We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI and NetSuite Business Intelligence based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."The initial setup is relatively simple."
"There is a feature in Microsoft BI that allows JSON data to SQL on the dashboards effectively and quickly."
"There is also a chart store where we can download charts, which is extremely useful."
"Helped identify bad data, enabling the corrections needed to the data for management."
"Our setup is very straight forward and can be done in a matter of hours."
"Microsoft BI allows us to connect to any database or any dataset."
"The data can be accessed from anywhere."
"What I like about Power BI is how fast you are able to create dashboards and how fast you are able to fetch the data. You can connect to the database or data source, and then you can design your dashboards very easily."
"You can export almost anything whether it's graphics or data."
"The DAX in Microsoft BI is quite difficult."
"The look and feel should be updated in terms of the types of dashboards and graphs that you can produce. They aren't as visual as some of its competitors."
"I have to write scripts to query data for analyzing performance."
"The maps in Power BI could be improved. You deal with many maps over the years, like maps of America and Saudi Arabia. The maps aren't detailed enough, and there aren't enough visualization tools. Whenever I want to use a map, I struggle with choosing the right visualization."
"My main complaint is that the error messages need to be made more clear. Currently, they are either too generic or outright misleading, and finding the real problem is like searching for a needle in a haystack."
"It should be more scalable for an enterprise-level implementation. When you deploy large data sets, the response has to be faster in Power BI. This is one thing that needs to be improved in it."
"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."
"Automation could be improved and performance enhanced."
"Graphics are limited and could be improved."
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Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews while NetSuite Business Intelligence is ranked 33rd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while NetSuite Business Intelligence is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Power BI writes "A complete ecosystem with an builtin ETL tool, good integrations with python and R, and support of DAX and Power Query (M languages)". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetSuite Business Intelligence writes "Scripting is a great feature as is the ability to export almost anything". Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE, whereas NetSuite Business Intelligence is most compared with Oracle OBIEE, Oracle Analytics Cloud and Tableau.
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