
What is Microsoft Power BI?
Power BI is a business analytics solution that lets you鈥痸isualize鈥痽our 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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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

Alejandro P.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted May 2022
Great visualization Tool
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
The interface is easy to use and intuitive. You can a lot of dashboard in the web
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The intuitive that is create dashboard and graphics
What do you dislike most about this product?
You can find a lot information from Microsoft, you have to go to a third party website to get support or download templates.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
You have to be sure which will be the objetive of Power BI, since is only a visualization tools. It can help to do a descriptive analytics but is not the mean function
Pros
- Transparent
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable

Ekansh K.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Apr 2022
Features better Dashboard, Graphs and Charts.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
It is a business analytics tool that enables users to visualize and analyze data with ease. It is simple to use but personally, I think that one key differentiators for Power BI is its ability to work with a wide range of data sources. It can connect to data in Excel, SQL Server, and Azure, as well as a range of other online services and that, makes it an ideal tool for businesses that want to consolidate their data into one place.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It is an amazing and power packed with features business tool I love its ability to connect to various data sources and create reports and dashboards and its ability to collaborate with others and share reports. The user-friendly interface makes it easy to create and customize reports and the ability to export reports in different formats for offline use or for sharing with others.
What do you dislike most about this product?
There are a few things I don't like about Power BI. It can be quite slow to load, especially when you have a lot of data sources connected. Another thing I don't like is that it's not always very user-friendly. There are quite a few features which are not very well explained, so it can take a while to figure out how to use them and is not beginner friendly and I also don't like the way it handles relationships between data tables. It's not always clear how to create the relationships, and sometimes they don't work the way you expect them to. This makes it difficult to get the data you want.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you are used to working with analytics software like Dash, I would definitely recommend you to switch onto this one but if you are already using Tableau Desktop, I would recommend to not bother switching as that provides better features and support than Microsoft Power BI.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features
Gaurav D.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Healthcare
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Apr 2022
Great BI Solution and Powerful too
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
Offline options are plenty
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Data Restructuring is easy
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing to dislike
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Go for it, it is the best
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing