Many organizations currently using Enterprise BI platforms are looking at moving away from these monolithic BI platforms to self-service, cloud BI platforms as their current versions are expensive with limited DIY reporting tools.

Although enterprise BI platforms, such as SAP BO, excel at governance, security capabilities and standardized KPI definitions, the huge maintenance cost due to high involvement of large team of IT developers needed to manage and maintain them and expensive licensing are few of the reasons that organizations are looking at migrating to modern analytics platforms, such as MS Power BI.

Microsoft Power BI seems to be the choice for most businesses, who have technology investments in Microsoft suites, due to better synergies with O365 and other Microsoft products. It offers enterprise-grade self-service analytics, smart tools for retrieving and sharing meaningful insights in a collaborative cloud environment, in-built AI capabilities, pre-built and custom data connectors, a clean inventory of reports and dashboards exported or migrated from other environments, end-to-end encryption, and real-time access monitoring.