Power BI: Great solution for reporting and dashboards!
September 15, 2019

Power BI: Great solution for reporting and dashboards!

Guillermo Villamizar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Power BI

Power BI is actually being used by our entire organization. Each type of user has access to different views or reports, and they don't have to manually make the reports on another tool such as Excel, although later they can export it to Excel so they can manipulate the information or send them to another person.
  • Reports and dashboards complexity were greatly reduced.
  • Easy drill-down on selected information.
  • Different types of views for the same information.
  • The licensing cost might be a little high for some companies.
  • It consumes a lot of resources.
  • It's not very user intuitive on first use.
Microsoft Power BI was a little more expensive when comparing it to the competition, but it also offers a lot more options and is more flexible as well. Also, the quality and appearance of the reports and charts was more good looking and aesthetically pleasing than the other softwares evaluated.
The fact that we don't have to use Excel to create awesome visual charts makes this a complete time-saver. Instead of spending hours and hours updating spreadsheets, Power BI integrates with other programs we use in the organization to pull the raw data automatically, and it looks awesome as well.

Microsoft Power BI Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
9
Customizable dashboards
9
Report Formatting Templates
8
Drill-down analysis
9
Formatting capabilities
8
Integration with R or other statistical packages
7
Report sharing and collaboration
7
Publish to Web
9
Publish to PDF
9
Report Versioning
9
Report Delivery Scheduling
8
Delivery to Remote Servers
8
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
8
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
8
Predictive Analytics
8
Multi-User Support (named login)
9
Role-Based Security Model
9
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
9
Single Sign-On (SSO)
9
Responsive Design for Web Access
9
Mobile Application
7
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
8
REST API
8