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Piwik vs PowerBI: What are the differences?

Developers describe Piwik as "The ultimate open source alternative to Google Analytics". Piwik is a full featured PHP MySQL software program that you download and install on your own webserver. Piwik aims to be a Free software alternative to Google Analytics, and is already used on more than 1,000,000 websites. Privacy is built-in!. On the other hand, PowerBI is detailed as "It is a business analytics service by Microsoft". It aims to provide interactive visualizations and business intelligence capabilities with an interface simple enough for end users to create their own reports and dashboards.

Piwik and PowerBI can be primarily classified as "General Analytics" tools.

Piwik is an open source tool with 11.7K GitHub stars and 1.81K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Piwik's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Piwik has a broader approval, being mentioned in 816 company stacks & 103 developers stacks; compared to PowerBI, which is listed in 14 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.

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It's good to have an alternative to google analytics
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Self-hosted
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Easy setup
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Not blocked by Brave
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Hard to export data

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Need to use work or school account to use

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What is Piwik?

Matomo (formerly Piwik) is a full-featured PHP MySQL software program that you download and install on your own webserver. At the end of the five-minute installation process, you will be given a JavaScript code.

What is PowerBI?

It aims to provide interactive visualizations and business intelligence capabilities with an interface simple enough for end users to create their own reports and dashboards.

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What are some alternatives to Piwik and PowerBI?

Google Analytics

Google Analytics lets you measure your advertising ROI as well as track your Flash, video, and social networking sites and applications.

Mixpanel

Mixpanel helps companies build better products through data. With our powerful, self-serve product analytics solution, teams can easily analyze how and why people engage, convert, and retain to improve their user experience.

Matomo

It is a web analytics platform designed to give you the conclusive insights with our complete range of features. You can also evaluate the full user-experience of your visitor’s behaviour with its Conversion Optimization features, including Heatmaps, Sessions Recordings, Funnels, Goals, Form Analytics and A/B Testing.

Open Web Analytics

It is open source web analytics software that you can use to track and analyze how people use your websites and applications. It provides website owners and developers with easy ways to add web analytics to their sites using simple Javascript, PHP, or REST based APIs.

Adobe Analytics

It is a web analytics service used in the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of web data for purposes of understanding and optimizing web usage. It makes hard things easy. Its AI and machine learning brings hidden opportunities and answers to everyone with the click of a button.

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