We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI, SAS Visual Analytics, and XLCubed 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 I like most is that I can do everything in Power BI that I can do in Excel."
"The DAX coding language is good for creating formulae."
"It is quite easy to use and it helps me to achieve the projects that I've been assigned."
"We like the drag and drop interactability visualization. We really like that. It's user-friendly."
"I like the fact that Power BI lets me use Excel data. At least 90% of my state data is in Excel spreadsheets. Having the ability to just attach a spreadsheet as a data source is very, very important. It's also good for training and teaching. Sometimes you don't always have access to a live production database, so having a spreadsheet with sample data is always nice."
"I have found the quick reporting and the conductivity with all the data sources valuable."
"The capability to add custom visuals and create Power BI apps. You can package datasets, synchronization details, and dashboards into a single app."
"Provides good data flow related to the container and control flow."
"We've found the product to be stable and reliable."
"The flexibility of the configuration is valuable to me."
"I use Visual Analytics for enterprise reporting."
"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."
"It provided the capability to visualize a bunch of data in an organized way."
"Simplifies report designs and quickly displays tables and graphs."
"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 product is stable, reliable, and scalable."
"Great capability, performance, flexibility, visuals, and the solution is also very cost effective."
"I am looking forward to testing their full graphics that are available, as they looked very interesting in the demo."
"For someone who is new, I think that Power BI can be a little complicated."
"I would like to be able to use more predicting data science features without having to use R."
"Microsoft BI can improve some of the visual level filters or visual functionality, that are available in other BI tools, such as Tableau or Qlik Sense."
"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."
"Its desktop tool is a little bit memory CPU intensive, and it can be improved, but the machines nowadays come with a lot of memory. For the desktop users who are using it on the desktop, we recommend that they do an upgrade. It is a minor issue. We can fix it on the desktop."
"The solution doesn't integrate well with third-party tools."
"It is too slow. I hope in future it will be a comparable big data tool, such as, for example, Data Lake."
"I'm not overly technical, and so I can't really speak to any shortcomings from a technical standpoint."
"I haven't come across any missing features."
"There is a need for coding when it comes to digital reporting which can be intimidating."
"In Brazil, there are few documents, courses, and other resources for studying and implementing the tool."
"The solution is a little weak at the front end."
"There are scalability issues. It depends on the data volume and number of end-users. VA requires a lot of hardware resources to move volumes of data."
"The reason we haven't rolled it out across the board is due to the fact that the licensing is so expensive."
"SAS Visual Analytics could be more user-friendly."
"The deployment isn't smooth. Deploying Visual Analytics on the cloud takes a lot of work, or you can use some providers that give you SAS as a service. For example, there is a provider called SaasNow. They host SAS Visual Analytics and the license. You can buy the license and deploy it there without the hassle of installation because deploying the software isn't easy."
"There should be a better or an easier way to establish that connection to external sources."
"Would like the ability to be able to benchmark."
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