Microsoft Power BI Pricing
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Tariq Raza (MS Certified)
Operations & BI Analyst at American Hospital Dubai
Power BI comes in three levels – Desktop, Pro, and Premium. The Desktop level is free for individual users. Pro – The Pro plan costs $9.99 per user, per month and includes a mobile app, the ability to publish and share reports, a 1 GB model size limit, eight data refreshes daily, the ability to connect to over 100 data sources, embedded APIs and controls, AI visuals, data security and encryption, metrics for content creation and publishing and up to 10 GB per user maximum storage. Pro is available for free for companies that have the Microsoft 365 E5 solution. Premium (per user) – Microsoft launched this new pricing strategy that costs $20 per user, per month. It includes all of the features of the Pro plan, plus paginated reports, a 100 GB model size limit, 48 data refreshes daily, advanced AI features, XMLA endpoint read/write connectivity, data flows, the ability to analyze data stored in Azure Data Lake Storage, application lifecycle management and up to 100 TB of maximum storage. Premium (per capacity) – This plan starts at $4,995 per month per dedicated cloud compute and storage resource. It includes all of the features of the Premium per user plan, plus on-premise reporting, a 400 GB model limit, multi-location deployment management, Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) and autoscale add-on.
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Deepak Damodarr
Data Office Lead at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
They have made the desktop client free of cost, which is also what Qlik Sense is. The Qlik Sense Desktop is free of cost. Tableau, the web version of Tableau online, there's a trial period you can use it for. Microsoft also has made Power BI available as a free add-on, or a free complimentary add-on alongside Office 365 for corporate users. This means even if the organization does not want to use Power BI, if they're using Qlik Sense, Tableau, Looker, ThoughtSpot, Domo, or the other tools, Power BI will still be available to them when they're using Microsoft Office.
While it comes bundled with Office, you don't have to buy any additional licenses, just for building and publishing. That said, the moment you want to start sharing your reports, your dashboards, and your analysis with others, that is the point where you need to then start paying for additional capabilities or plans.
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Ram-Krish
Cloud Security & Governance at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
It's cheap compared to other solutions.
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Microsoft Power BI
April 2024
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Itay Oleinik
Vice President at Shiluv
Its price is very low. It is like $10 per user, per month. The clients pay for their own licenses. It is not on us.
There are no costs in addition to the standard licensing fees. That's the beauty. With other systems, you need to spend a couple of thousand dollars just to get started, and then you need to spend $500 per year for the license, which becomes much more costly. You have a system here where for $120 to $140 a year, you can start with two people and start developing and deploying. You can see why the cost difference is huge, especially when you are on a low scale, like us, and you're not building something very huge.
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Artur-Kowalczyk
Technology Director at HCL Technologies
Subscribing to Power BI entails various payment options, including different tiers of subscriptions, some of which can be quite costly. However, there is also a free tier available. Additionally, Power BI licensing may be bundled with Office or Microsoft 365 subscriptions, offering different levels of partial licensing based on your Office 365 subscription. Microsoft emphasizes bundling licensing to make it more appealing to users. While Power BI is generally a paid product, particularly for enterprise features and scalability, you can start with the free version and still achieve significant functionality.
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IdanEnright
Inovation Manager at SoCalGas
I think it's a good price, from what I've heard. I know it's competitive with other Power BI tools. It comes in lower. I've heard no complaints about the pricing.
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Alaa T Alhorani
Sr. Consultant (Enterprise Architect) at Devoteam
Power BI is subscription-based, and you have three options. The Pro edition, which is the standard one, is about $9 per user. The Premium edition, which provides AI and cloud capabilities but at a limited size, is for small to medium enterprises. It is about $20 per user. For large enterprises, such as manufacturing facilities, there is an option for the capacity. The capacity subscription is about $4,000 per capacity level.
They also have an option for the on-premises version, but it is not common to see someone going for the on-premises version. The on-premises version requires a specific license that is attached to SQL Server. I believe it is about $17,000, but I'm not sure about it.
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PedroNavarro
BI Development & Validation Manager at JT International SA
We have premium licenses, but you can use it for free. You can share the content with anyone else, so you can use it for free.
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CC Lee
Data Scientist at PIC Group Inc.
The solution is very affordable.
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Samar Moustafa
BI Developer at AHBS
It's accessible with some subscriptions. We have a lot of users that we can send dashboards to daily, and that would cost a lot of money otherwise. But setting up Power BI itself is not expensive.
