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Microsoft Power BI

Composite Score
8.8 /10
CX Score
9.1 /10
Category
Microsoft Power BI
8.8 /10

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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Awards & Recognition

Microsoft Power BI won the following awards in the Business Intelligence & Analytics - Midmarket category

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Microsoft Power BI Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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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.

88 Likeliness to Recommend

98 Plan to Renew

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value


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Emotional Footprint Overview

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.

+90 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?

1% Negative
5% Neutral
94% Positive

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity
  • Helps Innovate
  • Performance Enhancing

Feature Ratings

Average 83

Data Exploration and Visualization

87

Dashboard

87

Collaboration

85

BI Security

85

Operational Reporting Capabilities

84

BI Platform Administration

84

Data Connectors and Data Mashup

83

Intelligent Alerts and Notifications

82

Self Service and Ad Hoc Capabilities

82

Mobile

78

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Business Value Created

85

Ease of Implementation

83

Quality of Features

83

Ease of Data Integration

83

Breadth of Features

83

Availability and Quality of Training

82

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

82

Ease of Customization

82

Ease of IT Administration

81

Usability and Intuitiveness

81

Vendor Support

79

Microsoft Power BI Reviews

Dhruv P.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2023

Complex structure to understand but effeciant

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?

Microsoft Power BI is unique in that it offers a comprehensive suite of features and capabilities that other similar products lack. It offers a comprehensive set of data visualization tools, a powerful data modeling language, and an intuitive user interface. It also has a wide range of features such as natural language query, real-time analytics, and the ability to connect to multiple data sources. Additionally, Power BI has an extensive library of pre-built connectors, templates, and visuals. Its scalability and flexibility make it ideal for businesses of all sizes.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

My favorite aspect of this product is its versatility. It can be used for a variety of purposes, from everyday tasks to special projects. It's also easy to use and has a lot of features that make it a great choice for any user.

What do you dislike most about this product?

I dislike that this product is not very durable and can easily break. The plastic material used is not very strong and can easily crack or break if dropped. Additionally, it is not very easy to clean and can be difficult to keep looking new.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

1. Make sure you understand how the product works and what features it offers before purchasing. 2. Consider the type of environment you’ll be using the product in and ensure it is suitable for the task. 3. Research reviews from other customers to get a better understanding of the product.

Pros

  • Trustworthy
  • Inspires Innovation
  • Client Friendly Policies
  • Fair

Cons

  • Less Performance Enhancing
  • Inhibits Innovation
  • Less Efficient Service

Uma S.

  • Role: Finance
  • Industry: Chemicals
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2023

Remarkable performance and visualization of data

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?

Microsoft Power BI is a great software for advanced analytics where we can connect from various sources. With this tools we created a powerful business dashboard, customized reports, and even set alerts for anomalies and specific targets.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It provides users with the possibility to create dimensions and new relations between tables without the need for an external tool to do that. Ease of access for the data exploration helps make increasingly informed decisions in reaction to business needs.

What do you dislike most about this product?

To make the most of Power BI’s advanced features, users must learn their calculation language called DAX and the organization must have good data modeling expertise.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Power BI has many powerful features and offers many possibilities of integration with different sources and effectively converts unstructured statistical information into comprehensive logical results.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Orpha H.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Banking
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2023

Self-BI tool for easy report creation

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?

Power BI Desktop is a service for aggregating data and sharing it in charts and tables in the cloud. As a convenient point, the burden of account management does not increase and data can be updated automatically. If the company already uses Microsoft 365 (Office 365), etc., account management is a way to grant reporting authority to the organization's account, so users do not need to remember new IDs and passwords. Access your reports with your regular Microsoft 365 organizational account. IT only has to deal with existing account management and the burden will not increase.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

For automatic data update, even if the data source is located on an internal server or shared folder, the means and tools to obtain the data are provided so that you can prepare the data acquisition environment. The data is updated according to the set schedule/interval (e.g. hourly), so you can refer to the latest data whenever you need it. You can also share by email attachment. By changing the work of summarizing weekly sales and sharing it via email once a week to share it with this Power BI service, there was a time reduction effect of about 5 hours per month.

What do you dislike most about this product?

There are occasional errors (extraction of comments from free-form fields in questionnaires, etc.), but the numerical data analysis is absolutely flawless.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It is definitely better suited for visualizing large amounts of data than Excel, so I think it will be useful for worthwhile work. I used to spend hours analyzing data, but now I can generate reports of results and have meetings based on the data compiled by Power BI. We used several in-house BI tools, but Power BI was the most intuitive for creating charts and freely organizing them as reports (dashboards). I feel it is very intuitive and convenient to be able to create elements, organize them like PowerPoint and adjust.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

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