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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

Noah M.

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

Submitted Oct 2021

Create a visually relevant depiction of data

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?

Power BI enables rapid visualization of complex data sets, which has accelerated management-level decision making in our business. It is also possible to do extensive tracking based on key data claims. The automatic data stream also keeps all users up to current and on the same page. Power BI can show complex data sets in a comprehensible way. The design is straightforward and easy to use, especially for people who are familiar with Microsoft Excel. The various possibilities for using several data formats as sources, such as CSV, Web, Excel, sql, and odbc, are also emphasized favorably. other applications, such as Excel.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Data processing is simplified using Power BI and Power Query. How? 1. A variety of sources can be connected. 2. If necessary, data may be translated directly into Power Query. 3. The first visualizations are clear and easy to use. 4. Almost all visualization requirements may be satisfied using workarounds. 5. Due to the "relational models," performance with large data sources with more than 10 million rows is also quite good. 6. There are a variety of automation options available, ranging from connecting to updating data. Power BI integrates well with the rest of the Microsoft ecosystem. This means that Power BI excels at linking.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The software is still in its infancy in compared to similar technologies. As a result, numerous useful and convenient features are absent. These display options and formatting are not completely customizable. As an end user, it is very sluggish, at times brutally so. There might be an overwhelming number of techniques for visualizing data at times. Additionally, considerable talents are required to transform data from many sources to a representation. On the other hand, all users may need the Pro version to see a visualization created in the Desktop Pro version. Power BI can show complex data sets in a comprehensible way.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

We are given a high-level overview of almost all of the company's procedures. We can automatically and without effort obtain data from a number of sources. In theory, you can simply create your own dashboards practically, not so much. Power BI enables rapid visualization of complex data sets, which has accelerated management-level decision making in our business. It is also possible to do extensive tracking based on key data claims. The automatic data stream also keeps all users up to current and on the same page. The many possibilities for using different data formats as sources, such as CSV, Web, Excel, sql, and odbc, are particularly.

Pros

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

Tran N.

  • Role: Consultant
  • Industry: Retail
  • Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Oct 2021

Fantastic product!

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?

Easy to learning and powerful analysis tools

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The DAX quite familiar with excel functions. Easy to catch up and learning.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The cost of powerBI premium

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

This is the best solution to analysis to transform company to data driven making

Pros

  • Acts with Integrity
  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable

Alejandro R.

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

Submitted Oct 2021

"Easy to use and scalable to large data sets."

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?

Power BI is efficient, scalable and easy to use and implement; it makes it easy to connect to various data sources, such as Excel, SQL Server and SAP, which is often a complicated and cumbersome process with other tools; it also offers several options to visualize data in different drafts and views, and its technical support is quite good and responsive.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I like its stability and intuitiveness, in addition to the fact that the initial configuration is quite simple, as well as its ability to customize using the DAX language. In addition, its interface is very simple and accessible to everyone. We manage the data of all the operations and processes of our organization, and its implementation has allowed us to have a quick overview of the most critical indicators of the operational processes of our platform, helping us to strengthen decision-making and the effectiveness of our processes.

What do you dislike most about this product?

I think licensing should be improved. I think the middle ground between the Pro and Premium versions would be good; also, the design of the mobile application should be optimized; it needs some modifications.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Power BI is an excellent data analysis tool; it is especially recommended if you want to develop a self-service dashboard or drill down into data. It is easy to create reports, even if you are not familiar with business intelligence tools or data visualizations. It also performs very well when generating reports and has an incredibly responsive technical support team.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity

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