Microsoft Power BI vs Tungsten Insight comparison

"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."

"It's a powerful platform."

"It gives you an edge if you are on the Microsoft platform. If you have been using Microsoft products for a long time or if you have the Microsoft infrastructure, this is the right tool for you. It has seamless integration with Microsoft SQL Server and other sources, and you get the best of the three things (SSIS, SSAS, and SSRS) in one suite."

"The data manipulation and data cleaning tasks are handled in the backend by Power Query in Microsoft Power BI."

"The initial setup is simple to do."

"One of the most valuable aspects of this tool is its ease of use and the ability to easily share information with others."

"One of the key benefits of Power BI is how easy it is to develop reports."

"With Power BI, you're able to store your data within spreadsheets and SharePoints, and then have Power BI pull the data out and report on it. So we actually saved a ton of money not needing to load the data into databases, which is a big prerequisite for many other reporting tools."

"You can easily customize reporting to pull the fields that interest you."

"It provides the ability to design applications directly."

"The initial setup is straightforward."

"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 DAX in Microsoft BI is quite difficult."

"​It needs more graphics and overlays."

"Automation could be improved and performance enhanced."

"The on-premises version lacks some technical features that are available with the Cloud version."

"Adding paginated reports to this tool could be of great help for users who want to move away from SSRS."

"BI is scalable, but there are some problems with limited online storage."

"It should have more integrations."

"It would be ideal if there were some standard forms that could be customized."

"The initial setup is complex and would be difficult to carry out without any training."

"If there's any negative, it's just the different names, the branding names that the product's gone through. It's confusing."

"No comment on pricing."

"MS BI comes with all the tools and it is, to the best of my knowledge, the most affordable solution."

"Microsoft BI is not expensive. Compared to the price of other BI products, the price is very fair."

"I used a two months free trial to see if it had what I needed."

"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."

"Microsoft BI is not expensive."

"I would rate them 4 out of 5 for their current pricing. There are no additional costs to the standard licensing fees."

"Microsoft BI is very cost-effective and this is why we use it."