We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI and Sigma 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."We have a lot of servers and applications from which we want reports, and it allows us to create reports from an SQL source or some other source."
"Provides a full platform (database, ETL, reporting, analysis, and so on)"
"It is a good platform for data analysis, organization, and all of the other interim performances that are necessary."
"I like all the tools in Microsoft BI because they all have different purposes. There are a lot of people using Microsoft BI, and everybody is using it. The users have adapted well to the technology."
"It's similar to Excel, but it's much more powerful than Excel."
"Microsoft BI's most valuable feature is flexibility."
"Its connectivity with other Office applications, mostly with Excel, and the ability to deploy it very easily are the most valuable features. It comes sort of bundled with the cloud, so you don't need to set up a server and a standalone infrastructure. So, getting into the system or building something that you can deploy is very easy and very cheap. With other systems, you need to have a server, and you need to have a license for the server. The initial setup is very costly."
"Everything that's in M Query and DAX is the heart of Power BI because with these tools you can make up for a lot of other missing features."
"Sigma is a great software for non-technical business users. If someone's familiar with pivot tables or Excel or Google Sheets, they should be able to pick up Sigma pretty quickly. There is a very low bar for onboarding."
"The most valuable aspect for me is having real-time data."
"The tool's interface is easy to use. The functions listed as a part of the menu items are easy to use."
"You do need to do some hard coding for certain things in Microsoft BI."
"Creating dashboards could be easier."
"I would like to see a change in the premium capacity."
"Power BI's drillthrough feature could be improved. I didn't like drillthrough and those options much, but I did like it in MicroStrategy."
"Power BI doesn't support some open-source data sources that are new, such as SnowSQL, Iceberg, or ClickHouse."
"It is getting better but still, there are opportunity areas in some aspects, especially the Windows OS dependency."
"Anything they can do to improve enterprise collaboration is going to help people get set up and utilize the solution."
"We haven't used it that long and I haven't come across anything that's stood out as needing to be fixed."
"The only minor area for improvement lies in handling highly complex visualizations."
"The product's roadmap regarding introducing new features in the solution or new versions of the tool can be made better in the future."
"I would like to see better visualization options. That would allow me to build out more visually pleasing dashboarding in Sigma."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews while Sigma is ranked 18th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 3 reviews. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while Sigma is rated 9.4. 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 Sigma writes "Streamlines reporting; like Excel on steroids ". Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE, whereas Sigma is most compared with Tableau, Apache Superset, Hex, Amazon QuickSight and Domo. See our Microsoft Power BI vs. Sigma report.
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The two are similar, it is cars but of different brands; I ask 1-) the users use Windows 2-) you have Office 365 3-) They will use Excel for the data. If you answer yes to the 3, better BI due to integration, and learning is easier for the user. If they are non-Microsoft databases, investigate on the provider's side, for example, SAP, IBM, etc. I have trained end users in Power BI. I know that Power BI has the majority of connectors. I hope my comment is helpful. Regards