We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI and Plotly based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Reporting solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features of Microsoft BI are the variety of possibilities to connect to various data sources. The visualizations are easily done, have useful rollover functions, and there are continuous updates being made to the system. You can benefit from the various improvements."
"Many of my customers already use Microsoft products like Office 365, so I often propose Microsoft Power BI because it integrates well with all the standard Microsoft business tools. And it's the quickest tool to implement and start using daily."
"Connectivity, installation, and configuration are pretty fast and seamless compared to Cognos."
"It has provided customer purchase patterns and great visualization."
"What's most valuable in this tool is that it gives its users detailed error messages. It's a very stable data analytics tool, and it offers good scalability."
"It is low-cost and easy to deploy. It is fully-featured."
"It's easy to create reports and it's easy to download the data from the corresponding report."
"The product is user-friendly."
"It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine to ten out of ten."
"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."
"The level of interactivity that the product provides is valuable to me."
"Real-time updating needs improvement."
"The initial installation is difficult."
"At times, I feel that the system needs improvement in single sign-on, especially for the on-premises side of the tool."
"It is easy enough. I don't see any real substantial improvements that are needed. It is great as it is, but its interface could be a bit modern."
"The way you navigate the product, compared to other products in this industry, that could be improved a bit."
"Microsoft needs to provide more drivers to connect other data sources in a native way."
"Microsoft Power BI was born native on the cloud, however, it's quite difficult when it has to connect to on-premise data sources."
"We have used other solutions and the reporting functionality should be user-friendly and have a drag and drop feature should be available, but Microsoft BI doesn't have these features. When you are creating reports and you can't change as a user. Every time you need one developer or one technical person to make the changes."
"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."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in Reporting with 297 reviews while Plotly is ranked 15th in Reporting with 3 reviews. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while Plotly is rated 7.6. 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 Plotly writes "An interactive and easy-to-use solution that can be used to create dashboards". Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE, whereas Plotly is most compared with Tableau, TIBCO Spotfire, Qlik Sense and RStudio Connect. See our Microsoft Power BI vs. Plotly report.
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