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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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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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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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| Mobile Application | No |
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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 Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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November 09, 2021
Microsoft cloud based amazing Reporting tool for
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 it enables end users to build their own reports if data model is ready as development is very easy (drag and drop approach).
- Attractive GUI compare to other tools
- Development is easy
- very low maintenance
- Easy connectivity with other Microsoft platforms
- Connectivity with more sources such as SAP
- functionality to maintain history (snapshots)
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- Customer Satisfaction with dashboards
- Insights of business
- low cost compare to other tools such as Tableau
- very low maintenance
- Cost effective compare to other tools(QlikView, Tableau CRM), license is much cheaper than other BI tools.
- Easy development and preferred by customers.
- offer attractive representation of data, power BI gives almost 250 different kinds of charts and graphs to represent the data.
- maintenance is very low as cloud based solution.
- With DAX, you can perform complex calculations in dashboards.
September 19, 2016
Power BI - Worth the O365 Upgrade
We are using Power BI to create better visual representations for both internal use as well as customer facing analysis. It's not adopted across the entire organization yet but we are in the process of doing so.
- Ease of data import
- Easy to learn the basic operation of the software
- Like many Microsoft products, you can get by with a small understanding of the product, but to truly realize the entire potential does take a while to learn.
- Hooking up SQL databases to the cloud version is a more complex than just querying right into the database from the desktop version.
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- It's allowed us to better visualize large amounts of data.
- It's an easy way to tie into an existing SQL database for users that don't know SQL.
Much less expensive, particularly if your already an Office 365 customer.
September 16, 2016
I love Power BI but I could love it more
I am a single person putting together reports/dashboards to send out for others to interpret. The biggest problem right now is there is no direct connection to Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012.
- The visuals are excellent
- The interaction of data between graphs and charts
- The way the program saves how data sheets are manipulated.
- Connection to Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012
- Dashboards need to automatically update when I upload a report
- Increase speed
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- We get our money's worth. Would be willing to pay more to get more out of a program.
May 21, 2014
Power BI for Office 365 - A compelling data analytics platform for personal and team use
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
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!
- 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.
- 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.
- As a Microsoft Partner implementing Business Intelligence solutions, Power BI has removed the barrier for our clients to begin the "BI journey". So often, projects get hung up in that early phase of procuring and installing/configuring expensive hardware and software. Just simply getting started and designing a beginning solution has allowed our clients to see results in 1-2 weeks using their data that might have taken months to achieve otherwise.
- One significant ROI example is process improvement. In many cases, individuals or teams are spending days each month gathering data from multiple sources for reporting to their constituents. We are reducing these times to minutes by automating many of the data collection and integration processes that were previously manual.
Pricing and functionality. Tableau Desktop is a very capable self-service business intelligence and analytics solution. The very rich visualization capabilities are far superior to that of Excel and Power BI. However, the pricing for the Power BI desktop is extraordinary. If you own Excel 2010 or 2013, you can download the functionality for free. And more often than not, the visualization capabilities of Excel are quite good enough. Another reason we selected Power BI is the shallow learning curve for users, compared to Tableau and other similar solutions. Excel is very familiar to most data analysts and finance/accounting teams. It is a comfortable environment on which to add powerful analytic capabilities.