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Plotly Dash Enterprise vs Power BI Embedded Analytics comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Plotly Dash Enterprise
Ranking in Reporting
3rd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
5.2
Number of Reviews
41
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Power BI Embedded Analytics
Ranking in Reporting
18th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.5
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (30th)
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2835996 - PeerSpot reviewer
Operations Analyst at a non-profit with 51-200 employees
Interactive dashboards have transformed reporting and now speed up team decision making
One area where Plotly Dash Enterprise can be improved is the learning curve for beginners. It can take time to understand the callbacks and app structures. Debugging can sometimes be tricky, especially for complex apps. Improving documentation and providing more built-in templates or examples would make it easier for new users to get started. Another improvement could be around performance optimization in Plotly. For example, with a large dataset, a dashboard can sometimes become slow. Better built-in support for handling big data efficiently would help. Additionally, smoother integration with other data tools and cloud services would make it easier to fit into different tech stacks.
VishnuReddy2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consulting Enterprise Architect at R2V2.ai
Embedded analytics has unified diverse data sources and supports real-time operational decisions
I find Power BI Embedded Analytics to be a fairly good reporting tool and dashboarding tool. The color palette and everything about it is good. It would be beneficial to have reporting on top of a data warehouse, a lake house, or directly on an Excel-based solution. If Power BI can come as a full stack similar to SAP Analytics Cloud, it can embed with Azure very quickly. However, the full suite provided by SAP, starting from ERP through reporting, is somewhat loosely coupled, which can be helpful for some clients. Overall, Power BI is a very good tool for reporting. Embedded analytics may lack some features from the modeling perspective, such as dimension modeling, and there are multiple factors that lead us to prefer analytics on top of the warehouse rather than going for embedded analytics.

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

Pros

"Instead of creating multiple dashboards, we can create a single dashboard with all kinds of charts, so I would say it improves the productivity and conceptual understanding of the dataset."
"Plotly Dash Enterprise has positively impacted my organization by reducing the time in creating visualization tools by data scientists."
"Plotly Dash Enterprise has made the creation of financial models and dashboards very handy and very easy for my organization, as I used to work on Power BI and Tableau, which used to take some time."
"Plotly Dash Enterprise helps us achieve a much more interactive and vivid form of visualization for our organization, which helps us drive better results and analytics."
"Plotly Dash Enterprise has positively impacted my organization because the easy Pandas integration meant less time on data preparation and faster chart generation."
"The impact of Plotly Dash Enterprise on my organization has been very great."
"Plotly Dash Enterprise has transformed my projects by moving them from local scripts to secure production-grade applications that drive faster data-driven decisions."
"The move from a fragmented workflow to Plotly Dash Enterprise has resulted in measurable improvements, with automated portals dropping time to insight to under five minutes, saving engineers hundreds of hours annually, delivering 85% savings on front-end software development effort, and cutting simulation runtime by 50% through integration with high performance execution backends."
"The positive impact Power BI Embedded Analytics has made in my organization is the gain of time, the sharing of the same data, and the same information for all the stakeholders, leading to better decisions."
"What I appreciate most about Power BI Embedded Analytics is that it is tightly integrated with Microsoft, which is a strong feature."
 

Cons

"As a student, I haven't seen a return on investment or any metrics or examples such as saving time or resources."
"We need to use fewer processes because we have a great opportunity to improve the dynamic graphics as they use a lot of processors and computer clusters, which over the years become very expensive for the business."
"For some of my colleagues, especially those coming from market research operations, the transition to Plotly Dash Enterprise needed more structured training because they heavily depended on Excel manual reporting and static PowerPoints before using Plotly Dash Enterprise."
"One area where Plotly Dash Enterprise can be improved is the learning curve for beginners."
"I would like to discuss improvements needed for Plotly Dash Enterprise, specifically regarding licensing and documentation that I wish were different."
"Plotly Dash Enterprise can be improved by enhancing the documentation and providing examples about how to use it and templates that can be used."
"There are a couple of things I feel could be improved. With the new version, I feel that there is an opportunity to log, download the logs, and export the logs."
"While the documentation for Plotly Dash Enterprise is commendable, it can pose challenges for individuals new to Dash or Plotly, as the customizations and optimizations can be complex, requiring significant time from developers."
"Embedded analytics may lack some features from the modeling perspective, such as dimension modeling, and there are multiple factors that lead us to prefer analytics on top of the warehouse rather than going for embedded analytics."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is an open-source tool. My company hasn't explored Plotly's premium services yet, but I believe the prices could be on the premium side."
"I only use the free tier of the product."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
University
20%
Outsourcing Company
16%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Computer Software Company
6%
Computer Software Company
23%
Media Company
17%
Comms Service Provider
12%
Outsourcing Company
11%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business25
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise21
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Plotly?
I find the pricing of Plotly Dash Enterprise to be reasonable.
What needs improvement with Plotly?
The problem with Plotly Dash Enterprise is that it often suffers from callback hell because an output can only be targeted by a single callback in standard architecture, causing developers to write...
What is your primary use case for Plotly?
My main use case for Plotly Dash Enterprise involves production in a Python platform that empowers data teams to build, scale, and deploy interactive analytics and AI-driven data applications direc...
What needs improvement with Power BI Embedded Analytics?
Power BI Embedded Analytics is perfect right now as they continuously introduce new features, though it would be beneficial if they included an artificial intelligence assistant in the DAX syntax t...
What is your primary use case for Power BI Embedded Analytics?
My main use case for Power BI Embedded Analytics is that in my day-to-day work, I use Power Query to prepare data and Power BI Embedded Analytics Desktop, spending my time all day to create visuals...
What advice do you have for others considering Power BI Embedded Analytics?
An example of a decision our team made because of a Power BI Embedded Analytics report is when we decided to focus on selling a unique numeric product and avoid selling the physical product after u...
 

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Sample Customers

Google, Goji, VIT, Smpl Bio, U.S. Air Force, C12 Energy, New York University
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