We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI and XLCubed based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in Reporting."We like the drag and drop interactability visualization. We really like that. It's user-friendly."
"It is a powerful tool that helps our data analysis processes."
"The stability is great and continues to get better and better."
"In my experience the scalability is good. You are able to increase users and add more data."
"It is more user-friendly compared to SSRS."
"Previously we used Excel, which took a long time - two or three weeks - to bring the data into a uniform format, whereas BI can do the same job in a day."
"We've used Microsoft BI for the general use cases around reporting and dashboarding."
"I have found the most valuable feature of this solution is the Natural Language tool."
"I am looking forward to testing their full graphics that are available, as they looked very interesting in the demo."
"Great capability, performance, flexibility, visuals, and the solution is also very cost effective."
"The solution could improve by providing more free visuals. A lot of them are very nice but you have to purchase them."
"Needs single sign-on."
"I would like to see the product offer more graphics to impact different audiences."
"A few features available in Tableau are not available in Power BI. For example. Tableau has the ability to make up the physical layer and all other stuff at runtime. In Power BI, we have to develop a proper physical layer to connect it. The limitation that we normally face is related to the direct query mode. When it comes to the direct query mode, most of the functionality is not working, which is an issue for us. We have to use the direct query mode frequently because the client needs real-time data. They should work on this limitation. There are a lot of other technical things that need to be improved. I am also following the Power BI platform and Microsoft Support Center platform on the web where users have put their requirements. Microsoft is also working on improving this solution. In every update, they add new features to this solution."
"This solution needs integration with SAS and more deep analysis functionality."
"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."
"I'm missing collaborations functionality to operate or to work connected with multiple people on a data source or on virtualization. There should be more collaborations functions, such as in Confluence. We haven't explored the solution sufficiently in this area, but at this time it doesn't look sufficient."
"Defining a relationship was very confusing. There were circular directions for which I had to do a lot of adjustments in the data. They can do something to make it easier."
"There should be a better or an easier way to establish that connection to external sources."
"Would like the ability to be able to benchmark."
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Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in Reporting with 297 reviews while XLCubed is ranked 26th in Reporting. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while XLCubed is rated 7.6. 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 XLCubed writes "Cost effective with great capability, performance, flexibility and visuals". Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE, whereas XLCubed is most compared with Tableau.
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