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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

Lenny W.
- Role: Finance
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jun 2021
Powerful data visualization tool.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
Microsoft Power BI is: 1. Cost effective: Free to install desktop version. 2. Powerful features: updates with new powerful features on a MONTHLY basis 3. Artificial Intelligence: incorporates AI functions in the program 4. Self-service reporting: promotes the idea of SSR
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite aspect is: - powerful tools to transform big data easily for dynamic visualization.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Power Query, one component of Power BI, sometimes takes quite a while to refresh on new data.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Consider the following before buying this product: - How many users? - How often data/modules/visuals are shared among internal and external users? - How often do you need to refresh dashboard reports on new data?
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity

Manuel I.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted May 2021
tool for the accurate analysis of information
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
The most noticeable difference is in the integration with different Microsoft tools, applications such as Excel, Teams, Azure integrate seamlessly with Power Bi allowing data analysis and collaboration with our workgroup in real time.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
In the field of data acquisition Power Bi has a wide variety of sources for analysis which provides many options to users, thus increasing the field of action and sampling which are the subject of study giving accurate results for future decisions.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The free version has limitations in terms of data analysis capacity compared to the premium version; for large organizations, pro licenses should be purchased.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I always recommend before making hasty decisions to make an analysis of the environment and where you want to go operationally, taking that to the organizational field is recommended a tool that acquires, analyzes and interprets the data and in turn visualize them in a simple way in order to make assertive decisions, in this context is Power Bi because with its extensive functions allows to clarify the picture in decision making.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Enables Productivity
- Efficient Service

Meenakshi A.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted May 2021
Amazing Low code Reporting tool
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
Amazing drag and drop as well as DAX support
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
M query gives real Power
What do you dislike most about this product?
Refresh time and limits
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It is amazing product but pricing for premium is very high
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing