Item: Microsoft Power BI
Rating: 9
Author: Tim Welch

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using PowerBI to visualise data from a data source of over 200 million data points. It is currently used by data analysts and our Business Intelligence team as a quick way to view and analyse the data.

Pros and Cons

Quick visualisation of data
Easy to connect to different sources
Easily cusomisable

Security settings make it difficult to deploy to restricted users via web sites

Alternatives Considered

Birst and Tableau Desktop

Although we use Birst for our client facing dashboards, PowerBI is much more efficient when connecting to external data sources, and is much easier to customise. The pricing of it almost makes is preferable to other more established options like Tableau.

Other Software Used

Birst, Microsoft SQL Server

Likelihood to Recommend

Good for quickly connecting to an external datasource (e.g. database or cube) and visualising / analysing the data.
Less suited (currently) for deploying on a subscription/restricted user basis on the internet.

Power BI lets you Excel

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Power BI

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros and Cons

Alternatives Considered

Other Software Used

Likelihood to Recommend

Microsoft Power BI Feature Ratings