The speaker discusses how Tableau and Power BI integrate with enterprise software platforms, emphasizing that mid-sized organizations often rely on the Microsoft product stack (SharePoint, Reporting Services, Dynamics, Excel). They argue Tableau is best-in-class for analytics (a "scalpel") while Microsoft BI is a multi-tool "Swiss army knife" that may become more tightly integrated across Microsoft products; many organizations use both tools depending on the user group and purpose.
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Integration to your enterprise wide software platform. I focus mostly on organizations that are considered mid sized, mid sized organizations and in that market a lot of organizations rely heavily on the Microsoft stack of products. They have SharePoint and Microsoft Office reporting services, Microsoft Dynamics and whatnot. At least for organizations that have that are highly relying on Microsoft's stack of products. Currently both products, Tableau and Power Bi have a great integration to the platform. Organizations that use other platforms today, I would say that both also work fairly well. Tableau has been around for longer, so they do better. But I believe at least for companies who are heavily invested into the Microsoft stack of products, in the long run, Power BI will eventually become tightly more integrated into those other pieces of software. Like as I said, Reporting Services, SharePoint Dynamics and Microsoft Vision for Power BI. And all of these Microsoft products are over time to become like a single product per se, a single platform. So there's great vision, great direction, that's very promising. But currently, I mean currently and probably for the time being, both work really well in different enterprise wide software platforms. One of the ways that I like to tell people how I compare the stack of Microsoft BI products, Microsoft from BI standpoint, they have several different tools. They have Power BI, they have Reporting Services, they have SharePoint, they have Excel, several products. And to me it's like a Swiss army knife. It's kind of set of products. They all work from the same vendor, they kind of work tightly together. And you can do a lot of things with a Swiss army knife. You know, if you're working maintenance, you want to have it because you can be in any place and kind of do your job and it's just going to get better over time. Tableau for me is like a scalpel. If you are a surgeon, you know, you don't want to use a Swiss army knife, you want to use a scalpel, which is the best tool to do that job. From an analytics platform, Tableau is the best in class and in our assessment in many other organizations is still by far the leader when it comes to empowering decision makers and being easy and being fast and being scalable. So that's my take on integration to enterprise wide software platforms. By the way, for many organizations, and I'm already starting to see this, they're actually using both products, depending what the purpose is, they use Power BI and for other people they use Tableau. So the idea is to give to each person or group of people the right tools so they can more efficiently do their job. So that's also potentially a trend which is great news for the market.