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Harish-Mahanta
Sr PeopleSoft Consultant at Mahanta Solutions
It's about balancing cost and value. Although Power BI is cost-effective compared to other reporting tools, its pricing should be more adaptable based on the size of the organization to ensure it remains cost-effective for both small and large entities. For example, if the organization has a million end-users, it should be cost-effective.
This is important when considering the scalability of solutions like Kronos or Banner ERP systems, ensuring the cost is aligned with the organizational needs.
The pricing is very low and competitive. Microsoft could consider adjusting the price according to the size and needs of the organization, balancing demand with supply.
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Alexander Roussekov
Solution Architect at Seqwater
I'm not very familiar with the licensing aspect, as it operates in the cloud as a SaaS (Software as a Service) model. Essentially, you pay based on cloud cost models, which might include hourly rates or similar billing structures introduced by Microsoft. Many organizations utilize it and pay for its services, somewhat like Office 365. It's a cloud-based platform that provides the necessary services, including support, for development, and you pay accordingly for the usage.
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GheorgheSANDRU
Founder at AiALL
Price is the best feature of Power BI! You get a lot of value for the price. If you know how to use it, it's a great BI solution for your money.
A complete solution license is no more than fifty euros per month – that's not expensive at all. Even thirty euros per month is enough to have Power BI, Power Apps, SharePoint solutions, and things like that. Very, very cheap.
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Edwin Matodzi
Head of Strategy & Architecture at Auditor General
When my company compared the price of Alteryx to Microsoft BI, we found Alteryx's price to be higher than Microsoft BI's price.
In general, Microsoft BI's price is lower compared to Alteryx.
Esteban Fabiani
Project and Consultant Manager at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
The price of Power BI is very good. It is reasonable.
Harry Murdani
Manager, IT Security at Averis
I would rate the pricing an eight out of ten, with one being cheap and ten being expensive.
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reviewer1264689
Director, IoT and Connected Products Portfolio at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
I cannot speak to the exact pricing. Sometimes we, for example, resell some licenses. We are strategic partners with Microsoft. It entirely depends on how the contract with the customers is. Sometimes the customer procures all the licenses and gives them to us and sometimes we resell the licenses. It completely varies from customer to customer.
Mohammed Ghonaim
Senior Oracle Application Consultants at Saudi Telecom Company
We pay an annual licensing fee.
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RicardoPedro
Northern Europe IT Business Intelligence Manager at Adecco
We have 8,000 Power Bi licenses in our organization, so it is widely used. Setup is easy, and the cost is economical. You do sometimes need to pay additional costs for third party products which "plug-in" to Microsoft BI.
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Dawn McClure
IT Project Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Licensing costs are on an annual basis. There are no fees in addition to the licensing.
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reviewer1521363
Digital Strategy Manager at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
We have a yearly contract. We signed up for three years and that rolls over annually.
We have a bundle, an enterprise-level package. Its pricing is good for us.
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Marcelo Pissinati
IT Cybersecurity and Compliance Coordinator at Plaenge
The pricing for the solution is relatively higher compared to other alternatives.
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Biswajith Gopinathan
Data Analytics Specialist at GlaxoSmithKline
You don't need a license for the development, but if you want to publish to external users, you need a license. The licensing is very costly, but I think that since the advantages and benefits of Power BI are so high, people are willing to pay. I can't blame them.
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WinayakWagle
Owner at Pranali Consultants
We don't deal directly with licensing. That said, certainly, we are aware in terms of what the Microsoft BI license costs. If it has to be applied on the cloud, then it costs around $10 per month per user. For a pro license and for a premium license it's around $20 per month per user. If it has to be applied on-premises then, depending on the course of your server, you have to buy a software assurance version of the database.
They don't charge for additional features. If you want a premium capacity to handle your work or job, then there is a separate license available. That is a premium license, which is available with the entire product managed by Microsoft and you can use lot more features, including Azure, et cetera.
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Nathan Gadson
Managing Director at Streamline Strategies
They are charging us by users in storage, and there is a license fee. My financial people handle all that. The client has already worked out a contract with Microsoft, and basically, we're getting government prices.
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TarekYehia
Technical Consultant at LinkDev
My company needs to make monthly payments towards the licensing costs attached to the product. Considering my company's turnover, we need a tool that offers more flexibility and allows us to increase or decrease the solution in our environment.
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reviewer1566945
Statistician / Data Scientist at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
The pricing is reasonable, at about 6.3 euros per user per month.
