What is Microsoft Power BI?
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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91 Likeliness to Recommend
99 Plan to Renew
87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+95 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.
How much do users love Microsoft Power BI?
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Performance Enhancing
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
Shourya G.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jun 2025
The leader in data visualization
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
The major advantage is the ease of integration with other Microsoft products like excel which is very helpful. The addition of AI is a great addition, easy to use and comparatively cost effective. It also has great visualization capabilities and amazing features.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Ease of use, amazing features and great visualization capabilities.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Performance issues with heavy dataset is a something they can improve on plus the refresh functionality is slow.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It's user friendly nature. Easy to use when compared to other tools and the overall support and learning options available everywhere on the net specifically on YouTube.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Trustworthy
- Effective Service
- Reliable
Cons
- Under Delivered
Saunak D.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Jun 2025
Powerful, intuitive tool for data-driven insights
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
its seamless integration with Excel, Azure, and other Microsoft tools a major advantage. Its drag-and-drop interface makes data visualization intuitive even for non-technical users. Power Query and DAX offer deep analytical capabilities, and the ability to publish and share reports on the cloud is a huge plus. Compared to others, it strikes a strong balance between ease of use and advanced functionality.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite aspect of Microsoft Power BI is its ability to turn raw data into interactive, visually appealing dashboards with just a few clicks. I especially appreciate how easily I can connect to various data sources and use built-in visuals or DAX to uncover trends and insights quickly. It saves a lot of time and makes storytelling with data effortless.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Its performance can slow down when working with large datasets or complex DAX calculations, especially on lower-end systems. Also, customizing visuals beyond the defaults sometimes requires third-party add-ins or advanced workarounds, which can be time-consuming.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I’d recommend starting with Power BI if you're looking for a powerful yet user-friendly tool for data visualization. Take time to learn the basics of Power Query and DAX early on—they’re game-changers for analysis. Make the most of its native integrations with Excel, SQL, and other Microsoft tools. Also, try to structure your data model well from the beginning to avoid performance issues later. Lastly, explore the Power BI Community and Microsoft Learn for continuous learning and support.
Pros
- Respectful
- Helps Innovate
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
Divya G.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted May 2025
Best-in-class analytics tool, Power BI!
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
The major differentiator for Power Bi is its below-mentioned points. Some of the major differentiators in my case are what I felt about PowerBi as well as it has been an exceptionally good solution for our business needs and user-friendliness. 1) User-Friendly—If you know Excel, you’ll find Power BI familiar and easy to learn. 2) Great Visuals—Creates interactive, professional-looking reports with drag-and-drop ease. 3) Connects to Many Data Sources—Works with Excel, SQL, cloud services (like Google Analytics) The above-mentioned points are some of the major differentiators for Power BI.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite aspect of using Power is its really good and interactive analytical tools, which makes data game more easy and easy to learn from the given Data sets that significantly decrease the work and manual efforts for us. which is a game changer in my thinking , We have been a user since 2023, and I feel that there are very low chances to find a tool better than PowerBI.
What do you dislike most about this product?
There is nothing to dislike; they have been a lot more trusted than other similar solutions, and they have an exceptional support team.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Anyone considering buying data analytics software should definitely include PowerBI in their list, as they have been so fast and secure, which made us believe in them and've been a an user csince 2023
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Trustworthy
- Unique Features
