Microsoft Power BI Embedded

Score7.7 out of 10

26 Reviews and Ratings

What is Microsoft Power BI Embedded?

A solution from Microsoft to provide customer-facing reports, dashboards, and analytics in applications by using and branding Power BI as one's own. Designed to reduce developer resources by automating the monitoring, management, and deployment of analytics, while getting full control of Power BI features and intelligent analytics.

Categories & Use Cases

Embedded Business Intelligence (BI)

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
Pre-built visualization formats are canned visualization types that can be selected to visualize different kinds of data.
Category average: 7.9
Single Sign-On (SSO)
Allows users to use one set of login credentials to access multiple applications
Category average: 7
Report sharing and collaboration
Report sharing and collaboration is the ability to easily share reports with others.
Category average: 8.1

Pixel Perfect reports
Pixel Perfect reports are highly-formatted reports with graphics and ability to preview the report before printing.
Category average: 7.6
Formatting capabilities
Ability to format output e.g. conditional formatting, lines, headers, footers.
Category average: 7.8
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
A customizable, open source API Gateway is a fast and scalable type of API
Category average: 5.8

#1 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

25.0%

192 installations of 767

#2 most frequent

Manufacturing

13.6%

104 installations of 767

#3 most frequent

Finance and Insurance

13.4%

103 installations of 767

Verified User

Director in Engineering (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Microsoft Power BI Embedded as an integral part of our reporting and dashboarding. Many Microsoft Power BI Embedded object are embedded throughout normal course of menus in our ERP system. We use custom build dashboard with lots of filter options to present a wide range of sales and financial information including trends to a large audience of managers, sales, and finance professionals.

Pros

Sales Reporting w/YoY analysis
Incident response tracking and KPI's
Inventory availability and reporting
Personnel task tracking

Cons

More flexibility to do formatted, pixel perfect reporting
better Row level reporting
UI improvements for end user ease of use.

Return on Investment

It's been positive. Opening reporting paths that were not available.
It allows for consistent reporting among managers from different areas.
It provides a single source of truth for reporting to our clients, vendors and in internal reviews.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

IBM Cognos Analytics and IBM Cognos Dashboard Embedded

Other Software Used

Microsoft Power Automate, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Workday Workforce Management, Microsoft Teams

Verified User

Technician in Marketing (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Import data, clean and transform it to prepare it, create data models and relationships, and finally design visualizations and reports to then share the reports with managers or shareholders. It is accessible to the entire organization from any device, which makes life easier for everyone and gives everyone easier access to reports or searches.

Pros

Extract, Transform and Load Data
Wide variety of charts.
Accesibility

Cons

Power Query
Have all in one place
IA

Return on Investment

Easy to use
Accesability
cost or memory limitations

Usability

Other Software Used

Adobe Journey Optimizer, Atlassian Jira, Microsoft Teams

Sabit Shaiholla

Head Research Assistant in Engineering at Nazarbayev University JSC (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are utilizing this product for the development of real-time updating data market and dashboards for the provisioning and monitoring of marketing analytics. Moreover, by the means of the Microsoft Power Bi tool we integrating dozens of data sources into single data market, which includes Oracle Database System, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, data stream from RabbitMQ, and integration with ELK stack.

Pros

Real-time dashboards representing data and marketing analytics
Integration of several types of data sources such as Oracle SQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and so on
Unified data market composed of different dashboards from different data sources that are being updated automatically in the real-time manner

Cons

Proper integration with ELK stack - we have encountered that there is no direct way of integration, therefore we have done it through a "bypass" way which is not convenient
Very crowded user interface - the entry-level bar is high for average digital users. Also, it is blocking the view of the dashboards.
We are utilizing this product for the development of real-time updating data market and dashboards for the provisioning and monitoring of marketing analytics. Moreover, by the means of the Microsoft Power Bi tool we integrating dozens of data sources into single data market, which includes Oracle Database System, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, data stream from RabbitMQ, and integration with ELK stack.

Most Important Features

Easily manageable dashboards
Importing datasets from different sources
Wide range of functionality for data analytics
Updating and sharing created and developed dashboards in real-time manner

Return on Investment

Increased the productivity of the big data analytics team
Increased the functionality of deliverable products
Decreased time-to-market of the products due to fast deployment of analytics
Increasing the ROI of marketing team with increased functionality to perform

Alternatives Considered

Tableau Desktop, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform, SAS Business Intelligence and Qlik Sense

Other Software Used

Google Analytics, Microsoft Teams, Jira Software

Miguel Martínez Tomás

Key account manager in Sales at Sugimat SL (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our company uses the Microsoft Power BI in order to find relationships and visualizations of the relationship between productive variables that are difficult to correlate only by intuition. Is especially useful to produce an easy-to-understand visualization from the data we have into our ERP, which lets the management spend less time looking at unsorted numbers.

Pros

Correlate variables
Data visualization
Ease of understanding of correlation between productive data

Cons

Some of the connections could be more easy to configure

Most Important Features

Low priced.
Easy to use
User friendly visualization

Return on Investment

None

Other Software Used

Axiom Sales Force Development

Aryan Ambani View profile

Architectural Intern in Engineering at Syracuse university (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use this outward for everything and anything from planning meetings to submitting work. It is a very easy-to-use software that anyone can use. Our supervisors give us work through this software which is again easy to see and use. I would recommend this software to anyone working in school or outside.

Pros

Easy to use.
Very helpful data.
Data is well laid out.

Cons

The amount of time it takes to collect all the data.
Signing in takes longer than expected.
Cost is a bit high.

Most Important Features

Many people can edit it.
Can be shared with countless people.
Easy place for everyone to use.

Return on Investment

The cost.
Takes time to load.
People need to get used to it.

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365 Business Premium, Miro, Conceptboard

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