We performed a comparison between Anaconda and Microsoft Power BI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Databricks, Microsoft, Alteryx and others in Data Science Platforms."The most valuable feature is the Jupyter notebook that allows us to write the Python code, compile it on the fly, and then look at the results."
"The virtual environment is very good."
"It's interesting. It's user friendly. That's what makes it outstanding among the others. It has a collection of R, Python, and others. Their platform strategy has a collection of many other visualization tools, apart from Spyder and RStudio, which is really helpful for data science. For any data science professional, Anaconda is really handy. It has almost all the tools for data science."
"The notebook feature is an improvement over RStudio."
"The most advantageous feature is the logic building."
"The product is responsive, sleek and has a beautiful interface that is pleasant to use. It helps users to easily share code."
"The solution is stable."
"The best part of Anaconda is the media distribution that comes as part of it. It gets us started very quickly."
"Allows business users with a mission to solve their own problems, without an IT person."
"What's most valuable in this tool is that it gives its users detailed error messages. It's a very stable data analytics tool, and it offers good scalability."
"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."
"ou can pull reports, visualize them in real-time, and connect them to a variety of other data sources."
"It's a powerful platform."
"The solution's initial setup isn't too complicated."
"Most of the clients I am interacting with are looking towards Power BI because of the cost and simplicities. It provides an entire feature set and a complete solution. It has tight integration with Office 365, Dynamics 365, Microsoft Technology Stack, and datatypes like R and Python."
"It integrates with all of the Microsoft tools."
"It crashes once in a while. In case of a reboot or something unexpected, the unseen code part will get diminished, and it relatively takes longer than other applications when a reboot is happening. They can improve in these areas. They can also bring some database software. They have software for analytics and virtualization. However, they don't have any software for the database."
"The solution would benefit from offering more automation."
"One feature that I would like to see is being able to use a different language in a different cell, which would allow me to mix R and Python together."
"The ability to schedule scripts for the building and monitoring of jobs would be an advantage for this platform."
"Having a small guide or video on the tool would help learn how to use it and what the features are."
"One thing that hurts the product is that the company is not doing more to advertise it as a solution and make it more well known."
"Anaconda should be optimized for RAM consumption."
"When you install Anaconda for the first time, it's really difficult to update it."
"The product doesn't support unstructured data. It doesn't support video, streaming, and strings of files."
"This solution is resource-heavy."
"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."
"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."
"Microsoft Power BI was born native on the cloud, however, it's quite difficult when it has to connect to on-premise data sources."
"It needs more graphics and overlays."
"The integration with third-party products could be more stable."
"It needs an AI which can choose the appropriate connection strings and provide options for connections."
Anaconda is ranked 18th in Data Science Platforms with 1 review while Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 22 reviews. Anaconda is rated 7.8, while Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Anaconda writes "Offers free version and is helpful to handle small-scale workloads". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Power BI writes "User friendly, easy to set up and great for analyzing data". Anaconda is most compared with Databricks, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio, Amazon SageMaker, IBM SPSS Statistics and Domino Data Science Platform, whereas Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE.
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