Microsoft Power BI vs RapidMiner comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Power BI

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

315

Ranking in other categories

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (1st), Reporting (1st)

RapidMiner

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Predictive Analytics (3rd), Data Science Platforms (6th)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Business Intelligence solutions, they serve different purposes. Microsoft Power BI is designed for BI (Business Intelligence) Tools and holds a mindshare of 22.6%, up 22.5% compared to last year.
RapidMiner, on the other hand, focuses on Predictive Analytics, holds 16.4% mindshare, down 20.9% since last year.

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Featured Reviews

Amol Rane

Solutions Architect M365 at Sogeti UK

Supports AI initiatives in terms of predictive analytics

The only issue is with permissions. Sometimes, despite granting granular permissions, dashboards are visible to people who shouldn't have access. It's difficult to understand why the permissions slip out. Sometimes dashboards are visible to stakeholders even though they should not have permission. It's a bit difficult to understand why the permissions slip out. The dashboards lack a user-friendly appearance, and the permissions should be easier to understand. At this point, we have to go through a lot of details. It takes a lot of time to understand the permissions, so if there were better options available within the Power BI setup, it would be quite beneficial, especially for admins. So, there should be a more user-friendly dashboard appearance and easier-to-understand permissions.

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Rathnam Makam

Senior Technical Manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

A no-code tool that helps to build machine learning models

One challenge I encountered while implementing RapidMiner was the lack of documentation. Since there aren't as many users, finding resources to learn the tool was initially difficult. To overcome this hurdle, I believe RapidMiner could improve by providing more tutorials tailored for new users. I haven't explored the tool's latest version, so I'm unaware of the current features. However, I think it would be beneficial if they could enhance capabilities related to deep neural networks, provide better support for generating UI, and allow for importing and utilizing large language models.

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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

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

"Two valuable most features are the ability to create columns and create measures."

"Real-time refresh is quite interesting and user-friendly, provided you have access to a gateway. It works well."

"It is stable enough. It has a lot of powerful functions. It can also be customized with the DAX language. It is also intuitive enough and incremental. You can start with something simple, and then step-by-step, you can increase the reports and dashboards according to your needs."

"The most valuable feature is integration with Python."

"The most valuable feature of Power BI is its ability to provide customized visualizations and insights tailored to specific business needs."

"It has provided customer purchase patterns and great visualization."

"The product is intuitive and user-friendly."

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"The most valuable feature is what the product sets out to do, which is extracting information and data."

"The data science, collaboration, and IDN are very, very strong."

"We value the collaboration and governance features because it's a comprehensive platform that covers everything from data extraction to modeling operations in the ML language. RapidMiner is competitive in the ML space."

"The best part of RapidMiner is efficiency."

"The most valuable feature of RapidMiner is that it is code free. It is similar to playing with Lego pieces and executing after you are finished to see the results. Additionally, it is easy to use and has interesting utilities when preparing the data. It has a utility to automatically launch a series of models and show the comparisons. When finished with the comparisons you can select the best one, and deploy it automatically."

"The GUI capabilities of the solution are excellent. Their Auto ML model provides for even non-coder data scientists to deploy a model."

"The most valuable features are the Binary classification and Auto Model."

"RapidMiner is very easy to use."

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Cons

"We haven't used it that long and I haven't come across anything that's stood out as needing to be fixed."

"I would suggest improvements in visualization standards, particularly in customization and appearance."

"There needs to be improved guidance and documentation for the initial setup of Power BI as it currently remains complex."

"The visualization aspect, while being the most visible to business users, also happens the be the weakest point in the entire Microsoft BI stack."

"The solution could improve by providing more free visuals. A lot of them are very nice but you have to purchase them."

"Creating dashboards could be easier."

"Needs single sign-on."

"A lot of people work on Excel, so being able to export an Excel file as part of a subscription would be an improvement."

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"One challenge I encountered while implementing RapidMiner was the lack of documentation. Since there aren't as many users, finding resources to learn the tool was initially difficult. To overcome this hurdle, I believe RapidMiner could improve by providing more tutorials tailored for new users."

"In the Mexican or Latin American market, it's kind of pricey."

"RapidMiner can improve deep learning by enhancing the features."

"The price of this solution should be improved."

"In terms of the UI and SaaS, the user interface with KNIME is more appealing than RapidMiner."

"RapidMiner would be improved with the inclusion of more machine learning algorithms for generating time-series forecasting models."

"About twenty-five percent of my problems involve image processing, and I found RapidMiner lacking in this domain. While we work on OCR and similar tasks, RapidMiner hasn't been as engaged in that field as other models. Some other models also support email processing, but RapidMiner doesn't offer this feature."

"If they could include video tutorials, people would find that quite helpful."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"While Power BI is generally a paid product, particularly for enterprise features and scalability, you can start with the free version and still achieve significant functionality."

"I very much recommend the free trial mode."

"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."

"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."

"Microsoft BI is not very cheap. A premium license costs roughly 5,000 euros a month."

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

"Price is the best feature of Power BI! You get a lot of value for the price. If you know how to use it, it's a great BI solution for your money."

"Licensing is on a monthly basis, but I am not sure."

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"Although we don't pay licensing fees because it is being used within the university, my understanding is that the cost is between $5,000 and $10,000 USD per year."

"I'm not fully aware of RapidMiner's price because we had licenses provided, but from my analysis, it's moderately priced, not too high or too low. It's worth the investment."

"For the university, the cost of the solution is free for the students and teachers."

"The client only has to pay the licensing costs. There are not any maintenance or hidden costs in addition to the license."

"I used an educational license for this solution, which is available free of charge."

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Feb 4, 2015

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

42%

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

University

12%

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Educational Organization

10%

Company Size

By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

Seeking lightweight open source BI software

There are many...It would rather depend what System BI architecture or Enterprise legacy you have at your end...I would recommend as follows: 1) If you have legacies of SAP, Oracle - look for SAP...

Is Power BI a complete platform or only a visualization tool?

Power BI is an advanced visualization tool oriented to big data with a very complete set of widgets to visualize information, control users accessing information, the configuration of governance po...

How does Oracle OBIEE compare with Microsoft BI?

Oracle OBIEE is great in allowing design and creativity per the individual needs of the organization. Dashboards are fully customizable and very user-friendly. This solution is very stable. Oracle ...

What do you like most about RapidMiner?

RapidMiner is a no-code machine learning tool. I can install it on my local machine and work with smaller datasets. It can also connect to databases, allowing me to build models directly on the dat...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for RapidMiner?

I'm not fully aware of RapidMiner's price because we had licenses provided, but from my analysis, it's moderately priced, not too high or too low. It's worth the investment.

What needs improvement with RapidMiner?

The product must provide data-cleaning features. I could not use RapidMiner for data cleaning in one of my projects and had to use Python instead.

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

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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.

RapidMiner's unified data science platform accelerates the building of complete analytical workflows - from data prep to machine learning to model validation to deployment - in a single environment, improving efficiency and shortening the time to value for data science projects.

Sample Customers

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