Item: Microsoft Power BI
Rating: 8
Author: Angad Singh

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Microsoft Power Bi is being used by among J&J for data visualization and reporting. My team was using it to visualize and report on certain metrics from our data catalog. I'm not sure if it is used organization wide, but there are many teams in working with data that utilize it. BI makes it convenient for teams to report data to higher management by visualizing it into easy to understand representations.

Pros and Cons

Connectivity with Microsoft tools - As you would expect, since they are developed by the same company, BI is well integrated with the other Microsoft tools such as Excel that are ubiquitous in the workforce.
Price - One of the nicest things about BI is its cheap price tag, compared to to other visualization software like Tableau.
Excellent variety of visualizations.

Not Intuitive - Can be difficult to pick up. They could add tutorial videos like Tableau.
Not easy to use with R and Python which Tableau does well.
Online version could use some work. Does not allow for all features from desktop version.

Alternatives Considered

Tableau Desktop, TIBCO Spotfire, Microsoft Access, Qlik Sense and SAS Data Management Platform

Tableau and Spotfire are all around better tools, but Power BI can be useful especially because of its cheap price.

Other Software Used

Qlik Sense, Tableau Desktop, SAS Data Integration Studio

Likelihood to Recommend

Power Bi does well when working with databases to create visualizations or to report certain metrics. It would be ideal for large corporations that collect a lot of data and have to use it to improve their business. It can still be beneficial for smaller businesses and its cheap price tag makes it accessible to anyone.

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Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Power BI

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros and Cons

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Other Software Used

Likelihood to Recommend

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