To effectively leverage your company’s data, your teams need to be able to quickly and easily access business analytics and insights to make better decisions. But internal data requests eat into your analysts or engineers’ time and cause bottlenecks. This, in turn, can hamper your team’s ability to do their jobs, predict trends, and react to changes. The solution is a self-service business intelligence platform that everyone can use, regardless of their technical skill level. Microsoft’s PowerBI is the go-to BI solution for many companies, but it’s not for everyone. A steep learning curve and the need to work with clean data create more work for data teams, at least initially. And while it’s competitively priced, per-user subscriptions can get expensive quickly as teams grow. These considerations are important for any business, but especially startups and SMEs. We analysed some of the best alternatives to PowerBI to see how they stack up on ease-of-use, features, price, security and support.