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QuaerisAI vs. 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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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
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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

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.
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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
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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

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
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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
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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

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
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Mention 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
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True Insight Comes from Data and  Documents

  • Have a conversation with data, documents, and people
    • In the same pane of glass
    • Now.
  • Power BI shows you dashboards. QuaerisAI shows you dashboards and what’s buried in your contracts, SOPs, or compliance binders

Highlight Data + Document Use Case with a Punchy Phrase

  • The current “Unified Pane of Glass” section is great. To make it stick harder:
  • Power BI shows you dashboards. QuaerisAI shows you dashboards and what’s buried in your contracts, SOPs, or compliance binders.
  • Converged Search: Data + Docs in One Prompt.
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The Adoption Gap

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

Right now, you mention IT overhead subtly. Consider sharpening the point" to Power BI often leaves business users waiting on IT or analysts for every new report or change. QuaerisAI cuts the loop with natural language search and instant insights - no tickets, no bottlenecks, no delays.

  • Power BI: Powerful, but slow-moving. Business users still rely on IT or analysts for new metrics, updated filters, and access controls.
  • QuaerisAI: No need to file tickets. Everyone can query data and documents directly—with full governance.

If Power BI is your warehouse’s window, QuaerisAI is the front door.

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Clarify Data Source Flexibility

Your Data, Any Source, No Limits

Power BI fans often assume to Power BI often forces teams into rigid Microsoft-first ecosystems. QuaerisAI connects effortlessly to all your data—cloud, on-prem, structured, or unstructured—so you’re never locked in

  • Data Source Flexibility
  • Power BI: Works best with Azure, Dataverse, and Excel. External sources require setup, gateways, and schema mapping.
  • QuaerisAI: Query Snowflake, Databricks, Postgres, Oracle, SharePoint, GDrive, PDFs, policies, and contracts—without pipelines.
  • Advantage: QuaerisAI for heterogeneous environments

If Power BI is your warehouse’s window, QuaerisAI is the front door.

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Add a “Cost per Query” Row

Power BI fans often assume other tools are limited to the cloud or SaaS stacks. QuaerisAI's multi-source capability is a big win.

  • Data Source Flexibility
  • Power BI: Works best with Azure, Dataverse, and Excel. External sources require setup, gateways, and schema mapping.
  • QuaerisAI: Query Snowflake, Databricks, Postgres, Oracle, SharePoint, GDrive, PDFs, policies, and contracts—without pipelines.
  • Advantage: QuaerisAI for heterogeneous environments

If Power BI is your warehouse’s window, QuaerisAI is the front door.

Power BI builds dashboards.
QuaerisAI builds clarity—across your data, your documents, and your decisions.

QuaerisAI vs Power BI

Feature QuaerisAI Power BI
Natural Language Query
Advanced NLQ + GenAI
Basic Q&A
Create Dashboards withNLQ
Create instantly from query
NLQ on existing explores/models only
Dashboards
Optional, instant
Core function
Data Modeling Required
No modeling required
Required
Semantic Layer Setup
Auto-created via AI
Manual, time-intensive
Data Prep / ETL
Handles messy data
Integrated ETL
AI-Powered Exploration
Advanced & generative
Limited
Deployment Speed
Fast (days)
Slow (months–years typical)
Embedded Analytics
Supported
Supported

Why QuaerisAI Wins for the Modern Enterprise

QuaerisAI turns your entire workforce into insight-makers, not insight-waiters. Whether you’re in Sales, Ops, Legal, or Finance, you can ask real questions and get real answers—without learning DAX or dragging tiles around.

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