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Birst vs Power BI Embedded Analytics comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Birst
Ranking in Reporting
31st
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
Embedded BI (19th)
Power BI Embedded Analytics
Ranking in Reporting
19th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
3.8
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (28th)
 

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

"Birst provides quick and helpful support on raised queries."
"If you are looking for a cloud-based, lightweight data mart and reporting, this tool is good."
"The fact that it is completely cloud based makes the maintenance easier since we don't have the onus of maintaining the server."
"Birst is a great tool for: Creating a simple data warehouse Uploading data for quick analysis, visualizations, and dashboards"
"We have been able to scale pretty quickly and easily; it has been a great experience and I love this product."
"Cloud based BI that can be accessed from anywhere, anytime from mobiles, iPods, tablets, and PCs."
"Dashboards and self-service reports are widely used by customers in the EPM domain."
"The option to build and deploy analytical models quickly, within days rather than months."
"What I appreciate most about Power BI Embedded Analytics is that it is tightly integrated with Microsoft, which is a strong feature."
 

Cons

"As the volume of data gets bigger and bigger, so does the extraction/processing of the data and the dashboard rendering."
"The initial setup was extremely complex. The Birst consultants wasted a lot of time in configuring the system."
"I would like to see better connection functionality. It is not very intuitive and the UI is kind of neglected."
"I would like to see stronger in-built permissions capabilities."
"Performance was not that great; in-memory processing would help."
"Owing to the above reasons, we could not make use of the Birst tool productively."
"Customer support takes lot of time to get a solution."
"We are yet to realize the real return on the investment given the need to alter the underlying intention of the product’s use."
"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

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Financial Services Firm
16%
Construction Company
13%
Marketing Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
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Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise12
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