We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI, SAS Visual Analytics, and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."There is a feature in Microsoft BI that allows JSON data to SQL on the dashboards effectively and quickly."
"Constant collaboration is the most valuable. I can build a dashboard, and several co-workers can access this dashboard. We can share information that is important for decision-making. It is a very easy-to-deploy solution. It is compatible with a lot of data sources. It is also very stable and scalable. There is also a very good forum and a lot of help and online training."
"It is a powerful tool that helps our data analysis processes."
"The virtualization of Microsoft BI is very good."
"I think the visualization part is valuable."
"Technical support has been great."
"There is also a chart store where we can download charts, which is extremely useful."
"The data can be accessed from anywhere."
"Quick deployment to dashboards and analytics features (using SAS Visual Statistics and Enterprise Guide). Easy to create a simple forecast and discover business insights using segmentation tools."
"We've found the product to be stable and reliable."
"Great for handling complex data models."
"It's quite easy to learn and to progress with SAS from an end-user perspective."
"Visual Analytics is very easy to use. I use Visual Analytics for all the typical use cases except text mining. I used it to analyze data and monitor statistics, not text mining. I also use it for data visualization as well as creating interactive dashboards and infographics."
"The flexibility of the configuration is valuable to me."
"What I really love about the software is that I have never struggled in implementing it for complex business requirements. It is good for highly sophisticated and specialized statistics in the areas that some people tend to call artificial intelligence. It is used for everything that involves visual presentation and analysis of highly sophisticated statistics for forecasting and other purposes."
"It's a stable, reliable product."
"This service is the combination of very pleasant, interactive graphical visualizations along with the application of advanced statistical models (in some cases)."
"We found Tableau has the quickest learning time out of the few other BI reporting tools that we have used."
"It is easy to use, and it can handle a large amount of data."
"Tableau's visualization features let you present information insights quickly and practically. So it's something which I prefer with Tableau. In terms of reporting, I have to point out the sheer quality and function of the Tableau server, but the first impression is that it's a great visualization tool."
"The most valuable feature is the aggregation function."
"Scheduled extract and the multiple connectors are fantastic!"
"The solution makes for very productive and really informative decision making. It can lead the whole business and build a strategy across whole working departments."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"The setup took a lot of tinkering with InfoSec to allow us to do stuff."
"The dashboard could be simplified."
"In Microsoft Excel, you are able to have tabs. However, in Microsoft BI you do not have this flexibility."
"The mobile app is very poor."
"We need more integration capabilities."
"The only challenge I have found is that they do not have a Mac version."
"They can improve it in terms of rule-based security. Currently, it has very limited rules."
"Its performance and stability can be improved. It takes time to load, and sometimes, it also breaks down for the whole region. Its usability could also be better, and it could also have more connections with different data sources."
"In Brazil, there are few documents, courses, and other resources for studying and implementing the tool."
"The solution should improve its graphics."
"The visualization should be better in SAS Visual Analytics. It is easy to use but when compared to other solutions it is lacking and the support is not very good."
"Colours used on report objects"
"The solution is a little weak at the front end."
"There is a need for coding when it comes to digital reporting which can be intimidating."
"The licensing ends up being more expensive than other options."
"I haven't come across any missing features."
"I take a long time to process the hundreds of thousands or millions of records that must be processed every day."
"The cost of owning the solutions from Tableau is much higher compared to any other analytical solutions."
"People are migrating to Microsoft BI due to the speed, which is quite slow to load, and the lack of visualization options."
"The pricing is a bit higher than the competition. They'll need to lower it to stay competitive."
"From a downside perspective, some of the more advanced modeling techniques are actually fairly difficult to do. In addition, I just fundamentally disagree with the way you have to implement them because you can get incorrect answers in some cases."
"Most of the problems in Tableau Online that I have noticed have to do with performance or weird, inexplicable bugs that I can't pin down. For example, you might try unloading some data, and you'll be waiting for a long time without anything happening."
"The product needs to allow for better ways to drill down more effectively on the information at hand."
"The solution does have scalability issues."
