Compare Microsoft Power BI Embedded, Tableau, Qlik Sense, and Microsoft Power BI

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Pricing
Ratings
Features
Reviews
Alternatives
Discussions

Microsoft Power BI Embedded

(101)

4.4 out of 5

Microsoft Power BI Embedded

At a Glance

Microsoft Power BI Embedded

Tableau

Qlik Sense

Microsoft Power BI

Microsoft Power BI Embedded

Mid-Market (40.8% of reviews)

Tableau

Enterprise (44.5% of reviews)

Qlik Sense

Enterprise (44.0% of reviews)

Microsoft Power BI

Enterprise (43.7% of reviews)

Microsoft Power BI Embedded

No pricing available

Tableau

$70.00 1 User Per Month

Qlik Sense

$30 USD/user/month. Billed Annually.

Microsoft Power BI

Free 1 User

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Pricing

Microsoft Power BI Embedded

No pricing available

Tableau

Creator

$70.00

1 User Per Month

Includes Tableau Desktop, Tableau Prep Builder, and one Creator license on Tableau Cloud (SaaS) or Tableau Server (self-hosted).

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Qlik Sense

Qlik Sense® Business

$30

USD/user/month. Billed Annually.

SaaS solution to operationalize analytics across groups and teams.

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Microsoft Power BI

Power BI in Microsoft Fabric

Free

1 User

Power BI in Microsoft Fabric

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Microsoft Power BI Embedded

No trial information available

Tableau

Free Trial is available

Qlik Sense

Free Trial is available

Microsoft Power BI

Free Trial is available

Ratings

9.0

8.8

1,703

8.5

592

8.8

900

8.2

8.3

1,717

8.4

601

8.3

913

8.0

8.3

601

8.1

324

8.6

360

8.2

8.1

510

7.9

327

8.4

311

8.5

8.4

1,419

8.0

540

8.4

783

8.3

8.6

491

8.5

323

8.7

293

8.4

8.8

1,677

8.3

572

9.1

872

Categories

Microsoft Power BI Embedded

Tableau

Qlik Sense

Microsoft Power BI

Microsoft Power BI Embedded, Tableau, Qlik Sense, and Microsoft Power BI share no categories

Microsoft Power BI Embedded is categorized as Embedded Business Intelligence

Tableau is categorized as Insurance Analytics, Location Intelligence, Embedded Business Intelligence, Analytics Platforms, Predictive Analytics, and Data Preparation

Qlik Sense is categorized as Location Intelligence, Chatbots, Productivity Bots, Embedded Business Intelligence, Analytics Platforms, Predictive Analytics, and Data Warehouse Automation

Microsoft Power BI is categorized as Analytics Platforms

Reviews

Reviewers' Company Size

Microsoft Power BI Embedded

22.4%

40.8%

36.7%

Tableau

21.7%

33.8%

44.5%

Qlik Sense

14.3%

41.7%

44.0%

Microsoft Power BI

21.4%

34.8%

43.7%

22.4%

21.7%

14.3%

21.4%

40.8%

33.8%

41.7%

34.8%

36.7%

44.5%

44.0%

43.7%

Reviewers' Industry

Microsoft Power BI Embedded

Information Technology and Services

16.3%

Education Management

6.1%

Computer Software

6.1%

Hospital & Health Care

5.1%

Banking

4.1%

Other

62.2%

Tableau

Information Technology and Services

11.0%

Computer Software

6.6%

Financial Services

5.7%

Marketing and Advertising

5.2%

Higher Education

5.1%

Other

66.4%

Qlik Sense

Information Technology and Services

10.9%

Computer Software

6.6%

Financial Services

5.8%

Hospital & Health Care

5.5%

Retail

5.2%

Other

66.0%

Microsoft Power BI

Information Technology and Services

17.1%

Computer Software

6.9%

Financial Services

4.5%

Hospital & Health Care

3.6%

Marketing and Advertising

3.1%

Other

64.8%

Most Helpful Reviews

Microsoft Power BI Embedded

Most Helpful Favorable Review

Sai Prasanna M.

