Microsoft Power BI vs RStudio Connect comparison

"SSRS and the Tabular server/Vertipaq engine/DAX are probably the two most valuable components."

"In contrast to what we were using before I think that Power BI has given us more extensive results."

"The visuals are great and make everything look very professional. We can change the look and feel or manipulate the data according to our requirements. It's extremely flexible."

"What's most valuable in this tool is that it gives its users detailed error messages. It's a very stable data analytics tool, and it offers good scalability."

"The uploading of information is very easy, as you just use an Excel sheet to start work right away and obtain the benefits of Power BI."

"Its seamless integration with Microsoft products, such as Microsoft SQL Server or Microsoft Excel, is the most valuable."

"The most interesting feature of Microsoft Power BI is that it's very user-friendly."

"Microsoft BI's most valuable features are the user interface, which is easy to use and light."

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

"When I create measures, sometimes the error messages aren't clear. It makes me spend more time searching for solutions. I need the error messages to be more specific. So, I would like clearer error messages when creating measures."

"There is no column-level security in Microsoft BI, and this is a feature that most of our customers are looking for. That is something that should be implemented."

"Our expectation is putting BI to work in real-time data collection systems in the maritime environment."

"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."

"There are certain features that are only available in the cloud version. It would be beneficial if they could be brought down to the on-premise version without the necessity of using the enterprise SQL database, as that can be very costly. We need more cost-effective features that are available in the cloud to be accessible on-premise."

"It needs a wizard that covers all its options."

"The reporting part of Microsoft BI is rather limited compared to other reporting tools."

"The UI looks awkward once the graphs have been generated in the console. This is what Microsoft can work on."

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

"The current licensing model that Microsoft BI has is expensive. My customers have told me the cost is approximately $20 per user and this can get expensive fast. There should be a one-time purchase option if the customer has a lot of users."

"I would advise that Microsoft BI products are rightly priced and the licensing is easy to follow and to fulfill."

"It is somewhere in the middle in terms of price. Licensing is quite clear."

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

"It depends upon the tier of your Office 365 subscription. On E5, which is a Microsoft Azure subscription, you get it for free. If you are on a lower tier, you can subscribe for $10 a month per user, which is really cheap."

"I very much recommend the free trial mode."

"I have not had a customer suggest the solution is too expensive. There are licenses to use the solution."

"We're charged a monthly subscription fee of 500 rupees per person."