Adobe Commerce Intelligence vs. Microsoft BI (MSBI) vs. Sisense for Cloud Data Teams

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adobe Commerce Intelligence
Score 9.7 out of 10
N/A
Adobe Commerce Intelligence (formerly Magento BI) is an ecommerce analytics solution that provides data pipeline, warehouse and visualization capabilities. It was acquired by Magento, and is now owned and supported by Adobe.N/A
Microsoft BI (MSBI)
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft BI is a business intelligence product used for data analysis and generating reports on server-based data. It features unlimited data analysis capacity with its reporting engine, SQL Server Reporting Services alongside ETL, master data management, and data cleansing.
$14
per month per user
Sisense for Cloud Data Teams
Score 4.1 out of 10
N/A
Sisense for Cloud Data Teams (formerly Periscope Data) is a data visualization tool that allows users to connect to their SQL databases to create sharable, interactive dashboards. In addition to SQL, its analytics integrate with R and Python, allowing users to prep datasets, perform analysis, and create their own visualizations. Sisense acquired Periscope Data in mid-2019.N/A
Pricing
Adobe Commerce IntelligenceMicrosoft BI (MSBI)Sisense for Cloud Data Teams
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Power BI Pro
$14
per month per user
Power BI Premium
$24
per month per user
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Adobe Commerce IntelligenceMicrosoft BI (MSBI)Sisense for Cloud Data Teams
Free Trial
NoNoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Considered Multiple Products
Adobe Commerce Intelligence

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Microsoft BI (MSBI)

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Sisense for Cloud Data Teams
Chose Sisense for Cloud Data Teams
Periscope's lightweight footprint and customizable SQL-based reports make it a better choice for us than Tableau or Microsoft BI. We deal with millions of rows of transactional data in a SQL Server data warehouse, so having seamless front-end integration makes reporting seamless.
Features
Adobe Commerce IntelligenceMicrosoft BI (MSBI)Sisense for Cloud Data Teams
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Commerce Intelligence
-
Ratings
Microsoft BI (MSBI)
9.0
53 Ratings
9% above category average
Sisense for Cloud Data Teams
7.0
19 Ratings
14% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings8.646 Ratings6.010 Ratings
Customizable dashboards00 Ratings9.653 Ratings7.019 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings9.051 Ratings8.017 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Commerce Intelligence
-
Ratings
Microsoft BI (MSBI)
8.6
53 Ratings
7% above category average
Sisense for Cloud Data Teams
4.8
19 Ratings
48% below category average
Drill-down analysis00 Ratings8.648 Ratings6.015 Ratings
Formatting capabilities00 Ratings8.353 Ratings7.018 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings8.442 Ratings3.010 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings9.053 Ratings3.019 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Commerce Intelligence
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Ratings
Microsoft BI (MSBI)
8.7
52 Ratings
6% above category average
Sisense for Cloud Data Teams
7.6
18 Ratings
7% below category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings9.448 Ratings5.012 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings9.248 Ratings10.012 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings7.544 Ratings8.012 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.647 Ratings5.015 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings8.626 Ratings10.06 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Commerce Intelligence
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Ratings
Microsoft BI (MSBI)
8.8
52 Ratings
10% above category average
Sisense for Cloud Data Teams
4.8
19 Ratings
47% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings9.651 Ratings7.018 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings8.848 Ratings8.017 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings7.945 Ratings1.011 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings8.86 Ratings3.01 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Commerce Intelligence
-
Ratings
Microsoft BI (MSBI)
9.3
53 Ratings
9% above category average
Sisense for Cloud Data Teams
-
Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings9.549 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings9.447 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings9.049 Ratings00 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings9.46 Ratings00 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings9.531 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Commerce Intelligence
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Ratings
Microsoft BI (MSBI)
8.1
42 Ratings
5% above category average
Sisense for Cloud Data Teams
-
Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings8.239 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings8.030 Ratings00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings7.939 Ratings00 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Commerce Intelligence
-
Ratings
Microsoft BI (MSBI)
8.6
24 Ratings
11% above category average
Sisense for Cloud Data Teams
-
Ratings
REST API00 Ratings9.321 Ratings00 Ratings
Javascript API00 Ratings9.021 Ratings00 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings9.020 Ratings00 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings8.918 Ratings00 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings8.221 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings7.619 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Adobe Commerce IntelligenceMicrosoft BI (MSBI)Sisense for Cloud Data Teams
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(2 ratings)
10.0
(73 ratings)
4.0
(19 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(25 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(15 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.5
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.9
(15 ratings)
6.9
(2 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
6.9
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.5
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.6
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Adobe Commerce IntelligenceMicrosoft BI (MSBI)Sisense for Cloud Data Teams
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe
A company or organization that is in contact with the customer and wants to examine customer behavior in the purchase and selection of products and services should use this platform. It does not matter how many advertising tools and referral links or social media campaigns you use to attract customers. In any case, Magento BI integrates all the information and DB as a single platform and provides you with the best reports. Potential customers can be positioned according to location, city, country. Now we know exactly which product is most popular and where to put our advertising costs on which site or social network has the most audience.
