Great B2B tool, but falls short of the competition for B2C solution delivery and pricing.
March 28, 2019

Great B2B tool, but falls short of the competition for B2C solution delivery and pricing.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Power BI

We are a software development company with a Business Intelligence and Analytics arm. We work with our clients and try to solve their business problems. Sometimes this involves deploying Microsoft Power BI solutions.
  • Quick turnaround to model the art of what's possible.
  • Quickly connect to any data source and provide data modeling and transformations.
  • Lots of the out-of-the-box visualizations do a good job of showing our clients their data in a different and useful way.
  • Business-to-client offerings fall short. The pricing tier of exposing clients' information from a B2C standpoint scares some of our clients away. We end up proposing a competitor to Power BI as a solution when this arises.
  • Lack of governance can lead to citizen "BI" developers creating data models that don't present accurate data.
  • Pricing, as mentioned above. The PowerBI Pro, used for internal enterprise consumption, is priced well. However, if you want to deploy a solution from a B2C standpoint, PowerBI is not a good choice for smaller clients.
Both do a good job from a presentation layer. I feel that PowerBI has better data modeling capabilities, and Tableau has a slight edge on the visualizations and end-user experience. Power BI is more attractive to most of our B2B clients, and Tableau is more attractive for B2C clients.
Microsoft Power BI excels in enterprise analytics and reporting. The quick ability to show end users the art of what's possible with their data gets our clients interested.

Microsoft Power BI Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
1
Customizable dashboards
7
Report Formatting Templates
4
Drill-down analysis
6
Formatting capabilities
8
Integration with R or other statistical packages
Not Rated
Report sharing and collaboration
7
Publish to Web
7
Publish to PDF
1
Report Versioning
Not Rated
Report Delivery Scheduling
1
Delivery to Remote Servers
3
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
6
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
6
Predictive Analytics
2
Multi-User Support (named login)
6
Role-Based Security Model
6
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
6
Single Sign-On (SSO)
5
Responsive Design for Web Access
7
Mobile Application
7
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
7
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