Top Microsoft Power BI Alternatives and Competitors
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Power BI is a business analytics solution that lets you visualize your data and share insights across your organization, or embed them in your app or website. Connect to hundreds of data sources and bring your data to life with live dashboards and reports.
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Mobile | BI Platform Administration | Dashboard | BI Security | Self Service and Ad Hoc Capabilities | Collaboration | Advanced Analytics and Data Science | Operational Reporting Capabilities | Metadata Management | Data Connectors and Data Mashup | Intelligent Alerts and Notifications | Real-Time Visualization | Data Exploration and Visualization | Data Modelling Tools | Spatial Analysis
9.0
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+94
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340
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Best Alternatives and Competitors to Microsoft Power BI
Compare how Microsoft Power BI stacks up to the competition in the areas that matter most to real users to short list options that will best fit your business needs.

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Tableau
8.8
Composite
Score
+90
Emotional
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253
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Compared to Microsoft Power BI, Tableau is:
Less Respectful
Less Inspiring
Less Reliable
Less Efficient
Less Transparent
Less Innovative
Harness the power of your data. Unleash the potential of your people. Choose the analytics platform that disrupted the world of business intelligence. Choose Tableau.

QlikTech
Qlik Sense
8.1
Composite
Score
+95
Emotional
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59
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Compared to Microsoft Power BI, Qlik Sense is:
More Inspiring
More Transparent
More Caring
Harder to Implement
Harder to Use
Harder to Customize
Qlik Sense is a business intelligence (BI) and visual analytics platform that supports a range of analytic use cases. Built on Qlik’s unique Associative Engine, it supports a full range of users and use-cases across the life-cycle from data to insight – with self-service analytics, interactive dashboards, conversational analytics, custom and embedded analytics, mobile analytics, and reporting. The solution comes in three different editions - Qlik Sense Enterprise, Business, and Team. Qlik Sense can be deployed in the cloud or on-premises.

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Logi Symphony
8.0
Composite
Score
+97
Emotional
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46
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Compared to Microsoft Power BI, Logi Symphony is:
Better at Support
More Caring
More Transparent
More Inspiring
Easier to Use
More Innovative
Logi Symphony (formerly Dundas BI) enables software teams to rapidly design, build, and embed interactive dashboards and data visualizations with fast connectivity and access to modern data infrastructure. Maintain complete control over the analytics experience while empowering end users to explore, analyze, and share data, securely.

Oracle
Oracle Analytics Cloud
7.9
Composite
Score
+91
Emotional
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45
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Compared to Microsoft Power BI, Oracle Analytics Cloud is:
Better at Support
Easier to Use
Easier to Customize
Less Inspiring
Less Efficient
Less Reliable
Oracle Analytics is a comprehensive solution to meet the breadth of all analytics needs. Drive business insights with data intelligence and embedded AI from the leading cloud data and analytics ecosystem. Leverage ready-to-use analytics services for a wide variety of workloads and data.

Looker
7.8
Composite
Score
+87
Emotional
Footprint
31
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Reviews Say
Compared to Microsoft Power BI, Looker is:
Less Caring
Less Innovative
Less Inspiring
Worse at Training
Less Transparent
Harder to Customize
Looker is a platform for data that streamlines the data supply chain to create actionable information. It allows any organization to extract value from their data at web-scale, delivers powerful purpose built applications to address the needs of specific teams, and provides a flexible, embedded analytics framework with Powered by Looker.

Strategy
Strategy
7.6
Composite
Score
+91
Emotional
Footprint
38
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Reviews Say
Compared to Microsoft Power BI, Strategy is:
Less Reliable
Less Inspiring
Worse at Training
Less Transparent
Less Respectful
Less Caring
The Strategy ONE platform provides access to AI-powered workflows, unlimited data sources, cloud-native technologies, and unparalleled performance to speed up time from data to action. Strategy ONE is based on intuitive interfaces and conversational AI that make analyzing, building, and collaborating easier than ever before. Users can choose to build single visualizations, more complex dashboards, or enterprise applications by means of its fully-integrated AI chat technology.

IBM
IBM Cognos Analytics
7.3
Composite
Score
+80
Emotional
Footprint
40
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Reviews Say
Compared to Microsoft Power BI, IBM Cognos Analytics is:
Less Transparent
Less Inspiring
Less Efficient
Less Respectful
Less Reliable
Less Innovative
IBM Cognos Analytics offers smarter, self-service capabilities so you can quickly and confidently identify and act on insight. The engaging experience empowers business users to create and personalize dashboards and reports on their own - while providing IT with a proven and scalable solution that is available on-premises or in the cloud.

SAP
SAP BusinessObjects
7.3
Composite
Score
+83
Emotional
Footprint
44
Reviews
Reviews Say
Compared to Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects is:
Less Caring
Less Inspiring
Less Innovative
Less Efficient
Harder to Implement
Worse at Integrating
SAP BusinessObjects BI is a reporting and analytics business intelligence (BI) platform aimed at business users. It consists of a number of reporting applications that allow users to discover data, perform analysis to derive insights and create reports that visualize the insights.

Sisense
Sisense
7.2
Composite
Score
+87
Emotional
Footprint
32
Reviews
Reviews Say
Compared to Microsoft Power BI, Sisense is:
Less Reliable
Less Respectful
Less Efficient
Less Caring
Worse at Integrating
Less Innovative
SiSense liberates data, empowers business users and frees IT by making it easy to do the difficult tasks of accessing, joining and visualizing data. Go beyond the dashboard with embeddable analytics that drive fast, actionable outcomes—right where you need them.
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