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Microsoft Power BI

Composite Score

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

Ruhi S.

Role: Operations
Industry: Manufacturing
Involvement: End User of Application

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Submitted Aug 2023

Powerful tool to visualize Data

Likeliness to Recommend

6 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?

Microsoft BI have probably outdone on this one. It provides complex tools to visualize organizational data and help them improve. It helps supports all sorts of data types being it structured or unstructured

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

People like me can tailor their data in a way that helps understand the structure better, can define relationships, create measurements. I can create compelling and interactive data reports

What do you dislike most about this product?

To advance in certain tools, you do require mastery. It can take time to relearn and brush up your analytical skills. Handling large datasets will be difficult if you;re not an expert in BI.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

You definitely need a training before you can play with the software. I tool a refresher training.

Pros

Reliable
Helps Innovate
Inspires Innovation
Respectful

Cons

Vendor Friendly Policies
Under Delivered
Less Efficient Service

Arun kumar T.

Role: Operations
Industry: Insurance
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Aug 2023

Effective and mpressive performing tool

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?

Microsoft power BI has multiple tool of its own entity which allow user to easily import and share the data on Microsoft's other applications.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The data modelling is super easy on power BI and I really like that aspect.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The only limitation I find in power BI is that they have do allow limited data sources.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I would recommend them to use the free version of it and you will get to know the power of PowerBI.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Trustworthy
Efficient Service
Effective Service

Darshan M.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Aug 2023

Amazing Data Processing and Analysis Tool

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power BI from other similar products?

Microsoft Power Bi processes larger data faster than other data processing tools. It gives flexibility in preparing charts and dashboards for analysis.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Microsoft Power Bi helps in analyzing data in the form of various charts and graphs. I liked the ability to import data in various file formats and analyze the patterns in the data. It is intuitive to use and create dashboards. It has helped me to gain insights from the data and helped in taking useful business decisions.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Some advanced features for data analytics in Power Bi may take some time to understand, but after some training, it becomes easier to navigate and apply different features. Apart from this, I have found Microsoft Power Bi to be a very useful tool for analyzing and processing data.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I would recommend using Microsoft Power Bi to someone who is looking for analyzing data and gaining insights from data quickly and precisely.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Acts with Integrity
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

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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

Ruhi S.

Powerful tool to visualize Data

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

Arun kumar T.

Effective and mpressive performing tool

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Darshan M.

Amazing Data Processing and Analysis Tool

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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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