Are you wondering which tool to use to design a very interactive and intelligent Business reports to improve your business?
As more vendors are preferring to use Tableau as compared to Power BI. Desperately, Tableau is enhancing more new features and breathing more into the new life by a series of versions in this competitive area while Power BI is also adding new features into life every month. Here is what we are going to discuss with you that you should know as you are analyzing businesses to get better insights.
We are discussing the most powerful
things by which Tableau and Power BI differs from each other.
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Tableau |
Power BI |
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Parent Company |
Currently Tableau software owned by Salesforce. |
Power BI is owned by Microsoft. |
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Licensing Cost |
Monthly Fees for Tableau per user: $70 |
Monthly Fees for Power BI per user: $9.99 |
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Known as |
Tableau strongly
focuses on visuals. So It is a reporting
tool or a robust BI tool. |
Power BI offers
features of data manipulation first and provides simple visualizations later. So it is an ETL as well as
reporting tool. |
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Data Sources |
Tableau offers connections to any number
of heterogeneous data sources, and larger data sets visuals. |
This feature is unavailable in Power BI |
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Visuals and data
pulling order |
Tableau provides
data selection first and switching data between the visualizations later. |
Power BI offers visualizations first and
then data dragging into it later. |
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Data Analysis |
Tableau offers more
depth of data analysis front-end. |
Power BI does it more on the back-end. |
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Analysis Speed |
Tableau can be a
better option where data visualization is the need of the hour for business
analytics. |
Power BI can do much better with
predictive modeling, reporting, and optimization when broad analytics needed |
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Support to R |
Tableau’s R analytic
language integration gives power to programmers and advanced users to create an
analysis into Tableau, in particular predictive analytics and statistical
analytics |
Power BI also offers Microsoft’s
Revolution analytics with R programming language for open-source analytics
for enterprises |
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Data Capacity |
Tableau works on the columnar based
in-memory data engine making it possible to fetch billions of rows |
In Power BI, each workspace can handle up to 10 GB of data
and if data is more than 10 GB, then it would be in cloud or if it is stored
locally then Power BI just pulls the data from database but does not import |
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Users/Target customers |
Analyst, Experienced users |
Naive users, Experienced users |
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Customer support |
Strong customer support |
Limited customer support |
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Overall Functionality |
Tableau is really very good visualization tool to use |
Power BI also a good tool to use |
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Get Started |
As Tableau
and Power BI both are the best Business Intelligence tools in the market. We
can not say any of these tools is better than one another because they have
their own features as well as pros and cons. Everything will depend on the
business logic and requirements. If any business needs the functionality
instantly on a very small amount of data to get the best insights, then Power
BI will come into the picture. But when the requirement comes for big data and
functionality is also huge then Tableau plays an awesome role. Tableau will
generate robust insights by providing analytical as well as statistical
solutions to perform a fantastic role in such a case.
So both the
tools are performing outstandingly.
Thank you!
