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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Microsoft Power BI Embedded

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AA solution from Microsoft to provide customer-facing reports, dashboards, and analytics in applications by using and branding Power BI as one's own. Designed to reduce developer resources by automating the monitoring, management, and deployment of analytics, while getting full control of Power BI features and intelligent analytics.N/A

    SSIS

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft's SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is a data integration solution.N/A
    Pricing
    Microsoft Power BI EmbeddedSSIS
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Microsoft Power BI EmbeddedSSIS
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Microsoft Power BI EmbeddedSSIS
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
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    Microsoft
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    13 Answers
    84%
    Would buy again
    21 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    11 Answers
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    24 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    12 Answers
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    22 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    6 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    19 Answers
    Features
    Microsoft Power BI EmbeddedSSIS
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Microsoft Power BI Embedded and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    Feature
    Microsoft Power BI Embedded
    7.5
    2 Ratings
    4% above category average
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    -
    Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports6.52 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Microsoft Power BI Embedded and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    Feature
    Microsoft Power BI Embedded
    7.3
    1 Ratings
    7% below category average
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    -
    Ratings
    Drill-down analysis7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Microsoft Power BI Embedded and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    Feature
    Microsoft Power BI Embedded
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    15% above category average
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    -
    Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Microsoft Power BI Embedded and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    Feature
    Microsoft Power BI Embedded
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    5% above category average
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    -
    Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Microsoft Power BI Embedded and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    Feature
    Microsoft Power BI Embedded
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    3% below category average
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    -
    Ratings
    REST API8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Javascript API8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    iFrames8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Java API8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)3.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Microsoft Power BI Embedded and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    Feature
    Microsoft Power BI Embedded
    -
    Ratings
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    7.0
    56 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Connect to traditional data sources00 Ratings9.056 Ratings
    Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL00 Ratings5.043 Ratings
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of Microsoft Power BI Embedded and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    Feature
    Microsoft Power BI Embedded
    -
    Ratings
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    6.8
    56 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Simple transformations00 Ratings8.956 Ratings
    Complex transformations00 Ratings4.755 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of Microsoft Power BI Embedded and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    Feature
    Microsoft Power BI Embedded
    -
    Ratings
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    7.5
    54 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Data model creation00 Ratings9.028 Ratings
    Metadata management00 Ratings6.035 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow00 Ratings7.145 Ratings
    Collaboration00 Ratings9.140 Ratings
    Testing and debugging00 Ratings6.451 Ratings
    Data Governance
    Comparison of Data Governance features of Microsoft Power BI Embedded and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    Feature
    Microsoft Power BI Embedded
    -
    Ratings
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    5.4
    43 Ratings
    40% below category average
    Integration with data quality tools00 Ratings6.238 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools00 Ratings4.638 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Microsoft Power BI EmbeddedSSIS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (13 ratings)
    8.0
    (56 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (11 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.8
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Microsoft Power BI EmbeddedSSIS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    This product is very convenient to use and implement and is considered a "de facto" standard in the Business Intelligence sphere. First of all, it contains numerous features in terms of visualization, data provisioning, data source integration which makes it a perfect tool for the development of BI analytics. Secondly, it provides great capabilities for the development of data markets for the whole development team. Thirdly, the sharing capabilities of dashboards that are updated in a real-time manner provides great incentives for end-users
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    Microsoft
