Nice dashboards and easy to adapt when you know Excel.
Updated November 15, 2019
Nice dashboards and easy to adapt when you know Excel.
Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Power BI
I have used Microsoft Power BI to create automated reports, dashboards for our clients finance department. The reports were consisting of financial targets, actual and forecasts. Along with the reports, we used formula generation functionalities and made auto calculations. It is a good reporting dashboard when it comes to display most current values along with auto calculations. Before Power BI, excel reports or ppt presentations would be distributed within the organization. With Power BI, the dashboards and data visualization became more professional looking.
- It has a free version offered with Microsoft Office 365. So businesses with this type of license can enjoy it free.
- Good dashboards, auto calculation and database connection capabilities.
- Easy to learn and use when you have familiarity with Excel. You can reach free training material on many platforms.
- Well integrated with other Microsoft programs (Excel, Access)
- Expensive if you want on premise version. Choose the best fitting license.
- There are some functionalities that require detailed learning. You need to have good experience with Excel, database connections, DAX.
- Data quality matters. If you have uncleaned data, then your work on Power BI can be frustrating as it is poor on providing suggestions.
- You may encounter with performance issues when your data is big.
MS Power BI has that nice feeling as it is a product of Microsoft family, the adaptation period of your organization will be easier. You can use your knowledge on Excel, and enjoy better data visualization, graphs, charts, data calculation capabilities. You can find more free online training material on forums, video sites. It can integrate with other MS products.