Microsoft Power BI Reviews & Ratings 2023

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What is Microsoft Power BI?

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…

Visualization and Reporting? Power BI is all you need.

9 out of 10

August 04, 2023

Power BI is a great tool for Visualization and reporting.
We basically use this tool as a means of analyzing the maintenance data base in …

My Experience with Microsoft Power BI Pro

9 out of 10

March 30, 2023

Incentivized

Microsoft Power BI helps in building various visuals from different sources like databases such as Excel and Azure. Currently, we are …

Power BI - not quite there yet, but getting there.

6 out of 10

August 02, 2022

Incentivized

[Microsoft] Power BI is currently used as an alternative to Tableau, with its lower cost and more robust built in modelling, ETL …

Great value. Would use again.

8 out of 10

July 21, 2022

Incentivized

The entire organization is using Power BI. Depending on your technical ability, any one person could be leveraging the technology …

Power BI Multi- Geo Location Architecture and Licensing Review

9 out of 10

July 12, 2022

Reporting BI tool for the entire organization for Intact. In the past, many Power BI dev. didn't have unique and secure workspaces to …

Best ETL and advanced data visualization tool

10 out of 10

June 07, 2022

Incentivized

There are a lot of manual reports with the same activities in daily, weekly, and monthly frequency of various reports. It can automate the …

One stop solution for your data visuluzation

10 out of 10

May 30, 2022

We use Power BI for our daily reporting visualization. We often use it for analyzing big data and creating impactful visuals from them. We …

Review for Power BI

10 out of 10

April 25, 2022

We use Power BI for data presentation and Visualization of the data as we know raw data is nothing we use Power BI to clean and present …

Microsoft Power BI - great tool for reports

10 out of 10

March 14, 2022

Incentivized

Instead of using one big Excel file that gathers different types of data from various sources we decided to switch to using Power BI, …

Microsoft Power BI Desktop is it good ?

9 out of 10

February 07, 2022

We are using Microsoft Power BI widely in the Company, together with more than 80 associates were are the Gurus of Power BI, we help …

Great tool. All you can think data wise, you can built it there.

9 out of 10

January 10, 2022

Incentivized

Power BI is a perfect platform for us in order to display the data in an useful and interactive way.
Before starting to use Power BI, …

"Simplifies Data Dashboards and Visualization Amidst Microsoft Power BI."

9 out of 10

November 11, 2021

We deployed Microsoft Power BI in every department at our company, including sales, customer service managers (CSMs), and product and …

Power BI: A great tool for beginner to mid-level data manipulation.

9 out of 10

November 06, 2021

Incentivized

We use Microsoft Power BI for any number of tasks, mainly synthesizing data down and making easily to read and use charts. It's also used …

Best and high quality Visualization and Insights using Power BI

10 out of 10

October 13, 2021

Currently, the product is used by [a] few teams including my team. The organization is developing [a] Data Analytics platform and then …

MS Power BI is a good buy for non-coder

7 out of 10

August 24, 2021

Incentivized

MS Power BI has been used in my company as a visualization tool along with QuickSight and Tableau. They all serve the same function that …

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Popular Features

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Customizable dashboards (137)
8.8
88%
Drill-down analysis (137)
8.1
81%
Report sharing and collaboration (133)
7.6
76%
Formatting capabilities (136)
7.2
72%

Reviewer Pros & Cons

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Online Editing should be possible without downloading the app.

Mohamed Adil Shaikh

Process Data Engineer

Shell (Oil & Energy, 10,001+ employees)

Can be opened from mobile and desktop and anywhere
Can allow data export for unlimited number of rows in Excel

Subhodeep Chandra

Consultant

Nihilent (Design, 1001-5000 employees)

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Pricing

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Power BI Pro

$9.99

Cloud

Per User/Per Month

Power BI Premium

$20.00

Cloud

Per User/Per Month

Power BI Premium

$4,995.00

Cloud

Per Capacity/Per Month

Entry-level set up fee?

No setup fee

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Offerings

Free Trial
Free/Freemium Version
Premium Consulting / Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

$9.99 per month

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Product Demos

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Features

BI Standard Reporting

Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.

8.1

Avg 8.1

Ad-hoc Reporting

Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.

7.7

Avg 8.0

8.1
Drill-down analysis
(137) Ratings
Drill down analysis is the ability to get to a further level of detail by going deeper into the hierarchy.
7.2
Formatting capabilities
(136) Ratings
Ability to format output e.g. conditional formatting, lines, headers, footers.
7.8
Integration with R or other statistical packages
(102) Ratings
Integration with the open-source R predictive modeling environment.
7.6
Report sharing and collaboration
(133) Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration is the ability to easily share reports with others.

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

8.3

Avg 8.3

8.8
Publish to Web
(127) Ratings
8.8
Publish to PDF
(120) Ratings
7.5
Report Versioning
(100) Ratings
Report versioning is the assignment of version numbers to each version of a report to help in tracking.
8.7
Report Delivery Scheduling
(103) Ratings
Report Delivery Schedule is the ability to have reports delivered to a destination at a specific data and time.
7.8
Delivery to Remote Servers
(72) Ratings
Ability to deliver reports to remote servers

Data Discovery and Visualization

Data Discovery and Visualization is the analysis of multiple data sources in a search for patterns and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.

8.4

Avg 8.1

8.4
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
(129) Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats are canned visualization types that can be selected to visualize different kinds of data.
8.7
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
(120) Ratings
Location analytics is the visualization of geographical or spatial data.
8.2
Predictive Analytics
(100) Ratings
Predictive Analytics is the ability to build forecasting models based on existing data sets.

Access Control and Security

Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.

8.6

Avg 8.5

8.8
Multi-User Support (named login)
(119) Ratings
Named model access means that users have access based on name and password.
8.7
Role-Based Security Model
(102) Ratings
Role-based access means that access to data is determined by job or position in the corporation.
8.1
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
(110) Ratings
Multiple access permission levels means that different levels of users have different rights.
8.8
Single Sign-On (SSO)
(94) Ratings
Allows users to use one set of login credentials to access multiple applications

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

8.1

Avg 7.9

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding

APIs are a set of routines, protocols, and tools for used for embedding one application in another

8.2

Avg 7.9

8.3
REST API
(72) Ratings
REST is an architecture style for designing networked applications
8.7
Javascript API
(56) Ratings
A Javascript API is a type of API
8
iFrames
(55) Ratings
An iFrame is an HTML document embedded inside another HTML document on a website
7.8
Java API
(46) Ratings
A Java application programming interface (API) is a list of all classes that are part of the Java development kit (JDK)
8.4
Themeable User Interface (UI)
(63) Ratings
A themeable user interface means that a specific visual them can be applied to it
8.2
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
(44) Ratings
A customizable, open source API Gateway is a fast and scalable type of API

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Product Details

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What is Microsoft Power BI?

Microsoft Power BI is a business analytics service 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.

Key features

Free initial setup with no required training
Connectivity with Excel spreadsheets, cloud services, streaming data, on-premise databases, and more
Dashboards that update in real-time
Natural language processing for data visualization tools
Shareable reports and datasets
Collaborative framework
Remote accessibility
Integrates with most applications and services using REST API
Publish data directly from service with publish-to-web feature

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Microsoft Power BI Technical Details

Deployment Types	Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating Systems	Unspecified
Mobile Application	No

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Microsoft Power BI starts at $9.99.

Reviewers rate Customizable dashboards and Publish to Web and Publish to PDF highest, with a score of 8.8.

The most common users of Microsoft Power BI are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).

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