MS Power BI Review
May 23, 2018

MS Power BI Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Power BI

MS Power BI is being used across the entire organization. We use it to report Sales, Marketing and Operational metrics to our users in order to indicate areas of improvement, and help drive business decision making processes.

Pros

  • Power BI is strong in visualizing data from different sources into easy to navigate dashboards.
  • If you are familiar with MS Excel's Power Query and Power Pivot, Power BI will be very easy for you to use.

Cons

  • The data load is limited to 2GB at a time, which is somewhat limited.
I only evaluated Power BI as this tool was very cost effective through our existing Microsoft agreement.
When you have multiple sources of data that you want to report on in a single dashboard, Power BI is an ideal tool to accomplish that. It is easy to share the dashboards with your users through Power BI online or through the use of apps.

Microsoft Power BI Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
7.7
Pixel Perfect reports
6
Customizable dashboards
9
Report Formatting Templates
8
8.0
Drill-down analysis
8
Formatting capabilities
8
Integration with R or other statistical packages
8
Report sharing and collaboration
8
7.6
Publish to Web
9
Publish to PDF
9
Report Versioning
8
Report Delivery Scheduling
7
Delivery to Remote Servers
5
7.3
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
7
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
9
Predictive Analytics
6
7.3
Multi-User Support (named login)
8
Role-Based Security Model
7
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
6
Single Sign-On (SSO)
8
8.0
Responsive Design for Web Access
8
Mobile Application
8
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
8
7.3
REST API
8
Javascript API
8
iFrames
8
Java API
Not Rated
Themeable User Interface (UI)
5
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
Not Rated

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