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BIME Analytics [EOL] vs Microsoft Power BI comparison

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Categories and Ranking

BIME Analytics [EOL]
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Microsoft Power BI
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
332
Ranking in other categories
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (1st), Reporting (1st)
 

Featured Reviews

it_user370584 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Solutions Officer at Treehouse Technology Group
It's given us the ability to quickly plot data with an expansive set of graphs and data blending capabilities.
For this product, we actually incorporated the dashboarding capabilities into an application we are building for one of our clients. Our clients love the dashboarding and analytics capabilities that it provides. BIME has allowed our organization to quickly chart data after we built a successful data management and warehousing capability. Essentially, it is the tip of the iceberg, but an essential one nonetheless.
Hemanthreddy Vakiti - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Interactive dashboards have transformed restaurant data into faster daily business decisions
Microsoft Power BI has many features and there is not a lot to improve. However, the licensing can be confusing. When deciding between Pro and Premium, I find it difficult to distinguish what features are offered by Pro and what features are offered by Premium, including the particular differences to choose between both licensing models. Additionally, some features such as DAX, which I mentioned previously, involve DAX calculations and complex data modeling, which are somewhat advanced and not easily understandable. Prior knowledge is required or you need to go through the documentation. If the documentation is made comprehensive so that anyone with no knowledge on DAX can easily use it by going through the documentation, it would be really helpful. Additionally, if the integration with non-Microsoft tools is improved and performance is optimized, then Microsoft Power BI can become a top-ranked visualization tool. The user experience with Microsoft Power BI is quite good. The intuitive user interface makes it easy for both technical and non-technical users to create reports. However, only the advanced features are somewhat complex, and if the documentation is improved, it can be easily accessible.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The ability to paint a picture in any shape or form the user wants which can empower decision-making."
"I can recommend using BIME Analytics as it's definitely a very useful and powerful tool."
"Ability to connect all data sources (databases, online services, files, BigData)"
"Our business is very fast pace, so live numbers help us on a daily basis figure out how to spend our time."
"Data importing from multiple sources was particularly useful for combining online and offline data, as well as across different analytical platforms (Google Analytics and Omniture)."
"BIME has accelerated Treehouse’s ability to execute on high visibility products by significantly decreasing the time to market for our products, especially during periods of rapid prototyping."
"I like that implementation is very quick and that the solution is very user-friendly and easy to work with."
"The solution is quite stable; I'd call it reliable, as it doesn't crash or freeze and I can't recall bugs or glitches happening."
"It's the analytic engine in terms of the interface on the Power BI environment, as opposed to pivot tables, and it's a mobile solution."
"Key features are its dashboard functionality and ease of integration with various data sources."
"Its connection to every database: Whatever and wherever it is."
"The scalability is excellent, all our professional consultants use it."
"There are some great automation elements in the product."
"I liked that Microsoft Power BI handles a large amount of data. I can handle hundreds of rows from Postgres in a few minutes. I also like how it detects the relationship between the tables without explicitly saying that. It just detects the relationship automatically. That made it easier to work with the data."
 

Cons

"The V6 should be better in terms of navigability and ergonomy"
"Customer Service is non existent."
"Currently, I have to download the data-set for analysis and it is difficult to deliver outputs with BIME concurrently."
"Whereas BIME clearly surpasses Excel on many fronts with regards to interactive charting, there are areas where small formatting features are not available."
"Although we were able to provide dashboards to our customers, it required that we create the dashboards with the essential analytics."
"I wish that it had better database management mapping features."
"Our expectation is putting BI to work in real-time data collection systems in the maritime environment."
"The SQL Server Reporting Services can certainly use some more help."
"My data is restricted to my DB and I'm not sure how this would handle an extremely large dataset."
"Microsoft has made a lot of progress with Power BI in the past couple of years, but there is still some room for improvement. For example, Integration is one area they could work on. They are adding more integration with other Microsoft tools, but I would like it if they sped up the process."
"The build in Report Builder for end users needs improvement."
"The UI looks awkward once the graphs have been generated in the console. This is what Microsoft can work on."
"The installation requirements are quite demanding and only computers with relatively high processing power and large primary memory are able to run some SQL Reporting and Analysis tools."
"Maybe they can enhance the UI a bit. Right now, it's very basic, I would say, compared to the MicroStrategy or Qlik."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"As far as I am aware you do not need a license for the solution."
"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."
"You don't need a license for development, but if you want to publish to external users, you need a license. The licensing is very costly, but I think that since the advantages and benefits of Power BI are so high, people are willing to pay. I can't blame them."
"The price of the solution can be expensive if you want to synchronize your data more."
"Power BI is cost-effective compared to other reporting tools."
"Compared to others, I think it is reasonable."
"We pay for users who are publishing on the cloud. The desktop version is free. Its licensing is on a yearly basis."
"Both cost-wise and implementation-wise, this product is a good choice."
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Comparison Review

it_user79932 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager - BI Head with 5,001-10,000 employees
Feb 4, 2015
Comparison of SAP BO, Tableau, QlikView, Cognos, Microsoft, OBIEE and Pentaho
1. SAP BO/BI Enterprise scalability Security Ease of use Semantic layer 2. Tableau Visualization Data discovery Turnaround time 3. IBM Cognos Enterprise scalability Security In-memory feature 4. MS BI - Flexibility 5. Pentaho - Open source but still enterprise grade 6. QlikView Data…
 

Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Construction Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise2
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business137
Midsize Enterprise59
Large Enterprise171
 

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