Anaconda vs Microsoft Power BI

Anaconda

Anaconda is the best solution when you need to make more basic algorithm training. However, when the client necessity if completely new or there're poor libraries, anaconda is too basic.When designing algorithms, I find ai-one to be very useful. Other tools that more suitable than Anaconda for more complex tasks are protege, biffblue and Nervana Neon

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Mauricio Quiroga-Pascal Ortega

Senior Cognitive Solutions Consultant

Cognitiva IBM Watson Strategic PartnerComputer Software, 51-200 employees

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Microsoft Power BI

Power BI is great at dynamically reflecting real time data. It has wonderful views of data and can narrate a story that is powerful and impressive. Decisions can be made on the overall visuals shown. BI can show you where your sales are picking up while showing you areas to focus on. The quality of your BI dashboard tremendously improves with the overall quality of your incoming data. BI has great capability to share results across the organization in a secure and safe way in almost any computer platform. Mobile phones welcome too!

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Employee in Finance and Accounting

Medical Devices Company, 51-200 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Anaconda

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Microsoft Power BI

8.1

Pixel Perfect reports

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7.8

Customizable dashboards

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8.5

Report Formatting Templates

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8.0

Anaconda

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Microsoft Power BI

8.2

Drill-down analysis

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8.4

Formatting capabilities

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8.2

Integration with R or other statistical packages

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8.0

Report sharing and collaboration

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8.3

Anaconda

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Microsoft Power BI

7.9

Publish to Web

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8.9

Publish to PDF

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7.9

Report Versioning

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7.7

Report Delivery Scheduling

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7.7

Delivery to Remote Servers

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7.5

Anaconda

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Microsoft Power BI

8.2

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

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8.6

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

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8.7

Predictive Analytics

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7.5

Anaconda

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Microsoft Power BI

8.0

Multi-User Support (named login)

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8.2

Role-Based Security Model

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7.3

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

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7.9

Single Sign-On (SSO)

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8.4

Anaconda

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Microsoft Power BI

8.0

Responsive Design for Web Access

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8.1

Dedicated iOS Application

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8.0

Dedicated Android Application

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8.0

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

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8.0

Anaconda

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Microsoft Power BI

7.2

REST API

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7.7

Javascript API

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7.5

iFrames

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7.1

Java API

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6.5

Themeable User Interface (UI)

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7.4

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

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6.9

Pros

Anaconda has iPython- Notebook that facilitates code writing in Python
It's very easy to install tour preferred the Python version
The risk of messing up the libraries is completely eliminated

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Mauricio Quiroga-Pascal Ortega

Senior Cognitive Solutions Consultant

Cognitiva IBM Watson Strategic PartnerComputer Software, 51-200 employees

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Power BI integrates seamlessly with PowerQuery which allows you to easily manipulate source data and add calculated columns for your data model.
Producing a data model is very easy as Power BI makes visualizing the model schema and joins simple.
Producing data visuals is so much more user-friendly than in Tableau. Customizing and producing visuals is very intuitive and there are tons of built-in visualizations to choose from ( however some are not explicitly Power BI approved and may not work properly).
Sharing the dashboards is very easy and end-users can interact with the visualizations.
Data and visualizations smoothly integrate with other Microsoft products such as PowerPoint and Access.

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Adam Bruckman, MPH, CPC

Financial Analyst

Emory University School of MedicineHigher Education, 5001-10,000 employees

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Cons

User Interface could be a little bit more clearer.
Error messaging can definitely be improved

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Verified User

Team Lead in Engineering

Computer Games Company, 51-200 employees

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Although BI is making great updates on a daily basis, there are still some limitations involved with the data modeling and certain visualizations.

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Adam Bruckman, MPH, CPC

Financial Analyst

Emory University School of MedicineHigher Education, 5001-10,000 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

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Microsoft Power BI10.0

Based on 1 answer

I find it helpful and easy to use

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jim paroly

Freelance Photographer

j. paroly photoGraphic Design, 1-10 employees

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Usability

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Microsoft Power BI8.8

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PBI is very easy to use because of its similarity with power pivot and excel. DAX is the basic foundation language to be mastered to quickly build reports. Custom measures have been introduce to write instant DAX functions (But doesnt work all the time and need a understanding of DAX to debug). Easy to chart multiple charts and also third party charts

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Rohit Acharya

Business Intelligence Manager

ZALORA GroupInternet, 1001-5000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

I have experience using RStudio oustide of Anaconda. RStudio can be installed via anaconda, but I like to use RStudio separate from Anaconda when I am worin in R. I tend to use Anaconda for python and RStudio for working in R. Although installing libraries and packages can sometimes be tricky with both RStudio and Anaconda, I like installing R packages via RStudio. However, for anything python-related, Anaconda is my go to!

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Maike Holthuijzen

Ph.D student

University of VermontHigher Education, 5001-10,000 employees

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Power BI, Tableau, and QlikView are the market leaders when analyzed on Gartner`s magic quadrant for business intelligence tool. One of the critical drawbacks of all these visionary tools is the absence or expensive back end that are needed to support the infrastructure. Incremental data load is absent which is a critical requirement these days. PBI also lacks data level security and user group management compared to others. The learning curve in PBI is the least (because of excel and Powerpivot and exception of DAX) compared to other tools. PBI cannot be used for high data processing when compared to tools like Birst which has a robust backend to support the load.

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Rohit Acharya

Business Intelligence Manager

ZALORA GroupInternet, 1001-5000 employees

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Microsoft Power BI8.2

Based on 49 answers

This is not something I've personally had to use, so I can't be specific about it's strengths and weaknesses.
The rating is based entirely on things I've read and heard from others, none of which I can personally validate.

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Galen Mosier

Analyst

Dallas Independent School DistrictPrimary/Secondary Education, 10,001+ employees

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Data Integration

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Microsoft Power BI8.3

Based on 48 answers

There is a very wide (and growing) range of data source options available.

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Galen Mosier

Analyst

Dallas Independent School DistrictPrimary/Secondary Education, 10,001+ employees

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Return on Investment

Centralized repository for all notebooks and analysis projects.
Solved for some security concerns from IT.
Saves money by avoiding ad-hoc computer resources for analysts.

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Verified User

Analyst in Marketing

Marketing and Advertising Company, 501-1000 employees

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It's a good start for setting up customized dashboards.
Available for all users based on Office 365 platform we have in place.
Doesn't really allow depth of report - specifically customization of visual displays.

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Mark Metz

Enterprise Services Consultant

Bristol-Myers SquibbPharmaceuticals, 10,001+ employees

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