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Governed analytics your enterprise can trust.

Quaeris is agentic AI for analytics - a secure, governed platform where business users ask questions and AI agents return accurate, source-cited answers grounded in your semantic layer.

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QuaerisAI and Power BI

One Builds Dashboards. The Other Builds Decisions. Power BI has long been the default for teams in the Microsoft ecosystem. Its visuals are clean, its integration with Excel is deep, and if you’ve got the patience (and a few days of training), you can get a dashboard going. But here’s the thing: not everyone wants to build dashboards. Most people just want answers. That’s where QuaerisAI flips the script—with a no-code, no-dashboard-required interface that delivers instant, accurate insights from structured data and business documents. Whether you’re using QuaerisAI as a replacement to Power BI, or a complement, expect lower TCO and faster insights.

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QuaerisAI and Power BI

QuaerisAI and Power BI

On this page

  • Ease of Use
  • Embedded Analytics
  • Speed to Insight
  • Total Cost of Ownership
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Unified Pane of Glass
  • Licensing Confusion & Complexity
  • True Insight Comes from Data and Documents
  • The Adoption Gap
On this page
  • Ease of Use
  • Embedded Analytics
  • Speed to Insight
  • Total Cost of Ownership
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Unified Pane of Glass
  • Licensing Confusion & Complexity
  • True Insight Comes from Data and Documents
  • The Adoption Gap

Ease of Use

  • Power BI: Low-code… but still not no-code. Most users rely on Power BI analysts or IT for report creation
  • QuaerisAI: Skip the dashboard. Ask your question in natural language, see results instantly, and follow up in the same thread
  • Advantage: QuaerisAI for true self-service analytics

Embedded Analytics

  • Power BI offers embedding through Power BI Embedded, but it comes with licensing complexity, Azure dependency, and IT overhead. Dashboards can be rigid, and embedding for customer-facing apps gets expensive fast
  • QuaerisAI, on the other hand, makes it effortless: embed real-time dashboards, multi-page reports, or even conversational search bars in just three clicks. It’s cloud-agnostic, cost-friendly, and refreshingly simple to deploy
  • Advantage: QuaerisAI for low-code, scalable embedded analytics that grow with you

Speed to Insight

  • Power BI: Powerful visual builder, but report development can take hours or days—especially with versioning, publishing, and permissioning
  • QuaerisAI: Ask and answer in minutes. No wait. No pipeline. Just data
  • Advantage: QuaerisAI for real-time intelligence

Total Cost of Ownership

  • Power BI: Attractive licensing, but the hidden cost is time—IT support, maintenance, training, and backlog buildup
  • QuaerisAI: Less overhead, no steep learning curve, and fewer dependencies on technical teams
  • Advantage: QuaerisAI for faster ROI

Collaboration Tools

  • Power BI: Reports are static. Comments can be added via Teams or SharePoint, but collaboration happens outside the tool
  • QuaerisAI: Collaboration is built-in. Add comments, highlight visuals, and co-develop insights in-platform
  • Advantage: QuaerisAI for team-friendly analytics

Unified Pane of Glass

  • Power BI: Great with Excel, but limited when it comes to querying PDFs, contracts, policy docs, or knowledge articles
  • QuaerisAI: Talk to your docs and your data in one interface. Get insights from dashboards and document intelligence with one prompt
  • Advantage: QuaerisAI for multi-source visibility

Licensing Confusion & Complexity

  • Many enterprises struggle with Power BI’s layered licensing (Pro, Premium, Embedded, Fabric, etc.)
  • Power BI’s pricing looks simple… until it isn’t. Between Pro licenses, Premium capacity, Fabric modules, and embedded API costs, forecasting TCO is a project in itself
  • QuaerisAI keeps it simple: transparent per-seat SaaS pricing with no surprise compute bills

True Insight Comes from Data and Documents

  • Have a conversation with data, documents, and people In the same pane of glass
  • Now.

The Adoption Gap

  • Power BI: <20% of licensed users actively build reports
  • QuaerisAI: Designed for 100% adoption across business functions

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Quaeris

Governed analytics your enterprise can trust.

Quaeris is agentic AI for analytics - a secure, governed platform where business users ask questions and AI agents return accurate, source-cited answers grounded in your semantic layer.

Company

  • About
  • How it works
  • Careers
  • Press

Platform

  • Agentic Engine
  • Semantic Layer
  • Governance
  • Security

Resources

  • Case studies
  • Compare QuaerisAI
  • Blog
  • Documentation
  • Webinars

Contact

  • Book a Demo
  • seek@quaeris.ai
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