Microsoft Power BI is a visualization and data discovery tool from Microsoft. It allows users to convert data into visuals and graphics, visually explore and analyze data, collaborate on interactive dashboards and reports, and scale across their organization with built-in governance and security.
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Sisense for Cloud Data Teams
Score 6.5 out of 10
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Sisense for Cloud Data Teams (formerly Periscope Data) is a data visualization tool that allows users to connect to their SQL databases to create sharable, interactive dashboards. In addition to SQL, its analytics integrate with R and Python, allowing users to prep datasets, perform analysis, and create their own visualizations. Sisense acquired Periscope Data in mid-2019.
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Sisense for Cloud Data Teams
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Free/Freemium Version
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Features
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Sisense for Cloud Data Teams
BI Standard Reporting
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Microsoft Power BI
8.8
Ratings
8% above category average
Sisense for Cloud Data Teams
9.2
Ratings
9% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports
8.50 Ratings
8.80 Ratings
Customizable dashboards
10.00 Ratings
9.10 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates
8.00 Ratings
9.60 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
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Microsoft Power BI
8.2
Ratings
2% above category average
Sisense for Cloud Data Teams
8.8
Ratings
10% above category average
Drill-down analysis
7.00 Ratings
9.00 Ratings
Formatting capabilities
9.00 Ratings
9.20 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages
8.00 Ratings
8.60 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration
9.00 Ratings
8.60 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
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Microsoft Power BI
8.6
Ratings
3% above category average
Sisense for Cloud Data Teams
9.6
Ratings
13% above category average
Publish to Web
8.00 Ratings
9.60 Ratings
Publish to PDF
9.00 Ratings
9.60 Ratings
Report Versioning
9.00 Ratings
9.60 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling
8.00 Ratings
9.60 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers
9.00 Ratings
9.40 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
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Microsoft Power BI is great for sales tracking, financial reporting, and real-time operations monitoring. It integrates data from multiple sources, creating interactive dashboards for better decision-making. However, it's less ideal for real-time big data processing, offline access, or when deep customization is needed. It works best for structured reporting but struggles with highly complex data models.
Sisense for Cloud Data Teams is suited so well for our project that works with lots of data and needs some ways to share data internally or externally with our clients. It's very easy to pull out the data from the sense in best and in a suitable format and moreover a huge number of options are available there to represent the data. All features of this Sisense for cloud data teams software can be taken advantage of if you have a team who are well versed in data analytics, data management, and programming.
Rapid deployment of polished T-SQL-based data visualization charts and dashboards. Periscope supports a variety of database technologies, and allows users to write custom queries to display data.
Included caching to reduce server load.
Outstanding customer service/support, with expert advice as needed.
Constant updates and new features.
Built-in SQL formatters take the pain out of manipulating date/time objects.
Microsoft Power BI is an excellent and scalable tool. It has a learning curve, but once you get past that, the sky is the limit and you can build from the most simple to the most complex dashboards. I have built everything from simple reports with only a few data points to complex reports with many pages and advanced filtering.
Takes a little bit to get used to it. Not natively intuitive but fairly straight forward to pick up. Also docking it a few points because you can create a really clean, simple UI in Claude very quickly that's faster than building all of this yourself in Microsoft Power BI.
My company has had Periscope for various use cases in the past and I think that this program opens up complex data reports to non-technical people in a really accessible way (even though the learning curve is a big one). We are now integrating Sisense for Cloud Data Teams at a larger level both for internal data exploration and for customer facing dashboards and reports.
It is a fantastic tool, you can do almost everything related with data and reports, it is a perfect substitutive of Power Point and Excel with a high evolution and flexibility, and also it is very friendly and easy to share. I think all companies should have Power BI (or other BI tool) in their software package and if they are in the MS Suite, for sure Power BI should be the one due to all the benefits of the MS ecosystem.
All others apps are enablers and Microsoft Power BI is the visual that end user sees which often adds more value to the end user to make strategic decisions from this. All are equally great but Microsoft Power BI is the end result
Periscope is far more robust than these two similar products. For a start up just getting going they are fine alternatives, but as your business scales Google Charts becomes a hassle to manage and Keap becomes too much of a generalized product. While your business increases it is generally best to get multiple specialized pieces of technology to help you maintain integrity in your data, and Periscope Data allows. Worth the money.
We're still early in the adoption process at this company, but we've illustrated how bad data keeps us from being more productive. ~25% of a team's work week was dedicated to effectively cleaning up entries, but it was always seen as a normal to them.