensive metadata modeling like Oracle BI."
"Tableau has greatly enhanced our organization's data-driven decision-making processes by enabling us to create visually compelling reports and dashboards."
"The licensing needs improvement. There needs to be a middle option between Pro and Premium versions."
"One of the more difficult things to do is to export some of the data from Power BI to Excel."
"I believe there is room for improvement in terms of authentication and certain functionalities in Power BI. For instance, adjusting the width of columns is not easily done, as there is only an option to enable or disable automatic adjustment. This can be a significant drawback for clients who desire more flexibility."
"The reporting part of Microsoft BI is rather limited compared to other reporting tools."
"The one thing that I noticed specifically was the graphical features, and some of the analytical features. They were stronger on the Tableau side."
"The challenge of this product is in truncating the table data."
"I find the solution to be 70 percent stable."
"The solution could benefit by allowing deeper data analytics."
"The SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform has always struggled with dashboarding."
"I would like to see their data visualization products enhanced and made more robust and easier to implement."
"Most of the Apps right now are into dashboarding. This tool, for the Crystal Reports in the phase I'm primarily working on, does not have those dashboarding capabilities, like in the other advanced tools like Power BI or ClickView, and compared to them the dashboard generation is not that great."
"Currently, we can use Explore to do data discovering, but cannot generate charts."
"The solution could be less expensive. It's a bit pricey now."
"The combination of Lumira along with Design Studio merger last year still needs development from a visualization standpoint."
"The self-service area, or dashboard, needs some improvement. While the reporting itself is great, the dashboard and Analytics Cloud are not user friendly."
"The UI could be updated a bit."
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"It's already using 32 gigabytes of memory, but the performance is not so good. It's very heavy."
"The solution does have scalability issues."
"I have used Power BI as well as Tableau. There are a couple of interesting features that I like in Power BI, but they are not present in Tableau. For example, in Power BI, if I am looking at country-wise population, I can type and ask for the country that has the maximum population, and it will automatically give an answer and address that query. This kind of feature is not there in Tableau. Similarly, in Power BI, for integrating with the latest ML algorithms, we have decision trees and primarily multiple machine learning algorithms. The decision tree essentially visualizes the patterns in the data. We don't have such a feature in Tableau. If Tableau can integrate with the machine learning algorithms and help us to do visualizations, it would be a wonderful combination. Most of the people are going for Tableau primarily for visualization purposes. However, in the data science industry, users want to do model building as well as tell a story. As of now, Tableau is fulfilling the requirements for visualization purposes. If they can bring it up to a level where I can use it for machine learning purposes as well as for visualization, it would be very helpful. Many people who want to do data science don't want to write a code. Tableau is anyway a drag and drop tool, and if they can provide those options as well, it will be a powerful combination."
"Tableau is difficult to scale because of the cost, which makes it difficult to scale."
"The product's features for cloud integration need improvement."
"They need a write-back; that is what is missing. If they get the write back to the database, they will be fully automated, but for the time being, they are not."
"The architecture should be improved to better handle the data."
"There should be more widgets that would help less trained individuals create charts with less difficulty."
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