Microsoft Power BI - a solid choice for data visualization and a great add to the Microsoft Suite
April 27, 2021
Microsoft Power BI - a solid choice for data visualization and a great add to the Microsoft Suite

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Power BI Pro
Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Power BI
We currently use Microsoft Power BI across our whole organization to for visualization and trending of product data. It addresses the need for automated dashboarding of data and the ability to quickly filter and access trends that are occurring without the need to manually query and plot the data by interested individuals.
- Nice dashboarding capabilities.
- Can integrate well with other Microsoft products.
- Calculated fields.
- Connectivity to data sources.
- Some small bugs/constraints on how data visualization components.
- Some components of Power BI dashboards are a bit clunky and outdated.
- Iterating/versioning of dashboards not seamless.
- Went from hours to mins for plotting retrieved data.
- Filtering decreased time required to query data.
- Takes time to onboard users to dashboards.
MS Power BI is a bit more rigid than Tableau in terms of dynamic visualizations, but we chose it because we were already using the MS ecosystem. In terms of sharing and integrating with our MS Suite, MS Power BI was better in terms of licensing and integrations with our current suite of tools and how we access those tools.
Do you think Microsoft Power BI delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Microsoft Power BI's feature set?
Yes
Did Microsoft Power BI live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Microsoft Power BI go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Microsoft Power BI again?
Yes