We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI and SQL Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."It's a powerful platform."
"Provides a full platform (database, ETL, reporting, analysis, and so on)"
"The Microsoft Power BI app is very good. It's also very flexible."
"The sharing features are vital, especially the ability to share and test different shared dashboards."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft BI is its visualization and its ease of use."
"It is useful for bringing visualization to data. It calculates counts, ratios, etc."
"The solution is easy to use and flexible."
"Allows business users with a mission to solve their own problems, without an IT person."
"The performance is great."
"It's a very stable solution."
"SQL Server stands out due to its robust parallel processing capabilities."
"Having everything in one centralized set of databases is the most valuable feature."
"I like that it's very easy to use, and Veeam is excellent. There are tons of experts and writers in the area now, and we don't find the same for other databases."
"It's a good learning environment, it's easy enough to learn and understand. Anybody that picks up the language early on will be able to develop in it."
"I would say that it is a stable product."
"It is a stable product, and it runs seamlessly. It is not complex."
"I think that there should be visuals for financial reporting videos. It should just be a plug and play because there is a lot of coding that goes into it with different clients."
"Microsoft has got a very large repository of all change suggestions which have been raised by the BI community. They keep on adding features that are very widely sought after by the community. We don't focus on product features. We focus on business requirements. To use the solution, we find that existing features are good enough and offer us a very effective solution."
"The product’s on-premise reporting servers could support real-time data refreshing capabilities like its on-cloud version."
"I am taking a course to be able to use the solution better. Some aspects of the solution are not straightforward."
"If I compare it to Tableau, I'd say the visualizations can be better. We should have multiple options. By that I mean, while there are multiple options for the visualization, the look and feel of the dashboard when you compare to Tableau is on the lower side. Tableau has a much better visualization."
"Maybe they can enhance the UI a bit. Right now, it's very basic, I would say, compared to the MicroStrategy or Qlik."
"Most clients have MacBooks. Therefore, they use Tableau as Power BI Desktop is not available for the MacBook right now."
"Microsoft BI typically connects to a database, often SQL Server, but it's also capable of connecting to multiple databases, pulling data from them, and allowing for data consolidation. You can then aggregate and generate dashboards and reports from this combined data. Personally, I wouldn't claim to have the expertise to suggest significant changes or additional features, as it functions quite well as is."
"Technical support could be faster."
"If SQL Server could perhaps run on Linux, that would be good. Most of us prefer Linux and I've used a lot of Linux. I understand that SQL Server is quite powerful, but I'm not sure if the functionality is there, but if it could be used in an open-source type of environment, it would be very good."
"It would be nice if there was a feature to search for a specific value across multiple tables. This would save a lot of time for its users."
"SQL Server could improve the integration with nonrational database solutions, such as MongoDB."
"The remote access aspect needs to be improved in terms of security."
"It would be great if we were able to run it on multiple operating systems and not only stick with Windows."
"Performance could be better. But I don't know if it's a problem with my application or with my database."
"Although I am satisfied with the solution, some clients have asked us to resolve technical issues, such as those involving silver solution and replication."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews while SQL Server is ranked 1st in Relational Databases Tools with 260 reviews. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while SQL Server is rated 8.4. 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 SQL Server writes "Easy to use and provides good speed and data recovery". Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE, whereas SQL Server is most compared with MariaDB, SAP HANA, Oracle Database, LocalDB and IBM Db2 Database.
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