Microsoft Power BI vs Mode Comparison

The ease of learning and shortening that learning curve saved time and money.

Compared to shortcomings of the product we were using, hard to really answer this question without more time to have to find something. Maybe, you offer too many change options too quickly and it is hard to choose which direction to go in first. Like with exporting data to various sources and formats. But that is problem we would have always wanted.

I like that I am able to publish reports for free for other users in my organization to see.

I dislike the incredibly limited functionality. This is even more true for direct query mode.

I like that Power BI can make wonderful visuals from my data, it can go beyond normal bar and pie charts. Enjoy that it there is no complications with the data from Excel.

I would prefer if there was a suggestion mode of how to visualize the data, at time I am not very sure how to best present it. It is not very intuitive to navigate around to get to the results you want.

The extremely powerful and user-friendly Business Intelligence tools. The frequent software updates. The availability of very useful video tutorials offered free by Microsoft. The pleasure of being able to quickly and effectively developing powerful and visually appealing business intelligence reports. The great familiarity with Excel interface and data manipulation features.

The extremely reach amount of available Power B.I reporting features and the ongoing software updates may intimidate a beginner user. The lack of a beginner user mode enabling a simplified and streamlined software view and usage. The lack of wizards the could facilitate and expedite Business Intelligence reports.

Mode makes it easy to add data from a wide variety of sources, run live queries on that data, and produce detailed graphs and sheets with your results. Its free plan is comprehensive and great for public data collections.

Mode can be limited in its visualizations and sources. If you're looking for more comprehensive BI toolsets, you may want to consider more expensive options. The cons at this price point are essentially zero though.

Security First - It's clear to us that security a primary consideration for all features they roll out High Customizability - we are able to skin our reports as we'd like Great Integrations - we post reports to Slack, via API, etc. Usability - it's extremely easy to use

White-Label Feature doesn't seem to be a priority, as it doesn't get frequent updates

Great value for the price. Clearly a tool built for analysts.

The self-service BI is not as good as tableau. However - I hear they plan to make this better.

This BI software is very easy to use, it has allowed us to gather great insights comparing data from our CRM to our own in house Portal software.

Occasionally some of the coding can be difficult unless you have a very experienced Data Analyst to work with.

I really liked the way you can write & test your own SQL queries. You can also easily request different Datasets coming from different sources (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Hive, Impala, Aurora, Google BigQuery...) via the same SQL queries. Moreover, it's very simple to create charts and diagrams from the data to generate nice presentations / reports. By the way you have a nice integration with Python/R notebooks.

When your are creating / editing reports, you need to have good knowledge of SQL/Data queries. This side of the platform would be reserved to Data scientists / engineers / analysts. But once the reports are created, it's still one of the best tool in the market to communicate / take decisions with executives / managers / BI teams / clients.

I love how easy it is to create charts and diagrams from the data to make it easier to explain to others. I love the power that comes with being able to write your own SQL queries

The speed. I know it's data intensive but at the same time, it's a slog to develop in when you are waiting 30s each time the query runs