We performed a comparison between Meraki Location Analytics and Microsoft Power BI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two BI (Business Intelligence) Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The initial setup process is easy."
"I like Location Analytics' geofencing features for devices. You can manage thousands of devices with just a push of a button and deploy applications in seconds. For example, in schools, you can deploy an app update for thousands of iPads in just two clicks."
"Technical support has always been very good."
"In general, it is helpful because it allows administrators to see where the Wi-Fi and network services are being most used."
"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."
"The use of graphics to show and view the data indicators is the most valuable feature. It is also very stable."
"The initial setup is simple to do."
"It is easy to use. It has got a desktop where people can develop their own dashboards. Basically, we have figured out how to connect finance contracts and all programs for the government agency. So, they can see everything in a dashboard. So, it is very easy to use from a technical standpoint of view."
"There is a lot of help and documentation on the Internet, so no special training is needed to use the source code."
"It is good for us for onboarding the data. We can connect to multiple data sources, do transformations to make the data usable, and then model it within the transformation. Someone who has come from a Microsoft Excel environment will easily be able to use this solution. Power query and report modeling are easy to understand in this solution. Their technical support is very good. They are extremely responsive, helpful, and hands-on."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"I like the flexibility it offers."
"The pricing is a pain point for us. It's a bit expensive."
"The biggest issue is negotiating the price with a client. That's the most complicated part, but the product is worth it."
"The technical support before implementation could be better for premium partners."
"I would like to see all of the features included in a single package."
"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."
"Capacity could be improved."
"I think that they can add more types of charts because the selection on the desktop version is limited."
"Microsoft BI could improve by allowing large-size data sources. We have large data sources, and we have problems loading them in Microsoft BI."
"One thing I would like to have is the scripting language, as they already have within Excel. It's already within a Microsoft business product, because Excel is the number one business product out there. So it would be nice to have the scripting capability in order to automate certain processes."
"It could have more of a hold on big data. Manipulating big data on this solution complicates things. This needs to be improved."
"I would like to see the product offer more graphics to impact different audiences."
"In the future, Microsoft BI can be better by increasing user-friendliness"
Meraki Location Analytics is ranked 35th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 4 reviews while Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews. Meraki Location Analytics is rated 10.0, while Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Meraki Location Analytics writes "Straightforward to deploy, easy to maintain, provides good visibility into service usage". 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)". Meraki Location Analytics is most compared with Rapid7 InsightVM and Tableau, whereas Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE. See our Meraki Location Analytics vs. Microsoft Power BI report.
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