Ask HN: What is your dream BI tool?

6 pointsposted a year ago
by nwhnwh

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5 Comments

shortrounddev2

a year ago

I don't think people dream about work productivity software. These are things we use because we have to, not because they genuinely make us happy.

When someone works with some crappy piece of work software, they don't think "I wish it had XYZ features", they think "I wish I had a better job"

smodo

a year ago

PowerBI with an actually decent DAX IDE or language server. Writing DAX in a single line like an excel formula is bonkers. The language itself is pretty interesting but MS apparently can’t be arsed to help me write it.

nocubicles

a year ago

I like Power BI and Metabase the best.

coreyp_1

a year ago

The one I write. :)

I mean this seriously. I really don't like any of the solutions that I've worked with (although Looker does check a lot of the boxes, it also has some big blind spots), and I want to create my own reporting suite in the future.

Besides, after seeing many options over the years, I feel that I could make some substantial improvements.