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James Anderson | TrustRadius Reviewer
March 10, 2020

Microsoft Power BI - The good is getting better

James Anderson
Score 10 out of 10
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Collaboration and Sharing

10
The sharing in our department is excellent. I like that you can add comments about a particular chart or graph. You can notify everyone when an update is available.
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Richard Crane | TrustRadius Reviewer
September 30, 2019

Power BI is So Easy and So Good

Richard Crane
Score 10 out of 10
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Collaboration and Sharing

10
I love how easy it is to share data and distribute it across my organization. Everyone knows how to log into Power BI to see their reports, and depending on their role, they see what they need to see. It's very easy from that standpoint. Everyone loves how easy it is to log into and view reports. Right now we don't have SSO setup, so that's annoying. That's about the only troubleshooting I have to do, or fixing the connection if a file gets moved or changed.
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Rick Botha | TrustRadius Reviewer
September 26, 2019

Beautiful Reports and Useful Data, but configuration is not easy!

Rick Botha
Score 6 out of 10
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Collaboration and Sharing

10
With all the data that is fed to Microsoft Power BI, many reports are generated, and even more are possible. In a defense company, it is paramount that certain information is only seen by specified users, which Microsoft Power BI makes very easy to do using user groups and AD. Collaboration is relatively simple to carry out on reports, as long as the user access permissions are correctly set up. Reports can be published to internal or external websites, PDF's generated, and reports emailed.
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Steffany Winkelmann | TrustRadius Reviewer
September 25, 2019

Power BI - Excel on Steroids and So Much More

Steffany Winkelmann
Score 9 out of 10
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Collaboration and Sharing

9
It's pretty easy to create a report and share it with people who will find that report useful. When shared, those users will be able to access it via their mobile app & online in the "Shared With Me" section. As a user, you can decide who can see what reports you've created, you can decide if those receiving the share link can build new content with the underlying data set, and you can restrict if that user can share the report with anyone else. Of course, you can also remove access at any time.
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Marco De Angelis | TrustRadius Reviewer
December 30, 2019

Power BI: powerful and easy tool to build complex data model

Marco De Angelis
Score 10 out of 10
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Collaboration and Sharing

8
For my experience, collaboration in a factive way requires a PRO license. In this way, you can share reports and dashboards with other authenticated users or give them rights to manage the data model. The tool allows also to publish reports with free-to-all access.
From a collaboration point of view, there aren't many useful functions. From a security perspective, you can work to a report level or with row security level it is possible to segregate data to different clusters of users.
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Shreshthi Mehta, PMP®, PHR® | TrustRadius Reviewer
December 09, 2019

Simplified metrics using Power BI

Shreshthi Mehta, PMP®, PHR®
Score 10 out of 10
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Collaboration and Sharing

10
We used to run reports in excel, then create a power point presentation and then email it to our clients. With Power BI, the metrics can be configured into templates and scheduled to be sent to the email in the required format.
The set up took time in the beginning. But after that was done the process is easy to manage.
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Guillermo Villamizar | TrustRadius Reviewer
September 15, 2019

Power BI: Great solution for reporting and dashboards!

Guillermo Villamizar
Score 8 out of 10
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Collaboration and Sharing

7
With Power BI, we can combine data from multiple sources, build a data model, create visualizations, and share the results with others in our company. I learned Excel Power Pivot a few years ago, and everything I learned there about Power Query and DAX translated directly to Power BI. Now I rarely use Excel Power Pivot because it's so much easier to share the results through the cloud with Power BI.
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Chris Widner | TrustRadius Reviewer
September 13, 2019

Look like a genius with your reports with PowerBI

Chris Widner
Score 9 out of 10
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Collaboration and Sharing

9
Super easy to share and distribute the data within teams. A few clicks and you're set. I'm giving it a 9 because there are times when the end user can get lost in navigating the various screens on the web version. Mobile is much better in this regard, so try to go mobile when you can.
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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
January 21, 2020

Power BI: Best BI tool for companies that use Microsoft products.

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Score 10 out of 10
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Collaboration and Sharing

9
Power BI is a great tool for sharing dashboards. You can publish it to many softwares, such as PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint. The only down side is that for one person to access the shared report, one must possess the Power BI Pro license.
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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
August 09, 2019

A great tool for the analyst's toolbox and for sharing reporting within a team or department.