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JasminaMarkovic
BI Developer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Microsoft BI is considered to be competitively priced when compared to other similar solutions in the market.
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reviewer1752714
Chief Manager at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
We're charged a monthly subscription fee of 500 rupees per person.
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MartinAnderson
Owner at BNS
We view it as an expensive product.
Most of our clients cannot afford the premium capacity.
We just make do with Power BI pro features, which is always a big shame because we know that the premium version has a lot of features that we would like to use, and are not available to us.
There are a few different licensing models.
It ends up being complicated and people don't like paying for things. It's okay if you're working for a large corporation because they can obviously spend thousands of pounds every month on licenses, but our customers cannot.
Licensing is paid on a monthly basis.
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Santosh Kurakula
Group DWH and BI Senior Manager at Virgin Mobile Middle East and Africa
We don't have a license on Power BI, so we don't publish anything. It's mainly for some ad hoc use cases that we use Power BI format.
Power BI is free; it comes with Office 365.
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reviewer1142208
Director at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I would rate them 4 out of 5 for their current pricing. There are no additional costs to the standard licensing fees.
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Ariful Ambia
Executive Director at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We do have a license for the product.
We purchased a few licenses for the top bosses who want to see the reports on the run, on their own PC, laptop, or mobile. We purchased a few licenses for the developers as well. other than that, no need to purchase a license.
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Amarnath K
OBIEE/ODI senior consultant at Kastech
The solution is less expensive than other PowerBI tools, but more so than those of MSBI.
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VikasKapoor
CFO at Travel Food Services ltd
Licensing is on an annual basis. We have a complete Microsoft Ecosystem license. I think there is room for improvement with the licensing, specifically during the pandemic when it would have been reasonable to offer a discount. Many other companies, SAP and Oracle, for example, gave waivers to the MSME sector. Microsoft traditionally is used by smaller or medium-sized companies so I was expecting some sort of discount on the pricing, but unfortunately that didn't happen. We managed to avoid an escalation in cost, but frankly speaking, a discount would have been much appreciated.
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BlessingSithole
Software Engineer at syntegra
We pay on a monthly basis which is approximately $10 per user on the Microsoft Power BI Pro license. At the moment we are still down at 400 users, but once we reach 500 users, we will move to the premium edition. The premium is $5,000 for unlimited users. Currently, with the 40 users, the cost is roughly $500.
There can be some additional cost, for instance, it was an internal decision to have an on-premises gateway set up with the standard Windows Server installed on it. We had to set up this server on our side, which costs us no more than $400. This was important because we needed something to allow our reports to refresh on a regular interval without people using the personal gateways.
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Oscar Estorach
Chief Data-strategist and Director at Theworkshop.es
Microsoft BI is free for the personal edition, but there is also a paid-for professional version. Setting up Microsoft BI is simple.
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Rohit B
Lead Statistical Analyst | Innovation Champion at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
We have a premium Power BI license in-house that's quite an expensive license. It's $10 a month for four users and then I think 35,000 at the premium rate.
Ankita Mandowara
Senior Software Engineer at Ace Infoway Pvt. Ltd
I rate the product price an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price.
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SwatiGupta2
Head of analytics team at Botree Software
Microsoft BI for desktop is free to use, and you can download and use it.
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Ariful Mondal
Global Data Architecture and Data Science Director at FH
The cost of this product is very low, at approximately $8 or $9 per month for a developer. It is the cheapest of all of the visualization tools. They have a 30-day trial available for you to try it.
For personal use, this product is free to use.
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Manu Boudewyn
IT Enterprise Architect - Partnership at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
Our license is paid yearly and we have found that we have to be careful not to over-extend our usage in order to avoid upgrading our capacity plan.
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Irving Ginzburg
President & Owner at Altrim Systems
It's straightforward licensing. I would guess we pay $300 to $400 per month for everyone or something along those lines.
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Rakesh Acharya
Manager Technical Architect at Legato Health Technologies
I'm unsure about the exact cost, but the Pro license comes out to around $10 per user. There are also additional costs for custom visuals that you can pay for.
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Nurul Asyikin Wahab
Portfolio manager at a transportation company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The solution is quite expensive.
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Gery Vasquez
New Digital Applications Specialist at Alpina Sa
The price of the license can be better.
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Akhilesh Shrivas
Cognos Consultant at Surtel technologies
I'd prefer if the licensing was a bit better.
The customers need to pay the licensing fee. I can't speak to the exact pricing for their contract.
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reviewer1620744
VP Cloud Platform
The licensing is a little convoluted, and not easy to take advantage of. You're able to scale it in the premium model. However, they are very different versions. There's a difficulty in understanding which one of them applies to you and what the costs would be eventually, and what the performance and thresholds are for each one. The documentation might be there, however, for a small company, in order to find out all the aspects of licensing it's not that easy.
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reviewer1753443
Cloud business Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
My customers pay a yearly licensing fee.
From a cost point of view, it's competitive in the enterprise space, although it's not as competitive when you add up all of the additional costs. Things like integrations cost extra and it's probably where Microsoft makes more of the money.
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AndreaD'Orio
Chief Technical Officer at Value Partners
We find the licensing to be very straightforward. It's easier to understand than other options on the market.
The pricing is fairly inexpensive. It's not a costly solution.
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Dan Moisescu
Advisor to the Zambia Revenues Authority at GIZ
We have an enterprise agreement with Microsoft concerning the license which decreased the cost of the licenses for Microsoft BI. I have found it to be cheaper than other solutions. It is always difficult to compare the Total Cost of Ownership, mainly because most of the big companies do have a very blur licensing system. The most open one seems to be Tableau.
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Ankur Arya
Solution Architect
We have used a client-based service in the pricing. As yet, there are no additional costs.
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Jorge Barroso
Consultor at Scitum
If you are looking for free tools to process data in different ways for an easy to medium analysis then you have the free version available. However, if you want a complex analysis from multiple sources of data then you should look for the charge and support version.
In my opinion, both options are good.
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it_user181869
Microsoft BI Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
It varies from place to place. But a typical license would cost anywhere from a few thousand bucks to the upper $20k-$30k range.
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Syed Fahad Anwar
Principal System Developer at HHRC
Power BI comes with enterprise Microsoft licensing. So for the user, you don't have to pay, but you do have to pay a one-time cost.
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reviewer1776825
Practice Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Microsoft Power BI has reasonable pricing.
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Sumit_Gupta
BI Consultant at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The pricing is good. It's pretty competitive because I have worked on a few other tools as well, and Power BI is on the cheaper side.
That said, many times people are attracted by its affordable price tag, but then they see that it doesn't do everything they want and they conclude that that was the reason why it was so cheap. There's a problem with this kind of thinking, because even though it might not have everything, the price is still on the cheaper side compared to other analysis products like MicroStrategy. The complete suite of features from MicroStrategy is very costly, but at the same time there's no doubt that it can achieve a lot.
What you get with Power BI is that you start to find that even simple stuff requires a lot of gymnastics to achieve because there's no in-built, straightforward feature for it and you need to come up with a workaround. There are a few too many workarounds needed for my comfort, but otherwise it's a very good tool and it's one of my favorites. The pricing is competitive for a reason.
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reviewer1236651
Accounting Services Finance Manager M&S at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees
We have to pay for licensing. I've paid for a license in the past.
We'd like for it to be a little less expensive.
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reviewer1417392
Contact Center Consultant at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
I have not had a customer suggest the solution is too expensive. There are licenses to use the solution.
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reviewer1447362
Manager - Customer Success at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
I personally do not pay for a license. It may be arranged through our company. I have no insights into that aspect of the solution, however.
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Dimitris Iracleous
Lead Technical Instructor at codehub
The cost of the solution is more flexible for us because the desktop is free and we pay as we use it in the cloud.
The customers have licenses of their own. We use their installations to help them with their work. Usually, these people represent new entries into the company and we give them the initial experience to start working with the software.
it_user829302
Head of IT at a construction company with 10,001+ employees
Make it low in cost. It is a no-brainer!
Remove the cost of a licence to show a dashboard within SharePoint. Why should readers of a dashboard have to pay to view?
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reviewer1789389
BI/BO Hana Application Consultant at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The pricing is fair. They give you many options by splitting up the licensing. They have multiple types of licenses out there based on your usage. You can increase your pricing if you use it a bit more, however, it's still quite reasonable as compared to SAP.
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reviewer1755777
Technical Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
In terms of licensing, I've never worked on the contractual side of their license. However, I believe that the number of licenses currently in use is appropriate for our organization. It also adds value to the team. I have never worked on licensing, but I have heard that it is reasonable.
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reviewer1620732
Associate at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Power BI is cheaper than Tableau and Cognos. Power BI Desktop comes free and the Pro license is $10 per month whereas Tableau desktop would cost you $70 per month. Cognos is mostly suited for large and medium size companies
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Hanine Allaya
Data Science Intern at Clockworkx Gmbh
I used a two months free trial to see if it had what I needed. I can pay later for a full license, but I don't think I will do that.
