We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI and Sisense 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."The initial setup is straightforward."
"The solution is not that difficult to install, although this will vary with the experience of the person responsible for its installation."
"It is good for us for onboarding the data. We can connect to multiple data sources, do transformations to make the data usable, and then model it within the transformation. Someone who has come from a Microsoft Excel environment will easily be able to use this solution. Power query and report modeling are easy to understand in this solution. Their technical support is very good. They are extremely responsive, helpful, and hands-on."
"Its seamless integration with Microsoft products, such as Microsoft SQL Server or Microsoft Excel, is the most valuable."
"We find the solution offers good stability."
"The solution is easy to set up and implement."
"Microsoft BI is better than most solutions we have. It's pretty easy to conduct analysis with it."
"The solution is stable with reasonable performance."
"Sisense has helped us gain knowledge about our customers, as well as highlighting data quality issues to correct."
"We like that this solution allows us to use data cubes to set up specific visualizations."
"Whenever we have an issue or are unsure how to proceed, they manage to simplify the issue and help us execute it in a graceful and scalable way."
"Support is very responsive and clearly one of the strengths of Sisense. I have always received a fast response and the staff is very helpful."
"This solution is easy to learn how to use."
"The dashboard design interface is very intuitive and allows you to quickly and easily produce professional, innovative dashboards."
"Allows us to execute heavy, complex computations on the fly so customers can slice and dice the data based on their business needs."
"A very simple setup: Easy to download, install, and updates are pain free."
"The DAX features need some improvement. It's not as easy as Excel. They need more DAX formulas."
"The formatting template could be improved."
"There needs to be improved guidance and documentation for the initial setup of Power BI as it currently remains complex."
"Microsoft BI's visualization could be better. Though Power BI's visualization has steadily improved over the years, it's not on the level tools like Tableau and SAS or some of the more expensive products on the market."
"Microsoft BI has its own challenges in terms of user interface and how quickly somebody can learn how to use it."
"SSMS & SSRS."
"The solution could improve by providing more free visuals. A lot of them are very nice but you have to purchase them."
"Microsoft Power BI was born native on the cloud, however, it's quite difficult when it has to connect to on-premise data sources."
"At present there are additional costs involved if we wish to share our data queues within this solution, which we would like to see removed."
"The administrative side of Sisense is a little cumbersome and confusing."
"I would like to see more development and growth for the support of Knowledge Base and Community forums."
"The initial version we purchased only ran on Windows servers, which was less than ideal for our DevOps team. I believe that has been remedied in the latest release."
"I would love to have more customization capabilities for building dashboards, especially in creating custom widget sizes."
"I would like Sisense to improve its performance, particularly when we are dealing with large-scale data."
"I would also like to be able to run a bursts of reports based on different field values with PDF output right in the tool, rather than filtering on each field value and generating each PDF manually."
"They should improve the filters to create downloaded data by moving them to the top of the dashboard."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews while Sisense is ranked 17th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 39 reviews. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while Sisense is rated 8.8. 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 Sisense writes "Business intelligence solution that has improved automation and provided meaningful insights". Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and SAP Analytics Cloud, whereas Sisense is most compared with Tableau, Apache Superset, Qlik Sense, Amazon QuickSight and QlikView. See our Microsoft Power BI vs. Sisense report.
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