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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

Dustin A.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Manufacturing
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Mar 2021
Lot of work arounds and has a fantastic community
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
Microsoft releases monthly updates which contains ton of features.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I like the part that Microsoft Power BI integrates well with other Microsoft product in order to increase its usefulness. For example, in order to have a write-back functionality then we can use PowerApps, for collaboration it's a good idea to integrate it with MS teams.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Some cool ideas at Power BI community doesn't get noticed and instead they are delivering features that won't be much of use. For example, addition of having an alignment property at card visual would definitely help.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Anything you can think of in to apply in your report can be achieved in Power BI, you may not do it in a direct way but there will always be a work around.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing

Krishn G.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Retail
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Feb 2021
Powerful tool for reporting, easy to use
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
PowerBi is powerful tool with integration to lot of different data sources and manipulation of Data as per business need.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
PowerBi online sync data sources to update the dashboard or reports with real time data. And easy to work with functions in Power BI
What do you dislike most about this product?
PowerBi desktop doesn't sync with real time connector and data. We only need to go with premium license in order to work with real time data
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It's very powerful tool for creating dashboard or reporting from different data sources in cloud. And it can help business in growing faster with real time analysis
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Inspires Innovation
- Respectful
- Client Friendly Policies

Pranjal S.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Feb 2021
Makes dashboards easier
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
Easy interface and the proper view of data
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Seamlessly fast and reliable interface
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing as of now, Works perfect
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Must try for your analytics tasks
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing