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Microsoft SSRS vs Power BI: What are the differences?

Developers describe Microsoft SSRS as "A server-based report generating software system *". It provides a set of on-premises tools and services that create, deploy, and manage mobile and paginated reports. On the other hand, *Power BI** is detailed as "A business analytics service". 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.

Microsoft SSRS and Power BI belong to "Business Intelligence" category of the tech stack.

According to the StackShare community, Power BI has a broader approval, being mentioned in 16 company stacks & 12 developers stacks; compared to Microsoft SSRS, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 10 developer stacks.

Decisions about Microsoft SSRS and Power BI
Vojtech Kopal
Head of Data at Mews Systems · | 3 upvotes · 315.5K views
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Power BI is really easy to start with. If you have just several Excel sheets or CSV files, or you build your first automated pipeline, it is actually quite intuitive to build your first reports.

And as we have kept growing, all the additional features and tools were just there within the Azure platform and/or Office 365.

Since we started building Mews, we have already passed several milestones in becoming start up, later also a scale up company and now getting ready to grow even further, and during all these phases Power BI was just the right tool for us.

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    What is Microsoft SSRS?

    It provides a set of on-premises tools and services that create, deploy, and manage mobile and paginated reports. It delivers the right information to the right users.

    What is Power BI?

    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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