
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.
How much do users love Microsoft Power BI?
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
Sara W.
- Role: Finance
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Feb 2022
Most favorable tool in the BI industry
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
Tremendously powerful data modeling capability which cover a variety of analytical use cases. Intuitive drag-and-drop interface to build a re-usable set of data and self-service analytics.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The pre-sale support team is very helpful and supportive. It's appealing visualization capabilities make it outstanding among other software
What do you dislike most about this product?
Steep learning curve. You need to have a good foundation of Data Modeling concept to fully master Microsoft Power BI
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Modern analytics and BI platform to integrate, explore, and visualize data. The platform supports a wide range of data sources and has fancy charts to present data
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
ANUP G.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Feb 2022
"Excellent data visualisation software"
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
It's doesn't require any prior coding knowledge. It's less time consuming than using Excel. It's simple to create powerful and sophisticated reports, and it works with practically any data source that differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It has an incredible amount of visualisation possibilities. Excel spreadsheets have some basic charts and diagrams, but Power BI has over 30 visualisations, and the greatest part is that a developer can create their own bespoke visualisations. The data modelling capability is a godsend for us analysts who mostly work with unstructured data. We have to utilise lookups in typical data analysis tools like excel to create a flat table of several tables holding data. We employ relational data models in Microsoft Power BI and leverage relations to connect data from multiple tables.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The data refresh feature has some delay. The data refresh is an important part of the Power BI visualisation process. The data refresh suffers from occasional performance issues when numerous data sources are linked to feed the power query. To thrive at this tool, a person must have prior understanding of databases and relational algebra.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
After giving it a try, you'll find yourself embracing it as a solution for your company, a strong and useful tool to put to work for your company and its employees.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
- Unique Features

Muzaffar S.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Feb 2022
Great. Simple. Delivers. Little complex
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
It鈥檚 extremely user and beginner friendly unlike other applications that are overly complicated and seem like are built for expert and experienced users only
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I love the simplicity and easy to use UI which makes data visualisation a pleasure rather than a headache which is what it was to me in my initial time with data visualisation. Definitely a great application for data visualisation and even data analytics for beginner level
What do you dislike most about this product?
Sometimes it seems like very complex and certain aspects of it are like very hard to understand and difficult to manage. Especially for me CRM data has been a hassle but now I guess I got the hang of it to a certain extent
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Definitely a great way to head into data visualisation and data related careers. You should definitely get this because you get a lot more ease and flexibility than any other application
Pros
- Trustworthy
- Client Friendly Policies
- Fair
- Transparent