We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, and ThoughtSpot 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 most valuable feature of Microsoft Power BI is the drill-through feature that takes you to a details page the users want to see."
"The sharing features are vital, especially the ability to share and test different shared dashboards."
"The most useful features are the ability to connect different databases to Microsoft BI and explore them. Once the database information has been extracted, you have the ability to construct indicators and dashboards from the information."
"The interface is very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is real-time report tracking."
"Reporting is the best thing about Power BI. And it could help improve decision-making in many ways. Power BI is flexible and easier to use compared to tools."
"The initial setup is simple to do."
"The most valuable feature would be the abundance of connectors. It is also easy to use."
"The best part about Tableau is the visualization."
"The platform's most important feature is predictive analysis."
"Although Tableau isn't the best for us when it comes to processing and working on live data, it is very good at extracting data for analysis."
"Tableau has improved my organization in a variety of ways, one of its uses being that of data analysis. A feature I have found most valuable is the ease of use and straightforwardness, in addition to the flexibility of Tableau."
"Tableau's visualization features let you present information insights quickly and practically. So it's something which I prefer with Tableau. In terms of reporting, I have to point out the sheer quality and function of the Tableau server, but the first impression is that it's a great visualization tool."
"Analysis is now more visual than in the past."
"The product offers an intuitive user interface, detailed screens and widgets, and the absence of data limitations"
"While using this solution I have found the valuable features to be ease of use and the visualization. It is a complete solution."
"ThoughtSpot takes the modifying of existing reports out of our hands."
"The scalability is good."
"The initial setup was very straightforward."
"I like ThoughtSpot's search capabilities. You can also create custom analytics even if you aren't an experienced data analyst. We have users with no data analytics experience making some of the dashboards we've created, copying components, and customizing them to their specific use cases."
"The ability to do ad hoc explorations of data has been most valuable."
"It is easy to set up the solution."
"I would say the return on investment is good. Whatever we invested, we got results. We have been finding it easy to use and onboard new use cases."
"It's easy to drill down or expand data to get more details right out of the box."
"I believe the price should be degressive, and we should have a lower, or better unit price if we have more users."
"The solution could use a faster speed on certain interactions and a refresh of the dashboards."
"Maybe they can enhance the UI a bit. Right now, it's very basic, I would say, compared to the MicroStrategy or Qlik."
"The way you navigate the product, compared to other products in this industry, that could be improved a bit."
"The solution's documentation needs improvement."
"The solution could be more customizable and you do not have too much freedom on the code."
"I would like to see more visualization options."
"The product doesn't support unstructured data. It doesn't support video, streaming, and strings of files."
"Bursting email is needed to deliver the reports to many people in their inboxes and this functionality is not provided by Tableau."
"It's already using 32 gigabytes of memory, but the performance is not so good. It's very heavy."
"When compared to Power BI, it is less user-friendly."
"Its price is a concern. It is more expensive than Power BI. The other thing that I never liked about Tableau is its ability to handle large sets of data. To present the data in the dashboards, we have to stage it up exactly like it is going to come into the dashboard. We use another tool called Alteryx that does that for us. So, we manipulate the data, get it staged, and then push it into Tableau. Tableau is terrible at handling large data sets, and we knew right away that we couldn't use Tableau to do data manipulation."
"With Tableau, when you're dealing with very large datasets, it can be slow so the performance is an area that can be improved."
"When I've done presentations in the past, I've had issues with uploading the cartography."
"If you mainly need a tool for BI reporting, it's not the best option. Tableau needs better abilities to generate simple reports, integrate, create databases, and work with data lakes."
"Improvements can be made in template support. The workbook file structure is really hard to version control. If there was some sort of version control support offered particularly for workbooks, that would help big time."
"In terms of features, I'd like to be able to pivot data - for example, going from rows to columns. It's not easy to do."
"A customized visualization is lacking in this product."
"I would like to see more flexibility in adding the pins. Currently, we have four different sizes in which I can add pins, but I would like to be able to resize my pins."
"The dashboards could give you more ability to fine tune the appearance. You get a great deal more control over how something looks in Power BI than you do in ThoughtSpot."
"If I want to order columns, this feature is not there."
"ThoughtSpot is a fairly new product, so some usability aspects aren't as mature as we'd like them to be. One example is their organizational methodology, like how objects are organized in their dashboards inside the product. They're all on a flat list, which works if you've got five or 10 dashboards. However, it's insufficient when you're a large enterprise with multiple groups looking at the same dashboards. It isn't organized well."
"The one area of the solution that I do hear needs improvement is on the visualization front."
"The most difficult thing I found is that it only deals with the files and does not have direct connectivity to databases."