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Score 6 out of 10
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Collaboration and Sharing

5
The paid version is required to share and collaborate, and it does so well if you don’t need many security layers involved. I don’t feel it plays well with even its own family of tools like Word or PowerPoint. We’ve always had trouble imbedding visualizations into any other presentation tool and end up using the Snip tool to just get a static image to use. It also has limited report bursting, when most other tools can automate and schedule excel reports or pixel perfect reports in a wide variety of ways. Good for sharing amongst a team but there are better options for broader enterprise or global sharing.
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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
November 15, 2019

Nice dashboards and easy to adapt when you know Excel.

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Score 8 out of 10
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Collaboration and Sharing

6
If you want to use the full scale of report sharing then you need Pro license. Once you have the Pro license you have the capability of setting accessibility security or real time sharing or app publishing. Therefore you need to choose the correct license type for your scope data distribution. I gave a middle score as I think they should release a data sharing function free besides Export to PowerPoint or Excel. Eventually BI dashboard reporting tool that you can not use for sharing reports is not good.
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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
September 15, 2019

King of Self Service Business Intelligence

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Score 9 out of 10
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Collaboration and Sharing

9
Microsoft Power BI is built for collaboration. It has role-based security features. Teams and departments can share report among themselves. Various data visualization options are available.
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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
September 15, 2019

Really Great!

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Score 8 out of 10
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Collaboration and Sharing

8
There's great version control, and multiple users can work on the same exact document or file at the same time, and the changes are then merged automatically. Access control is also very simple and easy to configure. Sharing across teams and reporting is about as good as you could ask it to be.
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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
September 14, 2019

Strengths and Weaknesses of Microsoft Power BI

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Score 8 out of 10
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Collaboration and Sharing

10
1. Report can be published online for all user access
2. Data sharing is easy because everyone has Microsoft office and hence it is easily available to all users
3. report distribution can be synchronised with Microsoft Outlook application.
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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
September 13, 2019

PowerBI is a great tool

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Score 8 out of 10
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Collaboration and Sharing

9
Cloud and public distributions are simple and easy to do as long as you have a PRO account. It is considered secure but needs to be confirmed based on each situation.
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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
September 13, 2019

Microsoft is one of the best tools for Data Analysis

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Score 10 out of 10
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Collaboration and Sharing

10
We can define the levels of access and in the report as well we can define which level has access to what section of a report so it becomes easier to control the data visibility. Collaboration makes it easier to share the model across organization
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Gabriel Oliveira | TrustRadius Reviewer
July 06, 2019

Microsoft Power BI review: A way to optimize and improve visualization

Gabriel Oliveira
Score 9 out of 10
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Collaboration and Sharing

10
One of the points that the collaboration cannot help is a cloud security issue since we can share the URL of the folder/file so friends or people on your team can access it so that URL is not protected, I believe that anyone can access and copy files or folders from the path.
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Microsoft Power BI Scorecard Summary

Likelihood to Recommend (652)
8.2
Likelihood to Renew (1)
10.0
Usability (3)
9.0
Data Sharing and Collaboration (88)
8.3
Data Sources (87)
8.8

Feature Scorecard Summary

Pixel Perfect reports (77)
8.1
Customizable dashboards (91)
8.6
Report Formatting Templates (83)
8.4
Drill-down analysis (91)
8.6
Formatting capabilities (90)
8.4
Integration with R or other statistical packages (65)
8.4
Report sharing and collaboration (88)
8.8
Publish to Web (84)
9.0
Publish to PDF (75)
8.5
Report Versioning (63)
8.5
Report Delivery Scheduling (62)
8.6
Delivery to Remote Servers (43)
8.2
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.) (84)
8.6
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization (77)
8.5
Predictive Analytics (64)
8.0
Multi-User Support (named login) (75)
8.6
Role-Based Security Model (62)
8.5
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete) (68)
8.6
Single Sign-On (SSO) (48)
9.0
Responsive Design for Web Access (73)
8.5
Dedicated iOS Application (55)
8.2
Dedicated Android Application (59)
8.4
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile (73)
8.3
REST API (41)
8.4
Javascript API (32)
8.5
iFrames (33)
8.1
Java API (27)
8.0
Themeable User Interface (UI) (36)
8.4
Customizable Platform (Open Source) (26)
8.3

About 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
Categories:  Data Discovery and Visualization,  Business Intelligence (BI)

Microsoft Power BI Technical Details

Operating Systems: Unspecified
Mobile Application:No