Power BI for Tally, or just ask? Riko vs Power BI
Riko vs Power BI

Riko vs Power BI

Power BI is a powerful BI canvas for analysts. Riko is an AI finance team above your Tally — connect once and get finished work and answers, no DAX or dashboard-building required.

Side by side

How they stack up for Tally analytics

Both read your Tally data. The difference is who does the work to get to an answer.

Feature
Power BI + Tally
Riko Recommended
Setup time
Hours to days — model, then publish
Minutes — connect Tally once
Learning curve
DAX and data modelling to learn
Just ask in plain language
Built for
BI analysts and data teams
Business owners and their finance team
Where you use it
Desktop and browser
Web and mobile
How insights reach you
You build the report and pull it
Scheduled packs are pushed to you
Where the answer lands
Inside the dashboard
Web, Android, iOS and WhatsApp
Finance reporting
Build the model yourself
Workpacks ready out of the box
Payment reminders
Export, then message manually
Drafted for one-tap approval
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You

What's my cash runway?

Riko

About 14 weeks at the current burn — ₹2.22L in bank and cash, against an average net outflow of ₹15.8K a week over the last 12 weeks.

Read from your Tally bank and cash ledgers · every figure traced to its voucher

Cash + bank ₹2.22L
Runway 14 weeks
Burn / week ₹15.8K

No data model, no DAX, no dashboard to publish and refresh. One question, asked in English.

Without building dashboards

The reports you'd model in Power BI, ready to run

Each one is a real deliverable — an XLSX, DOCX or PDF — not a chart you assemble.

Monthly MIS

P&L, cash flow and variance commentary — every figure traced to its voucher.

Power BI: Build the model and measures yourself

Receivables & dunning

Ageing, top debtors and reminder drafts ready for your approval.

Power BI: Create ageing buckets, then message by hand

Bank reconciliation

Statement matched against the ledger, exceptions surfaced.

Power BI: Import and match manually

Cash runway scenarios

AR/AP timing modelled into a runway you can act on.

Power BI: Build custom measures and what-ifs
The workflow difference

Six steps, or one question

Power BI

  1. Export data from Tally
  2. Import into Power BI
  3. Build the data model
  4. Write DAX measures
  5. Design the visuals
  6. Publish and share
A capable analyst, and time
Recommended

Riko

  1. Connect Tally once
  2. Ask Riko, or schedule a pack
  3. The finished file lands in your inbox or on your board
Anyone on the team, in minutes
See it work

Sixty seconds with your books.

No model, no DAX — real Tally data and the answers Riko gives back.

What it costs

₹5,000 a year, no analyst required

One Tally licence, every company on it — and nobody has to learn DAX to get an answer out of it.

₹5,000 / year + GST
  • Every company on one Tally licence
  • 25+ reports, reshaped by asking
  • Scheduled packs pushed to you
  • No data model to build or maintain

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Skip the learning curve. Just ask.

Connect your Tally and get finished workpacks and answers — in plain English.