Holistics vs Microsoft Power BI: Which is best for you?

After evaluating over 40 BI tools, we chose Holistics for its robust semantic modeling layer, which enabled us to create a centralized source of truth for our ~1,000 users. While it took time for our team to adjust to the modeling-first mindset, the benefits have been transformative.

Job dependency: Reports cannot load independent therefore with multiple users use holistics at a same time, they will need to wait for their turn.

Power BI provides good value with easy-to-use dashboards, rapid deployment, and a clean UI that enables our editors to view submission patterns, reviewer response time, and publication schedules with little training investment.

The customizability of the charts isn't as rich as in Excel or Tableau, and you need to understand how to model the data if you're dealing with multiple datasets and build relationships between them accordingly.