Power BI is a very good low cost option to democratize BI
September 10, 2018

Power BI is a very good low cost option to democratize BI

Gonzalo Angeleri | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Power BI

Microsoft Power BI can be used by the entire organization, however, in our experience it is mainly used in a departmental way for reporting and dashboarding. Power BI allows users to perform, in a simple way, a complete analysis of their data using different visualizations. Companies can see trends in the data and what is the best way to use them for future decisions.
  • Quick and easy dashboard development
  • Self-Service BI capabilities
  • Mobile support
  • Great amount of data visualizations
  • It is complex to secure access to data taking into account different user profiles.
  • Q&A feature needs to be improved
Although both MicroStrategy and Cognos currently offer better business analytical capabilities, Power BI is an excellent option to extend the use of this type of solutions to a greater number of users due to its low cost.
I would recommend this solution because it provides good analytical capabilities at a low cost. It is even evolving monthly adding new features. For users who currently use Excel, it is a very good evolution that allows you to improve the analysis and governance of the BI environment, being able to reuse the Excel spreadsheets as data sources in Power BI.

Microsoft Power BI Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
8
Customizable dashboards
8
Report Formatting Templates
7
Drill-down analysis
8
Formatting capabilities
7
Integration with R or other statistical packages
6
Report sharing and collaboration
6
Publish to Web
8
Publish to PDF
7
Report Versioning
Not Rated
Report Delivery Scheduling
5
Delivery to Remote Servers
Not Rated
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
9
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
7
Predictive Analytics
Not Rated
Multi-User Support (named login)
8
Role-Based Security Model
4
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
5
Single Sign-On (SSO)
Not Rated
Responsive Design for Web Access
9
Mobile Application
9
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
8
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