Microsoft PowerBI: awesome data visualization tool
March 02, 2018
Microsoft PowerBI: awesome data visualization tool
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Power BI
PowerBI is used in our organization as a tool to provide a better data visualization. It is used mostly by the intelligence and media department, in order to produce better reports for clients and making the process easier and faster, mostly automatic, when possible. It is also used by the People and Culture department to produce evaluation reports.
- Data visualization (dynamic graphics, for example).
- Connecting and fetching data from different sources accross the internet.
- The possibility of publishing reports online, which makes it really easy to share conclusions and insights.
- The management of databases should be easier, more flexible like Excel.
- The Q&A feature is not easy to use.
- The pricing is not ideal. At least, the free version has some big limitations.
SPSS is a tool more focused in establishing relationships among different variables, in a given database. By being so, it has some specific commands that allow you to easily do regression analysis, ANOVAs, segment a sample, and so on. However, Power BI is much more developed in terms of data visualization, since its outputs have better visual elements than those in SPSS. I feel, however, that they complement each other, since you can also do some analysis in Power BI, but the coding knowledge demanded is much higher.