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Power BI versus Tableau
This depends on what your looking for?
Power BI can be compared to Tableau as a data visualization and discovery tool but not as a business intelligence platform and I agree with Gartner that Power BI is the better choice even at that level. Power BI is much more than Tableau and alot cheaper.
Power BI has easily surpassed Tableau(Gartner can hardly keep up enhancements to Power BI) and Power BI continues to move ahead. When Power BI hits on premise Report Services integration there will be only one choice for anyone running any form of SQL Server. Power BI still beats Tableau even if you aren't running SQL Server.
Its cheaper, and offers much more functionality with integration across the board. Your only real hope of a "up to date" comparison is Gartner but like I said even they can't keep up with Power BI. Its the same for Tabeau, they can't keep up.
Take a look here for some info, even this is a little older but MS has moved to address cautions. Most others simply don't have that agility.
https://www.gartner.com/doc/reprints?id=1-2XYY9ZR&ct=160204&st=sb
Tableau claims that Power BI limits data visualisations to 3500 data points (see below). Is this claim correct?
Cheers
Martin
i thought PowerBI was going to improve in that area with some recent updates, but not heard that. Anyone know?
Hi
Please check out the October Update.
Cheers
CheenuSing