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reviewer1709679
Information Technology Architect at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
We are end-users, and we don't take care of the prices and accounting. We get a product and pay the fee to our internal service provider, but its price should be reasonable. Otherwise, they wouldn't have bought it.
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AndreasSemousu
Technical Sales Manager at Skhomo Technologies
Most of the customers we work with go for volume licenses. Some pay annually or get a more extended license for three to five years. All of the licenses are on an annual basis, but Microsoft will amortize it to an extent. If it's five years, they'll include the possible interest they might have the following year. Ideally, their licensing scheme is an annual license, but they make it easier for some of our clients to take a five-year license but package everything inside for them to buy the license for five years.
I think that's helpful because most government institutions budget on a five-year basis. They have a five-year plan broken down into an annual OPEX. The CAPEX will be five years, and everything else would be OPEX. Most of these licenses get put on an OPEX whereby the client pays once. Then for the five years, they don't necessarily have to worry about anything with Microsoft.
These licenses are in US dollars. With a long-term license, the client is unaffected when the exchange rate goes up. However, if the exchange rate goes down, you don't get refunded from the excess money you've paid. I guess that is a risk you take in business.
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TariqMuhammad
Assistant General Manager at ELEVATE Solutions Limited
The pricing is reasonable. It's not overly expensive, although you will need to pay for extra support if you think you will need assistance regularly.
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reviewer1571454
Manage Client Partner at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
This solution came free, it was offered by Microsoft with our E3 license.
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Carlos Hulot
Product and Systems Director at SPCM
Power BI's price is good relative to its competitors. It has more than 400 or 500 different connectors. A lower price would always be welcome. The price is fine, but the licensing is complicated. Quantum mechanics is easier to understand than Microsoft licensing.
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Hadi Soeharto
IT RM at KNV
The license is on a yearly basis.
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Nader MOALLA
Managing partner at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees
Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis.
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Augusta Marbenny
MIS Specialist at a agriculture with 201-500 employees
We haven't thought much about licensing because we're still dealing with some administrative hang-ups. Once all these things are resolved, then we go for the license. It is in process.
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Michele Nelson
BI Solution Engineer at DataSelf
Its pricing is reasonable for the desktop stuff, but for enterprise-level, it is a little expensive.
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SureshSrinivasan
Assistant Vice President at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
I am satisfied with its price. Its price is very less as compared to Tableau and QlikView.
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Marian Petkov
Team Leader at Eurobank EFG Bulgaria AD
Microsoft BI is not very cheap. A premium license costs roughly 5,000 euros a month.
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ChrisBanks
Business Intelligence Developer at Kathmandu
It depends on what you are wanting to do. Get the cost of users, and the servers, and work out if you are hosting, or if it's going into the cloud.
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Database Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
It is setup by the organization, so I am not sure about the exact cost and renewal cost.
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Emmanuel Oladinrin
Senior Analyst at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The price of Microsoft BI is reasonable. Other solutions such as SAP Cloud are more expensive.
We pay annually for the license of the solution and we are using a premium license.
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RichardDuggan
Owner at Richard Duggan Pty Ltd
Licensing is on a monthly basis, but I am not sure.
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Oscar Zapata
Business Intelligence Developer at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
I recommend easing into Microsoft Power BI gradually. I started by creating models and graphics in Excel first. Then, when I learned a little bit about modeling, I started moving to Power BI and working there.
So, I recommend starting with Excel and practicing there first. Power Pivot is the app that you can use in Excel for this kind of work. Before switching to Power BI, learn about data modeling and dashboarding in Power Pivot in Excel first.
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Sai-Krishna
Manager, BI & Analytics at Perceptive Analytics
This product offers good value for the money.
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Worachai Kuviwatchai
Managing Director at Innovative Business Analytics
The price is good. They have a free Power BI Desktop version, but it has limitations.
They also offer Power BI Pro at a reasonable price. Power BI Pro is appropriate for large enterprises with at least 500 users. The price may be very expensive per month.
The pro version is not suitable for the majority of my customers, who have five or ten users.
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reviewer1023108
General Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The client does need to pay for a license in order to use the product, however, I can't speak to the exact lengths of license agreements on offer or how much they cost.
Beyond the standard licensing fees, the only other extra cost would be support.
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reviewer1736475
Graduate Engineer at a transportation company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We pay for licensing for Power BI.
