Microsoft Power BI vs Tableau vs Workday Prism Analytics comparison

Microsoft and Salesforce are both solutions in the BI (Business Intelligence) Tools category. Microsoft is ranked #1 with an average rating of 7.8, while Salesforce is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.3. Microsoft holds a 21.1% mindshare in BIT, compared to Salesforce’s 16.4% mindshare. Additionally, 93% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of Salesforce users who would recommend it.

Microsoft Power BI

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93% willing to recommend

Tableau

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12,638 Comparison Views

89% willing to recommend

Workday Prism Analytics

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985 Comparison Views

100% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, and Workday Prism Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the BI (Business Intelligence) Tools category, the mindshare of Microsoft Power BI is 21.1%, down from 22.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tableau is 16.4%, down from 19.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Workday Prism Analytics is 1.9%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Shoury Priyanshu

Senior Manager, Strategy & Consulting at Viacom18 Media Pvt Ltd

Facilitates seamless data aggregation with some outdated visual elements hindering user appeal

Real-time data integration is an area for improvement. Although I've worked on several solutions involving real-time integration, it's not very user-friendly and often lags, especially with over a million data rows. This makes Power BI difficult to manage as loading times can reach one or two minutes, which is problematic today. There are challenges with scalability, requiring multiple pages in dashboards to manage these issues. Visualization could be improved as it appears outdated. Users, especially newcomers, find it unappealing and not user-friendly.

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Nattawat Choosuwan

Senior Data Consultant at a government with 11-50 employees

Real-time data connection enhances workflow and decision-making process

An area for improvement in Tableau is the Explorer license type. It is not as useful, and the product owner should enhance its benefits or clarify its role. Additionally, the frequent updates with many versions available for download can be confusing and could affect stability. They should avoid providing access to older versions on their website.

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Sarvesh Kumar Jha

Senior Technology Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers

Provides great flexibility in terms of data transformation

I really like the flexibility the solution provides in terms of data transformation. Workday introduced Prism Analytics mainly because many clients wanted to merge data from different systems and then work with it to get some insights out of it. For that, they previously used tools like Power BI. Workday Prism Analytics gives you the power to do all the data transformations within Workday itself without taking out crucial data to a third system. I really like the way Workday has enabled Prism Analytics to be that one solution where you can bring everything. It also provides you the flexibility that things like the security model of Workday are still in place. You don't have to redo your security configuration if you do the data transformation outside Workday.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"I liked that Microsoft Power BI handles a large amount of data. I can handle hundreds of rows from Postgres in a few minutes. I also like how it detects the relationship between the tables without explicitly saying that. It just detects the relationship automatically. That made it easier to work with the data."

"It's a pretty scalable product."

"The solution is stable with reasonable performance."

"The uploading of information is very easy, as you just use an Excel sheet to start work right away and obtain the benefits of Power BI."

"It is a good platform for data analysis, organization, and all of the other interim performances that are necessary."

"The way data is presented is very valuable. The amount of information that we can get at a glance is also valuable. You can then drill-down and see data from many different angles in the same chart by selecting certain things. Based on the selection, everything changes automatically. If we have four parameters in a particular item, when you select a parameter, the remaining charts on that page automatically change for that particular parameter."

"I like the flexibility it offers."

"The most valuable features are the flexibility, how many ways you can interrogate the data, and the the graphical visualization."

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"The most valuable features are data discovery and fine visualizations."

"The most important feature in Tableau is visual analytics."

"Analysis is now more visual than in the past."

"Visualization attributes: Marks – Color, Size, Label, etc.. Easily Accessible and Intuitive."

"Any feature I am looking for usually is part of the next upgrade within a few months. They have a very good dynamic evolution."

"The solution has a lot of customization when comparing to Microsoft BI."

"It has made the reporting stage simple and enabled us to focus mainly on the ETL part"

"The solution provides the leverage of having custom visualization and the capability of self-service."

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"I really like the flexibility the solution provides in terms of data transformation."

"The product is easier to use compared to other applications."

"The customer service and support are pretty good."

"Feature-wise, I feel that the solution's stability is good."

"The solution is stable and reliable, with minimal issues affecting its performance."

Cons

"The solution's documentation needs improvement."

"It's not really complicated, but I didn't find the things I was looking for. The ones I used to work with within Dash are more open, and there are more choices. But with Power BI, there are only limited types of plots that I can use. For example, when I wanted to put the plots in Power BI, there was no extendable space. You have a limited page where you can place a maximum of three plots in that, and you can't do more than that on a single page. You have to create a new page, a different page for that. That made it a bit annoying, and the filtering part is limited, with basic functions. If you want to make custom filtering or custom functions, you can't do that."

"I found data cleaning in the solution to be quite difficult. If I could add a feature, I'd include Excel's Flash Fill function. This allows you to set a formula for one row and column and automatically apply it to thousands of rows, making data sorting much easier."

"The DAX features need some improvement. It's not as easy as Excel. They need more DAX formulas."

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

"The way you navigate the product, compared to other products in this industry, that could be improved a bit."

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

"There are certain features that are only available in the cloud version. It would be beneficial if they could be brought down to the on-premise version without the necessity of using the enterprise SQL database, as that can be very costly. We need more cost-effective features that are available in the cloud to be accessible on-premise."

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"The use of this service in the desktop version is annoying due to the constant updates which lead to reinstalling the application. If they could give support with updates on the same downloaded version, it would be great."

"The integration with other program languages, like Python, needs to be better."

"Tableau's integration with Einstein Analytics could be better."

"I would like the solution to have certain features allowing the delivery of reports to the email."

"The extraction, transformation and loading of data in Tableau takes a lot of time and we do not have confidence that Tableau is showing all the data we need."

"There have been issues where suddenly the site will not respond, requiring a restart."

"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."

"Tableau is difficult to scale because of the cost, which makes it difficult to scale."

More Tableau cons

"One area for improvement in the solution is the ability to manually update individual rows or columns of data once it has been uploaded."

"It is not a very scalable product."

"There is not much flexibility in how we can add external data within Workday Prisma Analytics."

"When you create certain objects, a lot of the time, the fields are text. They’re not numeric, date, or any other field type"

"The visualization techniques must be upgraded."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Its cost seems to be unreasonable if you have many users, but for a lesser number of users, it is reasonable. It is $10 per month. Clients easily accept this option, so they must think it is reasonable. It is quite cheap as compared to other tools, such as Tableau. One of the best things about this solution is that it has a trial version."

"In the beginning, the solution cost approximately $1,000 per month, we have a Microsoft startup subscription. There is a subscription pack for startups company which we are able to have for one year."

"The solution’s pricing is reasonable."

"Power BI is cheaper for smaller groups when comparing to competitors. It requires a monthly per-user subscription."

"From a cost point of view, it's competitive in the enterprise space, although it's not as competitive when you add up all of the additional costs. Things like integrations cost extra and it's probably where Microsoft makes more of the money."

"The cost of licensing depends on the number of people that are going to be using the reports, and we are satisfied with it at $10 per user."

"Power BI's price is reasonable, especially if you can put it in some bigger package and use it with other products. The value of a solution doesn't just come from its features as a standalone product. The price should also reflect how easy it's to set up, clean data, and integrate with other solutions."

"It would be better if the price was cheaper."

More Microsoft Power BI pricing and cost advice

"I like the payment model. For the people who need to create, they buy their licenses. Everyone else can use the free Tableau Viewer. This is much better than some of the competitor products, which require full licences for everything."

"Basically, we prefer a permanent license. A one-time charge is much better."

"It is reasonable and cheap as compared to other major tools. It has a good price, and people go for it because of its pricing."

"Tableau is an expensive solution, though it comes with its advantages."

"For our organization, the cost hasn't been an issue."

"Pricing is not bad. It's competitive."

"In general, if someone is new and wants to learn Tableau, it's around $70 per month."

"The price of this solution could definitely be lower. It's quite expensive."

More Tableau pricing and cost advice

"The solution is very expensive."

"Based on whatever I have heard, Workday Prism Analytics is considered an expensive tool."

"I do not know of the licensing cost, but there are additional costs like 5,00,000 for recruitment modules."

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Comparison Review

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Senior Manager - BI Head at NVidia

Feb 4, 2015

Comparison of SAP BO, Tableau, QlikView, Cognos, Microsoft, OBIEE and Pentaho

1. SAP BO/BI Enterprise scalability Security Ease of use Semantic layer 2. Tableau Visualization Data discovery Turnaround time 3. IBM Cognos Enterprise scalability Security In-memory feature 4. MS BI - Flexibility 5. Pentaho - Open source but still enterprise grade 6. QlikView Data…

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

24%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Computer Software Company

Government

Educational Organization

35%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

Government

Insurance Company

Company Size

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Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Workday Prism Analytics?

