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Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)

Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)

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What is Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)?

Power BI for Office 365 allowed users to model and analyze data, and query large datasets with complex natural language queries. It has been discontinued in favor of other editions of Power BI going forward.

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Rating: 8 out of 10
November 9, 2021
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Power BI is being used as a primary reporting tool across whole organization. It provides attractive GUI compare to other existing tools such as Qlikview and Qliksense. Also i...
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Shiv Shrotriya
Analyst - Information Technology
datawarehousing/BI developer
Varian Medical system
Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)3 years of experience

Excellent program for manipulation and presentation of statistical data.

Rating: 9 out of 10
July 17, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
The Microsoft Power BI has been used within the company for a number of years. It is most commonly used in the financial sector of the company and has been delivering excellen...
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Denis Pereira
Technician - Information Technology
Programmer Analyst
Alcoa Aluminiun S/A
Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)1 year of experience

Powerful, easy to use, no-nonsense visualization

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 15, 2019
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Power BI is being used primarily by our donor relations team to create visual dashboards of giving profiles, linked with other data sources. This helps us to easily spot trend...
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Jeremiah Miller
Director - Information Technology
Associate Director IT Infrastructure
Mennonite Central Committee
Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)2 years of experience

Power BI Review

Rating: 8 out of 10
June 6, 2016
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It is used for pilot projects to asses the benefits of use.
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Richard Lorenz
Analyst - Information Technology
Manager of Compliance and Business Performance
Computershare Australia
Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)1 year of experience

Power BI to reduce BS!

Rating: 7 out of 10
June 1, 2016
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
I've supported Power BI for companies within the job recruiting area. We implemented the software for staff or more importantly the recruiters to upload data such as health ca...
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Daniel J. Lewis
Consultant - Information Technology
System Administrator
vdiscovery
Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)2 years of experience
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What is Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)?

Power BI for Office 365 allowed users to model and analyze data, and query large datasets with complex natural language queries. It has been discontinued in favor of other editions of Power BI going forward.

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  • No setup fee

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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Features

BI Standard Reporting

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

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Avg 8.2

Ad-hoc Reporting

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

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Report Output and Scheduling

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Data Discovery and Visualization

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Mobile Capabilities

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Product Details

What is Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)?

Power BI for Office 365 allowed users to model and analyze data, and query large datasets with complex natural language queries. It has been discontinued in favor of other editions of Power BI going forward.

Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued) Technical Details

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Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Power BI for Office 365 allowed users to model and analyze data, and query large datasets with complex natural language queries. It has been discontinued in favor of other editions of Power BI going forward.

Reviewers rate Report Formatting Templates and Integration with R or other statistical packages and Report sharing and collaboration highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued) are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Almost there

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
November 04, 2014
EV
Eltjo Verweij
Data Analyst
Vierzicht.nl (Logistics and Supply Chain, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
In our organization, Power BI is used for ad-hoc data analysis and some regular reports, next to other BI tools. Only data analysts use it to compile reports that are easily viewed in Excel by non-Power BI users. It is the tool of choice for combining data from multiple sources.
Pros
  • Ease of use. Most people have experience working with Excel. If you know how to create pivots, you can use Power BI.
  • Data extraction and transformation (ETL). ETL is a joy with Power Query. It is intuitive, simple and a magical experience to transform poor data into something useful.
  • Visuals. Power BI is beautiful to behold, especially Power View.
  • Maps. The interactive maps are great built-in tools.
  • Cost You cannot find anything cheaper than Power BI, unless you want to give it to every user in your company.
Cons
  • Automatic updates. A choice of a daily or weekly refresh is too slow for this era of real-time updates.
  • Speed. It takes a while to load all the data into memory. Data with more than one million records will take a few minutes to refresh. Once it is loaded, it starts being fairly fast.
  • Changing queries in Power Query. Although Microsoft is working on it, when you delete a step in Power Query, you might have to rebuild your data model. This defeats the purpose of having a fantastic user interface, in which it is simple to change queries.
Likelihood to Recommend
Power BI is great for a daily or weekly report, or any ad-hoc queries. Ideally, all users should have Windows 8 and Excel 2013. If you have more than 500,000 records or need real-time updates, you might want to look for another BI tool.

