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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

Fernanda M.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Not for Profit
  • Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2022

Power BI: Efficient Visualization

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?

PowerBI is easier for those who already use other Microsoft tools, especially more advanced Excel users. There are good free online training. It is a constantly evolving tool.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It's easy to load the data. It has amazing visuals and many ready-made templates. The filter options and preview panes are also very good. It is reasonably easy to use, and can popularize data analysis within most companies. It has some cool features to make the data visualization in real time.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Very demanding of hardware configuration. Connecting data sources to non-MS Azure cloud data sources is complicated. Facing issues connecting to AWS data sources for example.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Buy a good computer and be happy. Microsoft PowerBI has facilities that can make data analysis much more decentralized in organizations. It has free training on the Microsoft website and a very active community, with a lot of information available

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity

Raghavendra K.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Healthcare
  • Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2022

One of the best Cloud based BI Solution

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?

Easy Data Migration and Look up

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Dynamic Data refresh

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nothing to dislike to be honest

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I think you should try it out to believe

Pros

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

Prateek A.

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

Submitted Mar 2022

Outstanding BI solution by Microsoft

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?

Microsoft Power BI is a data analytics and visualization solution by Microsoft. We are using Power BI for our data analytics project where we have to ingest data from various sources and integrate them to develop a dashboard. It is a highly capable and secured BI solution that offers flexibility to develop reports, charts, and customized ad-hoc reports. It can easily integrate with other 3rd party applications as well.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

1) Highly customized and scalable BI solution. 2) Easily integrate with other Microsoft and 3rd party applications. 3) Can ingest data from wide sources such as Excel, CSV, SQL, Azure, etc. 4) Excellent customer service and support. 5) Good reporting and dashboard capabilities.

What do you dislike most about this product?

1) Handling large data for data analytics is quite a challenge. 2) Table relationships in data modeling are quite complex. 3) In-built formulas are complex to understand. 4) Improvements in user graphic interface.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I highly recommend this BI solution to anybody who is considering the purchase.

Pros

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

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