Analytics Showdown: IBM Cognos vs. Microsoft Power BI vs. Tableau vs. MicroStrategy vs. Qlik vs. ThoughtSpot
The Ultimate Showdown
Business Intelligence tools have changed rapidly over the last few years with many vendors pushing out multiple updates each year – some even quarterly. It has become difficult to keep track of the myriad changes to the tools as each release brings them functionally closer to each other. The matrix below attempts to shed light on some of the differences between six of the leading BI tools.
Conclusion
As you can see there are still quite a few differences between the products. With each new release, we expect that the functionality gap will increase and decrease as new features are added that didn’t exist before and existing features are implemented as a response to another vendor’s updated product. Some of these are just personal preferences and others may or may not be important to your company’s processes and goals. By the time you read this, there may have already been updates that make some of these differences obsolete! As always though, if you need help navigating the BI space, let PMsquare be your analytics guide.
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