Zimbra Collaboration Suite vs Microsoft Power BI Comparison

Easy for the users It has its own cloud-like file sharing feature It works on almost any kind of device through standalone clients or rich web client.

Being Linux based it might be a bit harder to set-up and configure for Microsoft oriented admins

When it worked, Zimbra provided our users with a decent experience that wasn't completely replicated once we switched away from it. There were certain features, like built-in RSS reader support, that other platforms don't have.

Zimbra has changed hands quite a bit over the years, and it isn't difficult to see why. Its quality control is abominable, for one. I lost track of the number of times our Zimbra environment went offline because of some obscure bug. Zimbra's documentation tends to be scattered, and when you do find it, you'll see that Zimbra makes its own little versions of every open source product it uses. Its customer service generally doesn't know what it's doing except for one guy, Rick, that I occasionally spoke with.

1. Specially the optimized nature of it to work on limited or lower network connectivity like VPN, 2. Cost effective and Opensource nature.

User Interface was laggy sometimes. It has sort of older look and feel compared to other open source email collaboration products. Sometimes it was not able to filter junk mails effectively compared microsoft exchange service.

It is an innovative email messaging and collaboration suite. The powerful Zimbra web client integrates email, contacts, shared calendar. Another of Zimbra's functionality is connectivity with proprietary clients such as Microsoft Outlook. It is the free software solution

It has a unique password that compromises all services. If the directory server falls, we can not access the services

Ho usato Zimbra in azienda per quattro anni prima di passare a Microsoft 365. Ho apprezza l’interfaccia web chiara e pulita, che non richiedeva alcuna installazione client, con la possibilità di accedere via cloud e con estrema velocità all’intero archivio di posta, molto utile nelle ricerche di messaggi datati.

L’aspetto negativo era proprio l’esistenza della sola interfaccia web e la difficoltà di impostare l’account sui programmi di posta elettronica più diffusi sui dispositivi mobili e soprattutto sui Mac. Questo rendeva molto complesso l’utilizzo di agende condivise con gli utenti Apple.

Responsive support. Nice interface. It’s also very easy to administer many users. Easy to make group and user aliases.

Interface is nice but dated. Not much UI customization other than a few colors. You can get many email bounce backs and your emails can end up in client’s junk mail because the server isn’t really trusted by other email servers like the big guys such as Microsoft and Google.

1. Email manager, easy use and configuration, which allows to connect with different operating systems. 2. You can check your emails from anywhere, you can also synchronize your online account with a microsoft application like outlook and android mail. 3. It is not necessary to install applications since you can see it online through a webmail. 4. The last update of zimbra has a chat, so that users created by the company, who has it installed, can communicate.

It is not completely compatible with some mail clients, which does not allow the configuration of the mail.

Regular releases keep this young product fresh and evolving. Even though it is cloud based it is still possible to access on premise data sources using 'gateway' software.

It offers a free version to get started but to unlock sharing and collaboration you must upgrade to the paid version.

It is well integrated with Microsoft office suite making sharing workbooks across organization.

The interface could be more stylish. Updating product every time for a new release in a month could be time taking as it is takes you through Microsoft store to download updated version. I wish they directed us to the power Bi website for the update.

It handles massive amounts of data and creations of dashboards are fairly intuitive. I was able to use public databases and process data fairly intuitively.

One needs a business address to gain access to full suite of functions. Too bad if you are a solopreneur.

Very simple to use, it interfaces with most office suite software, making data presentation intuitive.

It has no problems that impact the use. I would suggest a lighter version for simple computers.

You can build and create custom system reports and easily share and manage them in the Microsoft suite

It is a little bit tricky to navigate through and get used to but still a powerful reporting tool in the Microsoft suite

the fact that is part of the Office 365 suite and for Excel users very easy to use

As a Qlik Consultant i don't like the fact that data analysis and exploration is not as easy as in other BI dashboarding products

I love the ability to turn all our excel spreadsheets into something people will care about. It really helps use data to tell a story.

I don't love Microsoft. This has similar functionality issues as most of the Office Suite does. Full transparency, I am an avid Mac user.

Interactive Analysis Great interaction with excel Easy to implement Wide Database Availability Powerful Collaboration

Not the best when dealing with mass data Power BI won’t work with records bigger than 250 MB.

I leverage Power BI for almost all of my Business Intelligence needs. It's an excellent platform available through Microsoft 365.

There are no negatives. It is easy to use, works extremely well with the O. 365 Suite and is powerful enough to handle my needs.

It lets us share business performance with colleagues and managers. The dashboards are very customisable and allow you to pull in information from other tools via an API, and it gives live data updates.

There's a lot to learn, and it's something that requires substantial time to get right. The effort is worth it, but be prepared to set aside a few days before you and your stakeholders are happy with the dashboards.

Microsoft Power BI is an amazing tool for what it allows its users to produce, a fundamental piece of the Microsoft suite.

Despite being extremely useful, Power Bi is unfortunately not very easy or intuitive to use as other Microsoft tools are.

Ease of use, especially for first-time users. Dashboard is of great help for data visualization. Not expensive when combined with Office 365 suite.

Could be easier for data exporting, especially when used on non-desktop browsers.

Power Bi is well integrated with the rest of the Microsoft Office suite and helps easily embark users relying on data to accomplish their daily tasks, through the self-service capabilities.

Data modeling and advanced statistical analysis require upfront investment in training, but it's worth the while.

For any executive it is always important to have the information in the moment when it is needed. Power BI helps you to achieve this and easily connects to the data repository, the system already includes a variety of informative graphics that help to present the information of a very visual way In addition the system allows you to delve into the data to see the detail of the origin.

This tool is so powerful that I can not think of any disadvantage in its use, but if I had to say something it is that you have to be very careful in the base of the information so that the reports that the system transmits are reliable, if the information has problems that is reflected in the reports that the system gives you.

Integrates with other Microsoft programs Exports raw data without errors Easy to spot trends Builds out graphs from the data available

There may be some latency depending on how the data is pulled. Once that is not an issue on the backend you will be fine.

It is value for money. Features are updated regularly and day by day the product gets better. Focus is on collaboration, worked well in remote version.

The visuals and fonts do not look as good as Tableau. They have performance issues when not using native Power BI model and report server.

Power BI is a good tool in the Microsoft suite. You can slice & dice anything you want, anyway you want. Since it's from Microsoft, they're are tons of out of the box integrations.

Getting started can be daunting. Microsoft is rolling out some very intriguing online guides, but there's only so much you can do with practice data.

This suite is quite impressive. It combines the very best of reporting software/dashboard solutions into one very powerful suite. You can make charts, interactive workflows, and do all your reporting in one powerful program. The UI looks like any other suite, but the pivot-table-looking options which allow you to slice/filter the data is such a nice change of pace. You can quickly add/remove any feature/filter you want without having to make any code modifications. This is a very handy tool if you need to provide weekly/monthly reports for any reason, simply update the data and refresh the report and that's it! And don't forget that this program is just going tog et better and better as time goes on!

The only drawback to his fantastic suite is that it takes a bit to get the hang of using it. There are so many features and things you can do it can be a bit overwhelming. Otherwise, the only drawback is that it wasn't out sooner!

Makes it easy to analyze large sets of data, online tools allow for easy collaboration and publishing. Microsoft's support team is willing to work in-depth with us on most issues.

Some small cosmetic issues make cleanliness a nightmare. Certain cosmetic elements, notably lines, have large blank spaces on the top, bottom, and sides which can interfere with buttons and cause confusion among users. Another notable issue - elements which are not visible still take up memory, which can cause issues with load speed.

The tool is part of the Microsoft suite for education which is helpful. But note that it takes a long time to setup and is not necessarily user friendly. It helps greatly to have a MS advisor or trainer involved (which costs money) but can save weeks of headache.

Like most tools it has limitations, but some of the notable limits our school has experienced involve who can see what (permissions), who can input what, who can analyze what, etc. As well, extracting the spurious or non-correlated variables can sometimes be challenging even if you know what you want to take out.

Coming from using Tableau and Excel, I was able to pick up PowerBI pretty quickly. The data sources window was especially intuitive, along with the data visualization suite for different charts. I especially liked the ability to show a single KPI such as a percentage in big block text.

I was frustrated when my organization wanted to move in the direction of PowerBI for a few reasons. First, I use a mac so there was no native desktop version for me to use and web is not at all the same. Second, I thought the fact that the desktop version was free was deceiving because it's basically inevitable that you will need some sort of paid license if you ever want your dashboards to leave your personal computer and be seen by others. The terms are also a bit confusing, such as between "report" and "dashboard."

It has has a lot of flexibility to customize your dashboard with many available plugins. A lot of possibilities to filter and deep dive on the data with easy visualization. It is integrated with other solutions from the Microsoft Office suite such as Excel and it can manage different data resources.

Big learning curve to take the most of the solutions, it can become complicated with the different views. It has limited functionalities on the Web browser version and compatibility issued on a Mac. License can be costly for organizations with a lot of users.

An amazing tool that brings to the table many of the things you wish could be done in Excel--data modeling to bring together disparate data sets, incremental refresh of that data, and a huge suite of tools for analysis and visualization. The support documentation Microsoft provides has been excellent and a huge aid in learning Power BI.

There are a few formatting changes I wish could be made within Pivots that would be helpful. Aside from that, the limitations I have encountered are with my own user knowledge and not with the tool itself.

It not only has desktop based versions but has native apps for iOS, Android and Windows as well. A major plus point where our team is able to make use of Power BI on the go. As part of Microsoft suite of applications, it is able to easily extract data from a multitude of sources and very easily package them into a visually pleasant data report.

It does not have the ability to clean the data from the list of data sources we input. This has to be done outside of Power BI before it can be fed into the application for data visualization. A rather steep learning curve for people without the technical knowledge in the first place.

The report sharing and collaboration with the tool is very good because of the Microsoft ecosystem. It is the most affordable and has built-in ETL functionality. I mostly liked the modeling and data connectors of Power BI. It supports all kinds of data files like txt, excel, and Google Sheets. It processes the data very fast as compared to other competitors.

The UI is not that great compared to the competitors. Find difficulty when processing the high data files. Limited amount predefined templates as well.