Microsoft Power BI vs Mode Enterprise vs Salesforce Einstein Analytics comparison

Microsoft and Mode are both solutions in the BI (Business Intelligence) Tools category. Microsoft is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.0, while Mode is ranked #25 with an average rating of 8.0. Microsoft holds a 14.5% mindshare in BIT, compared to Mode’s 0.5% mindshare. Additionally, 93% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Mode users who would recommend it.

Microsoft Power BI

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93% willing to recommend

Mode Enterprise

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697 Views
439 Comparison Views

100% willing to recommend

Salesforce Einstein Analytics

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2,419 Views
1,669 Comparison Views

86% willing to recommend

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Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the BI (Business Intelligence) Tools category, the mindshare of Microsoft Power BI is 14.5%, down from 21.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Mode Enterprise is 0.5%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Salesforce Einstein Analytics is 1.0%, down from 1.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Microsoft Power BI	14.5%
Salesforce Einstein Analytics	1.0%
Mode Enterprise	0.5%
Other	84.0%

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Featured Reviews

Shoury Priyanshu

Senior Manager, Strategy & Consulting at Viacom18 Media Pvt Ltd

Facilitates seamless data aggregation with some outdated visual elements hindering user appeal

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. This makes Power BI difficult to manage as loading times can reach one or two minutes, which is problematic today. There are challenges with scalability, requiring multiple pages in dashboards to manage these issues. Visualization could be improved as it appears outdated. Users, especially newcomers, find it unappealing and not user-friendly.

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Yoeri Samwel

Logistical engineer at DSV

Helps to run Python-based scripts but needs enhancement in user experience

The most important feature of the solution is the ability to run Python-based scripts. Mode Analytics needs to improve the overall user experience. I have been working with the solution for two years. I rate the solution's stability a ten out of ten. I rate the tool's scalability a seven…

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Sunny Nair

Solution Architect and Senior Consultant at Keysight Technologies

Business insights improve with reliable integration but face occasional system downtimes

It is difficult to integrate the modules. The customization is also a little bit complex currently, but it is getting easier as they continue improving the market. There are certain glitches, especially when the modules are upgraded or when there is a source code update, causing the entire tool to go offline. There is downtime which still affects the particular product. I would provide a reliability rating of 70%, with 30% still having scope for improvement.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Like all Microsoft products, it is very easy to set up initially."

"It provides easy integration with Office tools."

"Everything that's in M Query and DAX is the heart of Power BI because with these tools you can make up for a lot of other missing features."

"I also find connecting to different data sources is quite simple. Other solutions we were using before were complicated."

"The solution's most valuable feature is the graphic representation."

"It is useful for bringing visualization to data. It calculates counts, ratios, etc."

"It is stable enough. It has a lot of powerful functions. It can also be customized with the DAX language. It is also intuitive enough and incremental. You can start with something simple, and then step-by-step, you can increase the reports and dashboards according to your needs."

"Its visualizations and dashboards are most valuable. Power BI is great in terms of visualizations and dashboards. The reports that we previously had were not very nice in terms of visualization. It also provides the ability to play with the data."

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"The tool helps to catch results and review them."

"The most valuable feature I would say is the flexibility in editing."

"The most important feature of the solution is the ability to run Python-based scripts."

"The solution is simple for people from a viewing perspective, not a coding perspective."

"I find Salesforce Einstein Analytics valuable because it is easier to use within Salesforce."

"Einstein Analytics provides insights into what we are doing and how we are doing it. It tells us what benchmarks we need to hit consistently to achieve our goals. In sales, there is sometimes a disconnect between actions and objectives. We aren't necessarily going to close a deal because we call X number of people. There are some underlying skills that add nuance to these metrics."

"It is a comprehensive solution. It has everything in it. I can easily find what I need."

"It's scalable."

"The solution scales extremely well."

"We have found the scalability to be very good."