Based on whatever I have heard, Workday Prism Analytics is considered an expensive tool. In fact, that has been one o...

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What needs improvement with Workday Prism Analytics?

I think there are still some gaps in the solution. There is not much flexibility in how we can add external data with...

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Compared 3% of the time

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Compared 12% of the time

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Also Known As

SSRS, SSAS, MSBI, MS Reporting Services, Microsoft BI Tools, Microsoft Big Data, Power BI Pro, MS BI

Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server, Tableau Online

Prism Analytics

Overview

Microsoft Power BI is a powerful tool for data analysis and visualization. This tool stands out for its ability to merge and analyze data from various sources. Widely adopted across different industries and departments, Power BI is instrumental in creating visually appealing dashboards and generating insightful business intelligence reports. Its intuitive interface, robust visualization capabilities, and seamless integration with other Microsoft applications empower users to easily create interactive reports and gain valuable insights.

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Tableau is a tool for data visualization and business intelligence that allows businesses to report insights through easy-to-use, customizable visualizations and dashboards. Tableau makes it exceedingly simple for its customers to organize, manage, visualize, and comprehend data. It enables users to dig deep into the data so that they can see patterns and gain meaningful insights.

Make data-driven decisions with confidence thanks to Tableau’s assistance in providing faster answers to queries, solving harder problems more easily, and offering new insights more frequently. Tableau integrates directly to hundreds of data sources, both in the cloud and on premises, making it simpler to begin research. People of various skill levels can quickly find actionable information using Tableau’s natural language queries, interactive dashboards, and drag-and-drop capabilities. By quickly creating strong calculations, adding trend lines to examine statistical summaries, or clustering data to identify relationships, users can ask more in-depth inquiries.

Tableau has many valuable key features:

Tableau dashboards provide a complete view of your data through visualizations, visual objects, text, and more.
Tableau provides convenient, real-time options to collaborate with other users and instantly share data in the form of visualizations, sheets, and dashboards.
Tableau ensures connectivity to both live data sources and data extraction from external data sources as in-memory data. This gives users the flexibility to use data from more than one source without any restrictions.
Tableau gives many data source option, ranging from spreadsheets, big data, on-premise files, relational databases, non-relational databases, data warehouses, and big data, to on-cloud data.
Tableau has a lot of pre-installed information on maps, such as cities, postal codes, and administrative boundaries.
Tableau has a foolproof security system based on authentication and permission systems for data connections and user access. Tableau also gives you the freedom to integrate with other security protocols.

Tableau stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Some of these include its fast data access, easy creation of visualizations, and its stability. PeerSpot users take note of the advantages of these features in their reviews:

Romil S., Deputy General Manager of IT at Nayara Energy, notes, "Its visualizations are good, and its features make the development process a little less time-consuming. It has an in-memory extract feature that allows us to extract data and keep it on the server, and then our users can use it quickly.

Ariful M., Consulting Practice Partner of Data, Analytics & AI at FH, writes, “Tableau is very flexible and easy to learn. It has drag-and-drop function analytics, and its design is very good.”

Salesforce

With Workday Prism Analytics, you can bring data in at scale from any source and prepare, analyze, and securely share it with your organization. The result? You gain all the insights you need to drive better business outcomes.

Workday

Sample Customers

Accenture Adidas Aetna AIG Airbus Alibaba Allstate Amazon American Express Aon AT&T Audi Bank of America BASF Bayer Berkshire Hathaway Boeing Coca-Cola Comcast Cisco Coca-Cola Dell Disney Emirates Equinix FedEx Ford GE Google H&M Home Depot Honda IBM Intel JPMorgan Chase Kellogg's Kroger L'Oréal McDonald's Merck MetLife Microsoft Nike Oracle P&G PepsiCo Procter & Gamble Prudential Financial SAP Siemens Snapchat Spotify Starbucks Target Toyota T-Mobile Unilever Visa Walmart WeWork World Bank Xerox

Accenture, Adobe, Amazon.com, Bank of America, Charles Schwab Corp, Citigroup, Coca-Cola Company, Cornell University, Dell, Deloitte, Duke University, eBay, Exxon Mobil, Fannie Mae, Ferrari, French Red Cross, Goldman Sachs, Google, Government of Canada, HP, Intel, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Macy's, Merck, The New York Times, PayPal, Pfizer, US Army, US Air Force, Skype, and Walmart.

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