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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

Masood A.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Apr 2022
Fantastic tool
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
Excellent tool for reporting
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
unique dashboard features
What do you dislike most about this product?
some time it is slow
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I will definitely recommend for using it in professional enviornent
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
Kalim S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Food and Beverage
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Apr 2022
fantastic product
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
Easy to integrate and generate report. It's create feature rich dashboard which are very useful for the top management. Its provide great collaboration and reduce manual effort almost to zero.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Feature rich dashboard to manage process and real time analysis
What do you dislike most about this product?
Too much effort required to create and manage dashboards
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
First of all it's microsoft product and they have great customer support. If you are looking for product to automate reporting and other financial data. Then this will be your go to product.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Respectful
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable

Fernanda M.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Not for Profit
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Mar 2022
Power BI: Efficient Visualization
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
PowerBI is easier for those who already use other Microsoft tools, especially more advanced Excel users. There are good free online training. It is a constantly evolving tool.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It's easy to load the data. It has amazing visuals and many ready-made templates. The filter options and preview panes are also very good. It is reasonably easy to use, and can popularize data analysis within most companies. It has some cool features to make the data visualization in real time.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Very demanding of hardware configuration. Connecting data sources to non-MS Azure cloud data sources is complicated. Facing issues connecting to AWS data sources for example.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Buy a good computer and be happy. Microsoft PowerBI has facilities that can make data analysis much more decentralized in organizations. It has free training on the Microsoft website and a very active community, with a lot of information available
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity