Microsoft Power BI is a great tool for reporting and data visualization
Updated April 08, 2025

Microsoft Power BI is a great tool for reporting and data visualization

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

Software Version

Power BI Desktop

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Power BI

Microsoft Power BI has allowed us to create reports and utilize data from multiple data sources throughout our organization. We can easily create reports, add visuals, slicers, and share reports to end users. It is easy to add permissions and create user groups to allow the reports to be viewed only by certain users, and we can add an additional level of permissions within the reports to share only certain data.

Pros

  • Easy to connect to data sources
  • Easy to share reports between users
  • Mobile app to access reports on your phone
  • Add dashboards and visuals to reports

Cons

  • Need experience with coding to write queries for the reports
  • Expensive, cost based on number of licenses
  • Real-time view of data (ticket sales, partnership revenue)
  • Easily share reports to save time
  • Reliance and trust the data is accurate
Microsoft Power BI has excellent overall usability. Users throughout our organization use Microsoft Power BI daily for a broad range of different reports. The end-user experience is great and users can even view reports on the mobile app. Overall, Microsoft Power BI has been a helpful product in generating reports and sharing data throughout our company.
Power BI is a great tool to create reports and share data. However, it does not have the budgeting, forecasting and predictive modeling tools we need for our Financial Planning and Analysis part of our business. So we also implemented Vena for our financial reporting, budgeting and predictive modeling for our company.

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

Microsoft Power BI has been a powerful data and reporting tool used throughout our company. Users access reports on a daily basis that can be refreshed real-time. Or you can have a pre-determined amount of instances throughout the day where the reports refresh automatically. We use Microsoft Power BI to share data across all departments of our business.

Microsoft Power BI Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
9.3
Pixel Perfect reports
10
Customizable dashboards
9
Report Formatting Templates
9
8.3
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
8
Integration with R or other statistical packages
5
Report sharing and collaboration
10
9.3
Publish to Web
10
Publish to PDF
10
Report Versioning
9
Report Delivery Scheduling
8
8.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
8
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
8
10.0
Multi-User Support (named login)
10
Role-Based Security Model
10
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
10
Report-Level Access Control
10
Single Sign-On (SSO)
10
9.3
Responsive Design for Web Access
8
Mobile Application
10
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
10
9.0
REST API
9
Themeable User Interface (UI)
9

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