We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, and Zoho Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."The initial setup is straightforward."
"It is more user-friendly compared to SSRS."
"I like that I can use Power BI to upload data. That is very important for me. The visualization is also convenient and easy to use."
"My favorite feature is the power query editor, where it can do the data transformations."
"The initial setup is easy."
"In contrast to what we were using before I think that Power BI has given us more extensive results."
"The solution is easy to use and flexible."
"ou can pull reports, visualize them in real-time, and connect them to a variety of other data sources."
"When compared with Power BI, Tableau is much easier."
"While using this solution I have found the valuable features to be ease of use and the visualization. It is a complete solution."
"Tableau's most valuable features are user-friendliness and have a connection between multiple source systems. You can publish a report by using Tableau Public and there you can make your data online, not only batches of data, you can use it as an online analytical tool."
"Any feature I am looking for usually is part of the next upgrade within a few months. They have a very good dynamic evolution."
"Tableau is highly scalable. Now that they've introduced Hyper, you can create an extract of more than 5 million rows in minutes and then do your analysis."
"The most valuable feature is the interface, which is user-friendly and intuitive."
"It's very user-friendly. It's not like Power BI, Tableau is very user-friendly. Anybody can use Tableau. It's very easy to adopt things. I can visualize the stats."
"I really like the interactivity of the dashboards."
"Scheduling of reports and dashboards is the most valuable feature of Zoho Analytics."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"We really like that it's user friendly and has a lot of combinations and charts. They're good compared to other tools. We used a free Elastic product, comparatively, this solution is good because of their support, UI, and connecting to databases is very easy."
"Ask Zia is a great feature that I use to quickly decide what improvements I need to make in order to present the data that I want to show."
"I like the way I can share dashboards and embed dashboards. I normally use embedding. So, I create a dashboard, and I embed it into specific websites. Sharing of the dashboard is seamless, and it is easier than any other visualization platform, even Tableau."
"The front end of this solution including the graph generation using SQL has been most useful."
"It's a very strong analytics tool."
"It provides insights into leads, information about the team and about various sales activities. The graphical representations in the form of charts is excellent."
"They can improve the user interface a little bit to make it more user-friendly. When creating a dashboard, it is not very user-friendly. You have to click on a certain style and use your keyboard keys to move it. You cannot drag and drop it."
"here are some limitations with the data models needed to build the report."
"The orchestration module for refreshing data flows is something that is missing and we have to do it manually."
"I feel the modeling page should be simplified."
"Its setup and support should be improved. We would like to see more material for developers that provides clear explanations about how we can do data mining by using Microsoft BI. It would also be good if we can connect a feature to other customized machine learning solutions."
"We did have some issues building the Microsoft blog."
"The solution's documentation needs improvement."
"Power BI shows reports on actual data, not metadata."
"There are more than a powerful tool in the market, such as Microsoft BI."
"With Tableau, there is a gap in its ability to handle very large-scale data."
"If I have to develop any, for example, pie charts, I can develop them just fine. However, if I have to develop a donut chart, that I cannot do it in a simple way. There are tricks that I need to use if I have to design a donut chart. It should be more flexible and provide more visualization options."
"There could be improvements on the mobile application, it is lacking features."
"Its price is a concern. It is more expensive than Power BI. The other thing that I never liked about Tableau is its ability to handle large sets of data. To present the data in the dashboards, we have to stage it up exactly like it is going to come into the dashboard. We use another tool called Alteryx that does that for us. So, we manipulate the data, get it staged, and then push it into Tableau. Tableau is terrible at handling large data sets, and we knew right away that we couldn't use Tableau to do data manipulation."
"In the next release, I would like to be able to have the option to see more raw data that I'm converting on the dashboard."
"There should be more widgets that would help less trained individuals create charts with less difficulty."
"The forecasting feature in Tableau in my view is too limited because it must have dates but I should be able to predict the outcome of an event without having a date as part of the input."
"The support for Zoho Analytics is pathetic."
"The navigation on the interface is not intuitive."
"There is a limitation that we cannot create more than 300 columns in a worksheet on Zoho Analytics."
"It would be great to have more user input fields which can be used on dashboards."
"This solution does not support manufacturing facilities."
"The customer service and support for this solution could be improved by faster response times."
"They should provide white labeling with a cheaper option. I know they have a white labeling feature in which I can white label Zoho Analytics with my company theme, logo, and URL, but it seems a little expensive. If they can make it cheaper, it would be great. The same is applicable to Tableau."
"There should be more types of graphics available for use in the reports."
