MSBI vs Power BI

Today the top leading industries or organizations keep a track of their business performance, employee performance, profit and loss to study and analyse employee productivity and market strategies for business growth, and these can be done with the help of business analysing tools like Power BI, Tableau among other examples. Moreover, business organizations such as start up or top notch MNC companies, all make use of the critical data to generate faster and better decision making through with such data analytic tools. Even though there are hundreds of data analysing tools out there, yet Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft Business Intelligence (MSBI) tops the chart. However, if you want to choose one among the two, it would be a difficult pick. Well, do worry not let us make your choice simple by breaking down and comparing its features.

1. MSBI is a compact and multi-faceted tool that provide solutions for Business Intelligence as well as on the problems of data mining .While, Power BI is a report authoring tool that allows enterprises to easily and quickly visualize, analyse and model their enterprise data into meaningful visualizations.
2. With Microsoft Power BI, you hold the power to gather business insights from both on-premise and cloud stored data in a dynamic, interactive visualization at low cost of ownership. Where as, on the other hand, Microsoft Business Intelligence (MSBI) is anon-premise software, can be installed locally on an company's computers and servers.
   
3. Power Bi has networked backups, because of which hardware failures do not result in data loss, while MSBI has a drawback in this case
   
4. The utility pay structure in Power Bi enables users only to pay for the resources they use, moreover, as being a cloud-based tool, it requires no capital expenditure or infrastructure support. But, the cloud service also pose a great security threat, therefore it has led to an ongoing discussion about the security concerns between Power Bi and MSBI.
   
5. Well, both tools have their pros and cons, such as MSBI has abetter drill-down capacity, while Power Bi has a plethora of rich visuals which represents data with beautiful graphical representations.
   
6. Microsoft BI stack comprises of three tools: SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services), SSAS (SQL Server Analysis Services and SSRS(SQL Server reporting Services) for accomplishing tasks such as integration, analysis and reporting. Where as, Power Bi consists of a Content Packs, which has dashboard reports, data model and embedded queries
   
7. Microsoft BI provides great quality dashboards and scorecards, allows easy data exploration and visualization, as well as offers self-service business intelligence tools such as Microsoft Excel. On the other hand, Power BI provides a unique feature for printing dashboards, a library of custom visualization, has a Get Data function which allows business to get data from virtually anywhere and consists of a DAX Data analysis function