Microsoft Power BI is the best BI tool by far
February 24, 2025

Microsoft Power BI is the best BI tool by far

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

Software Version

Power BI Desktop

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Power BI

We use it on a daily basis to track our numbers and review all of our data, we have dashboards and reports built for our internal users so that way they can see how they are performing by the hour, we also have our reports embedded into our own internal portal which is one of the awesome Microsoft Power BI capabilities.

Pros

  • StoryTelling
  • Report Development
  • Handling Complex calculations
  • Scalability

Cons

  • Speed
  • Report visual Sharpness similar to Tableau
  • Fix Matrix totals
  • People know how they are doing and what they need to do by the hour everyday
  • They are able to see what's wrong and right with their performance analysis
  • it is cheaper than Tableau
Because you can have Microsoft Power BI set up for the most complex and challenging scenarios as well as some basic analysis, it is free to use on the desktop and the Microsoft Power BI pro license is not expensive to share reports with your coworkers, it is also mobile friendly and can be embedded into your own application
Overall Microsoft Power BI has more capabilities, it is more customizable and it also has it's own query language DAX which is really powerful for complex calculations and that's something you just don't get in their competitors, also when integrated with the other power apps, such as power automate you can automate a lot of the reporting aspect making it really awesome.

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

it is the best tool out there, the desktop version is free to use so you can use it in your own projects, it is also appropriate for very large organizations because it has elastic scalability plans, it also well suited for complex scenarios where you need to have everything in one place with the use of fabric. it is not suited if you have very basic reporting and not really large datasets.

Microsoft Power BI Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
9.0
Pixel Perfect reports
8
Customizable dashboards
10
Report Formatting Templates
9
9.8
Drill-down analysis
9
Formatting capabilities
10
Integration with R or other statistical packages
10
Report sharing and collaboration
10
9.8
Publish to Web
10
Publish to PDF
10
Report Versioning
9
Report Delivery Scheduling
10
Delivery to Remote Servers
10
9.5
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
9
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
10
Predictive Analytics
9
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
10
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
9
Mobile Application
9
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
10
10.0
REST API
10
Javascript API
10
Java API
10
Themeable User Interface (UI)
10

Using Microsoft Power BI

ProsCons
Like to use
Relatively simple
Technical support not required
Well integrated
Consistent
Quick to learn
Convenient
Feel confident using
Familiar
None
  • Data Modeling
  • SWTICH
  • DISTINCTCOUNTNOBLANK
  • CALCULATE
  • ALL
  • DATESINPERIOD
Yes - it's basically the same as a desktop view but it works only to view the report, you can't really do the same things but as a quick view to track kpis it is very handy and it is vert customizable, all the fucntions like links and bookmarks work in mobile too.

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