We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI and XLCubed based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in Reporting."Easy to use and the visualization is valuable."
"The visualization and reporting are the most valuable features of this solution."
"With the out-of-the-box Data Platform and Business Intelligence ecosystem, you get the entire platform with a single license."
"Our setup is very straight forward and can be done in a matter of hours."
"The product can go easily go and extract data and it can put it into any format."
"The solution's initial setup isn't too complicated."
"Everything that's in M Query and DAX is the heart of Power BI because with these tools you can make up for a lot of other missing features."
"It is a good platform for data analysis, organization, and all of the other interim performances that are necessary."
"Great capability, performance, flexibility, visuals, and the solution is also very cost effective."
"I am looking forward to testing their full graphics that are available, as they looked very interesting in the demo."
"One opportunity for improvement would be on the Power Query side. As a consultant, I know Power Query is not the main strength of Power BI. It is not where Power BI shines, but many customers use Power Query to do full ETL workloads for deliverable cookies."
"The challenge of this product is in truncating the table data."
"The initial setup is a little bit technical."
"Real-time refreshing for SAP BW would be nice. We know its on the radar for the development team at MS. "
"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."
"The product’s on-premise reporting servers could support real-time data refreshing capabilities like its on-cloud version."
"From a scalability and performance perspective and based on my understanding and feedback from end users, there's room for improvement in data processing, scaling up, and leveraging the cloud. That could be an enhancement area for me to look into."
"The solution could improve by simplifying the user interface and adding integration or compatibility with APA."
"There should be a better or an easier way to establish that connection to external sources."
"Would like the ability to be able to benchmark."
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Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in Reporting with 297 reviews while XLCubed is ranked 26th in Reporting. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while XLCubed is rated 7.6. 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 XLCubed writes "Cost effective with great capability, performance, flexibility and visuals". Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE, whereas XLCubed is most compared with Tableau.
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