Verified User in Publishing

The best thing about Power Bi is it is simple to use and it helps to extract data in a simple and beautiful way so that anyone can understand the data metrics in it. Data that contain many parameters can be simplified using PowerBi so that management can...

Most Helpful Critical Review

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

The tool has limitations since it is mainly core functions, nothing super specific

Tableau

Most Helpful Favorable Review

Jeff B.

Verified User in Retail

Tableau enables users the ability build data visualizations in the matter of minutes without requiring technical report development knowledge. In my opinion, the top 5 best qualities: 1. Drag and drop functionality is easy for any user to...

Most Helpful Critical Review

Kimiko T.

Verified User in Real Estate

Needs an updated UI and better data connection process

Qlik Sense

Most Helpful Favorable Review

Verified User in Computer Software

As an end user: - Filter once and have it apply to all of the visuals - Graphs and tables render quickly (I had a table that took about 10 minutes to refresh in an excel pivot table, and it only took about 2 seconds in QV) - Good looking UI - Emailed...

Most Helpful Critical Review

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

-It takes considerable effort to create a simple, good looking visualisation as there are a vast amount of options -Often, there is a requirement to work with the keyboard and code, which moves development of analysis to the IT side of the business -No...

Microsoft Power BI

Most Helpful Favorable Review

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising

Visualizations. They're absolutely fantastic. Importing data is incredibly easy and it's much more powerful than excel or many SQL based visualization tools.

Most Helpful Critical Review

Lorenzo S.

Verified User in Civic & Social Organization

No permite exportar directamente a PHP, es necesario utilizar los servicios de Microsoft obligatoriamente. Esto limita de cierta manera poder cargar nuestros Dashboards a algún sitio web de manera libre.

Sai Prasanna M.

Verified User in Publishing

Jeff B.

Verified User in Retail

Verified User in Computer Software

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising

Visualizations. They're absolutely fantastic. Importing data is incredibly easy and it's much more powerful than excel or many SQL based visualization tools.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

The tool has limitations since it is mainly core functions, nothing super specific

Kimiko T.

Verified User in Real Estate

Needs an updated UI and better data connection process

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Lorenzo S.

Verified User in Civic & Social Organization

Alternatives

Microsoft Power BI Embedded Alternatives

Tableau Alternatives

Qlik Sense Alternatives

Microsoft Power BI Alternatives

Discussions

Microsoft Power BI Embedded Discussions

What is the difference between Power BI and Power BI embedded?

1 comment

Power BI is for folks who want to create and analyze reports directly in the Power BI service. It's user-friendly and great for in-house data visualization....Read more

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Tableau Discussions

why did saleforce by tableau? IS SFDC reporting going to change now?

2 comments

Buying tableau was a strategic decision for Salesforce primarily because their products lacked the analytics edge at a sales point of view and now they have...Read more

What does Tableau Desktop do?

2 comments

Tableau Desktop help create interactive Dashboards offline and publish it to the wider audience through Tableau public. Tableau Desktop is one of the version...Read more

Do I need Tableau Desktop if I have Tableau Server?

2 comments

Anyway, whether you need Tableau Desktop depends on your specific use case and requirements. If you're unsure, you can consider the following Evaluate...Read more

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Qlik Sense Discussions

Do you recommend switching to Qliksense?

3 comments

Qliksense is pretty decent tool when it comes to Data Visualization and its script editor feature gives the developer the liberty on data manipulation.Read more

Why there is no enough documentation for implementing connectors to other data sources?

1 comment

Hello, please leverage Qlik Community on product-related questions. https://community.qlik.com/t5/Support-Knowledge-Base/tkb-p/qlik-support-knowledge-base....Read more

Comparing the on-premises and SaaS solutions of Qlik Sense, which one would your recommend?

1 comment

But i never believed that trading can be this profitable because i have traded on live account and i always run out of luck and i traded again and also ran...Read more

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Microsoft Power BI Discussions

Support Multiple Data Types

2 comments

I'd recommend putting requests like that on ideas.powerbi.com.Read more

How I can have the free version of this application?

2 comments

You just have to download it from www.powerbi.com Read more

How do you rate the MS Power BI Desktop compared other BI tools available in the market?

2 comments

POWER BI is quite incredible when you are a Microsoft services user.Read more

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