We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI and Yellowfin 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."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."
"I've seen no issues with BI's stability."
"The virtualization of Microsoft BI is very good."
"The solution is easy to use and charts can be built quickly with the tools."
"Good reporting and data analysis tool that's user-friendly, easy to deploy, stable, and scalable."
"It is quite easy to use and it helps me to achieve the projects that I've been assigned."
"We've used Microsoft BI for the general use cases around reporting and dashboarding."
"We found the initial setup to be straightforward."
"It reduces time to reproduce reports, provides easy access to organisational data, and has the ability to generate a wide range of reports and analysis."
"It is a central source of up-to-date data and information."
"It is able to create information dashboards for various users' throughout."
"Microsoft needs to provide more drivers to connect other data sources in a native way."
"It is too slow. I hope in future it will be a comparable big data tool, such as, for example, Data Lake."
"It is not yet ready for enterprises. For a big enterprise data model, it is not so stable, and it also doesn't scale so well."
"I would like for the next release to have better desktop performance, especially for big databases. Additionally, I would like to have more integrations with programs like Salesforce in order to get more live data coming in."
"Power BI could have better metadata management. It's easy to use for a single person. However, it lacks an enterprise-grade metadata management system, which can be a problem if you're doing an enterprise deployment with multiple users."
"I would like to see some AI incorporated into this solution in the future."
"The performance of Microsoft BI could improve for large datasets and it would be beneficial to have more visualization features."
"The integration in Microsoft BI could improve for other solutions, such as Oracle DB and PostgresSQL. Additionally, the reporting from the databases to Microsoft BI should be in real-time and the overall performance could be better."
"It needs more presentation/charting capabilities and integration with GIS."
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Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews while Yellowfin is ranked 36th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while Yellowfin is rated 8.0. 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 Yellowfin writes "Very scalable design and easy to implement. It can reside alongside more complex enterprise systems". Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE, whereas Yellowfin is most compared with Apache Superset, 9 Spokes and Tableau. See our Microsoft Power BI vs. Yellowfin report.
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