We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI and RapidMiner based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."PowerBI – Self-service BI."
"Microsoft BI is very easy to set up and use."
"The product is user-friendly."
"It allows individuals to do the analysis themselves."
"Very intuitive and easy to use."
"The advantages of Microsoft Power BI stem from the fact that it is really easy to use. The drag and drop facilities provided by the product are good."
"It gives you an edge if you are on the Microsoft platform. If you have been using Microsoft products for a long time or if you have the Microsoft infrastructure, this is the right tool for you. It has seamless integration with Microsoft SQL Server and other sources, and you get the best of the three things (SSIS, SSAS, and SSRS) in one suite."
"There is a lot of variety in Power BI. In particular, the visuals are quite rich and the feature set has been growing rapidly in the last two years. Possibly the best part for me is that there are a lot of ways to connect with data sources."
"I've been using a lot of components from the Strategic Extension and Python Extension."
"Using the GUI, I can have models and algorithms drag and drop nodes."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature is what the product sets out to do, which is extracting information and data."
"The best part of RapidMiner is efficiency."
"The most valuable feature of RapidMiner is that it is code free. It is similar to playing with Lego pieces and executing after you are finished to see the results. Additionally, it is easy to use and has interesting utilities when preparing the data. It has a utility to automatically launch a series of models and show the comparisons. When finished with the comparisons you can select the best one, and deploy it automatically."
"It is easy to use and has a huge community that I can rely on for help. Moreover, it is interactive."
"The documentation for this solution is very good, where each operator is explained with how to use it."
"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."
"There are some connector-related issues in their MSBA solution."
"I have been doing trial and error to figuring out how to do the data analyzing and modeling. There could be some improvement to simplify it."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly interface with Microsoft BI."
"Areas of Power BI that could be improved are the learning curve for developers who come from non-technical backgrounds."
"I would like for the next release to have better desktop performance, especially for big databases. Additionally, I would like to have more integrations with programs like Salesforce in order to get more live data coming in."
"From any improvement perspective, I want the product to be made available to users free of cost...The stability and scalability of the product can be better."
"It is definitely a wonderful analytics tool. However, database ETL, data integration functionality would be absolutely perfect in many cases. Currently, it doesn't get the job done and we need to extract, transform, and load the data from faulty data sets into something more suitable for the deployment of the analytics tool."
"Improve the online data services."
"The biggest problem, not from a platform process, but from an avoidance process, is when you work in a heavily regulated environment, like banking and finance. Whenever you make a decision or there is an output, you need to bill it as an avoidance to the investigator or to the bank audit team. If you made decisions within this machine learning model, you need to explain why you did so. It would better if you could explain your decision in terms of delivery. However, this is an issue with all ML platforms. Many companies are working heavily in this area to help figure out how to make it more explainable to the business team or the regulator."
"RapidMiner isn't cheap. It's a complete solution, but it's costly."
"Many things in the interface look nice, but they aren't of much use to the operator. It already has lots of variables in there."
"I think that they should make deep learning models easier."
"I would like to see all users have access to all of the deep learning models, and that they can be used easily."
"It would be helpful to have some tutorials on communicating with Python."
"I would appreciate improvements in automation and customization options to further streamline processes."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews while RapidMiner is ranked 2nd in Predictive Analytics with 19 reviews. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while RapidMiner is rated 8.6. 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)". On the other hand, the top reviewer of RapidMiner writes "Offers good tutorials that make it easy to learn and use, with a powerful feature to compare machine learning algorithms". Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE, whereas RapidMiner is most compared with KNIME, Alteryx, Dataiku Data Science Studio, Tableau and Databricks.
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