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reviewer1494948
Senior Manager Analytic & Insights at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees
It would be better if the price was cheaper.
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Alberto Geminiani
Technical Director at Progetti e Soluzioni
We pay for users who are publishing on the cloud. The desktop version is free.
Its licensing is on a yearly basis.
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reviewer1509708
Project Manager at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We're still in the process of licensing the model. We don't have it set up yet. My understanding is that we will pay for licensing on a yearly basis. I don't have the exact figures in terms of the costs.
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reviewer1389651
Certified Adjunct Faculty, School of Engineering and Computing at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
For my primary use case, i.e. teaching students, the free version of Power BI is adequate.
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Gilberto Gutierrez
Presales Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
This is one of the best out-of-the-box solutions on the market. Microsoft has to improve their Data Governance solution, but for a data platform and BI solution, it is very good.
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reviewer1247253
DGM IT at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Microsoft BI requires licenses.
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reviewer1722714
Operations Center Technician at a renewables & environment company with 501-1,000 employees
The license is annual. If you need a fancy visualization, you have to pay a bit more, but a valid license covers everything else. I'm developing reports and rolling them out to some users who are not developers, so I need the visualization and have to pay for the license. In the case of Tableau, you don't need to pay, or maybe you spend a little less because you're not a developer.
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Bassem Amer
Technology Solutions Professional at OrchidaSoft
The premium capacity is very costly in respect of the market in Egypt, amounting to $5,000 monthly. The regional pricing should be addressed.
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Sasa-Vujovic
Senior Consultant at ICTPro
Power BI's price is reasonable, especially if you can put it in some bigger package and use it with other products. The value of a solution doesn't just come from its features as a standalone product. The price should also reflect how easy it's to set up, clean data, and integrate with other solutions. So in that regard, I would say Microsoft Power BI's price is appropriate.
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Chomanand Kokil
Analyst Operations with 5,001-10,000 employees
There are a few options available for purchasing a license. Typically the number of users you have will determine the price of the license. The more users you have the more you will pay.
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Jose Dante Cruz Castillo
Director Comercial at Grupo Consultores
It is based on the usage. If you're using it, you pay for it, and if you're not using it, you stop paying for it.
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Alfonso Gordillo
Director Research and Development at Projects Factory
The pricing is fine for our company. It is reasonably priced.
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CTOINBI874
Principal at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Pricing, that's where Microsoft beats Tableau. It is priced much cheaper.
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Gurkan ONAY
Associate Director BI-EPM at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
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AYANDA NKUNDLA
Senior Manager: ICT Compliance at Department of Public Service and Administration
I believe that the price is reasonable, at least for an enterprise solution.
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Rajesh S
Technical Manager at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Both cost-wise and implementation-wise, this product is a good choice.
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Mediha Šiljić
Chief Information Officer at Sensilab
Compared to others, I think it is reasonable.
View full review »BY
reviewer1650804
Senior Data Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The current licensing model that Microsoft BI has is expensive. My customers have told me the cost is approximately $20 per user and this can get expensive fast. There should be a one-time purchase option if the customer has a lot of users.
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reviewer1620273
Data Warehouse Engineer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
I don't have any insights into the licensing and payments required.
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reviewer1507608
New Build Completion & Commissioning at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I'm not sure of the exact cost of the solution. It's not an aspect of the product I need to worry about.
I am aware that we currently have an enterprise license.
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AYANDA NKUNDLA
Senior Manager: ICT Compliance at Department of Public Service and Administration
I was not involved in the pricing or procurement process of the solution. I'm not sure how licensing works of the overall cost of the solution on a monthly or yearly basis. It's not part of my day-to-day.
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reviewer1159494
Advisory Software Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Its cost seems to be unreasonable if you have many users, but for a lesser number of users, it is reasonable. It is $10 per month. Clients easily accept this option, so they must think it is reasonable.
It is quite cheap as compared to other tools, such as Tableau. One of the best things about this solution is that it has a trial version.
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Salahuddin Almohammadi
Group IT Manager with 10,001+ employees
It is part of our Office 365 license.
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Greg Morley
Sales Director at Expeditus (Pty) Ltd
At the entry level, it's affordable, but as you scale up and have more needs, it becomes expensive because you get tied into the whole Microsoft stack.
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Mahmoud Umar
Founder/CEO at Data.tac Nigeria Limited
I believe we pay on a monthly basis. Compared to what's available on the market, I think we pay a fair price.
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reviewer1413633
Head of Digitalization at a mining and metals company with 5,001-10,000 employees
It is somewhere in the middle in terms of price. Licensing is quite clear.
RA
reviewer1721040
Executive HR- Talent Acquisition at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I pay for the Microsoft Power BI license on a yearly basis.
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reviewer1784373
Assistant Manager Databases at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
The price of Microsoft BI is expensive. We found the price of Tableau to be less expensive.
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Sai-Krishna
Manager, BI & Analytics at Perceptive Analytics
We are not paying any licensing fees for our current Microsoft BI setup. The version that we are using is free of cost unless you wish to deploy it on a server; that is where the cost component comes in.
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reviewer1128492
System Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
We have a limited license, but if we use more time or have more reports, usage, and concurrency, then the license cost will go up.
View full review »PH
reviewer916719
System Specialist at a government with 201-500 employees
I can't speak to the licensing. I don't have any information related to the exact costs.
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reviewer1028202
Functional Consultant at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We deal with both monthly and yearly licenses, which are coming due soon.
View full review »SK
reviewer1517895
Partner at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
As far as I am aware you do not need a license for the solution.
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reviewer1467924
Compensation Coordinator at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Its pricing is great.
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Samuel Kamau
Co-Founder at Beta Edge Technology Limited
We are using the free desktop version of this product.
Once the trial period for the BI service is over, the cost is approximately $10 USD per user, per month, so it's quite reasonable.
FM
Bidirect377
Manager at a logistics company with 501-1,000 employees
I don't have any advice as I am not in a position to recommend it. I am just an end-user, I do not develop, I do not maintain it.
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reviewer1162596
Data Analyst at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Microsoft BI is very cost-effective and this is why we use it.
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Leandro-Gomes
Marketing and Relationship Manager | Customer Journey at Ipiranga
Licenses are available on a monthly basis.
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reviewer1121292
MCSE at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
If you purchase a license for a server, for users, or the professional version, you might not have to. The free version I think it can satisfy many customers' needs.
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reviewer1047609
Founder & CEO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
In the beginning, the solution cost approximately $1,000 per month, we have a Microsoft startup subscription. There is a subscription pack for startups company which we are able to have for one year.
My customers will increase their usage of the solution and they will be additional costs for their usage.
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Aneesa Ebrahim
IT Service and Strategy Consultant, Facilitator at BCAP SOLUTIONS
We're using a subscription-based license and the government has a transversal agreement with Microsoft. We use the solution according to that contract, it's an EA license. When it comes to premium licenses, I think they all have room for improvement.
RH
reviewer1537680
Head of Analytics Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It depends upon the tier of your Office 365 subscription. On E5, which is a Microsoft Azure subscription, you get it for free. If you are on a lower tier, you can subscribe for $10 a month per user, which is really cheap.
View full review »VC
reviewer1381863
CEO at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Its licensing cost is very high. It is $20 per user, which is very high, but it is a good product, so you pay for it.
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Monesh Sharma
Business Analyst at a non-tech company with 10,001+ employees
Their price is good.
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Sonali Mali
Engineer at Jade Global
I do not have a comment on the pricing of the solution.
View full review »it_user232830
Head of Information Systems Department at a government
I don't want to speculate but there is room for at least 45% discount as compared to the initial price. So bargain wildly with Microsoft.
View full review »OA
Okay Akdeniz
Business Application Group Manager at OBASE
There is a free license, however, it is limited. The Premium license and the Pro license functionalities are very different. Whenever we talk with our customers, they ask "Should we chose the Premium?" We say that "No, you don't need to, as it's too expensive. It is much more expensive than the Pro license." However, the Pro license functionality is not enough for some customers. There is no middle between Pro and the Premium. We need something in between.
The Pro license is maybe suitable for SMBs, small and medium-sized businesses. The premium version is ideal for companies that need to scale up and out.
There also may be some additional costs that can drive up the price.
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Sumit_Gupta
BI Consultant at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The pricing is very reasonable compared to any other tool.
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Khumbulani Chikura
Business Intelligence Architect at a tech services company
To others, I would advise that Microsoft BI products are rightly priced and the licensing is easy to follow and to fulfill.
View full review »SA
reviewer1023108
General Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Our customers definitely incur a licensing fee.
The only other cost, besides the licensing fee, would be to cover support.
View full review »DJ
Deepak Jhaveri
Director at Magnamious Systems Pvt. Ltd.
I think the price is fair, but I can't speak for most Indian customers.
