Microsoft Power BI

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Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Microsoft Power BI	Score 8.5 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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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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	Microsoft Power BI
Considered Both Products	Microsoft Power BI Verified User Professional Chose Microsoft Power BI Microsoft Power BI has more templates and the control panel for modifying data visualizations is more powerful with more choices of line charts, bar charts, maps/scatter points than Google Sheets, which is limited to simple bar charts and pie charts. Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose Microsoft Power BI We were able to bundle Power BI with other Microsoft products we rely on heavily. This and the customization options were the main sellers for us. Helpful? Edson Pinheiro Data Engineer Chose Microsoft Power BI Much more instinctive Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Microsoft Power BI Power BI is a great tool to create reports and share data. However, it does not have the budgeting, forecasting and predictive modeling tools we need for our Financial Planning and Analysis part of our business. So we also implemented Vena for our financial reporting, … Incentivized Helpful? TH Tony Higgins System operations Chose Microsoft Power BI It's got a larger user base and seems better supported. Personally it feels like alot more work getting comparable results from Tableau. Microsoft Power BI will be WAY easier to work with all your various data sources, if you are working in an environment with M365 already. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Microsoft Power BI All others apps are enablers and Microsoft Power BI is the visual that end user sees which often adds more value to the end user to make strategic decisions from this. All are equally great but Microsoft Power BI is the end result Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Executive Chose Microsoft Power BI Microsoft Power BI vs. Tableau Power BI cheaper and works well with Microsoft tools. Tableau has better visuals but is costly. Microsoft Power BII vs. Looker Looker is good for big data, but Microsoft Power BI is easier to use. Microsoft Power BI vs. Qlik Qlik is fast for big … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Executive Chose Microsoft Power BI Microsoft Power BI provide a user friendly in many ways to analyse the data and visualization of the data .Stacking makes the works easier easily attach the table ,chart row and column through the various available tool ..it also reduces the work part and manpower mechanically … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Microsoft Power BI Microsoft Power BI is more flexible and it requires less effort in order to create a working environment. The results have an attractive and customizable display. The model is a star schema therefore it do not require specific database adaptation. Excel and csv files could be … Incentivized Helpful? TI Tanner Ingalls Data Product Manager & Data Scientist Chose Microsoft Power BI Microsoft Power BI is free. If I didn't want to create a custom platform (i.e. my organization insisted on an existing platform that I had to use), I'd use Microsoft Power BI. For any start-up or SMB, I'd just use Claude & Grok to build it quickly, also for free. Would … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Microsoft Power BI Same need to be large scale. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Microsoft Power BI Microsoft Power BI is easier to learn, a lot of examples on YouTube, internet documentation books helps to the implementation and personalization of the dashboards easier to use than other platforms. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Microsoft Power BI We use Microsoft Power BI in addition to other software. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Program Manager Chose Microsoft Power BI While excel can be useful for a very quick data dump, Microsoft Power BI is able to bring that data to life, and show trends and the actual story of what is happening. Microsoft Power BI is the ultimate display tool, and allows us to share information quickly to the CORRECT … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Microsoft Power BI Compared to this tool, Microsoft Power BI doesn't involve heavy coding and provides user friendly interface to visualize data. Microsoft Power BI reports can be shared and published without exposing your source code. Also, the reports are interactive providing drill down … Incentivized Helpful? Matt Aldridge Learning Analytics Lead Chose Microsoft Power BI Power BI is much simple to use, and more modern than BusinessObjects, which has now been discontinued. It costs much less to license than Tableau which is perhaps more niche and designed better. It is also much more powerful for data analysis than excel, Smartsheet, Airtable, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Microsoft Power BI Some of the strengths are 1. User-Friendliness 2. Self-Service BI (Caters to all levels of the employees 3. Cost-effective. 4. Easy integration with Microsoft Suits. 5. DAX Calculations 6. Familiar Interface like traditional Excel. 7. Easier Self-Service platform for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose Microsoft Power BI After several years using Google Looker Studio and BigQuery, Microsoft Power BI is a step-up in terms of visualizations. It is also much more powerful, leading to less errors and has a more intuitive interface. Looker Studio has a focus on Google Analytics whereas Microsoft … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Consultant Chose Microsoft Power BI NA - did not use any other software, yet. Happy with the services and features provided by Microsoft Power BI which helps us navigate through the client requests on a daily basis while also providing actionable insights / solutions with maximum efficiency and that too in a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Contributor Chose Microsoft Power BI It's the most widely used tool in most organizations Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Microsoft Power BI Each has a different function. I think Microsoft Power BI is easier to use than Tableau and cheaper but SQL and databricks have so much more versatility Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose Microsoft Power BI I prefer Power BI because of its affordability and fewer complicated tools than Tableau. It's easy to use and compatible with other Microsoft products, which are mostly used in the IT industry. It's not limited to only one platform like Looker Studio, which is mostly used in … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Contributor Chose Microsoft Power BI Microsoft Power BI is more flexible and can also handle more complex reporting scenarios. While Microsoft Excel is a great tool for analyzing data building visuals is not what it is made for. It is complicated to create Excel reports that will be interactive as a use wants to … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Microsoft Power BI

