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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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88 Likeliness to Recommend
98 Plan to Renew
86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+91 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
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Helps Innovate
- 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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Collaboration
BI Security
Operational Reporting Capabilities
Data Connectors and Data Mashup
BI Platform Administration
Self Service and Ad Hoc Capabilities
Intelligent Alerts and Notifications
Mobile
Vendor Capability Ratings
Business Value Created
Ease of Implementation
Quality of Features
Ease of Data Integration
Breadth of Features
Ease of Customization
Availability and Quality of Training
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Usability and Intuitiveness
Ease of IT Administration
Vendor Support
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Microsoft Power BI Reviews
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Bukola L.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Feb 2023
User-Friendly but with Sharing limitations.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
Versatile and Numerous Data Visuals: Power BI offers a vast selection of data visualization options from its library and AppSource, which enables users to create a wide variety of visuals to meet their data visualization needs. This feature makes it easy for us as a business, to find the most relevant visualizations for our data and use them to make informed decisions.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Drag-and-Drop Capabilities: Power BI's drag-and-drop feature allows users to quickly build dashboards and reports by clicking on an empty space on the dashboard, dragging a data source, and creating a visual in seconds. This feature makes data visualization and analysis more efficient and effective, allowing businesses to gain insights from their data faster.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Rigid Integrations: Power BI has limitations when it comes to integrating with non-Microsoft applications and third-party tools. While it is still possible to integrate with other sources and tools, the process can be frustrating and not always smooth. This can limit the scope of data that can be analyzed and insights that can be gained.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Power BI provides both cloud and desktop deployment options. This provides users with options when transforming or distributing data.
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Security Protects
Eric G.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Feb 2023
BI on another level,
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
Great collaboration tool. A wide variety of graphs and charts. Integration with Microsoft SQL server is a great feature.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Data export and import in various formats. Trusted vendor. Easy to learn and use.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Poor customer support.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
You need this application for future forecasting and resources allocation.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
Ev M.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Transportation
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Feb 2023
Robust support and efficient.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
The big support system of Microsoft is an awesome asset. Robust.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The big support system of Microsoft is an awesome asset. Robust.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The fact that it costs money to use.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Go for it. Great ability to intake multiple data sources.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Unique Features
- Caring
Cons
- Less Fair
- Vendor's Interest First
- Leverages Incumbent Status