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Plotly Dash Enterprise vs Power BI Embedded Analytics comparison

 

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

Categories and Ranking

Plotly Dash Enterprise
Ranking in Reporting
3rd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
5.2
Number of Reviews
45
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Power BI Embedded Analytics
Ranking in Reporting
19th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.5
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (27th)
 

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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"In my day-to-day work at a market research company, our team uses it to turn raw survey or business data into live visual dashboards that help our clients and teams monitor insights in real time, which leads to better decision-making."
"Since using Plotly Dash Enterprise, it has improved my decision-making and helped me understand which regions of Brazil my customers are purchasing my books from."
"My production team responded positively to having that real-time dashboard, and it changed their workflow and efficiency."
"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."
"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."
"Plotly Dash Enterprise positively impacted my organization by improving how analysis was communicated and reducing the amount of manual reporting work and the time that was saved."
"Plotly Dash Enterprise has positively impacted my organization and project because we were able to create highly interactive visualizations."
"Plotly Dash Enterprise has positively impacted my organization by enabling a small team of developers to deploy numerous dashboards with ease."
"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

"For large data sets in Plotly Dash Enterprise, it can be slow sometimes due to many callbacks that are there."
"Documentation is something that I feel can be improved for Plotly Dash Enterprise, as it is never finished and could be polished a little bit further."
"I faced problems where legends and axis labels tend to overlap often, especially with large datasets or longer label names, which looks very messy."
"The main limitation was the learning curve during the setup and deployment."
"To improve Plotly Dash Enterprise, I suggest that cross-filtering capabilities need significant improvement along with file uploads and downloading data as a CSV or in any other requested format, as we seek more features aligned with user requests."
"Lastly, production pricing flexibility is essential, as current pricing models seem more geared towards large organizations, which may limit accessibility for smaller teams and startups."
"The solution cannot be deployed on the website and shared with others through its own platform."
"As a student, I haven't seen a return on investment or any metrics or examples such as saving time or resources."
"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

"I only use the free tier of the product."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
University
17%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Computer Software Company
7%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business23
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise21
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Plotly?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that I was not completely involved in those aspects. My involvement was mainly from the user and dashboard deployment side rather than procu...
What needs improvement with Plotly?
I found Plotly Dash Enterprise very useful, but there are a few areas that could be improved. The main limitation was the learning curve during the setup and deployment. Building visualizations in ...
What is your primary use case for Plotly?
My use has been focused on building and working with interactive dashboards for data visualization to make findings easier to communicate. I was not the main administrator, but I used it from the a...
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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