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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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91 Likeliness to Recommend
99 Plan to Renew
87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
- Product Experience:
- 96%
- Negotiation and Contract:
- 91%
- Conflict Resolution:
- 96%
- Strategy & Innovation:
- 94%
- Service Experience:
- 95%
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.
+94 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
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Respectful
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
Adnan A.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Jul 2025
Best Analytics Tool
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
Multiple options for analytics, report and dashboard development.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Speed and versatility of options
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing to be honest
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
This should be your recommended buy for dashboard and analytics developement
Pros
- Trustworthy
- Effective Service
- Inspires Innovation
- Respectful
Cons
- Commodity Features
Sharon L.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Healthcare
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jul 2025
Great tool for visualization, room to improve
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
- It is a software built by Microsoft so it can be integrated easily with other Microsoft products like Power Points, Excel - Robust visualization tool to aggregate data for meaningful insights - Possibility to write DAXs for more customization
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
- Allows users to clean data that shows and tracks all steps for transparency and history - Enable users to schedule automatic refresh to get live data
What do you dislike most about this product?
- performance degrade with very large datasets or complex data models. Often this leads to slower report loading times and long refresh times. - limited options for higher advances visualizations (require more DAXs and more steps in order to create those higher advanced, customized visuals)
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
- It'd a great visualization tool if data models are not too large or complex. - If the data models are complex or require to build complex visualization, I recommend new users to learn those advanced features (e.g DAX, m query) first.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
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
