We performed a comparison between Birst and Microsoft Power BI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in Reporting."Dashboards and self-service reports. These are widely used by customers in the EPM domain."
"Most of the clients I am interacting with are looking towards Power BI because of the cost and simplicities. It provides an entire feature set and a complete solution. It has tight integration with Office 365, Dynamics 365, Microsoft Technology Stack, and datatypes like R and Python."
"Allows business users with a mission to solve their own problems, without an IT person."
"The solution is easy to set up and implement."
"It's user-friendly and provides data abstracting capabilities. We are also able to share reports with our colleagues very easily."
"MS SQL & SQL Server Analysis Services."
"The dashboard features are really valuable, you can connect to multiple data points."
"Microsoft BI is better than most solutions we have. It's pretty easy to conduct analysis with it."
"The stability is good."
"Customer support takes lot of time to get a solution."
"Compared to other applications, like Tableau, Microsoft BI doesn't have as many functions that allow you to do more in-depth analysis and represent the findings."
"I'm not overly technical, and so I can't really speak to any shortcomings from a technical standpoint."
"You need to purchase upgraded support separately."
"SSMS & SSRS."
"Actionable insights could be better."
"There are some other visuals that are available in the Microsoft marketplace, however, you need to use them via trial and error. There needs to be a write-up about how to use them with a quick guide describing the visual."
"We would like to have better SQL support for queries."
"I believe the price should be degressive, and we should have a lower, or better unit price if we have more users."
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Birst is ranked 32nd in Reporting while Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in Reporting with 297 reviews. Birst is rated 7.4, while Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Birst writes "The dashboards and Visualizer are valuable". 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)". Birst is most compared with Alteryx and ThoughtSpot, whereas Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE.
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