"The way Salesforce Einstein Analytics is structured in terms of the work assignments and the user profile is very good."

"Salesforce Einstein Analytics is a simplified CRM. It's integration is good."

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Cons

"Automation could be improved and performance enhanced."

"I would like them to provide a license that just allows us to see dashboards. What I don't like about this solution is that in order to just watch a dashboard, you need a license. Currently, you need to purchase a full license of Power BI Pro just to see something, which is not attractive. If you have a license, you can see a shared dashboard, but you can also build a dashboard or you can collaborate with other people. However, if you only want to see a dashboard, there is no license for that. I only want to see the dashboard, and I don't want to do anything more than watching the information on the dashboard. There is no license that allows you to see a shared dashboard. This is one of the areas of opportunity because I would like a lot of people to be able to see a shared dashboard, not to interact with it or to collaborate online with it. I would like to see more compatibility with non-Microsoft data sources. Given the fact that everything is related to Microsoft Azure and all services available on Microsoft Azure, I see that they're building more connections to Microsoft Azure services instead of other non-Microsoft services. I understand the strategy, but it would be good to have more compatibility with non-Microsoft data sources."

"Although there are many visualizations, most of them are paid separately because they have been developed by private developers. The visualizations that come off the shelf are quite few."

"It is kept very current, and there is an update literally every month. However, the interface changes quite randomly with no documentation, which is difficult at the domain and architectural level where you're planning things and engaging the business. Things change frequently, and you wonder where has the button for the new report gone. They should provide better documentation on interface changes. It should be better optimized. It is supposed to be a data integration tool, but it is doing relatively simple queries. It has its limitations. For example, you can only pull a number of columns. So, there is room for optimization on its ability to integrate multiple data sources. The desktop tool is very memory-intensive, and again, this is not documented clearly. It requires a heavy CPU and memory use, and it causes your operating systems to become unstable. I would like to see the ability to create datasets within Power BI. Microsoft is promoting Azure as a cloud solution, but it is dependent upon a desktop component, which seems a little bit deceptive. Data set is the basic element that you report from, but it has to be created on the desktop and then published to the cloud. So, you're in the cloud, and you create a data structure or the data flow, but you can't report from that. You have to leave the cloud, go to your desktop, create the data set on your desktop, and publish it to the cloud. You go back to the cloud and create your report by using that published data set, which is very non-intuitive. If you go to the Microsoft Power BI community, this is a common complaint across the entire community."

"Microsoft BI's visualization could be better. Though Power BI's visualization has steadily improved over the years, it's not on the level tools like Tableau and SAS or some of the more expensive products on the market."

"Microsoft BI could improve by having better collaboration between developers working on the same dashboard. The developer platform is all done on a single laptop and it's difficult to have the same project files work. Two developers have to go back and forth. You have to have the project file on one developer's laptop making it difficult to co-develop."

"If you have to pull multiple data sources performance is somewhat lacking."

"It needs an AI which can choose the appropriate connection strings and provide options for connections."

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"The data visualization is cumbersome in Mode Analytics. I want the solution to add a map that has an easy interface. The UI is slow sometimes."

"The solution could run faster."

"I think in terms of User Interface, I would say it can be better."

"Mode Analytics needs to improve the overall user experience."

"If I could improve Tableau CRM I would make it as powerful as Tableau. Tableau CRM is more integrated and it's on the web, but it has less functionality. It is lacking functionality at this time."

"They have a lot of opportunity to improve BI tools. With Einstein Analytics, we have a very minimal scope."

"All of the timesheets and appraisal management I have not been happy with. There should be some improvements. For example, as a management team, our managers do not have access to see a summary report, such as who is on leave today or how many hours each person logged in. You have to get into individual users and see. You cannot see a summary report, the reporting is missing. There should improve the reports."

"The tool needs to simplify its features."

"There is a learning curve associated with Salesforce Einstein Analytics, particularly since users need to learn a new language."

