Customers and Partners often ask us: “What’s the difference between Snapshot Business Intelligence and MS PowerBI?” Glad you asked. We’ve got four key differences…
1. Free Community Dashboards
Connect the
Business System (accounting or payroll database) and a range of Instant
Dashboards will appear.
From here, Customers (or Partners) can customise existing Dashboards (these are
then visible under the Custom Dashboards menu) to suit their exact business.
There’s no need to start with a “blank piece of paper!”
2. Business Software (Accounting) Upgrades are easier
When
an accounting Vendor upgrades their software, this often forces a reinvestment
in changing existing Reporting/ Dashboarding.
Not so with Snapshot – it has the smarts to adapt (using a unique version
control of views and stored procedures) to work with the new version of the
Business Software. Dashboards do not have to be rewritten.
3. Easier Web Dashboards
Web Dashboards in Snapshot are much easier to install / setup and create.
4. Included Backup
Snapshot Dashboards are backed up to the Plus Software Cloud Server so they can never be lost as a result of a system crash, HD failure, or virus.
To explain further, once a system crash has been rectified (i.e. the Business System is up and running again) the Customer only needs to re-connect Snapshot, and all Dashboards (Community and Custom) will reappear.