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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

Micheal C.

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

Submitted Jun 2022

Microsoft Power BI made visualization powerful.

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?

I prefer the ease that’s to drag data from multiple sources and how straightforward it’s to make visuals, and the ever-growing variety of accessible visuals. It’s very easy to publish on the app and set up refresh schedules, simpler than different tools I have seen.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I love that we can use Power Bi to check and organize data from varied sources and organize it but we choose. Once the report refreshes, I see an updated and in-depth world we can currently use to answer questions about the past and present and create predictions for the future. The quality of Power Bi is so appealing because I can see in several graphs and tables what was previous many lines of text.

What do you dislike most about this product?

I don’t know much about what goes into the background and programming of the instrument. I’m primarily an end-user of the program that our tech department is crafting with my needs and in collaboration with me. I have had to work out how to use the reporting as I go, and sometimes, it is often terribly overwhelming.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It’s an incredible tool to check data of all kinds, and I primarily use it to see our workforce and analyze what we’ve been doing in the past to form better selections for the future. Power Bi makes this amazingly easy, and I love see the details of what has been going on.

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Unique Features
  • Efficient Service

Sharmeen S.

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

Submitted Jun 2022

Power BI-Best Data Visualization Platform.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?

It is an amazing software which provides a user-friendly GUI with the drag-and-drop capability for generating the report. Unlike other BI tools like Tableau, you can do it without any knowledge of computer programming. Power BI allows the use of unstructured data, modern rendering techniques and integration effortlessly on various platforms.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It enables the users to consolidate data from multiple sources, make interactive dashboards, evaluate data, create informative reports and share it with other users.It is a cloud-based platform used to consolidate data from varied sources into a single data set. These data sets are used for data visualization, evaluation, and analysis by making sharable reports, dashboards, and apps. Microsoft offers three types of Power BI platforms i.e. Power BI Desktop (a desktop application), Power BI Service (SaaS i.e., Software as a Service) and Power BI Mobile (for iOS and Android devices).

What do you dislike most about this product?

There is nothing which I dislike about Power BI. It is an awesome platform. It can be deployed both on-premise and on-cloud. It can also import data from local databases/data sources, cloud-based data sources, big data sources, simple Excel files, and other hybrid sources. Thus, Power BI, a leader amongst a lot of other BI tools proves to be an efficient and user-friendly tool for data analysis.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I would recommend all to use this software as with Power BI you can collaborate quickly within your organization when you’re on the go. It delivers you data on one easy screen to meet both your self-service and organizational data analytics needs.You can also integrate your existing applications like Salesforce, Dynamics and Google Analytics with Microsoft Power BI. These can be embedded to help you visualize data in an interactive and intuitive way so you can consume quickly and delve deeper into the data with a targeted approach.

Pros

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

Fabion'José J.

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

Submitted Jun 2022

Turn on your creative side with Microsoft Power BI

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?

We can now examine and study our data, as well as publish material to the Power BI online service and discuss it with others. It's compatible with all Microsoft products. It is the greatest in the BI market and has a user-friendly interface. Power BI is extremely user-friendly and allows for as many integrations as we can imagine.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The pictorial charts were the most dramatic aspects, and I was particularly pleased by its visual analytical skills. At a low cost, the cloud edition provides a lot more capacity and collaborative capabilities. Switching between both the desktop and cloud versions is equally simple. With the statistics that have been prepared, it is also extremely simple to explain stats.

What do you dislike most about this product?

When dealing with huge data sets, particularly on the free version, there are delays. The free edition has relatively restricted functionality and does not demonstrate the software's real performance capabilities. You'll have to upgrade to the premium version. The Heat Maps in Power BI are one area that they really need to enhance.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It's a dependable tool that allows me to examine and display large amounts of data. It is feasible to make data-driven judgments with this software. When creating a dashboard, if you recognize what you're doing, you may make it very simple for your customers to have numerous helpful representations for the data that matters to individuals.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy

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