"The product is expensive."

"When it comes to generating reports, it appears that many users rely on experts to handle technical aspects. For instance, if you require a weekly report displaying accounts transitioning in and out of your modules, it seems challenging to accomplish without consulting experts for assistance. Such tasks should be user-friendly and easily achievable without external assistance."

"There are certain glitches, especially when the modules are upgraded or when there is a source code update, causing the entire tool to go offline."

More Salesforce Einstein Analytics cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Pricing, that's where Microsoft beats Tableau. It is priced much cheaper."

"The licensing can be complicated."

"Setup is easy, and the cost is economical. You do sometimes need to pay additional costs for third party products which "plug-in" to Microsoft BI."

"I would rate the pricing an eight out of ten, with one being cheap and ten being expensive."

"The solution is affordable."

"I used a two months free trial to see if it had what I needed."

"Microsoft BI is not very cheap. A premium license costs roughly 5,000 euros a month."

"All of the licenses are on an annual basis, but Microsoft will amortize it to an extent. If it's five years, they'll include the possible interest they might have the following year. Ideally, their licensing scheme is an annual license, but they make it easier for some of our clients to take a five-year license but package everything inside for them to buy the license for five years."

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"Mode Analytics is cheap compared to other tools."

"The pricing is per user."

"My decision-maker found the pricing expensive, but it is okay for me."

"The biggest challenge we had was the cost and the licensing. We ended up getting an enterprise licensing agreement(ELA). That took a lot of negotiations and a lot of pressure. We were able to receive a good price for the community licensing they bundled Salesforce Einstein Analytics. They bundled a lot of capabilities with us with the ELA."

"Price-wise, Salesforce Einstein Analytics is an expensive tool."

"Although it was deemed slightly expensive and failed the cost analysis we conducted in our company, we proceeded with the purchase because we desired to have a leading CRM system in the industry."

"Salesforce Einstein Analytics can be considered somewhat expensive, depending on the company's needs. If they want the complete package with all the features, it's pricier. It all comes down to what the company requires from the platform."

"I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten."

"Salesforce has a subscription-based licensing structure, where it's between $20 to $75 per month, per user."

"The solution is expensive."

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Comparison Review

it_user79932

Senior Manager - BI Head at NVidia

Feb 4, 2015

Comparison of SAP BO, Tableau, QlikView, Cognos, Microsoft, OBIEE and Pentaho

1. SAP BO/BI Enterprise scalability Security Ease of use Semantic layer 2. Tableau Visualization Data discovery Turnaround time 3. IBM Cognos Enterprise scalability Security In-memory feature 4. MS BI - Flexibility 5. Pentaho - Open source but still enterprise grade 6. QlikView Data…

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

Government

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

17%

Media Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

University

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	134
Midsize Enterprise	57
Large Enterprise	165

No data available

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	12

Questions from the Community

Seeking lightweight open source BI software

There are many...It would rather depend what System BI architecture or Enterprise legacy you have at your end...I wou...

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Is Power BI a complete platform or only a visualization tool?

Power BI is an advanced visualization tool oriented to big data with a very complete set of widgets to visualize info...

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How does Oracle OBIEE compare with Microsoft BI?

Oracle OBIEE is great in allowing design and creativity per the individual needs of the organization. Dashboards are ...

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What do you like most about Mode Analytics?

The solution is simple for people from a viewing perspective, not a coding perspective.

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What needs improvement with Mode Analytics?

The solution could run faster. You just sit there, waiting during the load times, especially for the large ones. And ...

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What is your primary use case for Mode Analytics?

I was put in charge of creating a lot of the dashboards, so it was very much that there weren't people at the company...

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What do you like most about Salesforce Einstein Analytics?

The tool is valuable. It's one of the greatest programs I'm currently working with, and I believe it will continue to...

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What needs improvement with Salesforce Einstein Analytics?

It is difficult to integrate the modules. The customization is also a little bit complex currently, but it is getting...

