Microsoft Power BI vs Plotly comparison

"Microsoft B's beneficial features are that it is a Microsoft product and it is well known by the staff here in the company. It suited the available skills."

"The most valuable features are the flexibility, how many ways you can interrogate the data, and the the graphical visualization."

"Its visualization capabilities are pretty good. It is very easy to use. You can easily make your dashboard."

"The reports are easy to create."

"I have found the quick reporting and the conductivity with all the data sources valuable."

"You don't need much support with Microsoft Power BI because it has such a large base of users who can answer your questions on their forums. There are also many video tutorials and webinars available online that offer solutions to whatever problems you may have."

"It is in the cloud, which makes it easy for mobile access of reports and data."

"Ability to extract data from a variety of sources and systems."

"It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine to ten out of ten."

"The level of interactivity that the product provides is valuable to me."

"When reviewing and interpreting data, I typically examine it in a tabular form to understand its structure. However, when explaining or presenting the findings to others, I often use visualization tools such as Plotly. These tools allow me to create visual representations of datasets."

"I would like to see better, undisturbed stability without any interruptions."

"The product could have better analytics capabilities."

"The challenge of this product is in truncating the table data."

"It should have more report outputs. They should expand the report outputs. Its documentation should also be better."

"The visual outlet or the visualization aspect can be improved because the settings piece is quite problematic. It requires a lot of time to set the visuals and check. It is quite fiddly to change all the settings and font sizes. It just needs better ability in terms of using templates or visualization templates to get the vision. Our users always benchmark based on the product, and they don't appreciate everything under the bonnet. The only rating is based on the actual reports in the settings for the dashboard. They should make it look a bit funky and a bit more aesthetically pleasing on the eye. It is quite a fiddly tool, but other than that, it is pretty slick. Because it is community-driven, the marketplace tends to be changing forever. You get the standard visualizations, and you've also got all other marketplace visualizations that require you to spend a bit more money and purchase things in the marketplace. With certain visualizations, there is no longevity. I had used certain visualizations, but they discontinued them, and I had to rebuild my reports, which is obviously very frustrating. There should be some sort of stabilization around how the marketplace visuals impact the users when they expire."

"SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is not user friendly."

"I cannot comment on the stability as we haven't yet used it for a big project."

"Real-time data integration is an area for improvement. Although I've worked on several solutions involving real-time integration, it's not very user-friendly and often lags, especially with over a million data rows."

"The solution cannot be deployed on the website and shared with others through its own platform."

"I believe that the prices of the tool's paid services could be on the premium side, so the pricing model can be considered for improvement."

"The tool needs to improve its pie charts. Regarding Plotly, I find the online documentation somewhat challenging to navigate, especially when dealing with many parameters. Searching through thousands of parameters can be a tedious and less straightforward process. While the documentation is available online and serves its purpose, I often encounter difficulties in finding the information."

"If you purchase a license for a server, for users, or the professional version, you might not have to. The free version I think it can satisfy many customers' needs."

"My company needs to make monthly payments towards the licensing costs attached to the product."

"All in all, for the price, this is an excellent tool for helping your organization turn mounds of data into useful insights."

"Remove the cost of a licence to show a dashboard within SharePoint. Why should readers of a dashboard have to pay to view? ​"

"No comment on pricing."

"They have a free Power BI Desktop version, but it has limitations."

"Power BI is cheaper than Tableau and Cognos."

"We have enterprise licenses and some of the other tools or features come as a package and others you have to purchase separately."

"I only use the free tier of the product."

"It is an open-source tool. My company hasn't explored Plotly's premium services yet, but I believe the prices could be on the premium side."