[jherskovic]

I was a big Tableau champion at our org. Lots of dashboards, led a user group, was the go-to expert for a while (think 10 years ago). For us, what killed it was the pricing. They got very greedy very fast. Justifying a 4-digit license, per desktop, was the real killer. We just couldn’t, so the creation of dashboards became a tool of a “priesthood” of sorts. Everyone loved the way the dashboards looked and performed, but people very, very rarely used them. After years trying, I can remember ONE decision that was sorta-adopted based on a dataviz.

PowerBI are their lunch because it was “free” with the rest of our Microsoft stuff, so everyone could make the shiny dashboards no one uses instead of just a few.

In some cases we just wrote our own d3-based visualizations. It was easier than dealing with the constant licensing headaches Tableau brought.

[BandButcher]

Haha funny hearing the other side of the story to this, i was a front end dev during the tableu peak who helped create several custom dashboards in JavaScript...for multiple different companies!

I worked on so many that eventually i came to hate making them lol, data viz can be extremely subjective and you get into weird paradigms of how much data viz you display vs user actions on that snapshot of data (ex. viewing details, exporting to diff formats, printing the dashboard with no cut-offs, manually refreshing stale data vs auto refresh)

[j45]

PowerBI started small and developed quickly.

Microsoft like any software company will raise prices on their tools similar to tableau or oracle in the past.

Microsoft uniquely has a large portion of the fortune 100-500 as customers. They have already had that market from office, m365, etc and will grow those things.

Microsoft is relatively early in the licensing lifecycle arc for cloud.

This will happen relative to the maturity of offering, uptake/demand to pricing.

Some of this can already be seen with the Business central pricing.

Again, the above is not to single Microsoft out. Only that their products are relatively young but developing extremely quickly and the execution of the pricing models will be relative to a lot of things like demand, and stock prices.

[silent_cal]

Went down a similar path, but d3 is way too hard. I think we used chart.js?

[lupire]

Dumping Monopolist always wins.