The Self-Service Alternative to
Power BI
The Self-Service
Alternative to Power BI
How Tellius Compares to Power BI
How Tellius Compares to Power BI
Microsoft Power BI is a popular business intelligence platform used by many organizations today. Its availability within Excel provides a natural jumping-off point for many companies beginning their data journey. Power BI is an excellent tool for data visualization and reporting, but it falls short of providing a compelling offering for self-service and advanced analytics.
Tellius offers a different path toward self-service analytics by providing an accessible and intuitive search and insights platform, maximizing the value of your organization’s data. The platform enables business users and data analysts with tools for ad hoc data exploration and insight generation. From natural language search to automated insights and AutoML, Tellius upskills all user types with an augmented analytics experience.
Tellius vs Power BI Overview
 |  |
|---|---|
 Self-service ad hoc data exploration |  Mainly focused on dashboarding/reporting |
 Search and unlimited drill down on all of your data |  Adjust filters to choose different views of the current data set |
 Augmenting business user and data analysts with intuitive, accessible advanced analytics |  Limited with a narrow focus to working within a single dashboard |
 High performance at scale |  License limits to semantic model size restrict performance at scale |
 Live query provides high performance with no data movement |  Limited by license type with a focus on Azure-based data storage solutions |
 Leverage point-and-click, SQL, Python, or natural language for data preparation |  DAX has a steep learning curve, and poorly written DAX can result in slow query performance |
Why Tellius?
- Empowering self-service analytics
- Supercharging analysis with powerful insights
- Built for scale
Designed from the ground up to provide an integrated experience that combines data preparation, transformation, querying, and insight generation, all in a user-friendly, intuitive experience
Empowers users to understand not only “what” is happening but also “why,” by running millions of variable combinations in the datasets, enhancing the depth and value of insights derived
Built with a powerful dual analytics engine that combines powerful ad hoc exploration capabilities for analytical queries at scale, optimized for data prep, insights, and ML workloads
- Empowering self-service analytics
Designed from the ground up to provide an integrated experience that combines data preparation, transformation, querying, and insight generation, all in a user-friendly, intuitive experience
- Supercharging analysis with powerful insights
Empowers users to understand not only “what” is happening but also “why,” by running millions of variable combinations in the datasets, enhancing the depth and value of insights derived
- Built for scale
Built with a powerful dual analytics engine that combines powerful ad hoc exploration capabilities for analytical queries at scale, optimized for data prep, insights, and ML workloads
Detailed Feature Comparison
Feature
Tellius
Power BI
Natural Language Search
Yes
But limited
Search on all of your data
Only available within a single dashboard
Ability to add synonyms
Automated synonym creation
Yes
with GenAI
Automated display name creation
Yes
with GenAI
Automated Insights
Yes
But limited
Kick-off Insight from Search
Natural language narrative summary of insight
Key Driver Insights
…… Explore Top Segments
…… Explore Top Predictive Factors
Trend Insights
…… Explore Top Contributors to the Change
…… Explore Top Reasons for the Change
Comparison Insights
…… Explore Top Differences
…… Explore Top Reasons for the Difference
Marketshare
Predictive Analytics
Yes
out-of-the-box
AutoML
Requires Azure AI Services license
Point-and-Click ML
Bring Your Own Model
Regression
Classification
Clustering
Recommender Systems
Live Insights Query Pushdown
Yes
but limited by license type
Connects to the most popular cloud data sources
High-speed performance
Row Limit
Yes
with limits constrained by license type
Column Limit
Anomaly Detection
Alerts
Feed to keep track of key metrics
Tellius
- Natural Language Search
- Search on all of your data
- Ability to add synonyms
- Automated synonym creation(with GenAI)
- Automated display name creation(with GenAI)
- Automated Insights
- Kick-off Insight from Search
- Natural language narrative summary of insight
- Key Driver Insights
- ...... Explore Top Segments
- ...... Explore Top Predictive Factors
- Trend Insights
- ...... Explore Top Contributors to the Change
- ...... Explore Top Reasons for the Change
- Comparison Insights
- ...... Explore Top Differences
- ...... Explore Top Reasons for the Difference
- Marketshare
- Predictive Analytics(out-of-the-box)
- AutoML
- Point-and-Click ML
- Bring Your Own Model
- Regression
- Classification
- Clustering
- Recommender Systems
- Live Insights Query Pushdown
- Connects to the most popular cloud data sources
- High-speed performance
- Row Limit
- Column Limit
- Anomaly Detection
- Alerts
- Feed to keep track of key metrics
Power BI
- Natural Language Search(but limited)
- Search on all of your data(only available within a single dashboard)
- Ability to add synonyms
- Automated synonym creation
- Automated display name creation
- Automated Insights(but limited)
- Kick-off Insight from Search
- Natural language narrative summary of insight
- Key Driver Insights
- ...... Explore Top Segments
- ...... Explore Top Predictive Factors
- Trend Insights
- ...... Explore Top Contributors to the Change
- ...... Explore Top Reasons for the Change
- Comparison Insights
- ...... Explore Top Differences
- ...... Explore Top Reasons for the Difference
- Marketshare
- Predictive Analytics
- AutoML(requires Azure AI Services license)
- Point-and-Click ML
- Bring Your Own Model
- Regression
- Classification
- Clustering
- Recommender Systems
- Live Insights Query Pushdown(but limited by license type)
- Connects to the most popular cloud data sources
- High-speed performance
- Row Limit(with limits constrained by license type)
- Column Limit
- Anomaly Detection
- Alerts
- Feed to keep track of key metrics
Common Power BI Pitfalls
- Data volume and performance
- Limited natural language search experience
- DirectQuery limitations
Power BI has significant restrictions in regards to the analysis on large data volumes depending on your license type. Semantic model size is restricted to a range of 10-100GB, which may not be sufficient for complex use cases.
Power BI’s search functionality is limited to specific reports and does not extend across all data, hindering comprehensive data exploration.
DirectQuery (also known as pushdown) in Power BI is restricted and can affect the flexibility and speed of data retrieval and analysis. DirectQuery also has limitations on the number of rows and columns retrieved depending on license type.
- Data volume and performance
Power BI has significant restrictions in regards to the analysis on large data volumes depending on your license type. Semantic model size is restricted to a range of 10-100GB, which may not be sufficient for complex use cases.
- Limited natural language search experience
Power BI’s search functionality is limited to specific reports and does not extend across all data, hindering comprehensive data exploration.
- DirectQuery limitations
DirectQuery (also known as pushdown) in Power BI is restricted and can affect the flexibility and speed of data retrieval and analysis. DirectQuery also has limitations on the number of rows and columns retrieved depending on license type.
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Self-Service Analytics
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