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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 84

Data Exploration and Visualization

88

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

84

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

Amenda N.

  • Role: Industry Specific Role
  • Industry: Other
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2022

It is the best solution for visualization.

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?

Power Bi permits me to induce data from numerous sources – on premise azure analytics, azure junction DB, and even through SharePoint link. It provides scope of information transformation through power query. Where we can apply various data transformations. The power bi desktop allows us to own table view and relative view additionally in conjunction with the visualisation pane that helps us to analyse data. It offers easy adding columns, measures, calculated tables supported dax expressions. It gives tons of visualisation varieties to choose from at free of cost. We are able to choose the suitable visuals for our need. We are able to get a

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It provides loads deal of options like page navigation, button navigation ,bookmarks, drill through etc that makes information visualisation thus convenient. Hence we can develop great reports and dashboards victimisation power bi. It additionally offers row level security which allows solely specific users to access specific partvof data. With the assistance of Power BI, excel sheet data can act as a info for excellent data presentation.

What do you dislike most about this product?

It desires a small amount of significant machinery to run, I used to be using constant on the intel i3 core processor, but it got stuck multiple times once my excel columns increased in number. With an i5 processor, it yet feels some turbulence occasionally.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If you wish to make engaging reports and dashboards handling complex information you’ll consider power Bi collectively of the simplest choices accessible.

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Trustworthy

Donna-sue C.

  • Role: Public Sector
  • Industry: Telecommunications
  • Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2022

Microsoft Power BI is an excellent BI tool.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?

Power Bi is a wonderful Bi Tool that’s integrated with all Microsoft Products. It’s the simplest in Bi Market and provides a simple-to-use interface. Power Bi Desktop is incredibly user-friendly and supports as several integrations as we think. DAX and ETL in PowerBI are options that distinguish it from the remainder of the products within the market. DAX may be a very powerful language that helps loads and even saves storage after you create measures that become general formulae for everything and even you’ll add what-if parameters that makes analysis a lot of insightful.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I like Microsoft Power Bi is a information visualization program that enables you to do things like. Information can be retrieved from a range of sources, including native files, flat files, Azure Database, Azure Analytics, Azure synapse Database, Azure Storage, and even a SharePoint connection. ETL in PowerBI is powerful beside a large style of sources it simply creates everything so integrated and easy. It’s huge amount of options which may not appear big features however are terribly helpful when using like parameters, which might be changed when business a dashboard, so you don’t have to make dB for some constants in your file.

What do you dislike most about this product?

It consumes too much RAM, it’ terribly heavy software system to use. It additionally creates loads of temp and cache files in my laptop which I have to remove weekly manually. It also sends my question multiple times for analysis to the servers, that reason is unknown, which typically becomes a significant operation when dB has much larger data. In short, it consumes too several resources to form a dataset, so if we’ve got an outsized dataset, we have to be cautious.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I like to recommend Microsoft Power BI for the following. It’s a tabular and relational view as well as a visualization pane that helps in information analysis. You’ll view and organize data from a spread of sources to fulfill your specific needs.

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Efficient Service

Aman G.

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

Submitted Jun 2022

The one and only best Business Intelligence tools

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?

Microsoft Power BI provides every features which is useful for data analysis in less cost, these feaures makes it different from other products.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It shows results very briefly and easy to understandable. It is cost effective. It provides god customer support and documentation.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The user interface of power bi is hard to understand for beginners, it needs improvement in its interface. Its formulas are rigid for example concatenation of multiple elements,

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

This product provides all the necessary features which requires for business intelligence so should choose it over other products.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Efficient Service
  • Caring
  • Saves Time

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