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Microsoft Power BI

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9.0 /10

CX Score

9.3 /10

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What is Microsoft Power BI?

Power BI is a business analytics solution that lets you visualize your 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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Awards & Recognition

Microsoft Power BI won the following awards in the Business Intelligence & Analytics – Enterprise category

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2025 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Latest Award, 2025

9 Top Rated Capabilities

15 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 2025

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024

Product Impact
Conflict Resolution

2024

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2024

5 Top Rated Capabilities

4 Top Rated Features

2024

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023

Product Impact

2023

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023

6 Top Rated Capabilities

6 Top Rated Features

2023

2022 Emotional Footprint Champion

2022

Strategy and Innovation
Product Impact
Contract Negotiation

2022

2022 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2022

7 Top Rated Capabilities

9 Top Rated Features

2022

Microsoft Power BI Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

91 Likeliness to Recommend

99 Plan to Renew

87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+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?

1% Negative

4% Neutral

95% Positive

Pros

Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Respectful
Fair

Feature Ratings

Average 84

Dashboard

Data Exploration and Visualization

Real-Time Visualization

Collaboration

Operational Reporting Capabilities

BI Platform Administration

Data Modelling Tools

Advanced Analytics and Data Science

Spatial Analysis

BI Security

Data Connectors and Data Mashup

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 83

Business Value Created

Quality of Features

Ease of Implementation

Breadth of Features

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of IT Administration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Customization

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Availability and Quality of Training

Vendor Support

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Business Intelligence & Analytics - Midmarket

Score 8.9

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Microsoft Power BI Reviews

Allister L.

Role: Consultant
Industry: Construction
Involvement: End User of Application

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Submitted Sep 2022

Great introduction tool for data analytics

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?

Unique tool that allows an entry to data analytics for non professionals.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Data visualisation capabilities

What do you dislike most about this product?

Sometimes bringing in data can be broken and difficult to rebuild or rectify

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Try it out first and have some data you want to explore

Pros

Unique Features
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity

Anietie E.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

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Submitted Sep 2022

Fantastic product

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?

The user experience is fantastic and integration of other apps is quite seamless.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The default insights available once data has been added for visualization.

What do you dislike most about this product?

None I can think of at the moment.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Best visualization tool available. It is simple to use and the experience is awesome.

Pros

Effective Service
Helps Innovate
Reliable
Trustworthy

Ikbal M.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Energy
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

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Submitted Oct 2022

Integrates well with Power Platform & O365 Office

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?

Power BI allows an organisation who is "Microsoft" user of 0365 to integrate MS Team, MS Forms, Power Automate and Power Apps seamlessly into the landscape. The ease of use for end user who is a novice is exceptional. This is why Power BI fits in with Microsoft's ambition to be the ONE STOP shop for Apps, O365 tools and Reporting.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The ability to schedule timely refreshes to key databases to ensure real time information is published into the dashboard. Also I like the ability to pin a LIVE page into the dashboard so that you can interact with it like a desktop report instead of a tile. I love the Date dragger which others also have but with my dashboard it allows me to drag the date slicer and see trends over time. Also I love the fact that I can create a Sharepoint List using MS Teams view so end user can update the data there and I can link the Sharepoint list directly to Power BI

What do you dislike most about this product?

The fact that I need to have a premium licence to publish my dashboards dataset to my shared workspace, so that a User with READ only can view the dashboard without a WRITE licence. Also, in the desktop version when I connect data source to a XLS, the source data cannot be a fiel in my One Drive, instead you need to amend the address to a sharepoint site and change the syntax to XLSX all the time. It is also difficult to remove a Data Source I found once its in and when you need to re-establish connection via Permissions prior to refresh

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

As an organisation who is interested in using Power BI for Performance Boards for their weekly dialogues, get the PREMIUM licence because it will allow one user with WRITE access to create and publish into a shared workspace so that all those with READ licences can view the dashboard report without the need to upgrade to WRITE

Pros

Reliable
Enables Productivity
Saves Time
Helps Innovate

Cons

Slower Product Innovation
Charges for Enhancements
Leverages Incumbent Status

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Awards & Recognition

2025 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2022 Emotional Footprint Champion

2022 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Microsoft Power BI Ratings

91 Likeliness to Recommend

99 Plan to Renew

87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+94 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Microsoft Power BI?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Dashboard Includes alerts and notifications, KPIs, visual analytics, and interactive features.

Data Exploration and Visualization Ability to visually manipulate, interact with, and explore data, and perform basic descriptive statistics and pattern detection.

Real-Time Visualization Ability to analyze and visualize data as soon as it becomes available via data-streaming pipelines.

Collaboration Includes ability to view, share and direct work between co-workers in real or near real-time.

Operational Reporting Capabilities Real-time detailed reporting to support operational business processes.

BI Platform Administration Centralized console to manage BI portal administration. Management metrics and reports on usage, resource utilization, security, and other activities.

Data Modelling Tools Includes ability to model complex relationships between internal application sources and other parties.

Advanced Analytics and Data Science Techniques including predictive, data and text mining, machine learning, forecasting, what-if analysis, sentiment analysis etc.

Spatial Analysis Ability to natively visualize and analyze spatial data out of the box tied to postcode, zipcode or spacial co-ordinates.

BI Security Data access control management, including access permissions management, user authentication and enforcement of access permissions via technology.

Data Connectors and Data Mashup Connect to, merge and clean data from multiple diverse data sources.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

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Microsoft Power BI Reviews

Allister L.

Great introduction tool for data analytics

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Anietie E.

Fantastic product

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Ikbal M.

Integrates well with Power Platform & O365 Office

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

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Feature Ratings

Dashboard

Data Exploration and Visualization

Real-Time Visualization

Collaboration

Operational Reporting Capabilities

BI Platform Administration

Data Modelling Tools

Advanced Analytics and Data Science

Spatial Analysis

BI Security

Data Connectors and Data Mashup

Vendor Capability Ratings

Business Value Created

Quality of Features

Ease of Implementation

Breadth of Features

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of IT Administration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Customization

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Availability and Quality of Training

Vendor Support