We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI and Salesforce Einstein Analytics 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."I have found the most valuable feature of this solution is the Natural Language tool."
"The solution is easy to set up and implement."
"It's quite flexible, and it's easy to create reports using this system. It is very graphic and very user friendly."
"I find Power BI's reporting feature the most valuable. The solution has improved a lot. There are new features getting added day by day. In the past, they didn't even have the printing feature, but now they have it."
"It's similar to Excel, but it's much more powerful than Excel."
"It is a good platform for data analysis, organization, and all of the other interim performances that are necessary."
"I like that I can use Power BI to upload data. That is very important for me. The visualization is also convenient and easy to use."
"I like the fact that Power BI lets me use Excel data. At least 90% of my state data is in Excel spreadsheets. Having the ability to just attach a spreadsheet as a data source is very, very important. It's also good for training and teaching. Sometimes you don't always have access to a live production database, so having a spreadsheet with sample data is always nice."
"It is a comprehensive solution. It has everything in it. I can easily find what I need."
"The most valuable features of Salesforce Einstein Analytics are the flexibility around the deployment, overall capabilities, user-friendliness, and interactiveness with the tools that came built with it."
"Einstein Analytics provides insights into what we are doing and how we are doing it. It tells us what benchmarks we need to hit consistently to achieve our goals. In sales, there is sometimes a disconnect between actions and objectives. We aren't necessarily going to close a deal because we call X number of people. There are some underlying skills that add nuance to these metrics."
"The out-of-the-box features are good for companies that want to try analytics and data science interventions."
"The solution scales extremely well."
"Transparency is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The way Salesforce Einstein Analytics is structured in terms of the work assignments and the user profile is very good."
"The tool is valuable. It's one of the greatest programs I'm currently working with, and I believe it will continue to be crucial in the next four to five years. It's the future of our operations. Integrating other systems and conducting campaigns is easy. The solution relies heavily on AI."
"A lot of people work on Excel, so being able to export an Excel file as part of a subscription would be an improvement."
"The product doesn't support unstructured data. It doesn't support video, streaming, and strings of files."
"The smart phone application could be improved, along with better graphics and faster updating."
"It should have more integrations."
"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing for the solution."
"I cannot comment on the stability as we haven't yet used it for a big project."
"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."
"Power BI shows reports on actual data, not metadata."
"The product is natively integrated into the Salesforce ecosystem. You also need a CRM license. It should be more flexible with other platforms."
"If a user leaves your organization, you shouldn't lose the visibility of all of the records."
"I would advise others not to customize because they rolled out the newer versions, which are every six months. There had to be some significant testing and verification that happened. It is important to have a strong third-party provider that is very experienced. We used Deloitte, but we evaluated Accenture, KPMG, and IBM, but we decided on Deloitte and that was a good decision for us. Having a partner who has a center of excellence or experts that could give you a lot of the tips that they've learned could jumpstart your deployment and stick to the standards."
"The product must be more transparent."
"When it comes to generating reports, it appears that many users rely on experts to handle technical aspects. For instance, if you require a weekly report displaying accounts transitioning in and out of your modules, it seems challenging to accomplish without consulting experts for assistance. Such tasks should be user-friendly and easily achievable without external assistance."
"Einstein Analytics could incorporate something like SFIA 8 to help users understand the underlying skill sets."
"They can provide more end-user customizations. There should be the possibility for the end-users to change some elements in the interface. I have a way of doing my job. My colleague may have his own way of doing his job. If I ask for a change, it'll change for everyone. It'll be good to have some end-user personalizations. I can't see many in Salesforce right now."
"The tool needs to simplify its features."
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Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews while Salesforce Einstein Analytics is ranked 12th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 18 reviews. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while Salesforce Einstein Analytics is rated 8.2. 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 Salesforce Einstein Analytics writes "Helpful consistent measurements, high availability, and scales well". Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Sisense, whereas Salesforce Einstein Analytics is most compared with Tableau, Databricks, SAP Analytics Cloud, IBM Watson Explorer and Qlik Sense. See our Microsoft Power BI vs. Salesforce Einstein Analytics report.
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