King of Self Service Business Intelligence
September 15, 2019
King of Self Service Business Intelligence
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Power BI
We have about 25 years of data. Microsoft Power BI is being used across the organization by various departments. Our accounts payables team uses it to monitor vendor activity, identify duplicate invoices, and ensure vendor compliance. Our internal audit team runs several reports to identify anomalies.
- Microsoft Power BI is the best value for money, self-service business intelligence tool available in the market. It is intuitive to use and comes with a library of data connectors.
- It has fantastic data visualization capabilities and simplified user interface.
- We store most of our data on the Azure data lake and Power BI works seamlessly with it.
- Most of our users prefer the desktop version compared to the web tool. Microsoft should put efforts into making the web tool robust and easy to use.
- The refresh cycles are less if you opt for the free version. We bought an enterprise edition to get over this.
- Free versions have less storage and are slower.
We evaluated Tableau, Qlik View, Oracle Business Intelligence, etc. As most of our foot print is on Microsoft, we opted for Microsoft Power BI.