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89 Likeliness to Recommend
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97 Plan to Renew
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85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+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
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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

Ewa S.
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Retail
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted May 2022
Not easy to start with, powerful after few hours
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
Great to democratize analytics in big organisation and let them make really data-driven decisions.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Anyone can build powerful and helpful dashboards that will impact operations - you just need few hours of onboarding and maybe little support from experienced users (or you spend a bit of time on some video trainings).
What do you dislike most about this product?
Worst part was being overwhelmed on first minutes and hours-> excitement after you see results of your work helped to not get demotivated quickly.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
From end user perspective I highly appreciate support and vision for Power BI in my organisation. It helped to get clarity and understand, that what we can build will help save time, make better decisions and develop personal skills.
Pros
- Efficient Service
- Includes Product Enhancements
- Security Protects
- Helps Innovate
- Role: Student Academic
- Industry: Education
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted May 2022
Innovative data visualization product
Likeliness to Recommend
Pros
- Includes Product Enhancements
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
Abhisek P.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted May 2022
Very effective analytics tool for our teams
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
Microsoft brand is reliable, Very high user ratings compared to similar products, Ease of use
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Can do any type of slicing and dicing on available data, at ease; Dashboard can be graphical or excel driven and we can download data too
What do you dislike most about this product?
Prices could be flexible
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you need advanced analytics and reporting on any of your team (sales/marketing/delivery/product), then this would give a powerful dashboard to work and analyze
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy