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 user experience is easy. Users get familiar with it quickly."
"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."
"It offers a lot of information and is very flexible and interactive."
"It is a pretty straightforward and flexible solution for data integration and modeling. It is a low-code solution. When you are doing data integration, you can use the GUI, which is very simple and straightforward. You can also do very intricate custom queries and model it at different levels. It is very easy to use and scalable."
"The solution is stable."
"Its data visualization provides the user the ability to quickly look at data and focus on relevant information, allowing them to make an immediate decision."
"The interface is very easy to use."
"Our setup is very straight forward and can be done in a matter of hours."
"Allows users to build their own solutions without as much reliance on technology staff."
"The best part about this solution is how easy it is to mash up the data from many sources. Sisense is fast compared to other solutions."
"We like that this solution allows us to use data cubes to set up specific visualizations."
"The most valuable thing I have found is the ability for Sisense to connect data from totally different sources."
"A very simple setup: Easy to download, install, and updates are pain free."
"I have found the dashboard creating feature helpful."
"The dashboard design interface is very intuitive and allows you to quickly and easily produce professional, innovative dashboards."
"There are many built-in connectors, which allow us to easily add new sources of data, often in minutes."
"I have been doing trial and error to figuring out how to do the data analyzing and modeling. There could be some improvement to simplify it."
"Microsoft BI can improve some of the visual level filters or visual functionality, that are available in other BI tools, such as Tableau or Qlik Sense."
"Needs single sign-on."
"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."
"Their technical support can be better. They normally take too long to escalate and resolve a case."
"It is kept very current, and there is an update literally every month. However, the interface changes quite randomly with no documentation, which is difficult at the domain and architectural level where you're planning things and engaging the business. Things change frequently, and you wonder where has the button for the new report gone. They should provide better documentation on interface changes. It should be better optimized. It is supposed to be a data integration tool, but it is doing relatively simple queries. It has its limitations. For example, you can only pull a number of columns. So, there is room for optimization on its ability to integrate multiple data sources. The desktop tool is very memory-intensive, and again, this is not documented clearly. It requires a heavy CPU and memory use, and it causes your operating systems to become unstable. I would like to see the ability to create datasets within Power BI. Microsoft is promoting Azure as a cloud solution, but it is dependent upon a desktop component, which seems a little bit deceptive. Data set is the basic element that you report from, but it has to be created on the desktop and then published to the cloud. So, you're in the cloud, and you create a data structure or the data flow, but you can't report from that. You have to leave the cloud, go to your desktop, create the data set on your desktop, and publish it to the cloud. You go back to the cloud and create your report by using that published data set, which is very non-intuitive. If you go to the Microsoft Power BI community, this is a common complaint across the entire community."
"People without private emails cannot publish and, frankly, this doesn't allow for easy training."
"Microsoft BI could improve by allowing large-size data sources. We have large data sources, and we have problems loading them in Microsoft BI."
"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 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."
"I would like Sisense to improve its performance, particularly when we are dealing with large-scale data."
"Larger datasets will sometimes give a "Accumulated logs" error when trying to make minor changes. T"
"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 solution's setup process could be easier."
"This solution does not have tabs. In order to have tabs, you have to download an add-on to mimic the tabs. They should be integrated to improve the solution."
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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