[prepend]

PowerBI wants to be Tableau based on the number of times Microsoft sales has demoed and whatnot.

But I haven’t met databiz people who switched from tableau to PBI. I’m not sure why as they look pretty similar on paper.

I think Tableau’s mental model is about exporting and storytelling while PBI is about reporting.

Personally, I find it harder to work with PBI because it’s the only license model more confusing that Tableau. And there’s no Tableau Public equivalent.

[privateSFacct]

This - we had power pivot in excel - then for some licensing reasons we didn’t. I know how to buy excel and firms buy it blindly - tie power bi into that sales channel

[phonon]

They took it out of Office Pro 2016 for some reason, but it's back in Office Pro 2019. (And 365)

https://support.office.com/en-ie/article/where-is-power-pivo...

[rchaud]

Probably because there are high switching costs for users who are already familiar with Tableau, and vice versa.

[prepend]

I think that’s part of it. But I now start people with PBI because it’s free with other MS licenses and many switch to Tableau.