We performed a comparison between Birst and Microsoft Power BI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in Reporting."Dashboards and self-service reports. These are widely used by customers in the EPM domain."
"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."
"My primary use is for view of the dashboard."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It gives us, the ability to do a lot of analysis quickly, similar to ad hoc analysis."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the visual aspect and the DAX capabilities to virtually do anything."
"It is in the cloud, which makes it easy for mobile access of reports and data."
"The feature I find most valuable is the ability to publish Power Bi reports, using an embedded link, directly onto a website."
"The amount of customization that you can do is good, and it's relatively straightforward to do."
"Customer support takes lot of time to get a solution."
"If you have to pull multiple data sources performance is somewhat lacking."
"It is too slow. I hope in future it will be a comparable big data tool, such as, for example, Data Lake."
"For someone who is new, I think that Power BI can be a little complicated."
"I would like to see a change in the premium capacity."
"Microsoft BI lacks integration capabilities, so it needs to consider increasing its integration capabilities."
"I would like to see more AI capabilities in future releases. There's a strong interest in AI, including technologies like GPT, which facilitate real-time interactions."
"The data source definition is all over the place."
"The reporting needs to be improved."
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Birst is ranked 32nd in Reporting while Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in Reporting with 297 reviews. Birst is rated 7.4, while Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Birst writes "The dashboards and Visualizer are valuable". On the other hand, 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)". Birst is most compared with ThoughtSpot and Alteryx, whereas Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE.
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