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Microsoft Power BI

Composite Score
8.9 /10
CX Score
9.2 /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.

89 Likeliness to Recommend

Up 1
Since last award

98 Plan to Renew

85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Down 1
Since last award


Emotional Footprint Overview

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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.

How much do users love Microsoft Power BI?

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1% Negative
4% Neutral
95% Positive

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Respectful

Feature Ratings

Average 84

Dashboard

88

Data Exploration and Visualization

88

Collaboration

86

BI Security

84

Operational Reporting Capabilities

84

BI Platform Administration

84

Data Connectors and Data Mashup

84

Self Service and Ad Hoc Capabilities

82

Intelligent Alerts and Notifications

82

Mobile

78

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

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

Usability and Intuitiveness

82

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

82

Availability and Quality of Training

81

Ease of IT Administration

81

Vendor Support

79

Microsoft Power BI Reviews

Aviral G.

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

Submitted Aug 2022

"Fantastic BI tool"

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?

It helps in creating interactive dashboards for a huge amount of data easily

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

You can visually explore your data through a free-form drag-and-drop canvas and interactive dashboards

What do you dislike most about this product?

Power BI has a limit of including data at a time which is approximately 2 GBs of data.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Power BI offers data preparation and discovery, interactive dashboards and rich visualisations in one solution, and its self-service capabilities make it an intuitive tool for interacting with data and turning it into insights more easily.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Role: Industry Specific Role
  • Industry: Engineering
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Anonymous Reviewer

Submitted Aug 2022

Ideal for large data flow

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Effective Service
  • Inspires Innovation

Cameron W.

  • Role: Sales Marketing
  • Industry: Insurance
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Aug 2022

Excellent tool for data visualization!

Likeliness to Recommend

7 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?

Can easily link data with dashboard for effective data analysis

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It can pull data from anywhere

What do you dislike most about this product?

Challenging at first to learn how to use the tool. Also, it creates a lot of files and takes up a lot of space so memory needs to be cleared regularly.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Power BI has a lot of features that make data visualization convenient. Data is also kept secure, so you can control who can and can't see data.

Pros

  • Caring
  • Includes Product Enhancements
  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable

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