Microsoft PowerBI unleashes the power of your data
April 22, 2020
Microsoft PowerBI unleashes the power of your data
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft BI
We use Microsoft PowerBI to analyze data from our CRM and invoicing system (Connectwise with a SQL backend). Connectwise has a large number of built-in reports and a custom report writer but it was falling short of our needs. We engaged an outside consultant to create a large set of reports and views using PowerBI. Our managment teams uses it weekly. The ability to view them online without any special software of "running" of reports make it so much easier to use than other platforms we've used.
- Easy to access the data and views you have created
- Simple filtering of data views
- Ability to view live or near live data
- It runs in a browser and some browsers work better than others
- Sometimes you start getting wacky results and you have to refresh the page to reset the views
We have used the built in ConnectWise Manager reports and custom reports. The reports provide static data. PowerBI shows us live data we can drill down into and easily adjust parameters. It's much more useful than a static PDF report.