Microsoft Power BI vs ibi WebFOCUS comparison

"The solution can read and write 500 different types of outputs."

"It stands out for its ability to work across different platforms, support mainframe data, offer cloud integration, automate report scheduling, and provide a robust scripting language."

"I would rate the scalability a ten out of ten. It's highly scalable and can handle significant data volumes."

"The most valuable feature is building ad hoc reports."

"The product is stable."

"Microsoft BI is scalable."

"The dashboard features are really valuable, you can connect to multiple data points."

"The solution overall is very useful. The reports that are generated and the reporting functionality management are beneficial."

"It works well with SSAS, which we use to generate all different kinds of trending and analytics reports. Sometimes we use Power Query and DAX to build some aggregations on the Power BI side as well."

"What I have found valuable about Microsoft BI is its performance and ease of use. The interface is very simple and it is accessible to everyone. If someone is new to this type of solution it is straightforward to understand."

"I find Power BI's reporting feature the most valuable. The solution has improved a lot. There are new features getting added day by day. In the past, they didn't even have the printing feature, but now they have it."

"We can see that it's really improved the way end users can do their own graphs and pick their own fields of information and present that in a nice way."

"When it comes to customer support, we don't always reach the right person. Sometimes, we get junior-level reps who aren't as knowledgeable as we are."

"The solution can be improved by adding more automated options for reporting."

"If there were to be any improvements right now, their documentation needs to get in sync with their product."

"The challenge lies not in what the tool can do but in how you use it and understand the data."

"When there are large amounts of data being processed there are additional tools needed to handle it."

"I find the solution to be 70 percent stable."

"I would like them to provide a license that just allows us to see dashboards. What I don't like about this solution is that in order to just watch a dashboard, you need a license. Currently, you need to purchase a full license of Power BI Pro just to see something, which is not attractive. If you have a license, you can see a shared dashboard, but you can also build a dashboard or you can collaborate with other people. However, if you only want to see a dashboard, there is no license for that. I only want to see the dashboard, and I don't want to do anything more than watching the information on the dashboard. There is no license that allows you to see a shared dashboard. This is one of the areas of opportunity because I would like a lot of people to be able to see a shared dashboard, not to interact with it or to collaborate online with it. I would like to see more compatibility with non-Microsoft data sources. Given the fact that everything is related to Microsoft Azure and all services available on Microsoft Azure, I see that they're building more connections to Microsoft Azure services instead of other non-Microsoft services. I understand the strategy, but it would be good to have more compatibility with non-Microsoft data sources."

"I'm missing collaborations functionality to operate or to work connected with multiple people on a data source or on virtualization. There should be more collaborations functions, such as in Confluence. We haven't explored the solution sufficiently in this area, but at this time it doesn't look sufficient."

"The orchestration module for refreshing data flows is something that is missing and we have to do it manually."

"We need more integration capabilities."

"The solution could improve the extraction and transformation of data. For example, you transform the data and then send it to Microsoft BI without having to use your own API. We are only providing the API to Power BI, and then Power BI is doing the job."

"It would be nice to use other connectors to link with the data."

"I would rate the pricing a five out of ten, with ten being expensive."

"The solution is less expensive than other PowerBI tools, which is why most people go with it, although it does cost more than MSBI tools."

"We have a premium Power BI license in-house that's quite an expensive license. It's $10 a month for four users and then I think 35,000 at the premium rate."

"They are charging us by users in storage, and there is a license fee. My financial people handle all that. The client has already worked out a contract with Microsoft, and basically, we're getting government prices."

"Once the trial period for the BI service is over, the cost is approximately $10 USD per user, per month, so it's quite reasonable."

"Downloading Power BI Desktop is free."

"Microsoft Power BI has reasonable pricing."

"It is based on the usage. If you're using it, you pay for it, and if you're not using it, you stop paying for it."

"The solution is priced well for what they offer. However, the premium version is very expensive."