GoodData vs. Microsoft BI (MSBI)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
GoodData
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
GoodData is a cloud-based data and analytics platform, bringing AI-fueled data-driven decision-making to organisations across the globe. With a platform that leverages the potential of automation and AI, GoodData empowers its customers to make data analytics available to end users via real-time, self-service data insights right at the point of work. The vendor states that over 140,000 businesses and 3.2 million users rely on GoodData to drive meaningful change and achieve more through…
$30
per month per user
Microsoft BI (MSBI)
Score 8.4 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.
$9.99
per user/per month
Pricing
GoodDataMicrosoft BI (MSBI)
Editions & Modules
Internal Analytics Startup
$30
per month per user
Power BI Pro
$9.99
per user/per month
Power BI Premium
4,995
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
GoodDataMicrosoft BI (MSBI)
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
GoodDataMicrosoft BI (MSBI)
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
GoodDataMicrosoft BI (MSBI)
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
7.6
51 Ratings
9% above category average
Microsoft BI (MSBI)
8.6
49 Ratings
5% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports7.735 Ratings9.042 Ratings
Customizable dashboards7.851 Ratings8.049 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates7.441 Ratings8.947 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
7.8
50 Ratings
1% above category average
Microsoft BI (MSBI)
8.7
49 Ratings
7% above category average
Drill-down analysis7.749 Ratings8.944 Ratings
Formatting capabilities6.950 Ratings8.049 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration7.746 Ratings8.949 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings8.939 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
7.1
49 Ratings
6% below category average
Microsoft BI (MSBI)
8.9
48 Ratings
10% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.347 Ratings8.947 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.138 Ratings8.944 Ratings
Predictive Analytics6.628 Ratings8.942 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining7.59 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
7.4
51 Ratings
0% below category average
Microsoft BI (MSBI)
8.9
49 Ratings
3% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)7.451 Ratings8.946 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model7.144 Ratings8.943 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)7.450 Ratings8.946 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)7.629 Ratings8.928 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
8.0
29 Ratings
7% above category average
Microsoft BI (MSBI)
8.8
21 Ratings
11% above category average
REST API7.924 Ratings8.919 Ratings
Javascript API8.022 Ratings8.919 Ratings
iFrames8.123 Ratings8.918 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings8.917 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings8.918 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings8.017 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
-
Ratings
Microsoft BI (MSBI)
8.9
48 Ratings
6% above category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings8.944 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings8.944 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings8.940 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.943 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings8.924 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
-
Ratings
Microsoft BI (MSBI)
8.5
39 Ratings
7% above category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings8.036 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings8.027 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings9.836 Ratings
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User Ratings
GoodDataMicrosoft BI (MSBI)
Likelihood to Recommend
7.8
(79 ratings)
8.7
(73 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.1
(14 ratings)
8.0
(25 ratings)
Usability
7.5
(58 ratings)
8.9
(14 ratings)
Availability
7.0
(1 ratings)
9.5
(2 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(1 ratings)
7.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
8.2
(6 ratings)
8.9
(15 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.0
(1 ratings)
6.9
(3 ratings)
Online Training
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.5
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(2 ratings)
9.6
(7 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
GoodDataMicrosoft BI (MSBI)
Likelihood to Recommend
GoodData
GoodData excels for my sales team in scenarios such as real-time performance tracking and sales metrics. The customizable dashboards help me to monitor lead conversion, revenue and individual performance. Along with huge data we also have insights. We can get most of our decisions based on it's analysis and optimize our strategies, and enhance overall sales.
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Microsoft
Microsoft BI is well suited for Stream analytics, easy data integration, report creation and UI/UX designs (limited but what all available are great ones) Microsoft BI may be less appropriate for handling huge number of datasets and difficult queries. It may also be difficult for a company with heavy data.
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Pros
GoodData
  • GoodData helps in simplifying complex data into easy-to-understand visuals. We can create personalized dashboards & tailor them as per requirements. This data can be used from an executive level employee to a team lead employee in the business
  • GoodData is a very user friendly platform. The collaborative features simplify sharing and discussing reports among team members which promotes a culture of data-driven decision-making.
  • GoodData connects with various data sources and consolidate information from multiple platforms. This flexibility proves invaluable for businesses dealing with data spread across different systems as they can access large amount of data on a single platform.
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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
GoodData
  • Firstly I would like to mention about it's setup which took us more than a month to integrate and get things started.
  • Not that easy for beginner to start using the platform.
  • Some features are hard to find at setup due to it's complexity but later it went well.
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Microsoft
  • The race to perfect gathering of Non-Traditional datasets is on-going; with Microsoft arguably not the leader of the pack in this category.
  • Licensing options for PowerBI visualizations may be a factor. I.e. if you need to implement B2C PowerBI visualizations, the cost is considerably high especially for startups.
  • Some clients are still resistant putting their data on the cloud, which restricts lots of functionality to Power BI.
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Likelihood to Renew
GoodData
Each client I have worked with and spoken too has renewed their GoodData subscription. I know of not one to date that has cancelled. The GoodData platform has a very high rate of renewal from the discussions I have had with their internal teams as well
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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
GoodData
GoodData provided us with strong overall usability and provided us a platform for various business analytics. Its user-friendly and insightful reports and also the dashboards. Me and my team really appreciate the platform's ability to streamline decision-making processes. However, there is a learning curve during initial setup as I mentioned before. Continuous improvements in the onboarding could further enhance GoodData's usability as well.
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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
GoodData
We are approximately one month since go-live. There has been one short outage.
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Microsoft
The product has been reliable.
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Performance
GoodData
Performance on refreshing metrics works well.
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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
GoodData
Support team has been highly responsive and helpful from our first initial deployment to present day. They engage and work with us. know when to escalate for more challenging problems. They also follow up. Overall have had a very good experience with support
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Microsoft
While support from Microsoft isn't necessarily always best of breed, you're also not paying the price for premium support that you would on other platforms. The strength of the stack is in the ecosystem that surrounds it. In contrast to other products, there are hundreds, even thousands of bloggers that post daily as well as vibrant user communities that surround the tool. I've had much better luck finding help with SQL Server related issues than I have with any other product, but that help doesn't always come directly from Microsoft.
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In-Person Training
GoodData
Petr was a rock star - patient, knowledgeable, clear and easy to work with.
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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
GoodData
GoodData implementation team was professional and courteous
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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
GoodData
Thorough, professional and on time.
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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
GoodData
GoodData was more cost effective and did not necessitate additional spend on internal resources. The end user interface was easy to use and did not require additional set up or customization. The clients required little support from the Prometric staff to use the product
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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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Return on Investment
GoodData
  • We have been able to quickly go to market with a feature-rich version of our application.
  • The licensing costs are manageable but make our offering more expensive than alternatives.
  • The possibility to horizontal scaling with Kubernetes is a bright outlook for our business.
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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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ScreenShots

GoodData Screenshots

Screenshot of GoodData's array of tools and AI features to dig into data for needed insights.Screenshot of GoodData’s AI-powered features (like NLQ) and drag-and-drop UI, used to build and interact with charts and dashboards.Screenshot of GoodData's pro-code, low-code, and no-code interfaces, available so users with all skill levels can collaborate to share insights and findings.Screenshot of forecasting tools that let users predict trends for key business metrics for the next month, quarter, and year.Screenshot of NLQ, used to ask questions of data, automatically create new visualizations, and discover new insights using natural language via an AI chatbot.Screenshot of an AI-powered explanation of what is driving the values, in dashboards and visualizations.