Adaptive Insights vs Microsoft Power BI vs Tableau Enterprise comparison

Workday and Microsoft are both solutions in the Reporting category. Workday is ranked #26, while Microsoft is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.1. Workday holds a 1.5% mindshare in RT, compared to Microsoft’s 17.4% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Workday users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.

Adaptive Insights

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100% willing to recommend

Microsoft Power BI

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93% willing to recommend

Tableau Enterprise

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20,049 Views
9,423 Comparison Views

90% willing to recommend

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Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Reporting category, the mindshare of Adaptive Insights is 1.5%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Power BI is 17.4%, down from 27.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tableau Enterprise is 16.5%, down from 23.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Reporting Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Microsoft Power BI	17.4%
Tableau Enterprise	16.5%
Adaptive Insights	1.5%
Other	64.6%

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Featured Reviews

Andrew Rosenberg

Adaptive Planning Manager at Alight

Adaptive scales well, simple to create new budget versions and models

For the organization I used to work at, it streamlined the process of creating budgets. It's very simple to create a new version and do some more modeling based on your need for planning things like headcount, other expenses, and revenue, everything is configurable within Workday. So that made it easy. Reporting was pretty easy to set up as well. It streamlined the amount of time it took to do the budget as well as kind of making it simple to implement a rolling forecast process. So, it really was more just a productivity increase and time shortening for the budgeting and forecasting process.

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Antonio Flor

Lead Anaplanner at Chaucer Group

Data integration has improved reserving and expense control while collaboration drives fast dashboards

Regarding drawbacks or weak points in Microsoft Power BI, it may not be directly related to the tool itself, but with our architecture, as we couldn't get a service account, which is an email address that has no relationship with the employees, just to establish the connection with Anaplan. We couldn't get it to work on SSO, so we use an employee account which could be a point of weakness, meaning if the person leaves, that connection will break. If the person goes on holiday and we need to refresh, we have to change the connection as well, but we have to live with that since we're not using SSO on the service account. Regarding the natural language processing feature, we're trying to avoid using it too much because it can slow down the connection, so as much as possible, we try to build the logic and any transformation in Anaplan, and then deliver an end product to Microsoft Power BI.

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Uzair Faruqi

Head Of Data Science at Mjunction Services

Ease of developing dashboards and receiving strong technical support have enabled efficient data visualization

Introducing custom features, such as NLP-based reports, is not very good in Tableau. My MD has been asking us for a way to write in natural language to request reports that the system should generate, but that isn't very effective with Tableau. As a developer, I can develop an on-demand report in Python quite easily, but exposing a REST API on the Tableau platform is not a very easy task. AI enablement is an area for improvement for Tableau, and that is something they might have to work upon. I have heard that ThoughtSpot is quite better in this regard, but the cost of ThoughtSpot is much higher. ThoughtSpot has lots of natural language-based report generation features that Tableau lacks.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Adaptive saves us huge hours in budgeting, for each roll-up it saves us two hours at least, and we usually have more than 20 roll-ups."

"This solution transformed the way both of my companies did reporting."

"We have gone from an organization that looked backwards at financials and had a one-time annual budget to an organization that looks forward, has rolling forecasts, long-term planning, metrics, and push button reporting."

"The system has allowed us to take more than 90 spreadsheets and combine them into one system which automatically calculates based on assumptions, dimensions, etc."

"It's very stable."

"Our organization is able to use Adaptive to complete a major majority of our monthly management and quarterly Board reports, and by refreshing reports and pages automatically, it creates the monthly report package with little to no manual staff work."

"Changes to corporate structure, account codes are updated in all versions including prior years, hence "one-version of truth" as claimed."

"Customer Service: Excellent, always available and hardly needed."

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"There is a lot of help and documentation on the Internet, so no special training is needed to use the source code."

"It has the most secured database that I have ever used, which is the most important part of Microsoft BI."

"I like having the ability to connect Excel files as data inputs."

"We've used Microsoft BI for the general use cases around reporting and dashboarding."

"Ease of development and maintenance."

"In my opinion, Microsoft BI is a low-cost solution, and it could be an interesting solution for a tourism company."

"The solution's initial setup isn't too complicated."

"Microsoft BI is easy to use and to design; I found Microsoft BI a lot easier than Tableau."

