Tableau, Power BI, Looker and Metabase's hosted product rent the chart. Apache Superset is Apache-2.0 and queries a database the client already holds. Metabase's repository is variously under the AGPL and a commercial licence, so we do not deploy that tree as if it were one grant. The chart is not the asset. The warehouse is. Data and business intelligence is the engagement when the pipeline is the missing piece.
What do you give up?
A polished semantic layer and a salesperson's dashboard gallery. Superset will draw the chart if the table is clean. It will not clean the table. Most BI projects fail on the table, which is why we do not start by picking a chart tool.
Where does Power BI win?
Inside a company that already lives in Microsoft 365 and whose analysts will not leave it. Keep Power BI. Still own the warehouse it reads, so the chart tool is replaceable later.
When is a rented BI tool the right one?
When one analyst needs a chart this week and there is no warehouse. Build the warehouse first if the numbers matter. Rent the chart only as a bridge.
What do we hand over?
We select the system, deploy it on infrastructure you control, connect it to the tools you keep, and write the runbook so your own team can operate it. Support after handover is optional. The rest of the map is in software you can stop renting; the engagement behind it is open-source business systems.
Name one process that still needs a person. We will tell you what a one-time build takes.
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