We performed a comparison between IBM SPSS Modeler and Microsoft Power BI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Knime, Weka, IBM and others in Data Mining."We use analytics with the visual modeling capability to leverage productivity improvements."
"It's a very organized product. It's easy to use."
"Extremely easy to use, it offers a generous selection of proprietary machine learning algorithms."
"The visual modeling capability is one of its attractive features."
"Some basic form of feature engineering for classification models. This really quickens the model development process."
"Stability is good."
"It gives you a GUI interface, which is a lot more user-friendly and easier to use compared to writing R scripts or Python."
"It is a great product for running statistical analysis."
"Users already using Excel can generate new reports and dashboards within minutes."
"Being able to transfer data with the Power Query feature is great for teaching with about one to two hundred rows of data. I am also able to see the relationship between multiple tables and create various sheets and dashboards."
"It provides good visibility."
"It is very good, and it supports the Microsoft ecosystem, including Excel, etc."
"We are able to collaborate on things and get insightful data visualizations."
"It's pretty easy to set up the product."
"The ease of integration and connectivity stands out as the most critical aspect, followed closely by the flexibility to customize reports and dashboards."
"We found the initial setup to be straightforward."
"The biggest issue with the visual modeling capability is that we can't extract the SQL code under the hood."
"Neural networks are quite simple, and now neural networks are evolving to these architecture related to deep learning, etc. They didn't incorporate this in IBM SPSS Modeler."
"When you are not using the product, such as during the pandemic where we had worldwide lockdowns, you still have to pay for the licensing."
"Regarding visual modeling, it is not the biggest strength of the product, although from what I hear in the latest release it's going to be a lot stronger. That, to me, has always been the biggest flaw in using this. It's very difficult to get good visualization."
"Expensive to deploy solutions. You need to buy an extra deployment unit."
"It would be beneficial if the tool would include more well-known machine learning algorithms."
"The product does not have a search function for tags."
"I understand that it takes some time to incorporate some of the new algorithms that have come out in the last few months, in the literature. For example, there is an algorithm based on how ants search for food. And there are some algorithms that have now been developed to complement rules. So that's one of the things that we need to have incorporated into it."
"Some kind of expression wizard, where the user can build a complex expression without any knowledge of DAX, can be a good addition to the product."
"The initial installation is difficult."
"Microsoft BI has its own challenges in terms of user interface and how quickly somebody can learn how to use it."
"The product’s on-premise reporting servers could support real-time data refreshing capabilities like its on-cloud version."
"Most of the dashboarding tools have prebuilt graphs. So, you have to stick with them, unless you are going to use a third-party tool to create them, and then you are going to upload them to the BI tool. In Power BI, they started supporting this functionality and created a tool for that, but it isn't yet complete and mature. It is still exceeding the expectations and is better than most of the BI tools when it comes to creating custom graphs, but it needs more enhancement and simplification. It would be good to have a design tool provided by Power BI to design the graphs that we want and set the figures that we want on them."
"I would like it to be a little bit more secure when I'm using the design feature on my desktop. For example, to have the ability to set up security passwords for opening the file. Currently, they don't have that. Tableau, for example, has a visual way of doing data processing steps, whereas the Power BI system still has some code, although it is very low code. It would be great to have the kind of view that Tableau has."
"Better mapping capabilities and easier administration access would be beneficial, especially for understanding who has viewed reports."
"I'm looking for something that can make it much easier to incorporate Power BI visuals or dashboards into, let's say, Power Apps – custom Power Apps or anything like that. The most important thing would be to seamlessly embed reports in applications. For example, to have buttons that can be navigated through multiple solutions – from Power Apps to Power BI to SharePoint – via links or something like that."
IBM SPSS Modeler is ranked 4th in Data Mining with 38 reviews while Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews. IBM SPSS Modeler is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM SPSS Modeler writes "Easy to use, quick to learn, and offers many ways to analyze data". 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)". IBM SPSS Modeler is most compared with KNIME, RapidMiner, IBM SPSS Statistics, Alteryx and SAS Visual Analytics, whereas Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE.
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