Look like a genius with your reports with PowerBI
September 13, 2019
Look like a genius with your reports with PowerBI
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Power BI
As we are trying to understand the overall health of the organization there are various metrics around revenues, costs, etc that we want to be able to slice and dice. We have some contracts that are such severe outliers (both positive and negative) that they can greatly skew our numbers. We use PowerBI to better understand our metrics and quickly manipulate the inputs into our reports.
- Easy to create beautiful charts that make the data very easy to understand.
- Ability to quickly add/remove certain contracts from the dataset and see the differences with and without these contracts.
- Mobile view is really nice too!
- Can be difficult to import certain data sets like MySQL that is on-prem.
- Takes a bit of getting used to using. Once you're using to it you look like a genius with how fast you can create reports.
- Pricing can become a bit much at scale.
Power BI is much easier to use than Google Charts and has better mobile support. We selected Power BI because so much of what we do is within Office 365 already so it didn't make sense to use a solution that is external to that. Even without that concern I give Power BI a slight edge in terms of user experience due to its ease of use.