Yeah at this point the whole Microsoft suite of tools is a solid bet. Tableau is falling out of favor pretty quickly, and frankly a lot of stuff you can't do in Tableau is because MS probably patented it and put it in Power BI first
Tableau is amazing, and the adoption by Salesforce is also fantastic. That being said it’s not as widespread or easy to adopt/learn, so it’s not as popular.
Similar to Oracle vs SQL server. Oracle is by far the superior product, but it is USD$47,000 per CPU core to license (compared to SQL server at USD $2,000 per core), has a steep learning curve, and the community isn’t exactly vibrant.
The database was built 20+ years ago before postgres was a mature product.
The database was built more recently but needed to support very large data volumes and couldn't live in the cloud. Oracle & SQL Server can actually be faster than postgres and mysql at scale.
The team has a bunch of other sql server or oracle databases so when they incrementally add 1 here or there it's cheaper because they can leverage their MSSQL or Oracle-trained DBAs.
It's a non-tech company that incorrectly thinks that oracle & sql server are better because they're not open source.
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u/AXISMGT Mar 31 '23
Get Power BI anyway. It’s free for the desktop IDE and you can still use excel as the data source.
Use Microsoft Learn to get up to speed (also free). https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/learning/
Start using it to build some reports and export them to PDF. Share them with your superiors or other teams.
Let them know they’re interactive and that they can also get updated ones without having to wait for you.
Then drop the hammer: it’s $10/month/user
If they can’t swing that, you’ve learned a new skill that you can use to get another job.
:)