Astrato: Compare us to other industry solutions

Compare Astrato with other industry solutions

vs Power BI vs Tableau vs Looker vs Streamlit vs Thoughtspot vs Sigma Computing

Feature	Capability
Modern cloud-native BI	Modern BI - scale and elasticity suited for the New Data World by playing the data where it lives
Vendor lock-in, functionality	Power BI service runs only on Azure, on-premise versions deliver significant functional gaps*
Writeback & live collaboration	Collaboration and writeback functionality natively integrated into a single data driven analytical app
DirectQuery limitations	Expensive or hard hard to manage work arounds that create barriers to insight - E.g. limiting charts and queries in a workbook for performance **
Consumer grade BI design	Low barrier to adoption. No Code creator approach accelerates time to value

* Gartner Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms 2021 – Vendor Cautions, Microsoft

** Snowflake best practice / Microsoft Webinar

Feature	Capability
Cloud-native BI	Modern BI - scale and elasticity suited for the New Data World by playing the data where it lives*
Writeback & live collaboration	Collaboration and writeback functionality natively integrated into a single data driven analytical app
Affordable SaaS based pricing	SaaS or consumption based flexible pricing plans, not cost prohibitive to scale or access advanced functions*
Modern BI Design	Low barrier to adoption with No-Code creator approach with accelerated time to value
Live Query Limitations	Expensive or hard to manage workarounds that create barriers to insight - E.g. limiting filters, charts and marks **

* Gartner Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms 2021 – Vendor Cautions, Tableau

Feature	Capability
Low code UI for business users	Frictionless BI adoption for all business users. No proprietary language or coding required*
Writeback & live collaboration	Collaboration and writeback functionality natively integrated into a single data driven analytical app
Built for data scientists	Data modeling requires LookML programming skills. Business users cannot add data, joins or measures
Affordable SaaS based pricing	SaaS or consumption based flexible pricing plans, not cost prohibitive to scale across the business
World class data visualisation	Dashboards support a wide range of use cases, without plugins, extensions or 3rd party tools

* Gartner Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms 2022 – Vendor Cautions, Looker

Feature	Capability
Low code UI for business users	Frictionless BI adoption for all business users. No proprietary language or coding required
Customizable and brandable	Advanced customisation to match your brand identity
Component level embedding	Embed individual components into your own web app, take only what you need and get full functionality.
Built for data scientists	Streamlit is a python library that requires a python proficiency to ue, which many Data Scientists have.
Affordable SaaS based pricing	Streamlit is free to use, subject to compute. It has a flat cost for 24/7 uptime, which relies on an active Snowflake Warehouse. This typically costs over $20,000 per year. Astrato pricing starts at a fraction of the cost.

Feature	Capability
Data input / Writeback	Insert data into the cloud data warehouse, update records with full audit trails. Build powerful data products.
Advanced data visualisations	Includes advanced and bespoke data visualizations with extensive customisation.
Embedded analytics	Embed individual components into your own web app, take only what you need and get full functionality.
Customizable and brandable	Advanced customisation to match your brand identity. Customize visualisations to your hearts content.
Data Science/ML Support	Easily connect to GenAI LLMs and Python through data cloud pushdown SQL.
Search based analytics	Searches return a set of results in the form of a table or a chart.

Feature Capability
Data input / Writeback	Insert data into the cloud data warehouse, update records with full audit trails. Build powerful data products.
Advanced data visualisations	Includes advanced and bespoke data visualizations with extensive customisation.
ReAdvanced Data Modeling	Support multi-fact data models, with no risk of fan or chasm traps.
Pixel perfect customizable design	Style layers in your dashboards/data apps in any way you want, choose fonts, colors and styles that align with your brand, even controlling responsiveness - all without code.
Enterprise Reporting capabilities	Design pixel perfect reports ready for PDF and Excel exports.
Embedded analytics	Embed individual components into your own web app, take only what you need and get full functionality.

Data Extracts & Exports	Vs	Live Query. No Data Movement	Business Benefit
Time spent on data wrangling, data cleaning, data discovery, data export and data management	vs	All data management happens within the DW	Reverse the 80/20 rule * - focus on making data talk to the business
Out of date insight. New queries can require new extracts	vs	Up-to-date insight. Superfast re-query	Speed to insight. "What If" querying
No single source of truth	vs	Reports, KPIs and figures add up every time	Insights your entire business can trust and act upon
Slow report load times. Poor user experience	vs	Millisecond report load times: elasticity for users	Rich, interactive and immersive analytics experience drives adoption
Focus on infrastructure plus the data	vs	Focus on insight	Focus on innovation
Security, compliance and governance risks	vs	Data is secure, compliant and governed	Drive revenue growth, cost optimization and customer experience **
Data extracts reside in prone-to-failure locations	vs	Resilient architecture with performance, scale and elasticity	Digital transformation extended to Insight, not slowed by legacy retrofitted BI