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PowerBI vs Tableau: What are the differences?

What is PowerBI? 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.

What is Tableau? Tableau helps people see and understand data. Tableau can help anyone see and understand their data. Connect to almost any database, drag and drop to create visualizations, and share with a click.

PowerBI can be classified as a tool in the "General Analytics" category, while Tableau is grouped under "Business Intelligence".

According to the StackShare community, Tableau has a broader approval, being mentioned in 91 company stacks & 80 developers stacks; compared to PowerBI, which is listed in 20 company stacks and 8 developer stacks.

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Wei Wei
CTO at Flux · | 1 upvote · 225.6K views
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Very easy-to-use UI. Good way to make data available inside the company for analysis.

Has some built-in visualizations and can be easily integrated with other JS visualization libraries such as D3.

Can be embedded into product to provide reporting functions.

Support team are helpful.

The only complain I have is lack of API support. Hard to track changes as codes and automate report deployment.

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Vojtech Kopal
Head of Data at Mews Systems · | 3 upvotes · 328.4K 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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Pros of PowerBI
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      Capable of visualising billions of rows
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      Intuitive and easy to learn
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      Responsive

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    Cons of PowerBI
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      Need to use work or school account to use
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      Very expensive for small companies

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    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.

    What is Tableau?

    Tableau can help anyone see and understand their data. Connect to almost any database, drag and drop to create visualizations, and share with a click.

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    What companies use PowerBI?
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