Power BI, create for ad hor reporting but not for dashboarding
December 28, 2018
Power BI, create for ad hor reporting but not for dashboarding
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Power BI
Power BI is mainly used in the Marketing/BI group by analysts. Its main use is to dig into various datasets in order to find answers to various questions directors and VP may ask. Power BI is not really used to produce dashboards but more for reporting (for ad-hoc queries). For example, if there is a specific promo code being used on a given day more than normal, we will use Power BI to investigate patterns from users that have entered this problematic promo code to see if it's legit or not.
- Easily connect to multiple databases or cloud solutions.
- Possibility to modify datasets or change formatting in Power BI vs having to modify data at the source.
- Since Power BI can cache locally some of the data, it's possible to continue working offline on datasets.
- A bit heavy to run and not that intuitive compared to other tools.
- Dashboarding is really a pain compared to other tools and the visualization provided with the tool are not what you should expect.
- Very very frequent updates that require you to reinstall the software almost on a monthly basis. Will need admin rights from your organization.