Top 5 Microsoft Power BI Desktop Alternatives & Competitors

Power BI is one of the leading business analytics platforms on the market. Power BI Desktop is a free application you install on the local computer that lets you connect to, transform, and visualize your data anytime, anywhere. Microsoft Power BI Desktop is built for the analyst. It combines state-of-the-art interactive visualizations, with industry-leading data queries and modeling built-in. In this video, we take you through some of the top 5 Microsoft Power BI Desktop alternatives & competitors.

Tableau Desktop: Tableau Desktop allows people to make data-driven decisions with confidence, by helping them answer questions more quickly, solve harder problems more easily, and uncover new insights more frequently. It connects directly to hundreds of data sources, both on-premises or in the cloud, making it easier to start the analysis.

Looker: Looker is reinventing business intelligence for the modern company. Looker works the way the web does: browser-based, its unique modeling language lets any employee leverage the work of your best data analysts. Looker capitalizes on the newest, fastest analytic databases to get real results, in real-time.

Sisense: Sisense goes beyond traditional business intelligence by providing organizations with the ability to infuse analytics everywhere, embedded in both customer and employee applications and workflows. More than 2,000 global companies rely on Sisense to innovate, disrupt markets and drive meaningful change in the world.

Domo: Domo transforms business by putting data to work for everyone. Its's low-code data app platform goes beyond traditional business intelligence and analytics to enable anyone to create data apps to power any action in their business, right where work gets done.

Qlik Sense: Qlik Sense empowers people to make better data-driven decisions and take action. The solution provides augmented analytics for every business need from visualization and dashboards to natural language analytics, custom, and embedded analytics, reporting, and alerting.