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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

Prisca Nwanneka E.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Media
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Apr 2025
The Smart Choice for Data-Driven Organizations
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
Power BI stands out because it connects perfectly with Microsoft tools like Excel and Teams, making it super easy for businesses already using them. It’s more affordable than Tableau, offers strong data modeling with DAX, and has built-in AI features like natural language Q&A. Plus, Microsoft updates it constantly, so it keeps getting better.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite aspect of Power BI is how easily it connects to different data sources and turns complex data into clear, interactive dashboards.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I dislike that customizing visuals in Power BI can sometimes feel limited and harder compared to tools like Tableau.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I’d recommend learning the basics of DAX early and making sure your data is clean ; it’ll make building reports in Power BI much easier.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity

Bianca K.
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Energy
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Apr 2025
Unleashing efficiency with Power BI.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
Microsoft Power BI stands out as a BI tool since it is easy to use and it has close connection with other Microsoft products like Excel and Azure. This compatibility makes it easier for the users to harness existing data sources to higher efficiency thus increasing the production.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Certainly I consider that one of the added values of Microsoft Power BI is its extended opportunities to build-in data visualisation. The presented structure provides a wide range of configurable charts, graphs, and dashboards with the help of which information can be presented in a convenient form. This possibility of visually mapping out data makes the understanding of such information easier as well as makes the transmission of insights of such information across the teams easier.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The major disadvantages of Microsoft Power BI is the fact that it is quite complex especially for those who are getting started with it. The usability of the application is quite good; however, it might be quite difficult for the user to understand or explore all the complex functions that one can achieve in the shortest time possible.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
For using Microsoft Power BI to its max efficiency you need to integrate it with its data source tools. Invest your time to get to know the deep details of this tool and have a proper expertise in place for implementation of this tool at your workplace.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing

Chiezie Arthur E.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Apr 2025
Insightful
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
Client-based feature updates
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Dashboard and Visualization
What do you dislike most about this product?
Large data import delay
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It is a wonderful product that will beat your imaginations
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing