Microsoft Power BI
March 03, 2025

Microsoft Power BI

David James Chiswell | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Power BI Pro

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Power BI

We use it for many purposes, but the 2 that involve me are daily backup results, and visibilty of Azure costings. With the use of Microsoft Power BI we are able to show specific, granular metrics for the senior management team in an instant. Without this is would be a long, manual process, once the inital setup has been done, there is no manual input which has saved us many man hours.

Pros

  • Highly customisable
  • Easy to share results without intricate or special permisions needed for audience
  • Accessible from anywhere

Cons

  • Doesn't seem to handle large data sets very well
  • Performance can be slow at times
  • Greatly reduced process of manual checking and data entry, to the tune of approximately 20hrs per week
To be proffecient, time and training is essential to harness some of the more advanced features. I didn't find it the most intuitive to begin with

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?

Yes

Would you buy Microsoft Power BI again?

Yes

Selecting targeted metrics from a list of many and uncessary is great to cut down the noise and filter out specifics.

It is online only, useful to consider if remote, or off site working

Microsoft Power BI Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
7.5
Pixel Perfect reports
Not Rated
Customizable dashboards
9
Report Formatting Templates
6
7.8
Drill-down analysis
8
Formatting capabilities
8
Integration with R or other statistical packages
7
Report sharing and collaboration
8
7.3
Publish to Web
8
Publish to PDF
8
Report Versioning
6
Report Delivery Scheduling
Not Rated
Delivery to Remote Servers
Not Rated
Not Rated
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
Not Rated
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
Not Rated
Predictive Analytics
Not Rated
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
Not Rated
Not Rated
Multi-User Support (named login)
Not Rated
Role-Based Security Model
Not Rated
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
Not Rated
Report-Level Access Control
Not Rated
Single Sign-On (SSO)
Not Rated
Not Rated
Responsive Design for Web Access
Not Rated
Mobile Application
Not Rated
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Not Rated
Not Rated
REST API
Not Rated
Javascript API
Not Rated
Java API
Not Rated
Themeable User Interface (UI)
Not Rated

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