We performed a comparison between Birst and Microsoft Power BI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in Reporting."Dashboards and self-service reports. These are widely used by customers in the EPM domain."
"It's a very easy-to-use solution."
"The amount of customization that you can do is good, and it's relatively straightforward to do."
"What Power BI is, is a whole collection of templates of small amounts of data that can be used to do something for a real world project, that can be easily set up and become the business intelligence environment or a data warehouse for a large amount of data, for a real world customer. That's what is remarkable."
"In contrast to what we were using before I think that Power BI has given us more extensive results."
"Connectivity, installation, and configuration are pretty fast and seamless compared to Cognos."
"The most valuable feature of Power BI is its ability to provide customized visualizations and insights tailored to specific business needs."
"It integrates better with other Microsoft products. It is very easy to use and has very powerful visualizations. It has also got a lot of development going on."
"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."
"Customer support takes lot of time to get a solution."
"I would like to see more visualization options."
"I think that there should be visuals for financial reporting videos. It should just be a plug and play because there is a lot of coding that goes into it with different clients."
"If you have to pull multiple data sources performance is somewhat lacking."
"I find the solution to be 70 percent stable."
"I am taking a course to be able to use the solution better. Some aspects of the solution are not straightforward."
"Microsoft needs to do some more research and development to make it more stable."
"Microsoft has made a lot of progress with Power BI in the past couple of years, but there is still some room for improvement. For example, Integration is one area they could work on. They are adding more integration with other Microsoft tools, but I would like it if they sped up the process."
"I think that they can add more types of charts because the selection on the desktop version is limited."
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Birst is ranked 32nd in Reporting while Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in Reporting with 22 reviews. Birst is rated 7.4, while Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0. On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Power BI writes "User friendly, easy to set up and great for analyzing data". Birst is most compared with Alteryx and ThoughtSpot, whereas Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE.
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