We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI and SQL Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."It's a great tool for visualization data, and it's free for engineers."
"Its seamless integration with Microsoft products, such as Microsoft SQL Server or Microsoft Excel, is the most valuable."
"The most valuable feature of Power BI is its ability to provide customized visualizations and insights tailored to specific business needs."
"I like Microsoft BI's drill-down feature and its overall ease of use."
"Ease of development and maintenance."
"It is really flexible. The charts and reports are really nice. You have the flexibility of self-service."
"The uploading of information is very easy, as you just use an Excel sheet to start work right away and obtain the benefits of Power BI."
"Technical support is quite good."
"For me, the initial setup is very easy as I have years of experience with the product."
"A big advantage is the ability to store any type of data in SQL Server."
"The performance is good."
"The product has very good online documentation that can be used for troubleshooting."
"Its security is good. The GUI of SQL Server is also very good."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is easy installation. It was very easy to install."
"I use it to fine tune my procedures and functions."
"The integration in Microsoft BI could improve for other solutions, such as Oracle DB and PostgresSQL. Additionally, the reporting from the databases to Microsoft BI should be in real-time and the overall performance could be better."
"BI is scalable, but there are some problems with limited online storage."
"It is too slow. I hope in future it will be a comparable big data tool, such as, for example, Data Lake."
"One of the more difficult things to do is to export some of the data from Power BI to Excel."
"The solution could improve the mobile application design. It is difficult to use compared to the desktop version."
"Sometimes while developing, the front end is not easily customizable and it has limitations. We cannot go and do any UI we want. We have to stick to the limitations of the product."
"If I compare it to Tableau, I'd say the visualizations can be better. We should have multiple options. By that I mean, while there are multiple options for the visualization, the look and feel of the dashboard when you compare to Tableau is on the lower side. Tableau has a much better visualization."
"Microsoft should offer additional features for visualization and have additional features for slicing and dicing that data."
"SQL Server could improve by enhancing the integration abilities, adding more inbuilt data security features, and simplifying the maintenance."
"The backup capacity needs to be bigger."
"In terms of improvement, it could use more integration with other products."
"Indexing, as well as integration, are areas of this product that need improvement."
"SQL Server backups could be better."
"The product overall would benefit from the addition of better tutorials to help master the skills necessary to actually build a project database. Right now, what is available isn't sufficient."
"The remote access aspect needs to be improved in terms of security."
"I would like to have the option to use fewer processors for certain tasks, thus reducing the licensing fee."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews while SQL Server is ranked 1st in Relational Databases Tools with 260 reviews. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while SQL Server is rated 8.4. 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 SQL Server writes "Easy to use and provides good speed and data recovery". Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE, whereas SQL Server is most compared with MariaDB, SAP HANA, Oracle Database, LocalDB and IBM Db2 Database.
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