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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
Gatu M.
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Mar 2022
Data Analytics, Reporting, and Visualization Easy
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
Microsoft Power BI offers best data analytics features and to ensure easy understanding of data, it offers visualization features
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Microsoft Power BI is very resourceful - it makes data analytics and visualization easy. It makes data sharing easy which I like. It connects to multiple data sources which makes results better and more accurate.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Using Microsoft Power BI is not easy. One needs training.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
For data analytics, reporting, and visualization, I recommend Microsoft Power BI. It's the best you can get in it's category thanks to it's pricing.
Pros
- Fair
- Client's Interest First
- Over Delivered
- Helps Innovate

Juhi A.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Feb 2022
One of the best analytics and visualization tool!
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
Microsoft Power BI is a great data analytics and visualization solution developed by the Microsoft. We are regularly using Power BI for all data analytics projects. It is highly reliable and secured BI solution which gives you the flexibility to extract, load, and transform the data from almost all the sources such as SQL, CSV, Excel, etc. It is highly capable and scalable solution which has great visualizations, charts, maps, etc. You need some initial training before using the Power BI.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The best part of Power BI is the flexibility of data integration with other 3rd party sources and the applications. Since it is developed by the Microsoft, other MS applications such as Office, SharePoint, and MS SQL can be integrated easily. The support services are also very good and helpful. it has also a wide community base in case you face any challenges and issues.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Some of the limitations are: 1) The data refresh rate is sometimes very slow. 2) Pricing model could be challenge for small and mid-sized organizations. 3) challenges with the learning curve for most advanced analytics. 4) If you want to use Machine Learning feature for predictive and descriptive analysis, then Premium subscription would be more costly.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Please go with it you will found it very useful BI solution. It works great if you are on MS Azure cloud platform and using Office 365 as well. Overall, a good decision to go with.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity

Carlton J.
- Role: C-Level
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Feb 2022
Microsoft Power BI: Formidable in BI industry
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
The best integration into Office and Office compatible products.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It's supported well my Microsoft.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Features need more bells and whistles and some polish.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Do not just "use" Power BI...seek to fully integrate it into the Microsoft family of products you currently use. If you treat Power BI as a one-off product, you will not fully appreciate it for the robust tool that it is.
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features