Microsoft Power BI vs RapidMiner comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Power BI

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

319

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 21.4%, down 22.6% compared to last year.
RapidMiner, on the other hand, focuses on Predictive Analytics, holds 16.6% mindshare, down 20.7% since last year.

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Featured Reviews

James Balbach

Executive Director, Decision Support at Community Health Network

Robust system consistently elevates data visualization and seamlessly updates with user-driven advancements

Power BI is a general-use visualization system. I can express the performance of our network through high-level key performance indicators. It allows me to show detailed improvements in quality and safety and patient experience. I create improvement dashboards for task forces and work teams. I have built analytic dashboards that guide analytics, enabling research and dataset manipulation.

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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

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

"Power BI is a general-use visualization system. I can express the performance of our network through high-level key performance indicators."

"You can learn a lot of things quickly using resources like ChatGPT or Microsoft's own solutions, which are very helpful within the Microsoft ecosystem."

"I like that I can use Power BI to upload data. That is very important for me. The visualization is also convenient and easy to use."

"It's quite flexible, and it's easy to create reports using this system. It is very graphic and very user friendly."

"Provides a full platform (database, ETL, reporting, analysis, and so on)"

"Data integration enabled my organization to easily pool data from our varied system into one data warehouse."

"Microsoft BI is better than most solutions we have. It's pretty easy to conduct analysis with it."

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

"It's helpful if you want to make informed decisions using data. We can take the information, tease out the attributes, and label everything. It's suitable for profiling and forecasting in any industry."

"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 most valuable feature of RapidMiner is that it can read a large number of file formats including CSV, Excel, and in particular, SPSS."

"Scalability is not really a concern with RapidMiner. It scales very well and can be used in global implementations."

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

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Cons

"I think that there should be visuals for financial reporting videos. It should just be a plug and play because there is a lot of coding that goes into it with different clients."

"We have used other solutions and the reporting functionality should be user-friendly and have a drag and drop feature should be available, but Microsoft BI doesn't have these features. When you are creating reports and you can't change as a user. Every time you need one developer or one technical person to make the changes."

"We face multiple issues, and the connection drops off multiple times while integrating Microsoft Power BI with OAC and pulling in the data."

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

"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing for the solution."

"It could have more of a hold on big data. Manipulating big data on this solution complicates things. This needs to be improved."

"The accounting data needs improvement."

"The challenge of this product is in truncating the table data."

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"I would appreciate improvements in automation and customization options to further streamline processes."

"A great product but confusing in some way with regard to the user interface and integration with other tools."

"I think that they should make deep learning models easier."

"Improve the online data services."

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

"The server product has been getting updated and continues to be better each release. When I started using RapidMiner, it was solid but not easy to set up and upgrade."

"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."

"The product must provide data-cleaning features."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of Microsoft BI is expensive. We found the price of Tableau to be less expensive."

"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."

"Compared to others, I think it is reasonable."

"Microsoft BI is considered to be competitively priced when compared to other similar solutions in the market."

"The price of the solution can be expensive if you want to synchronize your data more."

"Microsoft BI for desktop is free to use, and you can download and use it."

"The license is on a yearly basis."

"It is somewhere in the middle in terms of price. Licensing is quite clear."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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Top Industries

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Educational Organization

43%

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

Government

University

11%

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

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Company Size

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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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Also Known As

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.

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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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