Diligent One Platform vs. Microsoft Power BI

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Diligent One Platform
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Diligent One Platform offers a unified solution for Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) management, providing a comprehensive overview of risks and insights in one place.N/A
Microsoft Power BI
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft Power BI is a visualization and data discovery tool from Microsoft. It allows users to convert data into visuals and graphics, visually explore and analyze data, collaborate on interactive dashboards and reports, and scale across their organization with built-in governance and security.
$168
per year per user
Pricing
Diligent One PlatformMicrosoft Power BI
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Power BI Pro
$14
per month (billed annually) per user
Power BI Premium
$24
per month (billed annually) per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Diligent One PlatformMicrosoft Power BI
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPower BI Desktop is the data exploration and report authoring experience for Power BI, and is available as a free download.
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Community Pulse
Diligent One PlatformMicrosoft Power BI
Considered Both Products
Diligent One Platform
Chose Diligent One Platform
Digital one was focused on risk and governance while other tools we reviewed were more generic for data analysis across different use cases. As a heavily regulated industry, we needed a dedicated risk monitoring framework and Digital One helped accomplish that
Chose Diligent One Platform
Diligent Highbond stacks up somewhat poorly against our other tools. In addition to what was included above, we use some smaller tools that fulfill many of the gaps left by Diligent Highbond. We have since started to move away from Diligent Highbond. Alteryx is better at …
Chose Diligent One Platform
HighBond by Galvanize was by far the easiest program to set up, implement, and have running in a very short amount of time. It was also very easy for our users to have a moderate understanding of all the features in a short amount of time. The biggest downfall in compared to …
Chose Diligent One Platform
Before HighBond by Galvanize, we mainly used Microsoft products in doing analytics and business intelligence works. Most of the time these tools struggle, especially when handling very large data. These tools could even crash and trash your work. With HighBond by Galvanize, we …
Microsoft Power BI
Chose Microsoft Power BI
Tableau's end product was visually more pleasing, but the ease of inputting data and manipulating it with Power BI makes Power BI the choice for our group. Tableau's input function was often clunky and more time consuming than the import feature in Power BI. Also Power BI …
Features
Diligent One PlatformMicrosoft Power BI
Governance, Risk & Compliance
Comparison of Governance, Risk & Compliance features of Product A and Product B
Diligent One Platform
6.3
51 Ratings
17% below category average
Microsoft Power BI
-
Ratings
Common repository of GRC items7.346 Ratings00 Ratings
Risk management7.044 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with Corporate Performance Management (CPM) systems5.525 Ratings00 Ratings
GRC policy management5.526 Ratings00 Ratings
Incident management6.225 Ratings00 Ratings
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Diligent One Platform
-
Ratings
Microsoft Power BI
8.2
198 Ratings
0% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings8.2169 Ratings
Customizable dashboards00 Ratings8.7197 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings7.8180 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Diligent One Platform
-
Ratings
Microsoft Power BI
7.9
196 Ratings
1% below category average
Drill-down analysis00 Ratings8.3193 Ratings
Formatting capabilities00 Ratings7.7193 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings7.4143 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings8.3191 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Diligent One Platform
-
Ratings
Microsoft Power BI
8.0
189 Ratings
3% below category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings8.1179 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings7.8174 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings7.7145 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.3148 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings7.9111 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Diligent One Platform
-
Ratings
Microsoft Power BI
7.7
189 Ratings
4% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings8.3183 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings8.1168 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings7.2138 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings7.339 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Diligent One Platform
-
Ratings
Microsoft Power BI
8.4
180 Ratings
1% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings8.7169 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings8.2148 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings8.2160 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings8.249 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings8.6141 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Diligent One Platform
-
Ratings
Microsoft Power BI
7.9
162 Ratings
2% above category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings7.6152 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings7.5133 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings7.9155 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Diligent One Platform
-
Ratings
Microsoft Power BI
7.6
116 Ratings
2% below category average
REST API00 Ratings7.8104 Ratings
Javascript API00 Ratings7.485 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings8.055 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings6.769 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings7.391 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings8.444 Ratings
User Ratings
Diligent One PlatformMicrosoft Power BI
Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
(73 ratings)
8.5
(199 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.5
(3 ratings)
Usability
6.8
(35 ratings)
8.3
(115 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(52 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.7
(34 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Diligent One PlatformMicrosoft Power BI
Likelihood to Recommend
Diligent Corporation
Diligent Community is well suited for entities in the public sector who need to comply with the Brown Act. Diligent One Platform is not well suitable for those who are not tech savvy. Board members who are older and do not use the Diligent One Platform frequently, are not comfortable using some of the functionality - such as voting - so it still needs to be done on the back-end.
