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."The most valuable feature of this solution is data preparation."
"The GUI is simple and it integrates with Python."
"The product is very stable and super fast, five-star. It's significantly more stable than it's nearest competitor."
"The cloud deployment ensures it scales easily."
"The data transformation feature is the most valuable. The ability to ingest data, visualize data, and transform that data is useful."
"I think the most valuable feature for Alteryx in a health facility is that it permits cleaning, organizing, and merging of databases such as Excel and Access."
"The scheduling within the solution is excellent."
"You get more support with Alteryx, and it's good for non-sophisticated users who can benefit from the support included in the price."
"Its connection to every database: Whatever and wherever it is."
"Like all Microsoft products, it is very easy to set up initially."
"The one feature most of our customers like is data visualization. When we were doing BI directly from SQL, most users found it challenging to create their own reports. Power BI has self-serve analytics that the end-users can do themselves. On most projects, people are primarily using data visualization and self-serve analytics."
"We can see that it's really improved the way end users can do their own graphs and pick their own fields of information and present that in a nice way."
"It is quite easy to use and it helps me to achieve the projects that I've been assigned."
"The most interesting feature of Microsoft Power BI is that it's very user-friendly."
"It's a powerful platform."
"Helped identify bad data, enabling the corrections needed to the data for management."
"Alteryx could be improved in the area of analytics and central governance."
"The formula we currently use in Alteryx can be automated."
"I think better visualization would be helpful to this solution."
"The screen when you are looking into your workflows and your ETL processes needs to be improved. You cannot manage it very well."
"The solution could improve in the visualization."
"Alteryx's predictive data models are pretty average and can be improved."
"The server is too expensive for what you get and it really a designer desktop on a server."
"Mastering Alteryx, a comprehensive solution, takes time. However, once you have gained proficiency with its layout and how to drag, drop, and connect components, it becomes remarkably easy, yet still thorough."
"Its performance and stability can be improved. It takes time to load, and sometimes, it also breaks down for the whole region. Its usability could also be better, and it could also have more connections with different data sources."
"The mobile app is very poor."
"Most clients have MacBooks. Therefore, they use Tableau as Power BI Desktop is not available for the MacBook right now."
"Areas of Power BI that could be improved are the learning curve for developers who come from non-technical backgrounds."
"Its desktop tool is a little bit memory CPU intensive, and it can be improved, but the machines nowadays come with a lot of memory. For the desktop users who are using it on the desktop, we recommend that they do an upgrade. It is a minor issue. We can fix it on the desktop."
"I would prefer that the solution not be shared. I'm concerned that if we make a mistake we could reveal information to people who shouldn't see it. I would like to have my own on-prem server, to buy my own server and have my own infrastructure for Microsoft BI, with only with my data."
"In Microsoft Excel, you are able to have tabs. However, in Microsoft BI you do not have this flexibility."
"Microsoft BI comes under pressure when there is a lot of data to be crunched. It gets slower and slower, and the functionality becomes a bit of a problem. The performance goes down with data being fed into the system. The infrastructure requirement also increases if you have to increase the performance. This is the area that can be improved in my opinion. Initially, the product is good, but over the years, when data gets accumulated, it becomes a problem unless the old data is kind of archived and is no longer shown on the visualization. It has a feature by using which a user can query for a report through simple questions to a bot. So, if I want to look for the customer share of revenue by geography, I just simply state that in the chatbot. If I wanted it in a pie chart, then you say, "Please show it to me in a pie chart." It comes out well for basic charts. This feature should be improvised more so that people can very quickly get customized reports on the go."
Alteryx is ranked 1st in Predictive Analytics with 74 reviews while Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 293 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 Data Science Studio, RapidMiner and Tableau, 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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