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"The product is probably not very suitable for standard corporate reporting, but if your users need analytical insight to data, it is an excellent solution."

"All features are valuable. It is very user-friendly, and it is mostly drag-and-drop. If we have the dataset available, then we can develop any dashboard very quickly."

"Tableau's very stable."

"The new pre-built application of Tableau is amazing."

"Tableau's performance is really good, and it is adding new features."

"Technical support has been responsive."

"Tableau’s beauty and speed to insight is unmatched."

"A feature I have found most valuable is the ease of use and straightforwardness, in addition to the flexibility of Tableau."

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Cons

"Their customer support team is slow to respond and not extremely confident."

"We tried Discovery and OfficeConnect at one point and found them too cumbersome, at the time."

"It's a Workday product; they could do a little bit better to integrate a pure-play integration with Workday, which really doesn't do that."

"Adaptive Insights has a limit of 1,00,000 rows for HTML reports. It should be improved because we will have multiple dimensions that need to be populated to enhance the image."

"The product's configuration process could be faster."

"The integrations could be simpler. It takes quite a bit of internal and IT know-how to set up."

"Better user interface (UI)."

"Users continue to become more advanced and are looking for more advanced solutions."

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"In my opinion, the software is a little bit limited in terms of the flexibility it offers, with regard to the design of the visualization."

"More connections with other systems should be added, which would allow for other integrations."

"Integration with artificial intelligence would help. Humans take time to review the data and eliminate errors."

"The solution is not really stable. I've faced a lot of limitations especially in terms of some data flows updates."

"My main complaint is that the error messages need to be made more clear. Currently, they are either too generic or outright misleading, and finding the real problem is like searching for a needle in a haystack."

"The formatting template could be improved."

"End-user tools such as Excel is not good enough for all business scenarios."

"When it comes to improvement, I would say there could be more tutorials for students in universities who are just learning it. And it wouldn't have to be just for students in universities. It might also be for the people who use it in the real world."

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"Its documentation can be improved so that a user can get a good hands-on experience."

"Large table reports with many filters (our case was 14 columns, 300K rows, and about 8 quick filters) to narrow the data set – don’t bother! It will be excruciatingly slow even on the server."

"The setup was easy but we are having some problems with the configuration that is taking a long time."

"Its documentation can be improved so that a user can get a good hands-on experience. Tableau is well documented, and on their website, there are a lot of tutorials that are available for free. I started my learning process through those tutorials, but there are certain loopholes in those tutorials, which only got filled through a couple of good YouTube channels that talk about Tableau. YouTube helped me a lot. So, the documentation could be better, I understand that it is evolving day by day, and with more usage, there would be more such documentation."

"When there are millions of records, scaling up is quite difficult."

"It's already using 32 gigabytes of memory, but the performance is not so good. It's very heavy."

"My only complaint is that they make assumptions on how your company handles security certificates when using SAML."

"With Tableau, when you're dealing with very large datasets, it can be slow so the performance is an area that can be improved."

More Tableau Enterprise cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Everything is negotiable, but this solution is low cost compared to others."

"Pricing is in line with other cloud-based EPM tools. It is a subscription-based model based upon the number of users and site type if it's an admin or end-user type thing."

"Ensure that you have the proper pricing plan in place."

"It's affordable."

"Adaptive Insights' pricing is reasonable."

"Licensing seems to be worth the cost considering the efficiency Adaptive brings."

"Adaptive Insights' pricing is relative to its peer competitors. It's certainly competitive compared to a spreadsheet template that you build in Excel. It can be expensive if you need to have 100-500 budget holders giving input and building financial plans. However, in that case, it becomes an extremely good bargain. Compared to its competitors, it offers an excellent value."

"Prior to purchasing licenses, make sure you understand which users will only need planning and which users will need both planning and OfficeConnect."

"Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."

"As far as I am aware you do not need a license for the solution."

"Both cost-wise and implementation-wise, this product is a good choice."

"Power BI is cheaper for smaller groups when comparing to competitors. It requires a monthly per-user subscription."

"The pricing is reasonable."

"I would advise that Microsoft BI products are rightly priced and the licensing is easy to follow and to fulfill."