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Microsoft
Has significantly improved collation of data and visualisation especially with business across Europe. Has given me the ability to see the Site availability at the click of a button to see which Site is in the "money" and seize opportunities based on Market data
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Pros
Diligent Corporation
  • Enhance business compliance by maintaining records and documents for all our processes and reports, which allows us to not worry about training new people in case resources are transferred.
  • We integrated risk assessment tools and business continuity plans, which allowed proactive identification and mitigation of potential business risks.
  • It helped to secure communication channels with confidential discussions and document sharing among team members and leadership.
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Microsoft
  • Options for data source connections are immense. Not just which sources, but your options for *how* the data is brought in.
  • Constant updates (this is both good and bad at times).
  • User friendliness. I can get the data connections set up and draft some quick visuals, then release to the target audience and let them expand on it how they want to.
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Cons
Diligent Corporation
  • Communicating new tools and improvement to current tools
  • The product names are confusing, There are different names for similar things
  • The visualization tools are not as good as tools dedicated for that it is not clear when to use one or another
  • the licencing for compliance scripts is complicated especially in countries outside US
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Microsoft
  • It would be easier for users could Microsoft Power BI and Excel used the same programming languages.
  • Would like to see the online version of Microsoft Power BI be as powerful as the desktop version.
  • Publishing a Microsoft Power BI file online and then having to save the file is somewhat redundant.
  • Would like to export each page or chart as an image.
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Likelihood to Renew
Diligent Corporation
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
Microsoft Power BI is an excellent and scalable tool. It has a learning curve, but once you get past that, the sky is the limit and you can build from the most simple to the most complex dashboards. I have built everything from simple reports with only a few data points to complex reports with many pages and advanced filtering.
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Usability
Diligent Corporation
I give it a 7. It has had a significant impact on the GRC department in terms of efficiency and effectiveness. At the start it took some time to tailor it to our unique business needs and to set up all our requirements. I would say the superpower of the tool is really here, in terms of time saving in report prep and manual testing. We have really used the control self assessment ability to have a strong impact on the business which helped to improve the internal control culture across the business. The dashboarding abilities had limitations for us and we created our own internal dashboards more suited to our operational needs. There is a steep learning curve for the admin roles who manage the system but I assume this will be the case for most of these types of systems. On the opposite side the end user usability is very good and easy to grasp.
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Microsoft
Automating reporting has reduced manual data processing by 50-70%, freeing up analysts for higher-value tasks. A finance team that previously spent 20+ hours per week on Excel-based reports now does it in minutes with Microsoft Power BI's automated Real-time dashboards have shortened decision cycles by 30-40%, enabling leadership to react quickly to sales trends, operational bottlenecks, and customer behavior.
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Support Rating
Diligent Corporation
HighBond by Galvanize support has some of the best and fastest support that I have experienced. Though we only contact them through emails, they were quick to provide insightful information about our problems. Whenever we email them about an issue, they would be able to reply in less than an hour, ready and prepared with useful solutions to address the issue.
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Microsoft
It is a fantastic tool, you can do almost everything related with data and reports, it is a perfect substitutive of Power Point and Excel with a high evolution and flexibility, and also it is very friendly and easy to share. I think all companies should have Power BI (or other BI tool) in their software package and if they are in the MS Suite, for sure Power BI should be the one due to all the benefits of the MS ecosystem.
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Implementation Rating
Diligent Corporation
We’re pretty satisfied with the implementation offering and the reading experiences provided. With our quarterly audits, this tool has made the task much more accessible. The outcome of version control of documents is easy to accomplish, and gathering all the records in one place makes it more accessible.
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Microsoft
It was integrated with our erp easily and was accessible on cloud.
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Alternatives Considered
Diligent Corporation
I'm excited about diligent due to the fact that they provide many tools to support compliance through use of analytics and testing processes. We also use FloQast, for which I'm an advocate for, however I'm not sure they have expanded yet to support analytics and testing. I don't have any further experience with other products
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Microsoft
Microsoft Power BI is free. If I didn't want to create a custom platform (i.e. my organization insisted on an existing platform that I *had* to use), I'd use Microsoft Power BI. For any start-up or SMB, I'd just use Claude & Grok to build it quickly, also for free. Would not pay for Tableau or Sigma anymore. Not worth it at all.
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Return on Investment
Diligent Corporation
  • A lot of time and efficiency has been saved for my team as we continue to find different ways to automate tests, continuous monitoring projects, etc. We have been able to shift our focus on enhancement projects that previously had been on the back burner until we had switched to the Diligent One Platform.
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Microsoft
  • Power BI usage reduced the effort of analytical reports creation by about 80%
  • Empowered all the level of employee to be more vigilant of the data and business insights, gained the profit of 8% overall.
  • AI-powered predictive analytics improved forecasting accuracy by 17%, that topped the overall sales.
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