    As I mentioned earlier SQL Server Integration Services is suitable if you want to manage data from different applications. It really helps in fetching the data and generating reports. Its automation make it very easy and time efficient. It works well with large database as well. But it doesn't work well with real time data, it will take some time to gather the real time data. I would not recommend using it in a real time/fast-paced environment.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • It is very easy to connect multiple data sources for a single report. You can use CSV, Excel, database integration, etc.
    • Power Bi supports Python as well, which makes it a lot easier for us as it is known by most of our team.
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    Microsoft
    • Standard ETL use cases for daily loads
    • Loading incoming data from Vendors which is placed on FTP and adding them to the SQL Warehouse
    • Creating outgoing data files and writing them to Vendor FTPs
    • Easy Active Directory integration for seamless connections to SQL Server
    • CI/CD by hosting the code on visualstudio.com
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • Similar to how Excel has VBA, Microsoft Power BI uses PowerQuery (M/DAX). Though DAX is similar to Excel in terms of how it is written, I just think it's something that would be difficult for new users to figure out.
    • Something I would like to see done differently in Microsoft Power BI is the ability to have presets for sorting/arranging of visualizations. Though it is nice to arrange the dashboard freely, it would also be nice to have preset arrangements based on visualizations (for those of us bad at making dashboards look appealing).
    • With Microsoft Power BI, it is hard to show others your dashboard using the free platform (unless you show them from your computer/account). This can cause issues if your firm is trialing Microsoft Power BI before purchase.
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    Microsoft
    • Connection managers for online data sources can be tricky to configure.
    • Performance tuning is an art form and trialing different data flow task options can be cumbersome. SSIS can do a better job of providing performance data including historical for monitoring.
    • Mapping destination using OLE DB command is difficult as destination columns are unnamed.
    • Excel or flat file connections are limited by version and type.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Some features should be revised or improved, some tools (using it with Visual Studio) of the toolbox should be less schematic and somewhat more flexible. Using for example, the CSV data import is still very old-fashioned and if the data format changes it requires a bit of manual labor to accept the new data structure
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    It's easy to use for what is presented in the reports that have been developed and presented. It's not so easy to customize those reports, "make them your own" and save them for later reuse.
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    Microsoft
    SSIS is a great tool for most ETL needs. It has the 90% (or more) use cases covered and even in many of the use cases where it is not ideal SSIS can be extended via a .NET language to do the job well in a supportable way for almost any performance workload.
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    Performance
    Microsoft
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    Microsoft
    SQL Server Integration Services performance is dependent directly upon the resources provided to the system. In our environment, we allocated 6 nodes of 4 CPUs, 64GB each, running in parallel. Unfortunately, we had to ramp-up to such a robust environment to get the performance to where we needed it. Most of the reports are completed in a reasonable timeframe. However, in the case of slow running reports, it is often difficult if not impossible to cancel the report without killing the report instance or stopping the service.
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    The support, when necessary, is excellent. But beyond that, it is very rarely necessary because the user community is so large, vibrant and knowledgable, a simple Google query or forum question can answer almost everything you want to know. You can also get prewritten script tasks with a variety of functionality that saves a lot of time.
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    Implementation Rating
    Microsoft
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    Microsoft
    The implementation may be different in each case, it is important to properly analyze all the existing infrastructure to understand the kind of work needed, the type of software used and the compatibility between these, the features that you want to exploit, to understand what is possible and which ones require integration with third-party tools
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    I haven’t used any other software that can be compared to this and that is a good thing as this means that this software is the best one on the market. Tough other apps may exist we only use Microsoft Power BI because it is simply the best app out there.
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    Microsoft
    I think SQL Server Integration Services is better suited for on-premises data movement and ADF is more suited for the cloud. Though ADF has more connectors, SQL Server Integration Services is more robust and has better functionality just because it has been around much longer
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • Saved a significant amount of time for reporting current rollout status to project stakeholders
    • Project stakeholders were able to view the live dashboards at any time so felt they had a better understanding of the rollout status
    • Project stakeholders found it beneficial that they were able to set their own filters. For example, to view rollout status for their own departments.
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    Microsoft
    • Without this, we would have to manually update a spreadsheet of our SQL Server inventory
    • We would also have poor alerting; if an instance was down we wouldn't know until it was reported by a user
    • We only have one other person who uses SQL Server Integration Services , he's the expert. It would fall to me without him and I would not enjoy being responsible for it.
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