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
Stream Chat
Score 8.6 out of 10
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Stream.io offers a chat API for Custom Messaging Apps used to build real-time chat messaging to ship in-app messaging, via Stream.io's chat infrastructure and SDKs.
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Pricing
Microsoft Power BI
Stream Chat
Editions & Modules
Power BI Pro
$14
per month (billed annually) per user
Power BI Premium
$24
per month (billed annually) per user
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Pricing Offerings
Microsoft Power BI
Stream Chat
Free Trial
Yes
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
Additional Details
Power 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
Microsoft Power BI
Stream Chat
Features
Microsoft Power BI
Stream Chat
BI Standard Reporting
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Microsoft Power BI
8.3
197 Ratings
1% above category average
Stream Chat
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Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports
8.3168 Ratings
00 Ratings
Customizable dashboards
8.7196 Ratings
00 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates
8.0179 Ratings
00 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
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Microsoft Power BI
8.0
195 Ratings
0% below category average
Stream Chat
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Ratings
Drill-down analysis
8.3192 Ratings
00 Ratings
Formatting capabilities
7.8192 Ratings
00 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages
7.4143 Ratings
00 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration
8.4190 Ratings
00 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
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Microsoft Power BI
8.0
188 Ratings
3% below category average
Stream Chat
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Ratings
Publish to Web
8.3178 Ratings
00 Ratings
Publish to PDF
8.0173 Ratings
00 Ratings
Report Versioning
7.7145 Ratings
00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling
8.3148 Ratings
00 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers
7.9111 Ratings
00 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
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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
Based on my experience, here are some scenarios where Stream Chat is well suited: 1. If you want to build a real-time chat system then it is a very important use case. 2. Also good if you want to integrate it into gaming applications. However, there are also scenarios where Stream Chat may be less appropriate. For example: 1. stream chat use cases are mostly for real-time messaging use cases only but if you are someone who don't have such use case than you can skip stream chat
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Why we prefer stream chat over Twilio was as follows: 1. User interface customization: Stream Chat provides wide range of user interface customization feature than Twilio. 2. Moderation tools: Stream chat provides a lot of moderation tools to manage chat and content being generate real time on the app. 3. Collaboration features: collaboration feature of stream chat is really good. Very simple collaboration features are provided by Stream Chat