Putting the Power back in Business Intelligence
December 07, 2017

Putting the Power back in Business Intelligence

Vishal Shivdasani | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Power BI

Power BI is used as a dashboarding solution via the cloud (web) or Excel to share critical KPIs across the organization. The deployment is across the organization; however, seems to be more important to certain members than others. It improves upon the legacy process of circulating of static dashboard workbooks, by offering dynamic, live, realtime data and information critical to the operations, sale and finance/accounting functional departments.
  • Heat mapping
  • Exceptions reporting
  • Trend analysis
  • Data consolidation and hierarchy
  • Drilling into a relational database
  • GUI
  • Help desk / support documentation
  • Developer tools
  • Can be used across all ERP packages and implementation
  • Enjoyed by price sensitive
  • Subscription based
  • Does not need a large infrastructure for deployment
Well suited:
Dashboarding, KPI broadcasting/publishing, trending, real-time data applications, pull reporting information services, dynamic data availability.

Less appropriate:
Presentation of static information, push information, report repository.

Microsoft Power BI Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
8
Customizable dashboards
10
Report Formatting Templates
8
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
9
Integration with R or other statistical packages
8
Report sharing and collaboration
9
Publish to Web
10
Publish to PDF
10
Report Versioning
10
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
9
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
10
Predictive Analytics
8
Multi-User Support (named login)
9
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
Not Rated
Single Sign-On (SSO)
9
Responsive Design for Web Access
10
Mobile Application
9
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
10
REST API
Not Rated
Javascript API
Not Rated
iFrames
Not Rated
Java API
Not Rated
Themeable User Interface (UI)
Not Rated
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
Not Rated