Excellent program for manipulation and presentation of statistical data.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
July 17, 2019
DP
Denis Pereira
Programmer Analyst
Alcoa Aluminiun S/A (Mining & Metals, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
The Microsoft Power BI has been used within the company for a number of years. It is most commonly used in the financial sector of the company and has been delivering excellent results and handling facilities for managers. It shows in detail each value, graphic and is very easy to understand. In the presentations, the software is entering the place of excel.
Pros
  • Helps to create machine learning models and find cognitive insights
  • Connects to virtually all existing data sources (Google Analytics, SalesForce, and others)
  • High performance and high compression ratio
  • Very easy to implement
Cons
  • Need to have more advanced knowledge in excel
  • Some elements are limited
Likelihood to Recommend
The Microsoft Power BI is used to hold global meetings in the financial industry. It has good dynamics and makes it easier to understand values ​​and graphics. However, to use it, you need to have a little knowledge in Microsoft Office Excel, as you may have difficulty using it otherwise. The cost of the license is low, I believe it compensates the investor.

Power BI to reduce BS!

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
June 01, 2016
DJ
Daniel J. Lewis
System Administrator
vdiscovery (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
2 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I've supported Power BI for companies within the job recruiting area. We implemented the software for staff or more importantly the recruiters to upload data such as health care, real estate, IT, hedge funds and law firms to see what markets were most active and how to distribute staff for recruiting needed employees for their clients. There was no problem; it helped my clients focus on the needed markets with the visuals and dashboard so managers and "higher ups" can put together a strategy.
Pros
  • The dashboard is super easy to use. The GUI is flexible and updates as needed
  • Customization was key for individuals and presentation purposes.
  • Integration with Office 365 is another plus. The licensing made sense when pitching the proposal when a client is already running Office 365.
Cons
  • Well in general Microsoft support needs CPR.
  • There are bugs such as some items you'd think were allowed on the dashboard are not options however from reading they are continuing to improve these concerns/features.
  • Implementation can be finicky depending on how the current environment is configured.
Likelihood to Recommend
It's very flashy, and cost effective (if you are a gold partner which my clients were so we bundled their packages). It also does a great job compiling printable/email-able PDFs for reference. Another great feature is being able to display statistics on TVs for either internal or external use. It lets everyone know whats going on; being transparent.

PowerBI for your dashboard and reporting needs.

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
December 14, 2018
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Computer Hardware Company, 11-50 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
PowerBI is used within our organisation to display various data and metrics in a visual way, but also allows exporting where required to allow users to interact with the data directly in Excel. It is used by all staff at our organisation. For some it is a simple snapshot view of some data to show where we as a company are right now, for others they use it to drill into sales or product data to give them a quick way to see this data without having to use the clunky reports/interface of our ERP system. The product has allowed us to move from just Excel-based reports to dashboards that show visually what is happening. It also provides the option of simple controls to slice and filter the data to requirements. It is simple to use and create visualisations where previously we had to use a separate system for that.
Pros
  • Easy to make visual dashboards from SQL queries. Previously we had to use a third party application that had to run on a web server that was so complex to setup and run. PowerBI removes all that.
  • Ability to control who/which group has access to each dashboard or report. Ties in well with the rest of the Office 365 ecosystem.
  • Has many connectors to allow pulling data from various systems, both onsite (via gateway) or external (via APIs), and join the data to create a report/dashboard.
  • Ability to show data but also export the data, if permitted.
  • Easy to show PowerBI dashboards on SharePoint or on other websites via embedded code.
Cons
  • Once a report uses a Pro feature, it needs a Pro license, but a lot of these are just basic features and the users are just viewing and not using any of the advanced features. It would be nice to have a Pro / Viewing license and Pro / Interacting license.
  • Limited amount of refreshes per 24 hours period. 5 refreshes as of Dec 2018.
  • The emailing of reports is there but kind of basic. It will do a screen grab of a report, which doesn't turn out very well.
Likelihood to Recommend
If you want to create a visual dashboard or report that utilises various data sources then PowerBI can do this. It is great in that it takes your on-premises data and stores it on Microsoft servers where it can interact with it faster, reducing load on your own servers, while being efficient in what it transfers out.