"All of the licenses are on an annual basis, but Microsoft will amortize it to an extent. If it's five years, they'll include the possible interest they might have the following year. Ideally, their licensing scheme is an annual license, but they make it easier for some of our clients to take a five-year license but package everything inside for them to buy the license for five years."

"Power BI's price is reasonable, especially if you can put it in some bigger package and use it with other products. The value of a solution doesn't just come from its features as a standalone product. The price should also reflect how easy it's to set up, clean data, and integrate with other solutions."

More Microsoft Power BI pricing and cost advice

"In Korea, the tool's pricing depends on the scale of usage. For instance, it's reasonable for a department with fewer than 50 users to adopt Tableau, like sales. However, the pricing becomes an issue when considering an enterprise solution for a larger user base, say 10,000 people."

"Tableau's prices are relatively high for our market. I am from Serbia, so many companies in this market don't have the ability to pay for expensive software. My clients are quite satisfied with a lot of Tableau's qualities except for the prices."

"I'm using Tableau Public, which is free."

"Tableau is not as cost-effective as Microsoft BI."

"Paying for users you never setup or buying expensive desktop licenses for users who can solve their users with web editing on the server are the two biggest expenses."

"Its price is reasonable. Everything is included in the license."

"Buy 50 at a time. Project your use base every three months, and project your requirements forward."

"The company chose to purchase a creator license for me, which was $70. With that license, you can also be an administrator. We also have 20-25 extra licenses and they cost around $20-$35 each. Those are for normal users who will be viewing the dashboards. Those are monthly charges."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

10%

Computer Software Company

Construction Company

Real Estate/Law Firm

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

16%

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Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	10

By reviewers
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Small Business	135
Midsize Enterprise	58
Large Enterprise	166

By reviewers
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Small Business	117
Midsize Enterprise	67
Large Enterprise	184

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Also Known As

Workday Adaptive Planning, Adaptive Discovery , Workday Adaptive Planning

SSRS, SSAS, MSBI, MS Reporting Services, Microsoft BI Tools, Microsoft Big Data, Power BI Pro, MS BI

Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server, Tableau Online

Overview

Adaptive Insights is a cloud-based financial planning and analysis software that helps businesses streamline their budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes.

With its intuitive interface and powerful analytics, it enables organizations to make data-driven decisions and drive business performance.

Workday

Microsoft Power BI is a powerful tool for data analysis and visualization. This tool stands out for its ability to merge and analyze data from various sources. Widely adopted across different industries and departments, Power BI is instrumental in creating visually appealing dashboards and generating insightful business intelligence reports. Its intuitive interface, robust visualization capabilities, and seamless integration with other Microsoft applications empower users to easily create interactive reports and gain valuable insights.

Microsoft

Tableau Enterprise offers powerful features for creating interactive visualizations, dashboards, and maps, including drag-and-drop functionality and easy integration with multiple data sources, promoting real-time collaboration and self-service analysis.

Tableau Enterprise stands out with its ability to create user-friendly, interactive visualizations, making it pivotal for business intelligence applications. Users benefit from its seamless connectivity and advanced analytical functions, facilitating data blending and storytelling. Despite a complex learning curve and high licensing costs, its features like geospatial analysis and efficient content distribution drive its indispensable value for data-driven insights. Enhancements in predictive analytics and support integration with machine learning tools further its capabilities across industries.

What are the most valuable features?

Interactive Visualizations: Enables users to create engaging reports.
Drag-and-Drop Functionality: Simplifies data analysis processes.
Data Integration: Offers seamless connectivity with multiple sources.
Real-Time Collaboration: Supports synchronous data sharing.
Advanced Analytics: Provides predictive analytics and geospatial analysis.

What benefits and ROI should users look for?

Informed Decision-Making: Facilitates data-driven insights.
Efficiency in Reporting: Streamlines dashboard and reporting tasks.
Cost-Effectiveness: Despite high licensing, value in robust analytics tools.
Customizable Options: Tailors analytics to specific needs.

Tableau Enterprise is widely used for business intelligence, supporting industries like healthcare, telecommunications, and finance. Organizations utilize it to analyze performance indicators, operational insights, and financial analytics, enhancing decision-making through interactive reports and real-time data integration.

Salesforce

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