Microsoft Power BI is awesome!
February 24, 2025

Microsoft Power BI is awesome!

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

Software Version

Power BI Desktop

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Power BI

In my organization, Microsoft Power BI is used to built reports all around the business, covering many areas. There are over 30+ reports published, and it is widely used by the leaders to make data driven decisions. From supply chain to finance, all these areas have very helpful reports and dashboards built on Microsoft Power BI

Pros

  • Easy to connect to datasources
  • Easy to manipulate data
  • Many visualization options availabe

Cons

  • My main challenge with Microsoft Power BI is that data manipulation is very limited within datasets in Direct Query Mode, i like to centralize data modeling and visualization on Microsoft Power BI but sometimes I have to clean my data somewhere else if it’s in this mode.
  • Using Microsoft Power BI, i saved a lot of time building finance reports, for example. Before they were all done manually, compiling information from many datasets into excel, and with Microsoft Power BI i can connect straight to the data source and do everything there. This saved me many hours during month end closing process.
Microsoft Power BI works really well for most of my needs, it is relatively easy to use and it’s not hard to figure out if something more complex needs to be done. It’s also easy to share reports around the organization, control user access, etc, which is really important

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

I highly recommend Microsoft Power BI, even though it has some limitations with data modeling, it still has many visualization options and things that can be done with datasets. I wouldn’t recommend Microsoft Power BI if your dataset is too messy, maybe you should treat your data before using it, specially if you want to use this dataset in direct query in Microsoft Power BI.

Microsoft Power BI Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
10.0
Pixel Perfect reports
Not Rated
Customizable dashboards
10
Report Formatting Templates
10
8.8
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
7
Integration with R or other statistical packages
8
Report sharing and collaboration
10
9.6
Publish to Web
10
Publish to PDF
10
Report Versioning
10
Report Delivery Scheduling
10
Delivery to Remote Servers
8
8.5
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
10
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
10
Predictive Analytics
8
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
6
9.8
Multi-User Support (named login)
9
Role-Based Security Model
10
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
10
Report-Level Access Control
10
Single Sign-On (SSO)
Not Rated
10.0
Responsive Design for Web Access
10
Mobile Application
10
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
10
Not Rated
REST API
Not Rated
Javascript API
Not Rated
Java API
Not Rated
Themeable User Interface (UI)
Not Rated

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