Obviously this is a Power BI board and there may be bias but seriously I’m just an old school Excel user with no programming skills (not even VBA or basic SQL). I was thinking that it may be easier for me to learn and transition to Power BI given it is a Microsoft product and looks similar to Excel?

My organization is looking at Tableau and I am admittedly a bit biased against it. PBI has been introduced but most folks are using excel and its hobbled by the lack of data flows being enabled.

To me then reasons why PBI rocks are: DAX Third party tools (dax studio, tabular editor) Complex data modeling Deneb and other custom visuals Integration with the Microsoft stack / power platform/ excel The Italians/ Patrick

I have heard that tableau offers: Easier or quicker reads of data over power bi (especially over a million records) More natural integration with AWS and Sagemaker Easier to make visuals

Am I missing anything?

Edit: I cross posted this to the r/PowerBi community. Basically their response was that power bi was better because of costs, easier data modeling, integration with the Microsoft stack.

They also suggested that Tableau the visualizations looked nicer and were a bit easier to maintain.

Saw a company talk about migrating from legacy platforms (Tableau) to modern (PowerBI) was their mission and thought the two were rather synonymous - am I wrong here and has anyones company ever done something similar?

I’d like to survey the community on what they are seeing when it comes to Tableau vs. PowerBI— how is the ease of use between the two? Functionality? Total cost of ownership? When it breaks, who do you call?

I would like to know your opinion regarding the capabilities of each, their intuitiveness, etc. I know Tableau is better if we are talking about large volumes of data, but apart from this, which one is better?

Just starting my Master's and we get to choose which visualisation tools to use for the visuals in projects (not proficient enough in python yet so sticking with one of the two above) - which of the two would be better to learn this year and therefore more useful to future employers?

Or is it easy enough to learn that it doesn't really matter so I should pick the one that is easiest to use (so am also wondering which one is easiest)?

Thanks a lot!

I am deciding which platform to choose. The contenders are Tableau and Power BI. I am leaning more towards Power BI, but Tableau just shared this graph, and I don’t know if it is completely accurate.

What do you think, guys? Is this a fair comparison regarding customer experience?

Hi everyone 👋

There are way too many tools in the market but not enough time, resources and money to make the most out of them.

Each of these tools has potential and I am trying to find out from someone who used all and concluded to using one or many based on different circumstances.

And also with AI, Excel seemed to have a leg up now than what it used to be.

I’ve not mastered any of them, frequent user of Excel and still a lot to learn.

Thanks and appreciate you sharing your insights.

My organization is looking at Tableau and I am admittedly a bit biased against it. PBI has been introduced but most folks are using excel and its hobbled by the lack of data flows being enabled.

To me then reasons why PBI rocks are: DAX Third party tools (dax studio, tabular editor) Complex data modeling Deneb and other custom visuals Integration with the Microsoft stack / power platform/ excel The Italians/ Patrick

I have heard that tableau offers: Easier or quicker reads of data over power bi (especially over a million records) More natural integration with AWS and Sagemaker Easier to make visuals

Am I missing anything?

Hey guys, I am quite stuck between Tableau and PowerBI. Which one has more scope in market and better job opportunities?

Hello I'm new to data analytics. Already have a solid understanding of SQL and Excel looking to move on to visualization software.

Not sure which one to dive into at the moment and looking for any information I can get on the 2.

Which one is more widely used, looks better to employers, easier to use, etc.

Any and all information is appreciated. TIA

I am a research scholar at my current career stage. I cannot afford paid DA tools/platforms. Could you please guide me with free DA platform which is almost as good as Power BI or Tableau ? Grateful

I volunteer on a team of data analysts for a non-profit company. Recently, the Board of Directors has requested that our team puts together a dashboard in either Tableau or PowerBI for them to monitor performance indicators of the business. Our team is very proficient at SQL but with not much experience in the realm of dashboards. Our plan at the minute is to wrangle the data within MySQL and then connect the database to visualise the output using either Tableau or PowerBI, but we're not sure which would be better for our use case. Does anyone here have any advice for how to decide between the two?

I heard that Power bi is in more demand but I also found more jobs posting in Tableau do bit confused which should I learn to get first IT job I am from non coding background looking job can I master in these BI analyst within month what job oriented learning path should I follow

Hello,

I'm working as an analyst and my role requires me to visualize and present data. From what I understand, PowerBI and Tableau are the gold standard tools for this.

