BusinessObjects Web Intelligence vs. PowerBI – The Truth from the Trenches Part 2
Summary
BusinessObjects Web Intelligence vs. PowerBI – The Truth from the Trenches Part 2 In Part 1 of this blog, we reviewed the top 5 main differentiators between BusinessObjects Web Intelligence and PowerBI, as determined by 2 different independent BI consultants who have worked and continue to work extensively with both tools. In part 2, I asked the same two consultants to list their Top 5 Reasons Not to Convert Webi Reports to PowerBI. Exporting dashboards/reports with custom visuals to PDF, Power Point may have issues and may require purchasing increased capacity. PowerBI does not handle large data sets well (please read Kimball books if you plan on using this tool, you’ll need to learn how to model, otherwise performance is DREADFUL for anything with rows over 10k or so.) I think most customers that aren’t using DAX are doing their calcs using quick measure or doing it pre-load into PowerBI (ETL, editing spreadsheets, etc..).