We performed a comparison between Knowage 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."We can easily do our own customizations."
"The concept of engines is quite powerful allowing the user to work with report authoring/provisioning tools of their choice."
"I can't name the features the way the Knowage community calls them because I still don't know the lingo. However, I can describe them. I like the ability to join more than one report, set all fields on one end, and replicate that on the other reports. I like that a lot. I think it's one of the features that got me using Knowage. They have tables, and I like that too. They took SQL scripts and many other scripts and enabled them to even correlate with Python. That's also one of the best things about Knowage. You could also decide to get information per user role, and this is also a feature that I like in Knowage."
"The embedding feature is great."
"The solution integrates with other Microsoft solutions very well."
"It is very good, and it supports the Microsoft ecosystem, including Excel, etc."
"The standard BI visualization capabilities are great."
"Data integration enabled my organization to easily pool data from our varied system into one data warehouse."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is an easy-to-use tool."
"Because this solution is very easy, and very visual, you can have results in minutes."
"The product is easy to use and simple to navigate."
"Like all Microsoft products, it is very easy to set up initially."
"It would be better if more resources were available to help us learn how to use it. I wanted to use Knowage for a more extended period, but learning materials around the product were not really available and were not really straightforward. I've also seen inconsistencies between versions. For example, under the tools, especially in the cockpit, the way you create reports is now different. You will also find some configurations within a particular state, like a line chart, which differs from version to version. I think consistency is an essential feature in a product, especially for business intelligence products."
"Development of SpagoBI has now been moved to Knowage. Users interested in further developments of the platform will have to look there."
"The only challenge here is that it's a Java-based platform. It requires very high technical skills."
"The dashboard components could be better."
"The on-premises version lacks some technical features that are available with the Cloud version."
"The initial setup is a little bit technical."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly interface with Microsoft BI."
"More connections with other systems should be added, which would allow for other integrations."
"I believe the price should be degressive, and we should have a lower, or better unit price if we have more users."
"Most clients have MacBooks. Therefore, they use Tableau as Power BI Desktop is not available for the MacBook right now."
"People without private emails cannot publish and, frankly, this doesn't allow for easy training."
"The solution could improve by simplifying the user interface and adding integration or compatibility with APA."
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Knowage is ranked 19th in Reporting while Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in Reporting with 297 reviews. Knowage is rated 7.6, while Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Knowage writes "Easy to customize, cross-platform capable, and very stable". 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)". Knowage is most compared with Tableau, Pentaho Business Analytics and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, whereas Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE.
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