BI Standard Reporting

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	Microsoft Power BI 8.3 196 Ratings 1% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports	8.3167 Ratings
Customizable dashboards	8.7195 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates	8.0178 Ratings

Ad-hoc Reporting

Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
	Microsoft Power BI 8.0 194 Ratings 0% below category average
Drill-down analysis	8.3191 Ratings
Formatting capabilities	7.8191 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages	7.4143 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration	8.4189 Ratings

Report Output and Scheduling

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	Microsoft Power BI 8.0 187 Ratings 3% below category average
Publish to Web	8.2177 Ratings
Publish to PDF	8.1172 Ratings
Report Versioning	7.7144 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling	8.2147 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers	7.9110 Ratings

Data Discovery and Visualization

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	Microsoft Power BI 7.8 187 Ratings 3% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)	8.2181 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization	8.1166 Ratings
Predictive Analytics	7.4136 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining	7.437 Ratings

Access Control and Security

Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
	Microsoft Power BI 8.5 178 Ratings 0% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)	8.7168 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model	8.4146 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)	8.4158 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control	8.347 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)	8.6140 Ratings

Mobile Capabilities

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	Microsoft Power BI 8.0 160 Ratings 2% above category average
Responsive Design for Web Access	7.7150 Ratings
Mobile Application	7.6131 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile	7.9153 Ratings

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding

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	Microsoft Power BI 7.8 115 Ratings 1% above category average
REST API	8.1103 Ratings
Javascript API	7.684 Ratings
iFrames	8.055 Ratings
Java API	7.068 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)	7.690 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)	8.444 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Microsoft Power BI
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (197 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.5 (3 ratings)
Usability	8.3 (113 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (52 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Microsoft Power BI
Likelihood to Recommend	Microsoft Has significantly improved collation of data and visualisation especially with business across Europe. Has given me the ability to see the Site availability at the click of a button to see which Site is in the "money" and seize opportunities based on Market data Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Microsoft Options for data source connections are immense. Not just which sources, but your options for how the data is brought in. Constant updates (this is both good and bad at times). User friendliness. I can get the data connections set up and draft some quick visuals, then release to the target audience and let them expand on it how they want to. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Microsoft It would be easier for users could Microsoft Power BI and Excel used the same programming languages. Would like to see the online version of Microsoft Power BI be as powerful as the desktop version. Publishing a Microsoft Power BI file online and then having to save the file is somewhat redundant. Would like to export each page or chart as an image. Incentivized SM Sherri MacCheyne Director, Strategic Operations Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Microsoft Microsoft Power BI is an excellent and scalable tool. It has a learning curve, but once you get past that, the sky is the limit and you can build from the most simple to the most complex dashboards. I have built everything from simple reports with only a few data points to complex reports with many pages and advanced filtering. David Jensen Operations Manager, Customer Success Read full review
Usability	Microsoft Automating reporting has reduced manual data processing by 50-70%, freeing up analysts for higher-value tasks. A finance team that previously spent 20+ hours per week on Excel-based reports now does it in minutes with Microsoft Power BI's automated Real-time dashboards have shortened decision cycles by 30-40%, enabling leadership to react quickly to sales trends, operational bottlenecks, and customer behavior. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Microsoft It is a fantastic tool, you can do almost everything related with data and reports, it is a perfect substitutive of Power Point and Excel with a high evolution and flexibility, and also it is very friendly and easy to share. I think all companies should have Power BI (or other BI tool) in their software package and if they are in the MS Suite, for sure Power BI should be the one due to all the benefits of the MS ecosystem. Incentivized JM Jose-Angel Mangas Global Digital Operations Manager - BA Electrification Read full review
Implementation Rating	Microsoft It was integrated with our erp easily and was accessible on cloud. Incentivized Anuj Sant Technical Supply chain professional Senior buyer Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Microsoft Microsoft Power BI is free. If I didn't want to create a custom platform (i.e. my organization insisted on an existing platform that I had to use), I'd use Microsoft Power BI. For any start-up or SMB, I'd just use Claude & Grok to build it quickly, also for free. Would not pay for Tableau or Sigma anymore. Not worth it at all. Incentivized TI Tanner Ingalls Data Product Manager & Data Scientist Read full review
Return on Investment	Microsoft Power BI usage reduced the effort of analytical reports creation by about 80% Empowered all the level of employee to be more vigilant of the data and business insights, gained the profit of 8% overall. AI-powered predictive analytics improved forecasting accuracy by 17%, that topped the overall sales. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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