Item: Microsoft Power BI
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have suggested Power BI to multiple clients for visualization purposes and they found it is really useful to generate their daily insights. We have created numerous reports and dashboards showing a variety of data from various domains and industries.

Highlights:

Rich UI

Data accuracy

Intensive data modeling

Data compression and optimization

Pros and Cons

Data modeling
Rich data visualizations
Great community

Complex pricing model
Complex data modeling
Less intuitive than other BI tools

Return on Investment

Reduces data preparation time
Easy to adapt
Instant insights

Alternatives Considered

Tableau Desktop, Microstrategy Usher and Sisense for Cloud Data Teams (formerly Periscope Data)

Cost-effective but has a lot of features to offer. The perfect tool to build reports and dashboards with a large amount of data and complex data modeling. End users do not require much knowledge to get used to the tool. Regular updates from Microsoft to add new features and has a great developer community.

Key Insights

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

Other Software Used

Azure Data Factory, Databricks Lakehouse Platform (Unified Analytics Platform)

Usability

Very cost-effective compared to other BI tools available in the market. This tool has a great developer community and has a lot of unique features as well as future-proof abilities to compete. Suggested for enterprises that handle huge data and it has options to perform data automation which most of the BI tools lack.

Support Rating

Microsoft site has detailed documentation that pretty much covers all the essential scenarios and also provides free training courses to users. Also, Microsoft Power BI listens to user feedback and forums to bring new features. It has a huge developer community and a wide range of users to find help.

Likelihood to Recommend

Good to use when the business involves complex calculations and requires intensive data modeling. Visuals scaling is not as great as other BI tools, but it will be useful to cover a lot of information in a single view. Covers almost every need of a BI developer or an analyst and also has support to import great works from third-party developers.

Bring most out of your data

Software Version

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Power BI