We have found it not well suited if you wanted to publish a simple report to many staff as they may all need a Pro license which can get expensive. Even if embedding the report onto a shared platform like SharePoint, it will not display if the users doesn't have a PowerBI Pro license.

Power BI for Office 365 - A compelling data analytics platform for personal and team use

Rating: 8 out of 10
May 21, 2014
KR
Ken Raetz
Manager, DW/BI Services
LBMC Technologies, LLC (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are a Microsoft partner, with my line of business focusing on creating data-driven solutions for our customers, ranging from IT-sponsored enterprise data warehouse initiatives to small team and personal business analytics solutions. My consulting team uses Power BI for primarily two purposes: 1) to create pilot/proof-of-concept solutions for our customers to help launch them on their BI journey; 2) to perform data analytics on larger enterprise data-driven initiatives. The agility of the Excel-based solution, combined with the power of the in-memory PowerPivot data engine, more than meets our need for the these 2 purposes. Our customers appreciate it because it allows them to remain in their very familiar Excel environment.

We are working with mostly finance/accounting departments, and in some cases, business analysts (or "power users") within the business community (sales, marketing, etc.). We are solving finance challenges like Accounts Receivable collections, along with operational challenges such as monitoring year-over-year sales metrics and comparing them to budgets that come from two data locations. In addition, we're solving painful "process issues" like trying to import multiple files into a single data set. We are literally reducing process time from days to minutes!

Pros
  • Provides flexible and powerful analytics on large datasets. PowerPivot, the in-memory database engine, can handle 100's of millions of rows of data, giving 1-2 second response time for aggregate data analysis.
  • Provides an adaptable environment to perform analytics. When combining data together in PowerPivot, you have the ability to create Excel tables, combine them with database queries, and then join that with data coming from a web-service provider.
  • Powerful web-based deployment capabilities. SharePoint technologies have been a part of the Microsoft BI solution stack for some time. Office 365 provides a powerful way to deploy the Power BI analytics to a wider audience in a secure way, allowing for flexible access from most any device, whether phone, tablet, or computer.
  • Power Query, one of the components of Power BI, is one of my favorite parts of the solution. Basically, you have at your disposal an end-user "ETL" (Extract, Transform, Load) tool, all within Excel. We've reduced multi-step, manual processes to single-click, automatic application of business rules to collect and transform data into a usable format. No need for VLOOKUP any longer with this capability.
Cons
  • Licensing: Currently, Microsoft has a fixed pricing model for Office 365 users, regardless of role/function of the user. Most organizations have a small number of "power users" that create usable content and many more "consumers" that simply view/run reports created by power users. Microsoft does not differentiate between these users, and thus the pricing limits organizations from large deployments of the software.
  • Version incompatibility: Excel 2010 and 2013 workbooks are compatible with each other. However, workbooks created in 2010 that include PowerPivot databases must be upgraded to 2013 format to run in 2013. Subsequently, you cannot open these upgraded PowerPivot workbooks in 2010. This requires ALL users to be on the same version.
  • Visualization: Excel charting with PowerPivot workbooks is adequate for many users. Power View also contains a number of GREAT visualizations, including animated bubble charts and a very flexible dashboard/report design canvas. However, compared to some of the other self-service BI solutions, it is still limited in its visualization capabilities.
Likelihood to Recommend

Well-suited: In small-to-medium size businesses (SMB), Power BI is a wonderful solution. The speed to design and deploy a highly valuable solution makes it a fantastic selection for these businesses. Also, individual or small teams, even in large corporations, can benefit from it. Finally, accounting, finance, and business analysts are the "sweet-spot audience" for Power BI. Also, Power BI is great for designing prototypes or mockups of future enterprise capabilities.

Less Appropriate: Information Technology team developing an enterprise analytics solution. Power BI is not intended to be an enterprise solution. Power BI is fully capable of handling millions of rows of data for analysis. However, in more complex analytical scenarios, where complex rules are incorporated into the data model over VERY LARGE sets of data (in particular, dimensional/structural data), the PowerPivot solution is not as strong. It is generally recommended that you upgrade to SQL Server Analysis Services for these scenarios.

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