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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

Ravi S.

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

Submitted Mar 2021

One of the easiest application to start with data

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?

Its ease of use product capabilities

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Integrated marketplace to import custom dashboards

What do you dislike most about this product?

It is still not mature enough to include predictive analysis

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Its a good start for data analytics

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Includes Product Enhancements
  • Helps Innovate
  • Performance Enhancing

Dustin A.

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

Submitted Mar 2021

Lot of work arounds and has a fantastic community

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?

Microsoft releases monthly updates which contains ton of features.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I like the part that Microsoft Power BI integrates well with other Microsoft product in order to increase its usefulness. For example, in order to have a write-back functionality then we can use PowerApps, for collaboration it's a good idea to integrate it with MS teams.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Some cool ideas at Power BI community doesn't get noticed and instead they are delivering features that won't be much of use. For example, addition of having an alignment property at card visual would definitely help.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Anything you can think of in to apply in your report can be achieved in Power BI, you may not do it in a direct way but there will always be a work around.

Pros

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

Krishn G.

  • Role: Consultant
  • Industry: Retail
  • Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2021

Powerful tool for reporting, easy to use

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?

PowerBi is powerful tool with integration to lot of different data sources and manipulation of Data as per business need.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

PowerBi online sync data sources to update the dashboard or reports with real time data. And easy to work with functions in Power BI

What do you dislike most about this product?

PowerBi desktop doesn't sync with real time connector and data. We only need to go with premium license in order to work with real time data

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It's very powerful tool for creating dashboard or reporting from different data sources in cloud. And it can help business in growing faster with real time analysis

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Inspires Innovation
  • Respectful
  • Client Friendly Policies

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