We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI and TIBCO Spotfire 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."Tech support is very helpful."
"Good CS and administration."
"The product is user-friendly."
"With Power BI, you're able to store your data within spreadsheets and SharePoints, and then have Power BI pull the data out and report on it. So we actually saved a ton of money not needing to load the data into databases, which is a big prerequisite for many other reporting tools."
"It is quite easy to use and it helps me to achieve the projects that I've been assigned."
"It works well with SSAS, which we use to generate all different kinds of trending and analytics reports. Sometimes we use Power Query and DAX to build some aggregations on the Power BI side as well."
"The solution's initial setup isn't too complicated."
"Power BI is more powerful than other tools because it is new for us. Each new version has more capabilities, and we're expecting AI and ML features in the next version."
"The most valuable feature is the map visuals that help us connect to the geo-specialized data which is more advanced than other solutions."
"Spotfire is excellent for scientific applications, especially because of its integration with RNG."
"The product's initial setup phase was simple."
"The two features that I have found most valuable are its ability to customize the dashboards when it comes to the evaluation. The second feature is its ability to handle a large amount of data, which is also something very unique about it."
"The out-of-the-box features are simple and easy to use across the board."
"We particularly like the data angling feature of this solution. This gives us the ability to work on data transformations, join files, and carry out other data preparation tasks all in a single tool."
"Data discovery is very simple."
"The ability to create a real-time data mark, using just one piece of software, is the best feature of this product."
"The data source definition is all over the place."
"There are some problems with the functionality of this solution. The dashboard is not very user friendly and is quite complicated."
"I have found using Microsoft BI is not easy. For example, trying to use the auto-refresh feature is not simple."
"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 challenge of this product is in truncating the table data."
"It has limited performance capabilities in terms of connecting to large transactional databases, but it is fine for simple and quick queries from Excel spreadsheets or one table. The premium level is going to be more applicable for the higher transaction-level databases."
"It is not the right tool to do deeper analysis or predictions. When you have some data and you want to do some deep analysis, there is no feature to help you with this."
"From any improvement perspective, I want the product to be made available to users free of cost...The stability and scalability of the product can be better."
"The design of the UI could be improved."
"Personalising Spotfire, as a whole, is painful and is something that could be made easier."
"The solution might be generic."
"The data compression has room for improvement."
"One aspect where Spotfire could improve is its global recognition, especially in terms of support."
"Compared to competitors, the UI is quite dated."
"We encountered difficulties connecting the special data sets, as the post data set did not contain any shared columns, making it difficult to establish a connection between the data sets."
"We would like to see some improvement in the default properties of the solution, so that there is less need for us to spend our time coding."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews while TIBCO Spotfire is ranked 10th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 67 reviews. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while TIBCO Spotfire 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 TIBCO Spotfire writes "Empowers us to extract insights and provide valuable business analytics to support decision-making within our organization". Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE, whereas TIBCO Spotfire is most compared with Tableau, QlikView, Qlik Sense, TIBCO Jaspersoft and Amazon QuickSight. See our Microsoft Power BI vs. TIBCO Spotfire report.
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Hi @Esteban Fabiani - Thank you for posting this great question.
All the tools have base-level functionalities which could serve your day-to-day data analysis and visualizations.
There are various aspects that you would need to consider before choosing these tools such as
1. what are the primary use cases? Who will be using them? (Power BI is more user friendly)
2. Do they require a lot of customisations on the UI/UX ( Spotfire can be more flexible with IronPython scripts for custom UI development, Tableau has the best quality UI and charts)
3. Which cloud platform or server you would be using and what kind of computation power is required (if you are a Microsoft shop then Power BI should be preferred as it can be integrated with many MS applications at ease)
4. Cost - probably one of the key concerns (Power BI will be cheaper (desktop version is free) than Spotfire and Tableau)
5. Availability of talent within an organization as well as in the market (more talent available for Power BI and Tableau)
6. Many Oil & Gas, Manufacturing companies prefer Spotfire, but a slow move towards Power BI or Tableau or other visualization tools based on use cases. Many companies use Microstrategy for enterprise reporting
7. You may download free buyer guide reports from Peerspot, which would help you to choose the right one.
All the best.