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Birst vs Power BI Embedded Analytics comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Birst
Ranking in Reporting
28th
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
Embedded BI (20th)
Power BI Embedded Analytics
Ranking in Reporting
18th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.5
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (30th)
 

Featured Reviews

SK
Principal Engineering Manager I at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Offers dashboards and self-service reports. The report performance is very slow.
Dashboards and self-service reports. These are widely used by customers in the EPM domain Most of our customers are interested in dashboards and self-service reports. We are able to offer them these features with this solution. Customer support takes lot of time to get a solution The report…
VishnuReddy2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consulting Enterprise Architect at R2V2.ai
Embedded analytics has unified diverse data sources and supports real-time operational decisions
I find Power BI Embedded Analytics to be a fairly good reporting tool and dashboarding tool. The color palette and everything about it is good. It would be beneficial to have reporting on top of a data warehouse, a lake house, or directly on an Excel-based solution. If Power BI can come as a full stack similar to SAP Analytics Cloud, it can embed with Azure very quickly. However, the full suite provided by SAP, starting from ERP through reporting, is somewhat loosely coupled, which can be helpful for some clients. Overall, Power BI is a very good tool for reporting. Embedded analytics may lack some features from the modeling perspective, such as dimension modeling, and there are multiple factors that lead us to prefer analytics on top of the warehouse rather than going for embedded analytics.

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

Pros

"This tool possesses valuable features such as its ability to perform ETL, extract data from various sources (flat files, relational DBs, application connectors) and dashboard scheduling."
"If you are looking for a cloud-based, lightweight data mart and reporting, this tool is good."
"Cloud based BI that can be accessed from anywhere, anytime from mobiles, iPods, tablets, and PCs."
"This is the best cloud based BI platform/solution out there."
"The fact that it is completely cloud based makes the maintenance easier since we don't have the onus of maintaining the server."
"The impact of Birst has been felt company-wide."
"Dashboards and self-service reports. These are widely used by customers in the EPM domain."
"It has given us the ability to join all our data sources into one place to streamline reporting and analytics."
"What I appreciate most about Power BI Embedded Analytics is that it is tightly integrated with Microsoft, which is a strong feature."
"The positive impact Power BI Embedded Analytics has made in my organization is the gain of time, the sharing of the same data, and the same information for all the stakeholders, leading to better decisions."
 

Cons

"There were stability issues with Birst. A dashboard/report takes a lot of time to open if there is a lot of data."
"We are yet to realize the real return on the investment given the need to alter the underlying intention of the product’s use."
"I would like to see better connection functionality. It is not very intuitive and the UI is kind of neglected."
"Error logging is cumbersome to work through to find issues."
"Owing to the above reasons, we could not make use of the Birst tool productively."
"I would like to see stronger in-built permissions capabilities."
"Customer support takes lot of time to get a solution."
"For complex reports with heavy calculations, performance can be improved."
"Embedded analytics may lack some features from the modeling perspective, such as dimension modeling, and there are multiple factors that lead us to prefer analytics on top of the warehouse rather than going for embedded analytics."
 

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
18%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Marketing Services Firm
8%
Computer Software Company
24%
Media Company
17%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Outsourcing Company
11%
 

Company Size

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Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise12
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What needs improvement with Power BI Embedded Analytics?
Power BI Embedded Analytics is perfect right now as they continuously introduce new features, though it would be beneficial if they included an artificial intelligence assistant in the DAX syntax t...
What is your primary use case for Power BI Embedded Analytics?
My main use case for Power BI Embedded Analytics is that in my day-to-day work, I use Power Query to prepare data and Power BI Embedded Analytics Desktop, spending my time all day to create visuals...
What advice do you have for others considering Power BI Embedded Analytics?
An example of a decision our team made because of a Power BI Embedded Analytics report is when we decided to focus on selling a unique numeric product and avoid selling the physical product after u...
 

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