Tableau vs Power BI: Key Differences

What is Tableau?

Tableau is a powerful and fastest-growing data visualization tool used in the business intelligence industry. It allows you to simplify raw data into a very easily understandable format.

Data analysis is very fast with Tableau, and the visualizations created are in the form of dashboards and worksheets. This helps professionals to understand the data that is created using Tableau at any level in an organization.

What is a Power BI?

Power BI is a Business Intelligence and Data Visualization tool which helps you to convert data from the various data source into interactive dashboards and BI reports. It also provides multiple software connectors and services.

Microsoft Power BI is a business intelligence tool that helps you to handle data from different sources and provides visualization after the cleaning and integration process. It also offers a feature of Adhoc report generation, which helps in the analysis of the data.

Features of Tableau

Here are important features of Tableau:

  • Data blending
  • No need of technical knowledge
  • Real-time analysis
  • Data collaboration and data notifications
  • DAX analysis function
  • Patented technology from Stanford university
  • Toggle view and drag-and-drop
  • List of native data connectors
  • Highlight and filter data
  • Share dashboards
  • Embed dashboards within
  • Mobile-ready dashboards
  • Tableau reader for data viewing
  • Dashboard commenting
  • Create “no-code” data queries
  • Translate queries to visualizations
  • Import all ranges and sizes of data

Features of Power BI

Here, are essential features of Power BI

  • Customizable dashboards
  • Datasets
  • Reports
  • Navigation pane
  • Q&A question box
  • Help & feedback buttons
  • Ad Hoc reporting and analysis
  • Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)
  • Trend indicators
  • Interactive reports authoring
  • Complete reporting & data visualization tools
  • Real-time dashboards that help business owners solve problems as they occur
  • Offers Power BI embedded, azure service that allows applications to interact with Power BI
  • Q&A feature of Power BI allows users to ask questions using natural language to get answers in a specific graphical form.
  • Content Packs: for sharing dashboards with team