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Microsoft Power BI

Composite Score

8.9 /10

CX Score

9.3 /10

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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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2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

Latest Award, 2024

Product Impact
Conflict Resolution

Latest Award, 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

1
Since last award

99 Plan to Renew

87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Since last award

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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
Respectful
Helps Innovate
Performance Enhancing

Feature Ratings

Average 83

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

Availability and Quality of Training

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Vendor Support

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Business Intelligence & Analytics - Midmarket

Score 8.8

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Microsoft Power BI Reviews

ANUP G.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Engineering
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

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Submitted Feb 2022

"Excellent data visualisation software"

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

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

Taithson Tameirão M.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2022

easy to use

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?

easy to use and integration with office product

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

usability o the product is veri good

What do you dislike most about this product?

the tco o product

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

be attent to total price

Pros

Efficient Service
Effective Service
Inspires Innovation
Saves Time

Carlton J.

Role: C-Level
Industry: Consulting
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2022

Microsoft Power BI: Formidable in BI industry

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?

The best integration into Office and Office compatible products.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It's supported well my Microsoft.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Features need more bells and whistles and some polish.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Do not just "use" Power BI...seek to fully integrate it into the Microsoft family of products you currently use. If you treat Power BI as a one-off product, you will not fully appreciate it for the robust tool that it is.

Pros

Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Unique Features

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Awards & Recognition

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

1 Since last award

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.

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.

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.

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

ANUP G.

"Excellent data visualisation software"

Likeliness to Recommend

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Taithson Tameirão M.

easy to use

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Carlton J.

Microsoft Power BI: Formidable in BI industry

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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