Power BI vs Tableau

Power BI has exploded in popularity in recent years. Tableau used to be the market leader in Data Visualization (Data Viz) and Business Intelligence (BI), but Power BI has recently overtaken it.

In recent years, several businesses have favored Power BI over Tableau.

What is causing this? The primary reason for this is the high expense of licensing. In comparison to Power BI, Tableau is more expensive.

Is this a sign that Tableau is having a tough days? Not at all! Tableau is here to stay and will be a big participant in the market for a long time. In comparison to Tableau, Power BI will experience significant growth in the coming years.

Apart from the cost of license, there is another major reason why businesses have begun to use Microsoft Power BI.

Everything we use now is owned by Microsoft, whether directly or indirectly: LinkedIn, GitHub, SwiftKey, Office 365, Power Platform, Azure, and so on.

If you look at Apple's success with the iPod, it influenced music fans to try the iPhone. When the iPhone first came out, this was never thought of as a business gadget. At the time, Blackberry and Nokia were the market leaders. People began to evaluate the iPhone for business purposes over time.

In Microsoft's instance, the same thing is happening with Power BI. When compared to Tableau, Power BIwas once thought to be weak.

Why? Tableau was developed in 2005, while Power BI was released to the public for the first time in 2015. It's been over a decade!

Only in the last several years have businesses begun to recognize Power BI as a significant tool. Power BI has progressed, but it still has a long way to go.

As a result, Microsoft releases updates on a regular basis to keep Power BI up to date with Tableau. After all, it's attempting to bridge a ten-year gap!

While this is going on, Microsoft is attempting to strongly integrate Power BI with other technologies in their ecosystem.

This will encourage businesses to use Power BI instead of Tableau. The logic would be straightforward -

"Yes, Power BI still lags behind Tableau in certain aspects, but have a look! Power BI can be used anywhere!"

Just to give few examples, Today,

• You can browse your Power BI reports within MS Teams.

• You can access your Power BI datasets with MS Excel.

• Very soon, you will be able to embed Power BI Reports within your PowerPoint Presentations.

These are examples of Office 365 integration. What about Azure?

Power BI supports Azure Active Directory Single Sign On. You can also connect to Azure DevOps. Power BI can work in sync with Azure Synapse Analytics, Data Bricks & Machine Learning.

Key Takeaways of this blog -

• Tableau is here to stay. It will continue to be a major player.

• However, the demand will be more for Power BI in near future.

• There will be more demand for Power BI skills.

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