Clean, automate, and visualize your data
February 24, 2025

Clean, automate, and visualize your data

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

Software Version

Power BI Pro

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Power BI

We pull together large amounts of data across many different products and country. Microsoft Power BI has allowed us to move from manual data entry to an automized drag and drop process. Microsoft Power BI also has additional capabilities beyond what we were able to do in a spreadsheet editor such as data visualization and aggregating the data rapidly in different ways.

Pros

  • automation
  • data visualization
  • data cleaning

Cons

  • User friendliness
  • Locating errors
  • Information for beginners
  • informed decision making
  • time-saver
  • accuracy of results
I do not find it the most user-friendly. The learning curve is steep a lay person. The system is quite finicky and requires you to be extremely precise in your data cleaning and formatting. Another qualm is that often when I encounter errors during data upload, the "show errors", I receive the message "unable to get errors for your queries". If you have a large dataset, load times can be very long, making it all the more difficult to try to fix errors.

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?

No

Would you buy Microsoft Power BI again?

Yes

Microsoft Power BI is well suited for aggregating and cleaning large amounts of data. Data visualization is a great function, automatically updating any visuals that you create and allowing you to rapidly shift between types of charts or even mapping data points. It's easy to create dashboards -- a hub for managers and CEOs. I recommend it for retail, accounting, billing, and researchers.

Microsoft Power BI Feature Ratings

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

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