IBM SPSS Modeler vs Microsoft Power BI comparison

"We have full control of the data handling process."

"It helped me in that I didn't need to write them by hand, and I could get a result in one or two minutes. That helped me a lot."

"Some basic form of feature engineering for classification models. This really quickens the model development process."

"I think the code modeling features are the most valuable and without the need to write a code back with many different possibilities to choose from. And the second one is linked to the activity of the data preparation."

"We had an IBM Guardium service contract where we used one of their resources to help us develop our prototype. It was a good experience, but they were helpful and responsive."

"The ease of use in the user interface is the best part of it. The ability to customize some of my streams with R and Python has been very useful to me, I've automated a few things with that."

"Automation is great and this product is very organized."

"A lot of jobs that are stuck in Excel due to the huge numbers of rows are tackled pretty quickly."

"The good part of it is that you can do whatever you want with it when it comes to building BI. In terms of languages, it supports Python, and it also natively supports R."

"We have found the product to be scalable."

"The solution makes it easy for me to develop reports and publish them."

"Microsoft Power BI is a powerful tool with many capabilities, but my favorite feature is its data modeling, which links tables together and allows teams to gain insights for KPIs by modeling data differently to meet various requirements."

"Power BI has strong support from Microsoft. If you need help, they answer promptly. There are also several discussion groups where you can get information, like the product roadmap and any new things coming up."

"The solution is easy to use and flexible."

"Microsoft BI is better than most solutions we have. It's pretty easy to conduct analysis with it."

"The most valuable feature of Microsoft BI is its visualization and its ease of use."

"Formula writing is not straightforward for an Excel user. Totally new set of functions, which takes time to learn and teach."

"C&DS will not meet our scalability needs."

"It's not as user friendly as it could be."

"I think mapping for geographic data would also be a really great thing to be able to use."

"I would like see more programming languages added, like MATLAB. That would be better."

"Neural networks are quite simple, and now neural networks are evolving to these architecture related to deep learning, etc. They didn't incorporate this in IBM SPSS Modeler."

"The integration with sources and visualisation needs some improvement. The scalability needs improvement."

"The platform that you can deploy it on needs improvement because I think it is Windows only. I do not think it can run off a Red Hat, like the server products. I am pretty sure it is Windows and AIX only."

"We would like to have better SQL support for queries."

"We would like it if they added more Python libraries in the Power BI service. For Power BI service right now, you can use Python, but it is limited to a few libraries or a few packages from Python."

"BI is scalable, but there are some problems with limited online storage."

"There is no specific area that I have a problem with. It's just that, with whatever feature you come across, every visual has its own formatting and behavior. What you get in one visual for a feature, you don't seem to get in another."

"It is kept very current, and there is an update literally every month. However, the interface changes quite randomly with no documentation, which is difficult at the domain and architectural level where you're planning things and engaging the business. Things change frequently, and you wonder where has the button for the new report gone. They should provide better documentation on interface changes. It should be better optimized. It is supposed to be a data integration tool, but it is doing relatively simple queries. It has its limitations. For example, you can only pull a number of columns. So, there is room for optimization on its ability to integrate multiple data sources. The desktop tool is very memory-intensive, and again, this is not documented clearly. It requires a heavy CPU and memory use, and it causes your operating systems to become unstable. I would like to see the ability to create datasets within Power BI. Microsoft is promoting Azure as a cloud solution, but it is dependent upon a desktop component, which seems a little bit deceptive. Data set is the basic element that you report from, but it has to be created on the desktop and then published to the cloud. So, you're in the cloud, and you create a data structure or the data flow, but you can't report from that. You have to leave the cloud, go to your desktop, create the data set on your desktop, and publish it to the cloud. You go back to the cloud and create your report by using that published data set, which is very non-intuitive. If you go to the Microsoft Power BI community, this is a common complaint across the entire community."

"It should be more user-friendly and simple."

"The DAX features need some improvement. It's not as easy as Excel. They need more DAX formulas."

"I believe there is room for improvement in terms of authentication and certain functionalities in Power BI. For instance, adjusting the width of columns is not easily done, as there is only an option to enable or disable automatic adjustment. This can be a significant drawback for clients who desire more flexibility."

"The government has funds and a budget, it's hard to say if it's expensive or cheap. In Canada, they have a yearly budget. They used to encourage people to use the modeler for development. If ten users use the server with ten licenses, it runs faster. But if forty users use the same appliance, everything slows down. People then think it's not easy to do things and prefer using remote tools like Python to extract data from the database. It's not about being expensive or cheap, but about people's knowledge and experience in how to do the work."

"I am using the free version of IBM SPSS Modeler, it is the educational edition version."

"This tool, being an IBM product, is pretty expensive."

"When you are close to end of quarter, IBM and its partners can get you 60% to 70% discounts, so literally wait for the last day of the quarter for the best prices. You may feel like you are getting robbed if you can't receive a good discount."

"It is an expensive product."

"It got us a good amount of money with quick and efficient modeling."

"$5,000 annually."

"If you are in a university and the license is free then you can use the tool without any charges, which is good."

"I used the tool's free version."

"Microsoft BI for desktop is free to use, and you can download and use it."

"The premium capacity is very costly in respect of the market in Egypt, amounting to $5,000 monthly."

"Microsoft BI is not expensive."

"The price of the license can be better."

"I am satisfied with its price. Its price is very less as compared to Tableau and QlikView."

"All in all, for the price, this is an excellent tool for helping your organization turn mounds of data into useful insights."

"There are a few options available for purchasing a license. Typically the number of users you have will determine the price of the license. The more users you have the more you will pay."