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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Everstage

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AEverstage is a no-code commissions automation platform that provides a transparent and gamified incentives experience to customer-facing teams.N/A

    Microsoft BI (MSBI)

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft 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.

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    Pricing
    EverstageMicrosoft BI (MSBI)
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Power BI Pro
    $14
    per month per user
    Power BI Premium
    $24
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    EverstageMicrosoft BI (MSBI)
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    EverstageMicrosoft BI (MSBI)
    Considered Both Products
    Everstage
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    Microsoft
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    225 Answers
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    Would buy again
    15 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    15 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    225 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    15 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    203 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    13 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    203 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    11 Answers
    Features
    EverstageMicrosoft BI (MSBI)
    Sales ICM
    Comparison of Sales ICM features of Everstage and Microsoft BI (MSBI)
    Feature
    Everstage
    9.4
    226 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Microsoft BI (MSBI)
    -
    Ratings
    Sales compensation plan creation9.5218 Ratings00 Ratings
    Complex sales crediting9.2205 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sales compensation process automation9.5219 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incentive auditing/regulation compliance9.6207 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sales compensation dashboards & forecasting9.4225 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incentive modeling9.6217 Ratings00 Ratings
    Agile incentive strategy9.6188 Ratings00 Ratings
    ICM mobile visibility9.1188 Ratings00 Ratings
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Everstage and Microsoft BI (MSBI)
    Feature
    Everstage
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft BI (MSBI)
    9.0
    53 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings8.546 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards00 Ratings9.653 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings8.951 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Everstage and Microsoft BI (MSBI)
    Feature
    Everstage
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft BI (MSBI)
    8.5
    53 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Drill-down analysis00 Ratings8.548 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings8.253 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings8.342 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings8.953 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Everstage and Microsoft BI (MSBI)
    Feature
    Everstage
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft BI (MSBI)
    8.5
    52 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Publish to Web00 Ratings9.348 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings9.148 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings7.444 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.547 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings8.426 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Everstage and Microsoft BI (MSBI)
    Feature
    Everstage
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft BI (MSBI)
    8.7
    52 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings9.651 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings8.748 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings7.745 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings8.76 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Everstage and Microsoft BI (MSBI)
    Feature
    Everstage
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft BI (MSBI)
    9.3
    53 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings9.449 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings9.347 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings8.949 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings9.36 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings9.431 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Everstage and Microsoft BI (MSBI)
    Feature
    Everstage
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft BI (MSBI)
    8.0
    42 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings8.239 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings8.030 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings7.739 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Everstage and Microsoft BI (MSBI)
    Feature
    Everstage
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft BI (MSBI)
    8.5
    24 Ratings
    9% above category average
    REST API00 Ratings9.221 Ratings
    Javascript API00 Ratings8.821 Ratings
    iFrames00 Ratings8.820 Ratings
    Java API00 Ratings8.718 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings8.021 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings7.319 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    EverstageMicrosoft BI (MSBI)
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    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    QuotaPath
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    CaptivateIQ
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Sisense
    Score6.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    EverstageMicrosoft BI (MSBI)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (226 ratings)
    8.9
    (77 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.4
    (14 ratings)
    8.0
    (25 ratings)
    Usability
    9.2
    (31 ratings)
    8.9
    (19 ratings)
    Availability
    8.6
    (3 ratings)
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    8.6
    (3 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.9
    (10 ratings)
    8.9
    (15 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    4.6
    (2 ratings)
    6.9
    (3 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    8.5
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.3
    (6 ratings)
    9.6
    (7 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.7
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (42 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.4
    (41 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.6
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.7
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    EverstageMicrosoft BI (MSBI)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Everstage
    Everstage is well suited for smaller sales teams as it is little rigid with handling changes and maintenance is a task. Managing and computing on everstage is accurate and fast but making changes will require you to take help from the support team. They have an amazing support team to help you out.
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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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    Pros
    Everstage
    • User friendly UI - It is easy to navigate the platform and learn the details without any additional help.
    • Ability to show the underlying formula that was used to calculate commissions.
    • Provide visibility on how far the consultant is from achieving their quarterly quota.
    • Automatically publish leader board for the team based on performance that drives the sense of friendly competition to succeed.
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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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    Cons
    Everstage
    • Improving the user interface of Everstage could enhance its usability and make it more intuitive for team leaders and users.
    • Offering more advanced customization options would provide organizations with greater flexibility to tailor Everstage to their specific needs.
    • Integration with Third-Party Tools would be very helpful.
    • Developing a mobile app for Everstage would provide users with the convenience of accessing the tool on-the-go.
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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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    Likelihood to Renew
    Everstage
    The reason to give this rating is corely because of multiple level analysis, everstage provide product level analysis which is truly beneficial for any business manager, we can understand which product is doing good in the organization and we can understand which sales executive is selling more which course. The sales executives can understand their next stage of the incentive and monthly target left to do
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    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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    Usability
    Everstage
    Everstage provides a modern functional incentive platform that supports accurate sales compensation calculation. With Everstage in place our organization is experienced a huge savings in time and costs, and was able to boot sales team engagement. From automation to compensation visibility, analytics to integration with our back office systems and CRM, Everstage covered all our bases.
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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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    Reliability and Availability
    Everstage
    All team have nothing but high praise for the live element of Everstage -
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    The product has been reliable.
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    Performance
    Everstage
    Pages load quickly and dashboards refresh reliably under normal conditions. Reports complete in reasonable timeframes for standard queries. The Salesforce integration runs smoothly without noticeable slowdowns
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    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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    Support Rating
    Everstage
    It's Wonderful. They have been accessible when in need. the response is immediate and genuine. the support wait time is not too long either. when a fault is pointed out, thy accept it and try to work on it and within a week they try to find a better option to resolve the issue. Accepting and working to deliver better is really appreciable thing. Kudos to the team on that
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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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    In-Person Training
    Everstage
    our team leader spoke very highly of the training and the positive experience. This then brought the team on board and were looking forward to a positive experience of a product to minimise manual tasks and room for human error ! All the team have nothing but high praise for the product.
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    Microsoft
    This training was more directed toward what the product was capable of rather than actual programming.
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    Online Training
    Everstage
    Our team leader in US was responsible and involved with this and they spoke very highly of the training and product. This is what really brought the whole team on board. From this response and interaction the team really looked forward to using the product which was a great intro !!!
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    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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    Implementation Rating
    Everstage
    Our team leader led the implementation - but then implemented with our team directly and all of our team comment very positively about EverStage
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    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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    Alternatives Considered
    Everstage
    It was a company decision, Excel was not automated and had high chances of human error and if not updated properly there may be chances of someone losing out on their attainment Ever stage being automated and linked to salesforce there is very less probability of mistake and also transparency in the records
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Everstage
    I don’t have this visibility. But heard from team it good
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Everstage
    Sales, Finance, and HR all operate off the same platform without friction. Managing multiple incentive plans across B2B and B2C segments simultaneously demonstrated its scalability firsthand.
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Everstage
    • It helps me to track my progress in terms of Commission earned and motivate me to work harder to earn more.
    • It's Statement feature helps me to track my previous performance.
    • It's user friendly interface helps every individual to get all details very easily.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Everstage Screenshots

    Screenshot of on-demand commission data and advanced payout forecasting to drive performance of customer-facing teams .Screenshot of commission plans that can be configured from scratch or with readily-available templates using Everstage's no-code plan designer.Screenshot of the integrations available with the entire techstack including CRMs, ERP, HRIS, data warehouses and more to collect, calculate and communicate payout data.Screenshot of Everstage’s custom dashboards and advanced reporting provide commission tracking, as a single source of truth.Screenshot of where commission budgets can simulate how much payees will earn against each commission plan using the Time Machine feature.