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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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89 Likeliness to Recommend
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85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
- Product Experience:
- 95%
- Negotiation and Contract:
- 88%
- Conflict Resolution:
- 92%
- Strategy & Innovation:
- 93%
- Service Experience:
- 92%
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.
+93 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.
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Pros
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Performance Enhancing
- Helps Innovate
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Microsoft Power BI Reviews
Charan R.
- Role: Vendor Management
- Industry: Manufacturing
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jun 2022
Implementation was quick, easy to use tool
Likeliness to Recommend
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
Submitted Jun 2022
Turn on your creative side with Microsoft Power BI
Likeliness to Recommend
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

Fiona-Ojo G.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jun 2022
Powerful tool that you needed the most
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
Descriptive analytics are at our disposal with Power BI Desktop. One may quickly generate reports and visualizations and analyses using this robust authoring tool. We can now link, analyze, and display our data, as well as position visualizations precisely wherever we want them. Use Power BI Embedded to integrate gorgeous, truly immersive reports and graphics into your apps.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Power BI is fantastic since it aids in the organization and analysis of data. By developing panels that assist us comprehend case, we may connect corporate sources of data. It gives us the capacity to divide down material into easily digestible chunks. The use of dashboards in Power BI renders the analyses more attractive and the data displayed more interactive.
What do you dislike most about this product?
It can be a little confusing as it has a bunch of different tools, and you must understand what every element is for and how it interacts with the overall system. To work efficiently on large reports, you'll need at minimum 16 gb of RAM on your computer.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Its free edition is quite strong, allowing us to construct any research we require. It contains a large number of datasets and can even set up subscriptions to provide reports automatically. The simplicity with which data transfers may be managed and dashboards created is perhaps the most appealing aspect. It includes several capabilities that help us operate more efficiently, such as the ability to do hours of chores in minutes.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing