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Excel Power View retirement: what does it mean for your business?
Five years after the new feature development concluded, Microsoft has revealed the Excel Power View retirement plan. Businesses have a short window to migrate their content over to a new product or service. While Power View remained in Excel for Windows devices, the...
Power BI vs Access: which should you use?
A Quora user recently asked, "Does Power BI replace Access?" Since there's interest in this topic, we'd like to give an objective comparison of Power BI vs Access. If you're unfamiliar with Power BI and Access, they can seem quite similar. But in fact these are two...
Power BI or Qlik Sense? Compare 5 top features
Business intelligence has come a long way since Richard Miller Devens coined the term in 1865. We've gone from pens to punchcards, from on-premise servers to the cloud. And today modern tools like Power BI and Qlik Sense are making business intelligence more available...
Power BI vs SAP Business Objects: which suits your business best?
As of 2021 there are hundreds of business intelligence tools out there. And choice is good — if you know what you're looking for. To provide some clarity, we've decided to compare two BI giants: Microsoft Power BI vs SAP Business Objects. Let's start with some...
Power BI vs Tableau: 5 important differences you should know
It's no secret that Power BI and Tableau are the top dogs for data analysis in 2021. A glance at Google Trends shows many more searches for Power BI and Tableau than for the nearest competitor. Clearly, both Tableau and Power BI are doing something right. But that...