Microsoft Power BI vs Redwood Reporting - Report2Web comparison

"I like that I can use Power BI to upload data. That is very important for me. The visualization is also convenient and easy to use."

"The flexibility of the program is valuable. We are able to add other information to the reporting information and expand upon it."

"The interactive reports, DirectQuery and integration with the other Microsoft services are valuable features."

"It is very good, and it supports the Microsoft ecosystem, including Excel, etc."

"The initial setup is simple to do."

"Good CS and administration."

"As it is cloud-based, this solution is always providing us with the latest version to use."

"It has greatly improved our reporting capabilities."

"We were manually populating things but the tool has helped us automate the process. We could pull the report automatically and send it as an email."

"I think that there should be visuals for financial reporting videos. It should just be a plug and play because there is a lot of coding that goes into it with different clients."

"Sometimes in Power BI, the logic can be challenging to follow."

"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."

"The smart phone application could be improved, along with better graphics and faster updating."

"Right now, their premium pricing is keeping us out of the premium market. The premium price per user just doesn't make sense for us, but we haven't reached the limit of 500 users to justify the premium."

"This solution needs integration with SAS and more deep analysis functionality."

"Real-time updating needs improvement."

"Drill-down in dashboards needs to improved. The capability only works in Power BI Desktop today. We need to have an alternative approach today."

"You need to put queries manually. When you customize, you need to put queries manually."

"Compared to what's available on the market, I think we pay a fair price."

"Globally, we evaluated a number of products, including Salesforce's product, Microsoft won on the ground of simple functionally and cost."

"The price of the solution can be expensive if you want to synchronize your data more."

"The current licensing model that Microsoft BI has is expensive. My customers have told me the cost is approximately $20 per user and this can get expensive fast. There should be a one-time purchase option if the customer has a lot of users."

"It is free."

"Our license is paid yearly and we have found that we have to be careful not to over-extend our usage in order to avoid upgrading our capacity plan."

"Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."

"The licensing can be complicated."