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Microsoft Power BI - The good is getting better
Updated March 10, 2020

Microsoft Power BI - The good is getting better

James Anderson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Power BI

We are using Power BI in our Medical Economics department to help visualize the contracts that we negotiate with the health insurance companies. We use it to understand how those negotiated rates perform over time. We compare the insurance companies' rates to each other in various ways with different metrics.
  • Data organization.
  • Ease of data conversion.
  • The relational database only allows one true join so you have to get creative.
  • I want more positional controls.
Both Qlik and Microsoft Power BI both stack up very well next to each other. I personally liked Qlik just a little bit more but the price difference for us is what really changed our minds.
Microsoft Power BI has been well suited in 3 main areas for us. First, it does really well at organizing disparate data and combining it all together. The second thing it does well is that it has the capability to modify or transform your data based on logic. Finally, the out of the box visuals cover pretty much everything you need for reporting.

Microsoft Power BI Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
9.0
Pixel Perfect reports
8
Customizable dashboards
10
Report Formatting Templates
9
9.8
Drill-down analysis
9
Formatting capabilities
10
Integration with R or other statistical packages
10
Report sharing and collaboration
10
9.4
Publish to Web
10
Publish to PDF
10
Report Versioning
9
Report Delivery Scheduling
9
Delivery to Remote Servers
9
9.7
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
10
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
10
Predictive Analytics
9
10.0
Multi-User Support (named login)
10
Role-Based Security Model
10
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
10
Single Sign-On (SSO)
10
10.0
Responsive Design for Web Access
10
Mobile Application
Not Rated
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
10
10.0
REST API
10
Javascript API
Not Rated
iFrames
Not Rated
Java API
Not Rated
Themeable User Interface (UI)
Not Rated
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
Not Rated