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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/APower BI for Office 365 allowed users to model and analyze data, and query large datasets with complex natural language queries. It has been discontinued in favor of other editions of Power BI going forward.N/A

    TIBCO Data Virtualization

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ATIBCO Data Virtualization is an enterprise data virtualization solution that orchestrates access to multiple and varied data sources and delivers the datasets and IT-curated data services foundation for nearly any solution.N/A
    Pricing
    Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)TIBCO Data Virtualization
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)TIBCO Data Virtualization
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)TIBCO Data Virtualization
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    Cloud Software Group
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    78%
    Would buy again
    28 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    28 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    31 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    24 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    26 Answers
    Features
    Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)TIBCO Data Virtualization
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued) and TIBCO Data Virtualization
    Feature
    Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
    9.0
    11 Ratings
    10% above category average
    TIBCO Data Virtualization
    -
    Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports9.010 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards8.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates10.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued) and TIBCO Data Virtualization
    Feature
    Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
    9.5
    11 Ratings
    17% above category average
    TIBCO Data Virtualization
    -
    Ratings
    Drill-down analysis9.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities9.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages10.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration10.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued) and TIBCO Data Virtualization
    Feature
    Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
    9.5
    11 Ratings
    15% above category average
    TIBCO Data Virtualization
    -
    Ratings
    Publish to Web10.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to PDF10.010 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Versioning9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling9.64 Ratings00 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers8.73 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued) and TIBCO Data Virtualization
    Feature
    Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
    10.0
    11 Ratings
    22% above category average
    TIBCO Data Virtualization
    -
    Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)10.010 Ratings00 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization10.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics10.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued) and TIBCO Data Virtualization
    Feature
    Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
    9.8
    10 Ratings
    14% above category average
    TIBCO Data Virtualization
    -
    Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)10.010 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model9.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)10.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued) and TIBCO Data Virtualization
    Feature
    Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
    9.5
    10 Ratings
    20% above category average
    TIBCO Data Virtualization
    -
    Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access10.010 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Application9.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile10.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued) and TIBCO Data Virtualization
    Feature
    Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
    7.8
    3 Ratings
    1% above category average
    TIBCO Data Virtualization
    -
    Ratings
    REST API9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Javascript API8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    iFrames8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Java API8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Enterprises
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    User Ratings
    Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)TIBCO Data Virtualization
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (15 ratings)
    7.1
    (43 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.2
    (4 ratings)
    6.1
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.4
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.6
    (20 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.9
    (21 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.9
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)TIBCO Data Virtualization
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    If you're already using Office 365, Power BI for O365 is an easy choice. Start playing around with the free version and then easily add individual Pro licenses with little risk. However, if you anticipate using this with many users, it can get expensive quickly.
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    Cloud Software Group
    TIBCO Data Virtualization is well suited for customers who are challenged to deal with extracting data from dozens of different sources and systems, and do not have the time and liberty to hire data engineers and/or ETL developers to write dozens or hundreds of complex ETLs. However, there are situations where TIBCO Data Virtualization severely underperforms, and those are where we are dealing with large volumes of data, in tera bytes or peta byte scale system. For example, a messaging queue which sends 200 million messages every hour will choke TIBCO Data Virtualization if the technology is chosen to route the data.
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    Pros
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    • Easy to make visual dashboards from SQL queries. Previously we had to use a third party application that had to run on a web server that was so complex to setup and run. PowerBI removes all that.
    • Ability to control who/which group has access to each dashboard or report. Ties in well with the rest of the Office 365 ecosystem.
    • Has many connectors to allow pulling data from various systems, both onsite (via gateway) or external (via APIs), and join the data to create a report/dashboard.
    • Ability to show data but also export the data, if permitted.
    • Easy to show PowerBI dashboards on SharePoint or on other websites via embedded code.
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    • Connecting to different data silos and presenting the data as a singled unified layer of data.
    • Exposing data to Technical and non technical users through Web UI or reporting tools
    • Secured exposure of data as web services.
    • Row level and column level data security
    • Multi tenancy data security.
    • Real time data by connecting to the operational databases
    • Historical data generation
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    Cons
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    • Licensing: Currently, Microsoft has a fixed pricing model for Office 365 users, regardless of role/function of the user. Most organizations have a small number of "power users" that create usable content and many more "consumers" that simply view/run reports created by power users. Microsoft does not differentiate between these users, and thus the pricing limits organizations from large deployments of the software.
    • Version incompatibility: Excel 2010 and 2013 workbooks are compatible with each other. However, workbooks created in 2010 that include PowerPivot databases must be upgraded to 2013 format to run in 2013. Subsequently, you cannot open these upgraded PowerPivot workbooks in 2010. This requires ALL users to be on the same version.
    • Visualization: Excel charting with PowerPivot workbooks is adequate for many users. Power View also contains a number of GREAT visualizations, including animated bubble charts and a very flexible dashboard/report design canvas. However, compared to some of the other self-service BI solutions, it is still limited in its visualization capabilities.
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    Cloud Software Group
    • Performance of TDV Studio (its own IDE) is poor.
    • Performance of TDV repository database is rather poor for larger numbers of objects .(Note: We have approx. 9tsd objects introspected in TDV and approx. 20tsd objects generated in upper DV layers.)
