Microsoft Power BI

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Microsoft Power BI	Score 8.4 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft Power BI is a visualization and data discovery tool from Microsoft. It allows users to convert data into visuals and graphics, visually explore and analyze data, collaborate on interactive dashboards and reports, and scale across their organization with built-in governance and security.	$10 per month per user

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Microsoft Power BI

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Microsoft Power BI
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

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No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Microsoft Power BI
Considered Both Products	Microsoft Power BI Verified User Consultant Chose Microsoft Power BI Just because we wanted single-party integration environment and a player which can take ownership of Big Data Analysis. Microsoft Power BI is better in these features as compared to other key BI players like Tableau. Helpful? Mohamed Adil Shaikh Process Data Engineer Chose Microsoft Power BI For Visualization and Reporting Power BI is way ahead of MS Excel, not only it has the functionality of MS Excel for cleaning and processing of data in the advance Query tab but also the add-on of more eye appealing and customizable Visualizations. MS Excel is more focused on … Helpful? David Shi Manager, Data Visualisation Chose Microsoft Power BI In any [Microsoft] Power BI to Tableau comparison, especially in organizations that uses both platforms the most important aspect is which platform came first. As any platform that is widely adopted first will naturally have the 'first mover' advantage. In this case where in my … Incentivized Helpful? Scott Kennedy Director, eCommerce Analytics and Digital Marketing Chose Microsoft Power BI Power BI from a price perspective is the lowest cost (probably even from a total cost of ownership perspective) of all the offerings I have ever evaluated. The piece that really stands out for Power BI is the data transformation layer called Power Query. This section allows you … Incentivized Helpful? MS Mahboobur Shaikat IT Architect Chose Microsoft Power BI PowerBI stacks have provided us the better data stability for governance, security, and sharing reports within Microsoft Teams workspaces has been the best features across all Business Intel. tools. Helpful? NC Nagaraj C Senior Software Engineer Chose Microsoft Power BI It has more than 200 plus visuals in-store and is very easy to access. It has a great user community to help each other with an ample amount of responses. Almost all kinds of data sources are available to use and develop the reports Easy to use and learn with a lot of training … Incentivized Helpful? JS Jacek Szczepiński Group IT Project Manager Chose Microsoft Power BI Since our organization runs on Microsoft based solutions Power BI was our first obvious choice to investigate. Our analisys proved that Power BI will deliver what we need with adequate cost and within a reasonable timeline. As a solution within our IT environment without the … Incentivized Helpful? JM Jose-Angel Mangas Global Digital Operations Manager - BA Electrification Chose Microsoft Power BI Power BI was perfectly integrated in our Microsoft ecosystem what makes everything easier also, the fast evolution that has happened over the last years and their reaction to our needs is something that makes the differents. They listen to the customer and as they do a lot of … Incentivized Helpful? Afia Tamanna Information Technology Business Consultant Chose Microsoft Power BI In my opinion, Zoho Analytics appears to be too complicated and unintuitive. Basic charts and tables take a long time to load. There are some difficulties in gaining access to the platform through the internet. The sales team will demonstrate. The most robust data visualization … Helpful? Colin Sebastian Supply Chain Compliance Manager Chose Microsoft Power BI Tableau's end product was visually more pleasing, but the ease of inputting data and manipulating it with Power BI makes Power BI the choice for our group. Tableau's input function was often clunky and more time consuming than the import feature in Power BI. Also Power BI … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose Microsoft Power BI Compared to Amazon QuickSight, if your dataset is coming from Amazon S3, it is much easier to just use QuickSight. 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Verified User C-Level Executive Chose Microsoft Power BI The most well-known competitor for [Microsoft] Power BI that can actually compete with the rich feature set it provides is Tableau, it is an excellent product, providing almost all of the features that Power BI provides, however, when we made the purchasing decision, Tableau … Incentivized Helpful? BG Bryan Goodyear Program Director Chose Microsoft Power BI The primary other visualization tool I think of is Tableau. Tableau is fine and both options are usable as long as the underlying data architecture is good. I still prefer Power BI because I think it works better with the other Microsoft Applications and I find it cleaner to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Microsoft Power BI Power BI integrates very easily with Microsoft based products like excel and sql server database and makes it easy to modify data. It also provides several different types of visualization and forecasting tools that are absent from other products. It is comparatively cheaper … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose Microsoft Power BI With Microsoft Power BI it is easy to load the data and transform it, with its competitor product Tableau, an enterprise would need a separate tool known as Tableau Prep. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Consultant Chose Microsoft Power BI Power BI has advantage in terms of its interactive user interface. Incentivized Helpful? TP Tanish Pruthi Marketing Associate Chose Microsoft Power BI Zoho Analytics is too complex-looking and unintuitive. It is not agile and takes a lot of time to load even basic tables and charts. It looks hideously archaic and insipid. Unlike Power BI, there are practically no online resources for one to learn the platform on their own. … Incentivized Helpful? Greg Watkins Senior Customer Success Manager (Strategic Accounts) Chose Microsoft Power BI Unfortunately, I was not part of the decision making process so I can't speak for what we were searching on before we made the decision to purchase. I will say that we have new team members who came from SAP, selling their SAP analytics product which is a direct competitor to … Incentivized Helpful? Dustin Ghia Lead Consultant - Solutions Architect - Software Engineer Chose Microsoft Power BI [Microsoft] Power BI is practical and effective, like a hammer for a nail, it is easy to use and produces very quickly the results that in most cases are urgently required by clients (nice reports to share on the web). To start using [Microsoft] Power BI you need a business … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Microsoft Power BI Cost-effective but has a lot of features to offer. The perfect tool to build reports and dashboards with a large amount of data and complex data modeling. End users do not require much knowledge to get used to the tool. Regular updates from Microsoft to add new features and has … Incentivized Helpful? Alex Brielmann Sales Operations Manager Chose Microsoft Power BI Again, I would say [Microsoft] Power BI stacks up right in the middle against their competitors. It gets the job done in terms of data aggregation and visualization, but it lacks user experience and ease of building. Most sales reps I spoke with didn't like the tool because it … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Project Manager Chose Microsoft Power BI I haven't used a tool similar to Microsoft Power BI before, however, it seems to be the industry standard for these types of reports and tool integrations. We operating in a "Microsoft shop" as I think many organizations do, and it just amkes sense to use Microsoft Power BI as … Incentivized Helpful? Gabrielle Wayman Product Manager, iTRACK™ Chose Microsoft Power BI I did not make the purchasing choice for Power BI. Domo seems to have a more intuitive user navigation, but other than that the level of drill-down analysis and report creation is the same. Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Data sources Pro Easy to use Pro Data visualization
Top Cons	Minus Desktop version Minus Bi tools Minus Large data

