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91 Likeliness to Recommend
99 Plan to Renew
87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+94 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
- Performance Enhancing
- Respectful
- Fair
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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

Shantanu B.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Retail
- Involvement: Initial Implementation
Submitted Jan 2023
Great tool for making dashboards
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
Microsoft Power BI is a business intelligence and data visualization tool that is designed to help users connect to various data sources, transform and clean the data, create reports and dashboards, and share them with others. Some of the features that differentiate Power BI from other similar products include: 1. Integration with Microsoft products 2. A wide range of data connectors 3. Advanced data modeling and analysis 4. Robust visualizations
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Power BI can connect to a wide variety of data sources, including Excel, SQL Server, and many others, Power BI allows users to access their data and visualizations from their mobile devices, making it easy to stay connected and informed while on the go.
What do you dislike most about this product?
One potential drawback of Microsoft Power BI is that it can be complex and difficult to learn for users without prior experience with data visualization or business intelligence tools. Additionally, some users may find the cost of the full version to be prohibitive, as it requires a subscription to Microsoft's Office 365 platform. Other users may find that the software has limitations in terms of data connectivity and integration with other tools, which can make it difficult to work with large or complex data sets.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Microsoft Power BI is a powerful business intelligence and data visualization tool that can be highly effective for creating interactive, data-driven dashboards and reports. It offers a wide range of features and capabilities, including data modeling, data visualization, and data exploration.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Effective Service
Cons
- Charges for Enhancements
- Security Frustrates
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Uma S.
- Role: Finance
- Industry: Chemicals
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Feb 2023
Remarkable performance and visualization of data
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
Microsoft Power BI is a great software for advanced analytics where we can connect from various sources. With this tools we created a powerful business dashboard, customized reports, and even set alerts for anomalies and specific targets.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It provides users with the possibility to create dimensions and new relations between tables without the need for an external tool to do that. Ease of access for the data exploration helps make increasingly informed decisions in reaction to business needs.
What do you dislike most about this product?
To make the most of Power BI’s advanced features, users must learn their calculation language called DAX and the organization must have good data modeling expertise.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Power BI has many powerful features and offers many possibilities of integration with different sources and effectively converts unstructured statistical information into comprehensive logical results.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
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Ashay S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Jan 2023
Great dashboarding tool to tell a story using data
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?
It has a huge selection of starter templates and highly customizable dashboards which suits many cases. If you want a graph/plot for some case , you bet you would find it.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
One unique feature is ability to share the dashboard online without the person needing to install the software on top of that they have a Microsoft Excel like format for Data analysis which makes it easier to perform EDA and other tasks.
What do you dislike most about this product?
In my use there are no major downsides , however it can be little tricky to deal with larger dataset as updating/modifying them takes some time .
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It is a great tool for anyone looking to analyze and extract information from data without necessarily having a solid Data Science Background. Highly intuitive and user friendly.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Inspires Innovation
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