    • Propagation of privileges to parent/child dependencies does not work when applying recursively on a folder. (It's a huge setback when working with large number of objects organized semantically into subfolders.)
    • Lack of command line client interface for scripting at the time of version 8.4 (I had to write my own CLI.)
    • TDV Studio does an absolutely horrible job with its own code editors when indentation is in place. Also, the editor is brutally slow and feature-poor.
    • Tracking privileges on the level of table/view columns causes occasional problems when regranting.
    • TDV's stored programs ("SQL scripts" in their own terminology) compiler leaves out many syntactic and semantic checks, making them hugely prone to run-time errors.
    • TDV Server's REST API is a very poor (in terms of features) and flawed cousin to its SOAP API (at the time of version 8.4).
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    I will continue to recommend this suite to folks looking for a reporting and analytics solution, as I find in MOST cases, it's great at meeting almost every requirement I've been given by a multitude of clients across a range of industries. I've built Capacity Planning solutions that allowed end user input which was then submitted to SharePoint, Executive Dashboards, custom applications, simple analytical tools for teams to easily slice and dice data, and super simple reports as well as some very complicated ones. If you haven't seen the demos online, do a search, and see for yourself - this is a great BI suite! (I do not work for Microsoft, although I do consult out there from time to time. I do occasionally make a recommendation for a different BI reporting tool, but in general, find Excel can accomplish quite a bit for less money and in less time.)
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    Cloud Software Group
    It is useful for us to see the data and do analysis. Also we use it to generate reports and see trends or gather insights
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    Usability
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    We are satisfied with the functionality and capabilities of Power BI. Product is cost effective and full-fill the reporting requirements of the organization. You can perform most of the report level complex analysis with the help of DAX which makes Power BI very powerful analytic tool. Power BI for Office 365 has gone away and Power BI is the next evolution of it. Power BI comes with your Office 365 E5 subscription or you can purchase licensing for it separately.
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    Cloud Software Group
    TDV's interface is a bit dated and not entirely intuitive. Would recommend some UX design review as the interface leaves a bit to be better understood to be used by users without inherent knowledge of Tibco. Overall I'd suggest more improvement here to ensure usability by a lesser tech audience.
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    Reliability and Availability
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    Cloud Software Group
    We have never encountered issues where it was unavailable when we needed it.
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    Performance
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    Cloud Software Group
    This product's performance is very consistent. It is extremely rare for templates to fail. I've been using this software for 5 years and find it to be both simple and powerful. The impact within the company has been very positive as different processes in different areas, such as data analysis, development, and integrations, have been improved, and, best of all, it has not affected the users. Various systems with which it is connected in order to obtain information.
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    as of now there is strong community for Power BI, you can get solution for most of your problems from there. Also you can send your error to Microsoft as well. After every 15 days they release updates to overcome all the issues of defects.
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    Cloud Software Group
    On a few occasions I have asked TIBCO technical support for help because I have adapted perfectly to their tools, but in those few that I have communicated with their technical team I have received personalized, attentive, responsible attention and I am always assisted by an expert staff the topic. A TIBCO technical support technician spent more than an hour helping me to solve a problem in the initial stage of implementation in my department and this is something that I always appreciate.
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    Online Training
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    Cloud Software Group
    The training was helpful. I was able to understand how to use TIBCO for the data load process that we implemented and how to perform various troubleshooting steps based on the training I received. The technician was thorough and took the time to answer any questions. Once we were shown how to use TIBCO in the test environment, we were able to configure the production environment ourselves.
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    Implementation Rating
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    Cloud Software Group
    Other vendors have clearer, more visual implementation documentation. We also did not have our data architect and and server administrator available full-time for implementation. In the future, we will secure the necessary internal resources.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    Oracle was nice, super expensive to implement if it's not in use already. JobDiva is choppy and heavy on the system while does not give great reports. Salesforce is good; remote access is good however their support is terrible
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    Cloud Software Group
    We did not need to evaluate another technology in the same category for data virtualization, since we are 100% sure of the capabilities and benefits that we would have with TIBCO Data Virtualization, both for market positioning as well as success stories from other companies. great renown worldwide. From the first day of use, it meets our needs to provide the expected solutions.
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    Scalability
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    Cloud Software Group
    Good scaling
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    Return on Investment
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    • As a Microsoft Partner implementing Business Intelligence solutions, Power BI has removed the barrier for our clients to begin the "BI journey". So often, projects get hung up in that early phase of procuring and installing/configuring expensive hardware and software. Just simply getting started and designing a beginning solution has allowed our clients to see results in 1-2 weeks using their data that might have taken months to achieve otherwise.
    • One significant ROI example is process improvement. In many cases, individuals or teams are spending days each month gathering data from multiple sources for reporting to their constituents. We are reducing these times to minutes by automating many of the data collection and integration processes that were previously manual.
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    Cloud Software Group
    • We took spreadsheets that took hours a month to update and made them update automatically using TDV, saving hours a month of analyst time
    • The incremental cost of TDV relative to straight spotfire licensing made it a no-brainer due to the ease of data management
    • We continue to automate legacy business processes in TDV, saving time all over the organization.
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