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Microsoft
Microsoft BI has a lot of features and is a very powerful tool, especially if you have folks on your team that know how to utilize all of its capabilities. To truly unlock all that it can do, it does require people to have a deep understanding of its capabilities. That's where the software really shines. If you are looking for a simpler, more basic reporting tool, there are other programs available that do not require such a steep learning curve.
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Sisense Ltd
Sisense for Cloud Data Teams is suited so well for our project that works with lots of data and needs some ways to share data internally or externally with our clients. It's very easy to pull out the data from the sense in best and in a suitable format and moreover a huge number of options are available there to represent the data. All features of this Sisense for cloud data teams software can be taken advantage of if you have a team who are well versed in data analytics, data management, and programming.
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Pros
Adobe
  • It is relatively easy to manipulate the time period in which you want to see your report. This is important for our business because we are constantly analyzing sales month over month, quarter over quarter, and year over year. RJ makes it easy to toggle between these time ranges on the same report.
  • The visualizers available for reports are what you would expect out of a product like this. You have the ability to view your results in tables and a multitude of charts.
  • The ability to customize dashboards and rearrange reports quickly is great and intuitive!
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Microsoft
  • Comparatively easy to use compared to other data analytics solutions, collaborating with other colleagues on data work is simple.
  • Using Visual Studio for database, ETL, reporting, and analytics development save time and money.
  • Transfer of data from one application to another via Excel and comparison of data attributes between applications
  • Dashboard functionality, as well as Python support, are available, allowing you to add additional charts and graphs.
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Sisense Ltd
  • Rapid deployment of polished T-SQL-based data visualization charts and dashboards. Periscope supports a variety of database technologies, and allows users to write custom queries to display data.
  • Included caching to reduce server load.
  • Outstanding customer service/support, with expert advice as needed.
  • Constant updates and new features.
  • Built-in SQL formatters take the pain out of manipulating date/time objects.
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Cons
Adobe
  • Educational videos and tutorials must be more simpler and more understandable language with subtitles
  • There should be the ability to select graphic diagrams with different shapes and graphs
  • The basic features of the Essential Paln can be increased with the current price so that startup companies can better use the features of this platform.
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Microsoft
  • MSBI designs can work on increasing data processing capabilities enough to handle the huge datasets etc.
  • It would be a lot better if it is a little low on cost.
  • it needs to create opportunities little more than they do regarding customization of some very unique visualization effects
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Sisense Ltd
  • Include more appropriate updates in their monthly newsletter as opposed to the general overview that doesn't always have the most pertinent information at the forefront.
  • There are bugs at times when certain dashboards are down, though not in an overwhelming way.
  • If you do not tag something it shows up in multiple views and may be accessible to people that it should not be, though that is a user error it may make sense to prompt for a tag and security setting.
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Likelihood to Renew
Adobe
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
Microsoft BI is fundamental to our suite of BI applications. That being said, Northcraft Analytics is focused on delighting our customers, so if the underlying factors of our decision change, we would choose to re-write our BI applications on a different stack. Luckily, mathematics are the fundamental IP of our technology... and is portable across all BI platforms for the foreseeable future.
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Sisense Ltd
No answers on this topic
Usability
Adobe
In addition to its features, it has made the Magento Commerce platform much better, more functional, and smarter, and through Magento BI dashboard they know very well what reports have been sent and all our business tools are summarized in one business platform. The ability to share report results is very popular and useful, and you can share content with anyone anywhere in the world.
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Microsoft
The Microsoft BI tools have great usability for both developers and end users alike. For developers familiar with Visual Studio, there is little learning curve. For those not, the single Visual Studio IDE means not having to learn separate tools for each component. For end-users, the web interface for SSRS is simple to navigate with intuitive controls. For ad-hoc analysis, Excel can connect directly to SSAS and provide a pivot table like experience which is familiar to many users. For database development, there is beginning to be some confusion, as there are now three tool choices (VS, SSMS, Azure Data Studio) for developers. I would like to see Azure Data Studio become the superset of SSMS and eventually supplant it.
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Sisense Ltd
If you know SQL or are somewhat data-savvy, you'll feel right at home with Sisense for Cloud Data Teams. However, like most other BI tools, it is a little challenging to use for users that are non-technical. The graphs and charts are very visually appealing, and there's lots of customization and export options.
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Reliability and Availability
Adobe
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
The product has been reliable.
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Sisense Ltd
No answers on this topic
Performance
Adobe
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) can drag at times. We created two report servers and placed them under an F5 load balancer. This configuration has worked well. We have seen sluggish performance at times due to the Windows Firewall.
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Sisense Ltd
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Adobe
The very strong and knowledgeable support team and great help forums and documents, any questions and cases will be answered immediately or checked through tickets and resolved quickly. It is also possible to send comments and changes. Or our team , fast response and after-sales cooperation of the service company is always more than the product itself and its quality, and we want the service and support to support our interests.
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Microsoft
MSBI natively has a site that allows you to vote on user enhancements and bug fixes. This allows the largest nagging issues to float to the top and the development team can prioritize accordingly. As mentioned earlier, the large community base of MSBI developers assist technical resources in handling technical questions.
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Sisense Ltd
The user interface is just amazing and it's really very easy to use and navigate, even for a newbie. Mostly it provides us the accurate data.
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In-Person Training
Adobe
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
This training was more directed toward what the product was capable of rather than actual programming.
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Sisense Ltd
No answers on this topic
Online Training
Adobe
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
I have used on-line training from Microsoft and from Pragmatic Works. I would recommend Pragmatic Works as the best way to get up to speed quickly, and then use the Microsoft on-line training to deep dive into specific features that you need to get depth with.
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Sisense Ltd
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Adobe
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
We are a consulting firm and as such our best resources are always billing on client projects. Our internal implementation has weaknesses, but that's true for any company like ours. My rating is based on the product's ease of implementation.
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Sisense Ltd
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Alternatives Considered
Adobe
The advantage of Magento BI is easier compatibility and adaptation with Adobe platforms and easier installation, configuration and customization with Mojto Store Builder and its various caskets, and I am very satisfied with it now and in every way I think it is a very good platform for integration in reporting.
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Microsoft
We have used the built in ConnectWise Manager reports and custom reports. The reports provide static data. PowerBI shows us live data we can drill down into and easily adjust parameters. It's much more useful than a static PDF report.
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Sisense Ltd
Google Analytics works well but it does not have all of the bells and whistles that Periscope Data offers. Google Analytics is best used in a Google environment but if you are using other tools and programs outside of the Google universe, then Periscope Data is a much better option.
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Return on Investment
Adobe
  • Very comprehensive and complete reports that give us a lot of information about the customer
  • Easy integration and features of pulling data directly from our recorded customer database
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Microsoft
  • As a SaaS provider we see being able to provide self-service BI to our client users as a competitive advantage. In fact the MSSQL enabled BI is a contributing factor to many winning RFPs we have done for prospective client organisations.
  • However MSSQL BI requires extensive knowledge and skills to design and develop data warehouses & data models as a foundation to support business analysts and users to interrogate data effectively and efficiently. Often times we find having strong in-house MSSQL expertise is a bless.
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Sisense Ltd
  • Very positive - has allowed us to glean insights quickly and in real time.
  • Definitely helpful for evaluating performance of accounts and employees.
  • Versatile - we even use it with recruiting metrics, our software team uses it to test feature deployment.
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