Item: Microsoft Power BI
Rating: 10
Author: Marco De Angelis

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Microsoft Power BI is used by the entire IT department and by other users with personal objectives, like Excel. Power BI is used on top of other software to create business models where the software standard reports do not cover our needs and to integrate diverse data source coming from diverse software.

Pros and Cons

Create data models.
Use dax language.

Manage production and test environments.
Build and share model incrementally.

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Power BI is integrated with Excel, PowerPoint and also Flow or Power APP. It is possible to use Excel to analyze a Power BI model; report build with Power BI can be downloaded as Excel format. Report and pages can be exported in PowerPoint format and PDF also. The integration with Flow and Power App enable interesting scenarios.

Likelihood to Recommend

Microsoft Power BI is easy to learn and use. With a little effort, you can integrate a lot of different data sources and, very importantly, you don't need to have a big infrastructure, thanks to Microsoft Cloud. It is also well suited for personal use, to extend Excel functionalities and analyze big amount of data.

Power BI: powerful and easy tool to build complex data model

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Power BI

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros and Cons

Alternatives Considered

Likelihood to Recommend

Microsoft Power BI Feature Ratings