Bi tools comparison, Power-bi, Tableau, Qlik sense, ThoughtSpot, Looker

Business Intelligence(BI) Tools comparison

You know it is time to move away from the archaic model of report making. The paradigm shift to self-service Business Intelligence (BI) is tantalizing. Yet, selecting a BI-tool is a daunting task. You know your organization needs better analytics for decision-making, but you don’t want to choose a tool that will cause more problems than solutions. Comparing the most used and top rated Bi-tools on several features. This comparison will help user to select which Bi-tool will be best fit for personal/Profession use.

We are providing a detailed matrix with narratives on the feature sets of all major tools in the industry. Today we will focus on the top six BI tool platforms that are worth considering:

Features	Power Bi	Tableau	Qlik Sense	ThoughtSpot	Looker	Data studio
Visulizaion Capabilities	Easy to use platform.	Perfect graphic and visualization capabilities	Self service analytic tools	The simplicity of using a search bar to get answers	Self-service easy to use Visualization capabilities.	One of the easiest and free-to-use Bi tools.
Advanced analytic capabilities	Supports R language-based visualization.	Support both R and Python.	Does not support R or Python base objects.	Supports R language based visualizations.	Support both R and Python.	Support only Python.
Cloud capability	Compatible with Microsoft azure.	Compatible with robust cloud platforms like azur, AWS etc.	Offers Saas cloud products.	Compatible with limited cloud platforms like AWS and Saas.	It is a cloud based tool.	It is a cloud-based tool.
Big data integration	Places with solution about tableau and Qlick.	Connect to nearly any data repository, ranging from Ms-excel to Hadoop clusters.	Let you access and manage all your data, big and small, within single environment.	Allows you to integrate data with various data sources.	Compatible with SQL, SAS, AWS and few other tools, but requires a lot of coding.	Allow you to connect to few external data sources. Quite limited.
Storaage Limits	10GB cloud storage.	100GB Data storage.	500GB cloud storage.	50GB cloud storage.	25GB Cloud storage.	10Gb cloud storage.
Data preparation Tools	Inbuild data modification tools available	Inbuild data modification tools but opens in a different window	Inbuild data modification tools available and requires coding to change data	Inbuild data modification tools	No inbuild data tools available. User need to alter data at source.	Inbuild data modification tools
Data base independent	Can work without database. Live connection required	Can work without database. Live connection required	Can work without database. Live connection required	Can work without database. Live connection required	Depends on database. The database should be present on the same server	Can work without database. Live connection required
Free version	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
Price	$50/month	$70/user/month	$100/month	$250/user/month	$300/user/month	Free

Business Intelligence(BI) tools Comparison in brief

Features	Power-bi	Tableau	Qlik Sense	ThoughtSpot	Looker	Data Studio
Free plan
Individual paid plan	$50/month	$70/user/month	$100/month	$250/user/month	$300/user/month	Free
Embedded analytics
AI Enabled Analytics
Dynamic cross filtering
Search with NLP
Data Prep tools
Data Modelling Tools
Database Independent
Mixed model types
Third party data model access
Commenting & collaboration
Open-source custom visualizations
Native mobile app
Built in row level security
Predictive analysis
Collaborative environment
R & Python