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Microsoft Power BI

Composite Score
8.9 /10
CX Score
9.1 /10
Category
Microsoft Power BI
8.9 /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.

+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?

2% Negative
4% Neutral
94% Positive

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity
  • Helps Innovate
  • Performance Enhancing

Feature Ratings

Average 84

Data Exploration and Visualization

88

Dashboard

88

Collaboration

86

BI Security

85

Operational Reporting Capabilities

84

Data Connectors and Data Mashup

84

BI Platform Administration

84

Self Service and Ad Hoc Capabilities

83

Intelligent Alerts and Notifications

82

Mobile

79

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 83

Business Value Created

86

Ease of Implementation

84

Quality of Features

84

Ease of Data Integration

83

Breadth of Features

83

Ease of Customization

82

Availability and Quality of Training

82

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

82

Usability and Intuitiveness

82

Ease of IT Administration

81

Vendor Support

79

Microsoft Power BI Reviews

Bharat S.

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

Submitted Jun 2022

Superior product with lot of customization

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?

Integration with tools is easy with better meta managment

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Informative and customized dashboard Multi device support Real time data streaming Data visualization are top notch Customized reports Reliable data and secured

What do you dislike most about this product?

Heat maps to be improved Slow at times for desktop version

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Highly recommended cloud based analytics tool

Pros

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

Charan R.

  • Role: Vendor Management
  • Industry: Manufacturing
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2022

Implementation was quick, easy to use tool

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?

High level customization with good visualization in different formats

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Real time data processing and visualization Visually appealing dashboard Access to mobile Timely alerts and notification Reporting capabilities Customized reports in different formats

What do you dislike most about this product?

Streaming of data is slow at times

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Good alternate to Tableau and cost effective analytics tool

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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