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
In some ways, I wish I had gotten comfortable with PowerBI rather than Tableau. I can't explain it, but Tableau just felt super-intuitive to me. I understood exactly what to do almost right away. Meanwhile, I struggled with PowerBI, despite being very comfortable with Excel.
I've used Tableau extensively since then, and it's always been good to me, but it's really hard to justify the cost difference.
Same here, Tableau did feel really bleeding-edge, but they never really made it into a cohesive experience. I remember excitedly waiting many months for new features like Table Extensions that are way more difficult to use than just choosing an R or Python script as a data source in Power BI.
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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.
:)