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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
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

Pranshu J.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Education
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Apr 2022
Great product and continually evolving
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
Easy to use, easily integrates with existing Microsoft Enterprise system. Very easy cloud service set-up, easy to create powerapps through this. Amazing data security features.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Intuitive, clean and appealing UI
What do you dislike most about this product?
Really like this product and the way its evolving.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you are using MS ecosystem this makes absolute sense to go with this. Its easy to adopt, very powerful and suits most business reporting requirements easily.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing

Bhavika A.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Apr 2022
Fantastic product!
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
Easy to set up and use.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
External charts can be added
What do you dislike most about this product?
Realtime is not included in Power BI Pro
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
This Product is easy to set up and use. Also, it has various features for daily, monthly and weekly reporting.
Pros
- Respectful
- Includes Product Enhancements
- Continually Improving Product
- Inspires Innovation
Cons
- Under Delivered

Reyansh K.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Apr 2022
A fantastic BI solution form Microsoft Corp
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
We are using Microsoft Power BI for so many years and found it a very efficient and reliable BI solution in the market. It has all the required features we required for our data transformation activities such as data analysis, integration, visualizations, etc. It can be integrated with almost all the available data sources and can make data analytics in better way. The inbuilt charts and visualization make it very unique BI solution. We are loading data via Excel, SQL, Azure, and CSV. Power BI can be integrated with other 3rd party as well as Microsoft applications as well.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
1) It is one of the most reliable and secured BI solutions. 2) The integration with the data sources is very powerful and can integrate almost all the data sources available in the industry. 3) The pricing part is also good for the organizations. 4) The visualizations are really amazing. 5) Sharing with other team members is super easy. 6) Timely updates are provided by Microsoft.
What do you dislike most about this product?
1) For using premium features such as Machine Learning, you have to pay more, which is very costly. 2) Data loading time is very high. 3) Sometimes not efficient if you have a large amount of data or data with millions of rows and columns. 4) Improvements in customer support and services.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I highly recommend the BI solution to anybody for future purchases. It is the highly reliable and secured solution. Trusted!
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity