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Power BI is a business analytics solution that lets you visualize your data and share insights across your organization, or embed them in your app or website. Connect to hundreds of data sources and bring your data to life with live dashboards and reports.
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89 Likeliness to Recommend
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98 Plan to Renew
85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
- Product Experience:
- 95%
- Negotiation and Contract:
- 88%
- Conflict Resolution:
- 92%
- Strategy & Innovation:
- 93%
- Service Experience:
- 92%
Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.
+93 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
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Pros
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Performance Enhancing
- Helps Innovate
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Microsoft Power BI Reviews

Emmanuel S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Government
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Apr 2025
Power BI is one of the best BI tool currently
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
Great User Support Intuitive features and availability of different visuals to visualize your data. Easy to navigate user interface. Large community support
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Easy to navigate user interface Large community support Real time analytics
What do you dislike most about this product?
Heavy Software that requires additional machine specifications to run seamlessly
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Have a machine that meets specific hardware and software requirements To use Power BI is easy and just requires little staff training
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Trustworthy

Birley B.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Media
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Apr 2025
Power BI: Strengths and Considerations.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
Power BI has better data representation ability than Power View thus it offers a solution for creating dashboards that are interactive and more attractive. Its library of modelling capabilities and real-time accessible data makes it easy for the organisations to gain insights for decision making fast thus ensuring that the decision making process is decentralised.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The connectivity to multiple databases is a major feature that can be noted. This makes it easy for Power BI to gather data from the various databases, cloud services and even the Excel spreadsheets. This flexibility allows one to ensure that data collected by a firm can be utilised fully in the organisation to support all the firm’s planning and decision making.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Users of the free version may be inconvenienced by strict quotas on data update frequency. These constraints may limit the users and limit their professed opportunity to acquire relevant data and use the information which is relevant in the current world today.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
We should focus on the strengths of this tool and evaluate it in order to implement it in our organization.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing

Prisca Nwanneka E.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Media
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Apr 2025
The Smart Choice for Data-Driven Organizations
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
Power BI stands out because it connects perfectly with Microsoft tools like Excel and Teams, making it super easy for businesses already using them. It’s more affordable than Tableau, offers strong data modeling with DAX, and has built-in AI features like natural language Q&A. Plus, Microsoft updates it constantly, so it keeps getting better.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite aspect of Power BI is how easily it connects to different data sources and turns complex data into clear, interactive dashboards.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I dislike that customizing visuals in Power BI can sometimes feel limited and harder compared to tools like Tableau.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I’d recommend learning the basics of DAX early and making sure your data is clean ; it’ll make building reports in Power BI much easier.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity