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."Microsoft BI's most valuable feature is flexibility."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"It integrates better with other Microsoft products. It is very easy to use and has very powerful visualizations. It has also got a lot of development going on."
"With Power BI, you're able to store your data within spreadsheets and SharePoints, and then have Power BI pull the data out and report on it. So we actually saved a ton of money not needing to load the data into databases, which is a big prerequisite for many other reporting tools."
"This is a self-service BI tool, so it doesn't require a huge amount of technical training, knowledge, or a background in BI in order to induct new people into it."
"The scalability is good. We have 20 people in my organization using this solution and plan to increase usage."
"It ingegrates nicely with Office 365."
"It's similar to Excel, but it's much more powerful than Excel."
"I am looking forward to testing their full graphics that are available, as they looked very interesting in the demo."
"Great capability, performance, flexibility, visuals, and the solution is also very cost effective."
"I think because I'm moving more into RPA, I'd definitely like to see integration across the RPA, Power BI, or Tableau platforms, because that integration could then make automation and mundane reporting much faster."
"When there are large amounts of data being processed there are additional tools needed to handle it."
"If you look at the new tool, even though they promised that you could do data modeling, that you could do everything from the Power BI side, if your data is really large in volume, sometimes it doesn't work on the Power BI. More feature testing from their side would certainly help users."
"The visualization aspect, while being the most visible to business users, also happens the be the weakest point in the entire Microsoft BI stack."
"I would like to see a change in the premium capacity."
"You need to purchase upgraded support separately."
"The default parameters of the prompt could be improved by including a dynamic option."
"I would prefer that the solution not be shared. I'm concerned that if we make a mistake we could reveal information to people who shouldn't see it. I would like to have my own on-prem server, to buy my own server and have my own infrastructure for Microsoft BI, with only with my data."
"Would like the ability to be able to benchmark."
"There should be a better or an easier way to establish that connection to external sources."
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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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