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PowerBI & Tableau together in one org.. Any examples?
Community ChampionIt certainly doesn't have to be that way but Power BI and Tableau are pretty much direct competitors, they essentially fulfill the same use case. I don't think that deploying Power BI and Tableau together really changes anything in terms of deployment strategy, etc. In fact, most organizations have multiple analytics and visualization BI tools deployed within their organization. All that being said, the question I would have is why do you feel that you need Tableau? What is Power BI not providing?
Hi - thanks for the response.
My managers' (at a new company I have just joined) feel that Tableau is a more "polished", more stable and more developed product. It's difficult for me personally to say what the gaps are to PowerBI as I've only started using Tableau (not extensively) since I joined. But I am still arguing that Microsoft are great at catching up and over-taking competitors and any shortcomings the product may currently have will be short-lived. (One manager mentioned "parameters" open to end-users for scenario testing as being a gap - but I reckon that'll be plugged soon enough).
I have been tasked with finding out how we may best deploy use of both types of service. A central repository is required where all BI reports can be obtained.
I don't think we'll have Tableau Server/Online so my first feeling is that we'll simply be using a SharePoint document repository to store the .twb workbook files for consumers to download and use Tableau Reader as and when required. But I suspect that the PowerBI Online space will interact better with SharePoint - ie. links on this SharePoint 'central BI' page will navigate directly to Dashboards and/or Reports in PBI.
I'm not sure what my questions even are - I'm just thinking out loud and seeing if anyone has any advice!
- Greg_Deckler
SQL Server Reporting Services 2016 also allows uploading PBIX files to it if you need to keep things on premises. That being said, I don't think that it will support Tableau files so you may have to use SharePoint or something similar.
Thanks both for responses.
Our idea is that we'd like a "one-stop shop" experience for end users consuming reports, whether they be created in PowerBI, SSRS or Tableau. So we'll probably have a SharePoint site that we (the central BI team) will point people to. We want an in-browser experience for Tableau, PowerBI and SSRS reports (ie. we don't want people downloading TWB files to use in Tableau Reader, and - ideally - we don't want a page of links that send people off to PowerBI Online either).
It looks like there is a way to embed Tableau dashboards to a Sharepoint site (via a bit of workaround, and assuming you also have a Tableau Server). But is the only way to embed PowerBI reports/dashboards to Sharepoint to 'piggy-back' them on a SSRS 2016 report? From my internet searches, it looks like until this recent development, PowerBI required a bit of a workaround and for reports to be "published to the web" (ie. technically publically discoverable) - is that no longer the case?
(I have barely any experience with either Sharepoint or SSRS so any advice I'm very grateful for).
