We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI and XLCubed based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in Reporting."It is in the cloud, which makes it easy for mobile access of reports and data."
"One of the most valuable features of Power BI is the ease of use. It is comfortable and there is not a steep learning curve for this solution. If you have some idea of the data and basic visualization ideas, you can use this solution comfortably."
"I also find connecting to different data sources is quite simple. Other solutions we were using before were complicated."
"SSRS and the Tabular server/Vertipaq engine/DAX are probably the two most valuable components."
"It allows individuals to do the analysis themselves."
"The stability is good."
"Previously we used Excel, which took a long time - two or three weeks - to bring the data into a uniform format, whereas BI can do the same job in a day."
"We can see that it's really improved the way end users can do their own graphs and pick their own fields of information and present that in a nice way."
"I am looking forward to testing their full graphics that are available, as they looked very interesting in the demo."
"Great capability, performance, flexibility, visuals, and the solution is also very cost effective."
"The solution is somewhat costly in comparison with MSBI tools."
"The upgrade process could be improved."
"Real-time refreshing for SAP BW would be nice. We know its on the radar for the development team at MS. "
"Creating dashboards could be easier."
"I find the solution to be 70 percent stable."
"The solution doesn't integrate well with third-party tools."
"Microsoft BI has its own challenges in terms of user interface and how quickly somebody can learn how to use it."
"One opportunity for improvement would be on the Power Query side. As a consultant, I know Power Query is not the main strength of Power BI. It is not where Power BI shines, but many customers use Power Query to do full ETL workloads for deliverable cookies."
"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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Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in Reporting with 297 reviews while XLCubed is ranked 26th in Reporting. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while XLCubed is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Microsoft Power BI writes "A complete ecosystem with an builtin ETL tool, good integrations with python and R, and support of DAX and Power Query (M languages)". On the other hand, the top reviewer of XLCubed writes "Cost effective with great capability, performance, flexibility and visuals". Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE, whereas XLCubed is most compared with Tableau.
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