We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI, SAS Visual Analytics, and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."What Power BI is, is a whole collection of templates of small amounts of data that can be used to do something for a real world project, that can be easily set up and become the business intelligence environment or a data warehouse for a large amount of data, for a real world customer. That's what is remarkable."
"Its data visualization provides the user the ability to quickly look at data and focus on relevant information, allowing them to make an immediate decision."
"The solution is easy to use and charts can be built quickly with the tools."
"Microsoft BI was very helpful for me because I had a huge variety of connections. It is very convenient to build reports, even if somebody has no experience using BI tools or data visualizations. Additionally, the performance is very good when generating reports."
"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."
"Microsoft BI is better than most solutions we have. It's pretty easy to conduct analysis with it."
"Provides good data flow related to the container and control flow."
"Ease of development and maintenance."
"Simplifies report designs and quickly displays tables and graphs."
"Data handling is one of the best features of SAS Visual Analytics."
"Quick deployment to dashboards and analytics features (using SAS Visual Statistics and Enterprise Guide). Easy to create a simple forecast and discover business insights using segmentation tools."
"The flexibility of the configuration is valuable to me."
"Visual Analytics is very easy to use. I use Visual Analytics for all the typical use cases except text mining. I used it to analyze data and monitor statistics, not text mining. I also use it for data visualization as well as creating interactive dashboards and infographics."
"The alert generation feature also helps in sending out ad hoc messages to the business users if business thresholds have been crossed."
"The product is stable, reliable, and scalable."
"Great for handling complex data models."
"I have found many of the self-service features valuable."
"Self-service is most valuable. Users can pick up quickly and do the resolution. There are a lot of out-of-the-box features, and it satisfies most of the needs. If users are properly trained, they can deal with any situation."
"Any feature I am looking for usually is part of the next upgrade within a few months. They have a very good dynamic evolution."
"Tableau has many different connectors for different databases. It's very easy to connect to MySQL, SQL Server, Amazon EMR, Presto, Redshift, BigQuery, and so on."
"The data visualization piece is most valuable. We do ad-hoc analysis or one-time shot things, but there are things that we have to track every single day. When our management and our customers want to see how things are changing, the dashboarding provides that information. Tableau is key in providing that data on a refresh basis. We use a data blending tool that pumps the data into Tableau, and we just schedule it to run every single day. So, the automation of the data and being able to present it to people who are interested are the most valuable features."
"It's a very good, flexible product, and it's easy to learn."
"The most valuable feature is the aggregation function."
"Provides a very good sound analysis quotient."
"SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is not user friendly."
"One area for improvement in Microsoft Power BI is serviceability. Compared to one of its competitors: Tableau, there are a lot of things which you cannot do in this tool, that can be done in Tableau."
"The product doesn't support unstructured data. It doesn't support video, streaming, and strings of files."
"The default parameters of the prompt could be improved by including a dynamic option."
"This solution is resource-heavy."
"I would like for there to be some type of user manual that shows steps on how to navigate the solution."
"The solution doesn't integrate well with third-party tools."
"I would like to see more visualization options."
"A bit more flexibility in the temperatization will be helpful."
"Better connectivity with other data origins, better visualization, and the ability to create KPIs directly would all help."
"It is not as mature as competitors such as Tableau and QlikView."
"The visualization should be better in SAS Visual Analytics. It is easy to use but when compared to other solutions it is lacking and the support is not very good."
"I haven't come across any missing features."
"The charts and tables could use better sorting, primarily using other variables than the ones on the figure. If they could implement views like in the older version (previous to Viya), it would be very nice."
"There is a need for coding when it comes to digital reporting which can be intimidating."
"Colours used on report objects"
"I am a BI consultant. I have worked on different reporting tools, such as Power BI and MicroStrategy. As compared to other tools, Tableau lags behind in handling huge enterprise-level data in terms of robust security and the single integrated metadata concept. When we connect to large or very big databases, then performance-wise, I sometimes found Tableau a little bit slow. It can have the single metadata concept like other tools for the reusability of the objects in multiple reports."
"Tableau's data modeling, mining, and AI library features need improvement."
"In the next release, there should be more information describing each chart because users have a difficult time telling them apart. They should also include the animations/videos, similar to Power BI."
"The Hyper Extract functionality is not as strong as that provided by Microsoft SQL."
"It needs more ETL capabilities, to be able to address the end-to-end BI need."
"The only issue with the solution is with its prices at a regional level."
"The setup was easy but we are having some problems with the configuration that is taking a long time. We have done some initial tests and some of the delays could be from bandwidth issues. However, the whole installation process should be simplified."
"Most of the problems in Tableau Online that I have noticed have to do with performance or weird, inexplicable bugs that I can't pin down. For example, you might try unloading some data, and you'll be waiting for a long time without anything happening."
