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Completely different tools. My take - Tableau is awesome for quick analysis of data, to draw insights and drop results into ppt. But if you want to build something more enterprise ready, some bunch of dashboards which you can hand over to client to embed in internal website and integrate with their infrastructure - Power BI offers better opportunities there
PowerBI is trash. It lacks so many features that should be table stakes
One costs you money, one is free
Qlik Sense
Having used both tools I have a strong preference for Power BI. Where Tableau is better for customization, Power BI trumps Tableau in data acquisition, manipulation, and modeling. I also found that DAX (Power BI’s coding language) has been a softer learning curve
Don’t take it from me though - The magic quadrant displays a pretty good comparison of BI tools
I taught a course where we created the same visualizations side by side in both tools. Everyone agreed that PowerBI is a dumpster fire 🔥
Far less intuitive (menus on menus), and no one cares about modeling within a toolset. This should be handled at an enterprise level and front end should just be for presenting data, not ETL
Power BI is underrated. It's actually pretty good for free
If you want real enterprise reporting Microstrategy and Qlik are likely superior alternatives.
Tableau , but I’d recommend qlikview
@SC4 Most shallow evaluation of the tool that I've ever heard and it's a pity it's coming from slalom. I suppose that if all you're evaluating are first Impressions and simple chart creation that might be okay. But even disregarding the awesome data modeling tools, your forgetting a whole host of other features and analytics tools at your disposal including machine learning, big data capabilities with incremental refresh and composite models, seamless integration and access to workspaces via acitve directory security groups or distribution lists, not to mention upcoming features like SSRS integration.... then you have amazing integration with other Microsoft products such as SharePoint PowerPoint powerapps Microsoft flow and you can build some freaking awesome crap without being a developer!
The only thing I can agree with is that Tableau is More Beautiful by default and that it is very intuitive
Power BI used to be garbage. They release weekly updates and now have a good product. Power BI is good if you are comfortable with Excel and will be doing a lot of modelling. Tableau is a bit more intuitive for beginners and is prettier.
I think Microstrategy is like SAS, popular but on last legs. I'd have said Tableau just a year ago, but PowerBI had really matured. You will want the Pro version. A whopping $8 a month without the discounts almost all clients have. It is also much more scalable, Tableau releases are not upwardly comparable which is really horrible. Tableau server problems are endemic as it is eaay to learn, but performance is not great and gets very expensive as you scale.
The best part is you can get your hands dirty with each of them for free, and see which you prefer/seems to fit your use case better quite quickly.
Power BI is finally in a place where I feel like it is leading the visualization industry and innovating new things. Plus it has the full backing and rich integration with azure.... Now if Tableau were to be purchased by AWS it would get more tricky.
I think Tableau will always be prettier naturally regardless of Talent OR ability.
Don't be mistaken though Power BI is the least expensive by far but it is not free...
Even if it's included in your Enterprise E5 that's only giving you power bi Pro. I really advocate for powerbi premium as often as possible some of the perks are just too nice to ignore and in most cases it's only an extra 5000 per month on top of the number of licensed pro users.
Google data studio
^dumpster fire like powerbi
Looker is great for both data exploration and client ready dashboards.
Thanks all. @ATK2, can’t you also do the latter with Tableau?
EY OP, you can but it’s more troublesome. There is a Tableau server but it is challenging to int grate with rest of IT infrastructure and difficult to set up properly. If you want ‘generate this dashboard three times with different filter values and send to these 3 mailing lists, also save results as pdf there’ it is easier in Power BI
What’s the end goal ? What’s the client eco system ? What’s the budget ?
These things dictate the answer more than technical needs because all tools are the same barring a few differences here and there