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Microsoft Power BI Embedded

Score8 out of 10

25 Reviews and Ratings

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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.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Microsoft Power BI Embedded has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 25 ratings of Microsoft Power BI Embedded's features
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Top Performing Features

  • 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: 7.1

  • Report sharing and collaboration

    Report sharing and collaboration is the ability to easily share reports with others.

    Category average: 8.1

Areas for Improvement

  • 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: 7.7

  • Customizable Platform (Open Source)

    A customizable, open source API Gateway is a fast and scalable type of API

    Category average: 5.8

Reviews

What users are saying about Microsoft Power BI Embedded.
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Federated Reporting embedded in your ERP.

Incentivized
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

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Incentivized
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

To infinity and beyond - with Microsoft Power BI

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

Microsoft Power BI, low cost visualization of production data

Incentivized
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

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Incentivized
Aryan AmbaniView 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