We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI and ThoughtSpot 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."There is a lot of variety in Power BI. In particular, the visuals are quite rich and the feature set has been growing rapidly in the last two years. Possibly the best part for me is that there are a lot of ways to connect with data sources."
"The data can be accessed from anywhere."
"There is a feature in Microsoft BI that allows JSON data to SQL on the dashboards effectively and quickly."
"It's similar to Excel, but it's much more powerful than Excel."
"The interface is very easy to use."
"In contrast to what we were using before I think that Power BI has given us more extensive results."
"The most valuable features are the flexibility, how many ways you can interrogate the data, and the the graphical visualization."
"Provides a full platform (database, ETL, reporting, analysis, and so on)"
"It's easy to drill down or expand data to get more details right out of the box."
"The ability to do ad hoc explorations of data has been most valuable."
"ThoughtSpot takes the modifying of existing reports out of our hands."
"I would say the return on investment is good. Whatever we invested, we got results. We have been finding it easy to use and onboard new use cases."
"I like ThoughtSpot's search capabilities. You can also create custom analytics even if you aren't an experienced data analyst. We have users with no data analytics experience making some of the dashboards we've created, copying components, and customizing them to their specific use cases."
"The scalability is good."
"It is easy to set up the solution."
"The initial setup was very straightforward."
"Power BI shows reports on actual data, not metadata."
"I have a little problem with Synapse Analytics because it's very new. It's a product that has many capabilities, but it is not very well developed. I have to see the list of permissions from one object. I can't do this in Synapse. I have to search on the web for a solution because I don't have the tool for it."
"here are some limitations with the data models needed to build the report."
"SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is not user friendly."
"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing for the solution."
"The dashboard could be simplified."
"If you have to pull multiple data sources performance is somewhat lacking."
"The Microsoft BI interface should be simpler and more user-friendly. I find it very difficult to move between their data sources and their analytics section."
"The dashboards could give you more ability to fine tune the appearance. You get a great deal more control over how something looks in Power BI than you do in ThoughtSpot."
"A customized visualization is lacking in this product."
"In terms of features, I'd like to be able to pivot data - for example, going from rows to columns. It's not easy to do."
"ThoughtSpot is a fairly new product, so some usability aspects aren't as mature as we'd like them to be. One example is their organizational methodology, like how objects are organized in their dashboards inside the product. They're all on a flat list, which works if you've got five or 10 dashboards. However, it's insufficient when you're a large enterprise with multiple groups looking at the same dashboards. It isn't organized well."
"The one area of the solution that I do hear needs improvement is on the visualization front."
"If I want to order columns, this feature is not there."
"The most difficult thing I found is that it only deals with the files and does not have direct connectivity to databases."
"I would like to see more flexibility in adding the pins. Currently, we have four different sizes in which I can add pins, but I would like to be able to resize my pins."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews while ThoughtSpot is ranked 15th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 8 reviews. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while ThoughtSpot is rated 7.6. 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 ThoughtSpot writes "You can drill down into any data right out of the box, with a straightforward deployment, and great support". Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE, whereas ThoughtSpot is most compared with Tableau, Looker, Amazon QuickSight, Mode Analytics and Apache Superset. See our Microsoft Power BI vs. ThoughtSpot report.
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