Microsoft Power BI vs Yellowfin comparison

"In the process of using data there is the Extract, Transform and Load (ETL). For extracting we are using another software, for transforming we are using our own coding in C#, and then we use Microsoft BI for loading the information. Microsoft BI displays information very well."

"BI provides us with strong computing power and calculations with quality visibility which helps with the whole pipeline."

"The solution is easy to set up and implement."

"Its integration with the Microsoft Office Suite is great, I can easily connect it to any of the Excel or any CSV files, and I can immediately create a dashboard."

"The scalability overall has been quite good."

"We like the drag and drop interactability visualization; we really like that because it is user-friendly."

"The drag and drop facility to easily change the data correctly is the most valuable feature."

"The product can go easily go and extract data and it can put it into any format."

"It is a central source of up-to-date data and information."

"It is a central source of up-to-date data and information."

"Yellowfin doesn’t try to do everything – it is a BI presentation and communication tool, and it does it brilliantly."

"It reduces time to reproduce reports, provides easy access to organisational data, and has the ability to generate a wide range of reports and analysis."

"It is able to create information dashboards for various users' throughout."

"Our main concern with Power BI is it doesn't have a connection with the finance application."

"It needs a wizard that covers all its options."

"It should be more scalable for an enterprise-level implementation. When you deploy large data sets, the response has to be faster in Power BI. This is one thing that needs to be improved in it."

"When you use the Power BI as an enterprise solution, as a consultant, you find out that the product is not fully ready for enterprise."

"We would like to have better SQL support for queries."

"One of the more difficult things to do is to export some of the data from Power BI to Excel."

"Lacks the ability to copy data from BI into PowerPoint."

"It is kept very current, and there is an update literally every month. However, the interface changes quite randomly with no documentation, which is difficult at the domain and architectural level where you're planning things and engaging the business. Things change frequently, and you wonder where has the button for the new report gone. They should provide better documentation on interface changes. It should be better optimized. It is supposed to be a data integration tool, but it is doing relatively simple queries. It has its limitations. For example, you can only pull a number of columns. So, there is room for optimization on its ability to integrate multiple data sources. The desktop tool is very memory-intensive, and again, this is not documented clearly. It requires a heavy CPU and memory use, and it causes your operating systems to become unstable. I would like to see the ability to create datasets within Power BI. Microsoft is promoting Azure as a cloud solution, but it is dependent upon a desktop component, which seems a little bit deceptive. Data set is the basic element that you report from, but it has to be created on the desktop and then published to the cloud. So, you're in the cloud, and you create a data structure or the data flow, but you can't report from that. You have to leave the cloud, go to your desktop, create the data set on your desktop, and publish it to the cloud. You go back to the cloud and create your report by using that published data set, which is very non-intuitive. If you go to the Microsoft Power BI community, this is a common complaint across the entire community."

"It needs more presentation/charting capabilities and integration with GIS."

"It needs more presentation/charting capabilities and integration with GIS."

"The first release was a bit buggy, but they seem to have gotten on top of that very quickly."

"It depends upon the tier of your Office 365 subscription. On E5, which is a Microsoft Azure subscription, you get it for free. If you are on a lower tier, you can subscribe for $10 a month per user, which is really cheap."

"Power BI is cost-effective compared to other reporting tools."

"The pricing is reasonable."

"Setup is easy, and the cost is economical. You do sometimes need to pay additional costs for third party products which "plug-in" to Microsoft BI."

"The solution is affordable."

"Its pricing is great."

"The price of the license can be better."

"I rate the product price an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price."