Great tool for data visualisation and reporting
February 26, 2025

Great tool for data visualisation and reporting

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Power BI Desktop

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Power BI

Microsoft Power BI Is the standard tool for the performance review and is used with daily, weekly and monthly frequency. It is extremely useful to show the main kpi and standardize among different geographies and the way that performance are monitored and results are tracked. It allows segregation of information at different level, allowing specific users to have access to limited information, it is also useful when it comes to report sharing and contribution. Another great value of the tool is the possibility to select the level of details desired, like in a timeframe select year, quarter, month, week, day or shift

Pros

  • Display of summarised data for performance review
  • Collaboration and comments on specific dashboard
  • Authentication on Different levels
  • Selection of different level of details
  • Embedding additional detailed graph under the main one

Cons

  • Export in power point or excel could be improved
  • Summarize with ai is not working on underlying data
  • Bug reporting for admin
  • Reduction of wasted time by managers in preparation of reports
  • Improvement of performances thanks to trends tracking
  • New idea of improvement thanks to insights from data analysis
  • Standardised way of measuring performances for all the manufacturing sites
Because I think that overall the tool is extremely well designed in both parts of connection to database and graphical dashboard preparation. When it comes to database connection the interface is clear, tables are visualised and it is easy to understand how the different tables are connected. Dashboard preparation is complete with many features and customisation is available with huge number of options. Integration into Microsoft world is well done and collaboration such as email notification, teams messages, action tracking, comment and tags is really well done and working fine, this allows a seamless flow of work and great usability by the users which get easily familiarised with visualization. Additionally, the tool can be used with different level of permit depending in the role of the sugar crm user, this enable the possibility to have general manager to access each and every site, but maybe not accessing the detail, while having shift leader of one specific site which can access all the details of his site but is not accessing information of other sites
Being Microsoft environment it is extremely easy to interconnect the application with other Microsoft tools, such as power point or excel. On top of that, also communication through Microsoft teams is enabled which can result in very good collaboration and exchange of feedback on different graphs of the dashboard

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

For multi site companies, this tool is extremely helpful in standardisation of performance review, especially if the source of the data is an ERP or generally speaking of there is one single source of truth for the data. This can simplify the way management is comparing the performance of different sites. Additionally, if more details are available is possible to link other report pages available as action triggered by selecting buttons

Microsoft Power BI Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
6
Customizable dashboards
9
Report Formatting Templates
9
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
9
Integration with R or other statistical packages
6
Report sharing and collaboration
8
Publish to Web
7
Publish to PDF
6
Report Versioning
10
Report Delivery Scheduling
6
Delivery to Remote Servers
7
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
7
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
7
Predictive Analytics
6
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
7
Multi-User Support (named login)
9
Role-Based Security Model
9
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
8
Report-Level Access Control
8
Single Sign-On (SSO)
8
Responsive Design for Web Access
6
Mobile Application
6
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
6
REST API
7
Javascript API
7
Java API
6
Themeable User Interface (UI)
6

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