Microsoft Power BI vs RStudio Connect comparison

"I have found the best features to be the dashboard creation, graphs, charts, and presentation bar graphs."

"We encourage end users to use Power BI because it's quite easy for them to interact with the menus and the navigation bar. Even for ordinary users, they can create their own dashboard using Power BI."

"I think the visualization part is valuable."

"The stability is great and continues to get better and better."

"The most valuable feature is definitely the visual aspect and the DAX capabilities to virtually do anything."

"Considering that it's Microsoft, it can be integrated with the Power Platform, which is also Microsoft-based, like SharePoint, Power apps, Power Automate, and Power BI, which is the most user-friendly."

"The solution is easy to set up and implement."

"Power BI is a complete ecosystem. It has an integrated ETL tool and good connectivity with applications such as Office 365 and SQL. There are also solutions for RPA, such as Microsoft Power Automate and Microsoft Power Apps. Power BI now has integration with Power Query, which has an AI feature for text analytics. Text analytics is a very good feature. This feature is also there in Tableau, but I like it in Power BI because you can write something like, "What is the total sale in the Eastern region?", and it will give you the answer. For example, when you have different types of user opinions, you just run one algorithm and you will have the output that provides the number of positive and negative responses. You can even have a dashboard with positive remarks. This feature has been introduced recently. Power BI supports the DAX and Power Query M languages. These languages are making Power BI very strong in data analytics, and you can do many types of analysis."

"RStudio Connect is very powerful statistically and can handle large datasets, even on a free version on a laptop."

"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."

"The visual outlet or the visualization aspect can be improved because the settings piece is quite problematic. It requires a lot of time to set the visuals and check. It is quite fiddly to change all the settings and font sizes. It just needs better ability in terms of using templates or visualization templates to get the vision. Our users always benchmark based on the product, and they don't appreciate everything under the bonnet. The only rating is based on the actual reports in the settings for the dashboard. They should make it look a bit funky and a bit more aesthetically pleasing on the eye. It is quite a fiddly tool, but other than that, it is pretty slick. Because it is community-driven, the marketplace tends to be changing forever. You get the standard visualizations, and you've also got all other marketplace visualizations that require you to spend a bit more money and purchase things in the marketplace. With certain visualizations, there is no longevity. I had used certain visualizations, but they discontinued them, and I had to rebuild my reports, which is obviously very frustrating. There should be some sort of stabilization around how the marketplace visuals impact the users when they expire."

"The integration with third-party products could be more stable."

"It would be better if they had some video tutorials. Most people from an Excel background may struggle with measures in Microsoft BI."

"An area for improvement is data refresh functionality"

"I have found using Microsoft BI is not easy. For example, trying to use the auto-refresh feature is not simple."

"Actionable insights could be better."

"The way you navigate the product, compared to other products in this industry, that could be improved a bit."

"I rate my experience with RStudio Connect as average because I am not yet comfortable enough to provide a definitive assessment."

"We have enterprise licenses and some of the other tools or features come as a package and others you have to purchase separately."

"The Report Server is pretty expensive on-premise. But as long companies are happy to use the cloud version, that's very cost effective."

"The license is on a yearly basis."

"It's straightforward licensing."

"The price of Microsoft BI is expensive. We found the price of Tableau to be less expensive."

"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."

"Both cost-wise and implementation-wise, this product is a good choice."

"In the beginning, the solution cost approximately $1,000 per month, we have a Microsoft startup subscription. There is a subscription pack for startups company which we are able to have for one year."