Reporting made easy with Power BI
April 27, 2021

Reporting made easy with Power BI

Anomita Chandra | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Power BI Desktop

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Power BI

My company uses Microsoft Power BI throughout the organization for daily reporting tasks as well as analysis. One of the major projects we did using Power BI is to identify the services which are taking more than 2 days to complete (typically is should be done within 48 hours). This helped us to reduce the overall costs for business.
  • It excellently manages the relationship connections between tables.
  • It is easy to transform the data using power query.
  • Power BI lets you connect to multiple data sources at the same time.
  • Using DAX formulas helps you to create new measures using existing fields.
  • Power BI could have more charts and visual representations.
  • Easier way to manipulate the data.
  • It has helped us to automate most of the daily reports, thereby saving a lot of time.
  • By scheduling the refresh, the report goes out automatically on the set days and time.
  • It is easy to debug the issues we come across.
The membership is cheaper compared to others. Great UX.

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Microsoft Power BI go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Microsoft Power BI again?

Yes

Power BI has great usability from transforming and editing the data to the required form of reporting. Visualizing the reports and publishing them to the website.
Microsoft Power BI team is prompt and quick at replying and resolving issues.
Best suited for daily reporting purpose. It is very user friendly so people from non technical background can use it. Also the drag and drop feature helps to check the different scenarios. It also helps to connect directly to R scripts.

Less appropriate scenario would be when explaining through different graphs, it doesn't have a lot of options to choose from.

Microsoft Power BI Feature Ratings

Customizable dashboards
9
Report Formatting Templates
9
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
10
Integration with R or other statistical packages
10
Report sharing and collaboration
10
Publish to Web
10
Publish to PDF
10
Report Versioning
9
Report Delivery Scheduling
10
Delivery to Remote Servers
5
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
4
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
2
Predictive Analytics
3
Multi-User Support (named login)
9
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
Not Rated
Single Sign-On (SSO)
7
Responsive Design for Web Access
10
Mobile Application
10
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
10
REST API
4
Themeable User Interface (UI)
2
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
7