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What is your primary use case for Salesforce Einstein Analytics?

It is more of an integrated platform where marketing, customer service, and the ticketing system are integrated into ...

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Compared 21% of the time

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Compared 14% of the time

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Compared 10% of the time

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Compared 9% of the time

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Compared 19% of the time

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Compared 15% of the time

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Compared 9% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Also Known As

SSRS, SSAS, MSBI, MS Reporting Services, Microsoft BI Tools, Microsoft Big Data, Power BI Pro, MS BI

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Einstein Analytics, Salesforce Wave Analytics

Overview

Microsoft Power BI is a powerful tool for data analysis and visualization. This tool stands out for its ability to merge and analyze data from various sources. Widely adopted across different industries and departments, Power BI is instrumental in creating visually appealing dashboards and generating insightful business intelligence reports. Its intuitive interface, robust visualization capabilities, and seamless integration with other Microsoft applications empower users to easily create interactive reports and gain valuable insights.

Microsoft

Mode Enterprise offers a data-focused analytics platform designed for businesses seeking advanced insights and efficiency. It combines robust data exploration with seamless reporting capabilities.

Mode Enterprise caters to data-driven enterprises by providing them with the tools necessary for real-time analysis. It’s engineered to enhance business decision-making through comprehensive data visualization, encouraging immediate insights and collaborative work across teams. The platform’s integration capabilities allow for smoother adaptation into existing workflows, enhancing agility and responsiveness.

What key features does Mode Enterprise offer?

Real-Time Collaboration: Enables teams to collaborate on reports simultaneously.
Data Visualization: Offers dynamic charts and graphs for data insights.
SQL Editor: Advanced querying tools for complex data analysis.
Custom Reporting: Flexible report creation tailored to specific metrics.

What benefits and ROI should users consider?

Improved Decision Making: Facilitates informed business strategies.
Increased Efficiency: Streamlines data management workflows.
Enhanced Collaboration: Supports transparent and cooperative efforts.
Cost-Effectiveness: Reduces time and resources spent on manual data handling.

Mode Enterprise effectively serves sectors like finance, retail, and healthcare by providing industry-specific analytics solutions. Its adaptability allows for personalized implementations, meeting each sector's unique data analysis needs and contributing to improved operational outcomes. By fostering agility, it aids industries in staying competitive through timely insights and informed strategic decisions.

Mode

Salesforce Einstein Analytics is a customer and business analytics platform that’s optimized for mobile use and brings flexible customer analytics to everyone in the company. It works with many types of data, from many data sources, and it can change the way your company answers critical questions. Einstein Analytics allows you to:

Connect directly to your CRM data and execute on insights directly in Chatter.
Automatically analyze millions of rows of data and get predictive analytics with Einstein Discovery.
Explore data quickly and automate actions with prebuilt apps.
Use mobile to act, whether you're on Android or iOS.

Salesforce

Sample Customers

Accenture Adidas Aetna AIG Airbus Alibaba Allstate Amazon American Express Aon AT&T Audi Bank of America BASF Bayer Berkshire Hathaway Boeing Coca-Cola Comcast Cisco Coca-Cola Dell Disney Emirates Equinix FedEx Ford GE Google H&M Home Depot Honda IBM Intel JPMorgan Chase Kellogg's Kroger L'Oréal McDonald's Merck MetLife Microsoft Nike Oracle P&G PepsiCo Procter & Gamble Prudential Financial SAP Siemens Snapchat Spotify Starbucks Target Toyota T-Mobile Unilever Visa Walmart WeWork World Bank Xerox

Lyft, Zenefits, Twitch, Trello, Clover, Grovo, CrowdFlower, Segment, Everlane, Pocket, Highfive

ADS Securities, Alstom Grid, American Express, Barclays Bank, Coca-Cola, CoderDojo, Dubai Multi Commodities Centre, Financial Conduct Authority

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