With that in mind, I set my eyes on learning Tableau as the demand for data visualization skills is on the rise and Tableau seems to be one of the most commonly used tools for the job.

I requested Tableau from my company's IT but was told that the company has moved to using MicroStrategy for their BI and enterprise strategy solutions.

I did some research on MicroStrategy and noted a few things that were concerning to me:

• MicroStrategy is said to be developer-focused. To fully understand this tool I need to drastically up my technical experience. While there is a steep learning curve for tools like PowerBI and Tableau, they seem to be more user-friendly and someone without an expansive technical background can pick it up quicker.

• MicroStrategy is criticized as an increasingly-irrelevant product, at least in some corners of reddit. I read that MicroStrategy is a tool that's been out for several decades and focus is shifting to other BI tools. That said, some other people say the contrary.

• MicroStrategy is shifting its focus from its BI product to cryptocurrency investment. I'm not sure what this means for the product itself, but as support shifts away from it, it will continue to be less used in the future.

Further context:

• My team does not use a BI tool at the moment for visualization and analytics. We use the Office suite and I'm starting to feel quite limited with it.

• I'd be learning whichever BI tool individually. I'm one of three people in my BU that need to extensively visualize and present data. This means if I want to use something like Tableau Desktop, I'd either have to have a very strong case to make space in my department's budget for just me, or pay out of pocket (which I refuse to do). Getting approved for MicroStrategy is just a matter of submitting a ticket.

• I want to build skills that will carry on for several years into my career. While I am willing to get in the mud to up my technical experience and learn MicroStrategy, if things point to its obsolescence in the near future, I don't want to invest my time in it. If that's the case, I'd rather just find some way to get my hands on a different tool.

Thanks everyone. Would love to hear everyone's takes and experiences on either side of the fence.

I’ve worked with Tableau for years — solid tool, especially for quick exploration and building polished dashboards fast. But with the way AI tooling is evolving (Cursor, Copilot, GPT agents, etc.), I’m starting to rethink where I’m spending my time.

These tools are getting seriously good at generating full pipelines — data models, transformations, even frontend components — all in code, and in a way that’s testable, version-controlled, and way more flexible than drag-and-drop UIs.

I’m not knocking Tableau — it still has a strong place in orgs for self-serve and business users. But from a dev perspective, I’m questioning whether it makes sense to keep investing time in GUI-based tools long-term.

Anyone else feeling this shift? Still doubling down on Tableau or starting to lean more into code-first/AI-driven workflows? 🧐

The reason I want to learn is, to put two things tableau and power bi in my resume so that I will have more opportunities while switching companies.

But I have few questions regarding power bi before I start learning. I'm looking for honest answers, I know this is Power BI sub. Some of the people would be biased towards it

1. Is Power BI capable of making complex, beautiful and eyes appealing dashboards like you can see on tableau public website

2. If I make a dashboard, is there any community or website to showcase my work. Probably the recruiter so that they can practically check how it's working and all. (Like tableau has tableau public to publish dashboards)

3. Best YouTube channels for power bi (including advanced visualisation)

Seen many articles here and on linked in etc that more and more companies are moving to power bi because of the pricing and capabilities of pbi to integrate well with other Microsoft platforms so I am bit concerned about my future..

I am a tableau consultant with less than 1 yoe and honestly I absolutely love using it for reporting and can't imagine myself using power bi or any other tool as analyst/consultant.

I have made dashboards on pbi as well but the creativity and customisations of tableau is just on another level and honestly pbi doesn't come close to it really in dashboarding.

I am a Tableau enthusiast, I have used it for several years and overall I think it works well as a BI/reporting tool.
However, I can not notice how the competition is closing the gap and how the product has been lacustre in the last years. There are countless examples of things which have not been deal with, even new chart types are not really been shipped (waterfall charts????!!!).

Given the superior Tableau costs compared to other peers, what do you think will be the future of Tableau? Will it lose its throne? Is SF going to bin it? Will it resurge to its former glory?

If you can go back and start your data analytics department from scratch from Day 1, would you choose Power BI or Tableau? What are the pros and cons?