Features

Microsoft Power BI

BI Standard Reporting

Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
	Microsoft Power BI 7.3 138 Ratings 12% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports	6.5118 Ratings
Customizable dashboards	8.0138 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates	7.2126 Ratings

Ad-hoc Reporting

Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
	Microsoft Power BI 7.0 139 Ratings 15% below category average
Drill-down analysis	7.2138 Ratings
Formatting capabilities	6.4137 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages	7.5102 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration	7.0134 Ratings

Report Output and Scheduling

Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
	Microsoft Power BI 7.8 133 Ratings 7% below category average
Publish to Web	8.1128 Ratings
Publish to PDF	8.1121 Ratings
Report Versioning	7.3101 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling	8.6103 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers	6.873 Ratings

Data Discovery and Visualization

Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
	Microsoft Power BI 7.6 135 Ratings 6% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)	7.5130 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization	7.8121 Ratings
Predictive Analytics	7.4101 Ratings

Access Control and Security

Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
	Microsoft Power BI 8.2 126 Ratings 5% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)	8.2120 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model	8.8102 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)	8.4110 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control	7.01 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)	8.694 Ratings

Mobile Capabilities

Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
	Microsoft Power BI 7.9 117 Ratings 1% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access	8.0111 Ratings
Mobile Application	7.493 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile	7.4112 Ratings

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding

Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
	Microsoft Power BI 8.4 80 Ratings 6% above category average
REST API	8.172 Ratings
Javascript API	9.656 Ratings
iFrames	8.055 Ratings
Java API	7.946 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)	8.263 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)	8.344 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Microsoft Power BI
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (140 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (56 ratings)
Support Rating	8.0 (52 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Microsoft Power BI
Likelihood to Recommend	Microsoft In operations we use the tool for many different topics, from factory quality systems to high level reviews. We have created kind of an internal "App Store" based on Power BI where you have a lot of different dashboards for different solutions (cost, cash, health and safety, sales, factories, distribution centers...) and you as an user just need to get in that "App Store" and enter in whatever tool can be useful for you. It is open to all the operations employees and can use on demand. Also it has raised the imagination of our colleagues, as they are not only working by themselves creating new reports, but also raising fantastic ideas that can be extended for the usage of all the community. Incentivized JM Jose-Angel Mangas Global Digital Operations Manager - BA Electrification Read full review
Pros	Microsoft Quickly filter and view granular data sets with easily configurable reporting figures. The ability to quickly switch between tabs allows for historical data comparisons and progress tracking. It's helpful to dive into the data and break it down from high levels to small. Achieve actionable insights faster by using real-time data. It's incredible to have online access to reports. Afia Tamanna Information Technology Business Consultant Read full review
Cons	Microsoft The desktop app is great but needs a lot of performance improvements No MacOS Version for the Desktop app, this is a big limitation for business since executives prefer Macs Premium Cloud Version of Power BI is awfully expensive On-Premise Version of the Power BI Reports Server is bundled only with SQL Server Enterprise License and cannot be purchased separately and requires Software Assurance Subscription On-Premise Power BI Report Server doesn't support ADFS, AzureAD or any Claims-Based authentication platform, a sad disadvantage for enterprises Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Microsoft I find it helpful and easy to use Incentivized jim paroly Freelance Photographer Read full review
Usability	Microsoft At this point, I think we all know who has taken the lead in the business intelligence and analytics market worldwide. With fresh new updates every other day on top of an already robustly built product with all features that one can dream of is a no brainer, I feel. Microsoft will invariably be synonymous with quality and professionalism. Incentivized TP Tanish Pruthi Marketing Associate Read full review
Support Rating	Microsoft I can't really speak to the support overall, [but] I will say that in the almost three years I have used the system, I have only needed to contact their support team once. I think the team was helpful, but it did take some time for us to resolve the issues/ request that they had. I guess the good news is that the system is pretty stable, and I personally have rarely needed to contact their technical support team. Incentivized Greg Watkins Senior Customer Success Manager (Strategic Accounts) Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Microsoft [Microsoft] Power BI is practical and effective, like a hammer for a nail, it is easy to use and produces very quickly the results that in most cases are urgently required by clients (nice reports to share on the web). To start using [Microsoft] Power BI you need a business email address, with that you create an account in Power BI Service and in less than 1 hour you will have installed Power BI Desktop, a report will have been created and it will have been published on the web . Incentivized Dustin Ghia Lead Consultant - Solutions Architect - Software Engineer Read full review
Return on Investment	Microsoft It helps us track and achieve company goals. It shows us [our] performance in areas we could not previously track and allows us to see and work on how to improve their performance. Quick easy access for executives to use in helping teams and addressing issues. Incentivized christian Maxwell Process Manager Read full review
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