Powerbivstableau 160912230240
Powerbivstableau 160912230240
Outline
• What is BI?
• Overview of BI lifecycle
• Tableau: products, features and pricing
• Power BI: products, features and pricing
• Comparing Power BI and Tableau
• Marketing
• Inventory and Distribution Analysis
• Key performance indicators
Data Information
• Data from multiple sources are organized and loaded onto a common storage (using
ETL)
• Reporting tools are then used to build reports based on user needs.
Reporting Tools
• 100’s of reporting tools available for building visualizations
• Two main tools for discussion:
• Tableau
• Power BI desktop
Tableau
• Visualization tool designed to support faster solutions
• Build reports in a matter of minutes using drag and drop
• Tableau Online
• Tableau Public
• Tableau Reader
Tableau Desktop
• The tool used to create visualization and analyze the data
• Create workbooks, dashboards and stories
• Two editions:
• Personal Edition:
• limited data sources: can only connect to flat files
• no ability to connect to Tableau Server
• Professional Edition:
• full enterprise capabilities
• Publish visualizations onto Tableau online or Tableau public.
Tableau Server
• An online solution for sharing, distributing and collaborating on content created in
tableau.
• Interactive dashboards on web browsers or tablets
• Subscribe to a dashboard and automatically receive updates
• Priced per user or server core
• Requires planning
• Optimal hardware and IT resources
• Security
• Ability to create user filter based on necessary field
• Behind firewall, hence provides the most security
Tableau Online
• Cloud based visualization
• Priced per user per year
• Free tool
Tableau Reader
• Free tool
• Desktop application viewing visualization
• No ability to edit visualization / Read-only
Data Connection
• Two kinds of connection to source data:
• Live Data Connection
• Used for real-time analytics
• Performance is based on database performance
• Extraction
• Data is brought in memory
• Performance is not based on database performance
• Used for interactive analysis
Dashboards
• Each tableau visualization is created on a
worksheet.
• Multiple worksheets can be combined to create
a dashboard
Pricing
• Tableau Desktop Personal Edition: $999 per user
• Tableau Desktop Professional Edition: $1,999 per user
• Tableau Online: $500 per user, per year
• Tableau Public: Free
• Tableau Server: two options:
• enterprise option: no restriction on number of users/ restriction on hardware
• named user: no hardware restriction / restriction on user / pay per user
*****please contact Tableau for more pricing information (check Tableau website) *****
Power BI
• Microsoft product
• Share reports and dashboards across a wide range of browsers, and devices such as tablets
and mobile phones.
• Power BI Mobile
• Power BI Publisher for Excel
Power BI Desktop
• Interact with data easily in a touch-optimized experience with Power BI native windows, iOS
and Android apps.
• Data-driven alerts
Power BI publisher for Excel
• Add-in for Excel
• Allows to pin pivot tables, charts and ranges in excel onto Power BI.
• A new tile will be created on a Power BI dashboard when snapshots have been pinned
• Note: new tile is a snapshot (not dynamic) – no automatic update
• Allows for manual update
Publish to Web
• Easily embed interactive visualizations online such as blogposts, websites
• Creates an embed code (iframe to use in web page)
• Creates link(to share via email)
• Allows for narrating stories over the web and to use visualizations in blogs
• Automatic data refreshes (unless disabled)
• Can not publish to web with reports shared with you (security)
Data Connections
Two kinds of connection to source data
• Direct Query
• Live connection to data source
• Performance will be based on data source
• No need for data to be refreshed on schedule
• Import
• Brings data in memory
• Refresh needed to view changes that occurred in the underlying data.
Content Pack Libraries
• Requires Power BI Professional version
• Integrates with existing office 365 Active Directory Configuration
• Can connect to multiple data sources • Can connect to multiple data sources
• No technical knowledge required hence less training cost • High level of DAX knowledge hence more training cost
• Licensing is based on a Per Processor Model • Plotting limitations of 2500 marks (takes away plotted points)
• Easier grouping ability: creating a new field with groups • Allows for sharing of content through ‘content-packs’
• Data interpreter
Which tool is better?
Depends on budget and visualization needs
• Power BI pros
• Affordable
• Attached to a major brand: tight integration with familiar tools such as
Excel, Azure, etc.
• New features added frequently
• Great for excel users
• Extensive database connectivity capabilities
• Q&A feature
• Publish to Web
• Power BI Cons
• Most advanced calculations require DAX knowledge
• More training cost
• No solution for data quality
• Tableau pros
• Excellent user interface
• Less training cost
• very fast and easy to create visualizations
• Good customer support
• Data Interpreter
• Story-telling ability
• Tableau Cons
• Relatively high cost
• No change management or versioning
Summary
If budget is an issue and you have the right technical professionals to publish
reports, Power BI would be the more affordable option
If budget is not an issue and you have non-technical users publishing reports,
Tableau would be the easier option.
Source
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