We performed a comparison between Alteryx and Microsoft Power BI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Predictive Analytics solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Alteryx helps me do a lot of automation. The best thing about Alteryx is that you don't have to repeat the workflow over and over again. Unlike Excel, where you need to write formulas for each new file, Alteryx follows a consistent process. You can schedule and automate the workflow, even if the files change."
"The most valuable feature of Alteryx is the intelligence suite."
"The GUI is simple and it integrates with Python."
"Alteryx makes it easy for the end customer to see clean data in a structured form."
"The solution offers excellent predicting power. The accuracy and confidence have been great."
"There are a lot of good customization capabilities."
"Alteryx is a low-code platform, and that's the biggest reason why we chose it."
"The solution has been stable."
"Power BI is a complete ecosystem. It has an integrated ETL tool and good connectivity with applications such as Office 365 and SQL. There are also solutions for RPA, such as Microsoft Power Automate and Microsoft Power Apps. Power BI now has integration with Power Query, which has an AI feature for text analytics. Text analytics is a very good feature. This feature is also there in Tableau, but I like it in Power BI because you can write something like, "What is the total sale in the Eastern region?", and it will give you the answer. For example, when you have different types of user opinions, you just run one algorithm and you will have the output that provides the number of positive and negative responses. You can even have a dashboard with positive remarks. This feature has been introduced recently. Power BI supports the DAX and Power Query M languages. These languages are making Power BI very strong in data analytics, and you can do many types of analysis."
"I have found the most valuable feature of this solution is the Natural Language tool."
"Microsoft BI is easy to use and to design. I found Microsoft BI a lot easier than Tableau."
"Provides data feeds for enterprise KPI reporting."
"I like Microsoft BI's drill-down feature and its overall ease of use."
"The solution is easy to use and charts can be built quickly with the tools."
"In the early stage of an implementation, it not only helps decision making, but it allows people to have insight into problems with data so that they can go and get it corrected."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft BI are its intuitiveness and ease to use."
"The scalability worries me a lot at the moment because the cost of the solution is high and it is not growing considerably. Unfortunately, we started during early COVID times and because of the economic downturn, all the cost cuttings, and everything, it is not growing as expected."
"When a process completes there is a notification, but the notification does not include the process's name."
"A colleague of mind mentioned that the solution should have more options for the visualization of data."
"Alteryx could be improved in the area of analytics and central governance."
"A feature which allows the user to be able to click on an output (in a file browser) and see the creation of the module would be fantastic."
"There are no ready models to use in analytics."
"There are a few imputation techniques which they really need to include."
"It should have Linux support. It currently supports only Windows. It does not support any other platform. Its price should also be lower. Their US partner management program is actually unresponsive. One of the reasons why we don't have a formalized partnership plan with them is because their partner management team is atrociously unresponsive. This is something that they need to change."
"My data is restricted to my DB and I'm not sure how this would handle an extremely large dataset."
"The look is simple, and could be a little more professional."
"here are still better UI designs they can go through. I'm assuming they are focusing more on capabilities rather than look-and-feel designs."
"The UI is the main improvement that could be made. Specifically, there is something called DAX, in Power BI, which is complicated compared to calculated fields used in Tableau."
"When there are large amounts of data being processed there are additional tools needed to handle it."
"A lot of people work on Excel, so being able to export an Excel file as part of a subscription would be an improvement."
"The initial installation is difficult."
"One thing I would like to have is the scripting language, as they already have within Excel. It's already within a Microsoft business product, because Excel is the number one business product out there. So it would be nice to have the scripting capability in order to automate certain processes."
Alteryx is ranked 1st in Predictive Analytics with 74 reviews while Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews. Alteryx is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Alteryx writes "Feature-rich ETL that condenses a number of functions into one tool". 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)". Alteryx is most compared with KNIME, Databricks, Dataiku, RapidMiner and Qlik Sense, whereas Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE. See our Alteryx vs. Microsoft Power BI report.
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