Objective insights and reviews of the top Business Intelligence Tools. Compare leading BI solutions and find the right fit for your organization.

1. Top Business Intelligence Tool in 2017
If you’re an organization that wishes to leverage from data intelligence, you cannot
do without a BI tool. We have compared the two most popular BI tools Microsoft
Power BI and Tableau to understand which one is the best. Which is the tool that
provides better experience, functionalities, dashboard, and is suitable to the
pocket? Let’s take a look.
Future-forward organizations must leverage the big data revolution to encash from it. To do
that, they need a BI tool to interpret and examine data, prepare reports, and perform a
complete data analysis. The biggest players in the market are Oracle BI, Microsoft Power BI and
Tableau. Which is the BI tool that is most suited for your business requirements? What are the
parameters that you should consider to compare the BI tools?
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Some of the key parameters that you must consider when comparing BI tools are
Data Visualization, Analytics, Data Sources, and Pricing.
Data Visualization
The most important feature of a Business Intelligence tool is its ability to transform data into
meaningful insights. For the same reason, data visualization is critical as it gives a visual
representation of datasets in a wide variety of visualization types and gives exploration options
for meaningful insights. Users find that Tableau has an excellent user interface and gives a lot of
flexibility in viewing various data analysis reports.
Power BI is not as good as Tableau in terms of presenting in-depth and insightful visualizations.
Even the tools that that Tableau offers are more intuitive. The one aspect that Power BI beats
Tableau is when it comes to making basic reports. The other good thing about Power BI is that
it shares a number of controls of Microsoft Excel since it is built on top of it.
Analytics
Analytics (advanced analytics) has become the basic requirement for any good BI tool. Every BI
tool is expected to offer advanced analytical capabilities and both Tableau and Power BI offer
just that. Power BI supports R scripting that helps to create forecasting and analytics models
and Tableau, on the other hand, supports R scripting and Python (and also supports a number
of native tools to provide such operations).
Data Sources
The ability of a BI tool to import and analyze data (in the desired configuration) is the key to
decide how efficient the BI tool is. Both Tableau and Power BI are able to support a number of
data sources that users are able to import from. These sources include MySQL, HANA, SAP and
many others. There are many other data sources and Power BI and Tableau support all of such
sources.
Experts however feel that Tableau gives a better support to connect with a separate data
warehouse and Power BI, on the other hand, is deeply integrated with Microsoft portfolio,
which includes Office 365 suite and Azure cloud services.
Pricing
The professional license for Tableau Desktop comes at $70 per user every month (which is
billed annually). If you wish to manage Tableau centrally, you’ll have to get an extra $35 license
per user for every month for Tableau Server.

3. On the other hand, Power BI Desktop version is free and Power BI Pro license comes at $9.99
per user for every month. The subscription comes free with the highest tier of Office 365
Enterprise version.
Conclusion
Though data analysts may not consider Power BI to be excellent but it is sufficient for basic
reporting, which is the requirement for most organizations. Tableau, as compared to Power BI
is better in terms of technicality. In terms of pricing, Power BI is the clear winner. Hence, to use
a general purpose BI platform, Power BI is the best option.
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