View full review »KB
reviewer1311126
Managing Partner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
In some cases, Power BI can be expensive.
View full review »AB
reviewer1556970
CEO Gerente General at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
There are less expensive options on offer.
View full review »WV
reviewer1551786
Project Consultant at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
I don't know much about the licensing because our customers pay for it.
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reviewer1679622
Head of Internal Control at a tech company with 51-200 employees
The solution is affordable.
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reviewer1472169
Solutions Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The premium licensing is approximately $5,000 per month which is pretty expensive.
View full review »RB
RaphaelBilecki Freitas
Business Intelligence Coordinator Latam at a construction company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Licensing is done on a yearly basis, and it is a standard fee.
View full review »FB
reviewer864999
Project Leader at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have an official enterprise license. We are not on any trial license, however, I did try out the trial which lasts for 30 days. It's nice that you can really dig into the features before you buy it.
View full review »KR
reviewer1482141
Strategic Market Development Sr. Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 201-500 employees
We have a professional license for Microsoft BI and the price is fair.
View full review »DK
reviewer1590450
BI technical analyst at a government with 11-50 employees
Power BI is cheaper for smaller groups when comparing to competitors. It requires a monthly per-user subscription.
View full review »JS
reviewer1398615
Consultant at a training & coaching company with 201-500 employees
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JorgeCastro1
Data Scientist at Packen SAS
Power BI free layer is attractive and second stage with Power BI online is not expensive.
View full review »ZA
SenProgrammer29
Senior Programmer Analyst with 1,001-5,000 employees
The most important criterion for me, when selecting a vendor, is that the product is cost-effective.
View full review »VC
reviewer938061
Sr. Solution Architect at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I don't own the licenses — our clients do, and we work for them as engineering partners.
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reviewer1040850
Director of Sales and Marketing at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The licensing costs vary. It all depends on the individual customer due to the fact that Microsoft's options are modular. For example, they have Microsoft Office suite, then they add CRM and then you might add BI. It's not expensive per user, however, as you increase the functionality or add different tools, it becomes more expensive.
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reviewer1391733
Business Intelligence Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The cost of licensing depends on the number of people that are going to be using the reports, and we are satisfied with it at $10 per user.
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Actnt932
Accountant at a government
At the moment I'm using a free version.
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Amol Jaiswal
Head of Offshore Operations & Solutions at Techcarrot
There is a license for this solution and we purchase them annually.
View full review »TB
reviewer1535370
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The price of the solution can be expensive if you want to synchronize your data more.
View full review »MB
reviewer1536369
Power BI Technical Specialist at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Power BI premium is really expensive for our market. A lot of small and medium companies would like to purchase it, but they can't afford it.
View full review »it_user454209
Business Intelligence Analyst & Developer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The SQL Server Reporting Services works as a part of SQL Server license. If we have a licensed copy of SQL Server, we can run Reporting Services on the same server for no additional license fee. However, if we run Reporting Services on a separate machine that is not yet licensed for SQL Server, such as a Web server, we will need to purchase an additional SQL Server license.
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reviewer1330689
Client Director, Head of Sales & Marketing, Partner at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Compared to competitors like Tableau, Microsoft BI is not so expensive.
CW
reviewer1597356
Certification Division at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
I am considering personalization but I don't know what the possibilities and the advantages of it are.
View full review »it_user171975
MSBI Technology Architect/Developer at a pharma/biotech company with 51-200 employees
Not sure.
View full review »SM
reviewer1586415
Associate Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The solution is priced well for what they offer. However, the premium version is very expensive.
View full review »IS
reviewer1517100
CEO at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Microsoft BI is not expensive. Compared to the price of other BI products, the price is very fair.
View full review »it_user825429
Senior Business Analyst, Big data at a manufacturing company
It is a cheap solution for our needs.
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Matheus Nery
Data Scientist at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
The price for this solution is reasonable. However, there is an additional cost if you want to publish the dashboard privately.
View full review »it_user217881
Consultant MOA BI at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
MS BI comes with all the tools and it is, to the best of my knowledge, the most affordable solution.
View full review »it_user289488
MSBI Technical Lead at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
It is not costly when compared with other competitor products. This is a rock solid solution for any BI organization.
View full review »it_user553431
Chief Tecnical Officer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
All in all, for the price, this is an excellent tool for helping your organization turn mounds of data into useful insights.
View full review »it_user324447
Business Intelligence Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It’s free if you have MS SQL database license. It comes together with SSIS, SSRS, SSAS and other tools.
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