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Microsoft Power Query

Composite Score

8.7 /10

CX Score

9.0 /10

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What is Microsoft Power Query?

Power Query is a data transformation and data preparation engine. Power Query comes with a graphical interface for getting data from sources and a Power Query Editor for applying transformations. Because the engine is available in many products and services, the destination where the data will be stored depends on where Power Query was used. Using Power Query, you can perform the extract, transform, and load (ETL) processing of data.

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Awards & Recognition

Microsoft Power Query won the following awards in the Data Preparation for Analytics category

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2025 Emotional Footprint Champion

Latest Award, 2025

2025 Data Quadrant Champion

2025

2 Top Rated Capabilities

2 Top Rated Features

2025

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2024

7 Top Rated Capabilities

5 Top Rated Features

2024

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023

2023 Data Quadrant Champion

2023

2 Top Rated Capabilities

5 Top Rated Features

2023

Microsoft Power Query Ratings

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89 Likeliness to Recommend

95 Plan to Renew

83 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.

+91 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 Query?

2% Negative

6% Neutral

92% Positive

Pros

Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Helps Innovate
Enables Productivity

Feature Ratings

Average 81

Data Integration

Data Connectors and Data Mashup

Data Cleansing

Data Pre-Processing

Data Modelling Tools

Data Access

Data Profiling

Data Security

Data Enrichment

Data Packaging

Intelligent Alerts and Notifications

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 80

Business Value Created

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of Implementation

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Usability and Intuitiveness

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of IT Administration

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Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Customization

Microsoft Power Query Reviews

Nikhil J.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Media
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Oct 2023

very good for anaytics

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power Query from other similar products?

It is integrated with Excel and helps me in Automating my regular tasks

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It helps in Automating the tasks and can handle big data

What do you dislike most about this product?

sometimes it is slow

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

imporove the performance

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity

John R.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2023

Data to another level

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power Query from other similar products?

It is a free option from Microsoft, which gives you a great capability to model and transform your data within the Power Applications,

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The cost.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Can be difficult when you are new to it

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It can do a lot of things with your data and has a lot of connectors available.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Karan B.

Role: Consultant
Industry: Banking
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2023

Time Saver

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power Query from other similar products?

Transformation capabilities within excel. It makes it easy to implement functions like filtering, joining, aggregating, splitting, etc.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Statistical summaries can be seen on the whole dataset, Very good at profiling large datasets with ease and help in optimizing the cleaning strategy as anomalies can be easily detected.

What do you dislike most about this product?

As with other products of Microsoft like Power BI and Excel, power query's availability on other platforms is not available.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Definitely go for learning this. No need to know or implement complex formulas to do tasks in excel as using power query will make it pretty easy.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

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Awards & Recognition

2025 Emotional Footprint Champion

2025 Data Quadrant Champion

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023 Data Quadrant Champion

Microsoft Power Query Ratings

89 Likeliness to Recommend

95 Plan to Renew

83 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+91 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Microsoft Power Query?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Data Integration Includes integration of data from multiple sources, merging systems, transforming data and capture data to form a unified view of a company's data assets

Data Connectors and Data Mashup Connect to, merge and clean data from multiple diverse data sources.

Data Cleansing Includes data auditing, workflow specification, post-processing, and controlling. such as address standardization and the correction of known invalid values.

Data Pre-Processing Ability to wrangle or pre-process data to ready it for model training.

Data Modelling Tools Includes ability to model complex relationships between internal application sources and other parties.

Data Access Ability to access data from various sources on-prem and in the cloud and of various type: structured, unstructured, and semi-structured, real-time, etc.

Data Profiling Includes statistical analysis of data values to evaluate the frequency, distribution and completeness of data.

Data Security Includes ability to hide sensitive data by masking with special characters or anonymous information.

Data Enrichment Includes the enhancement of the value of internally held data by appending related attributes from external sources .

Data Packaging Creating technology-specific data repository design optimized for a consumption use case, e.g.: time-series database, muti-dimensional cube, graph database, etc

Intelligent Alerts and Notifications Ability to create, manage, send and receive notifications, enhancing efficiency and productivity.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Microsoft Power Query Reviews

Nikhil J.

very good for anaytics

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

John R.

Data to another level

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Karan B.

Time Saver

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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