Microsoft Power BI review
Updated March 18, 2025

Microsoft Power BI review

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

Software Version

Power BI Desktop

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Power BI

We use Microsoft Power BI to consolidate data on a nice visual layout. We create reports for external and internal meetings and to help communication information to stockholders around the company. This platform is very helpful for monitoring critical APIs in order to track historical trends and to better our approach to improvements.

Pros

  • Allow for report customizations.
  • Visually clear report data.
  • Ability to create global reports that are commonly used.

Cons

  • Add support for more niche data sources and APIs within the system.
  • Optimize rendering of visuals for quicker load times.
  • Real time collaboration for editing reports would be nice as well.
  • Approval of documents and processes.
  • Gain leadership buy in alignment on the front end.
  • Be vigilant with shadow analysts.
User friendly interface allowing easy navigation for non-technical users. The ability to connect to various data sources like other Microsoft products and Excel. The ability to share reports with colleagues and collaborate on data analysts. It also offers a wide range of visually appealing charts and graphs to effectively share complex data.
It's got a larger user base and seems better supported. Personally it feels like alot more work getting comparable results from Tableau. Microsoft Power BI will be WAY easier to work with all your various data sources, if you are working in an environment with M365 already. Lastly how well Microsoft Power BI integrates with the rest of the Microsoft ecosystem. Tableau simply falls short here, and it’s no surprise.

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

I think that despite miner limitations the overall platform is very helpful and can provided the user with impactful visuals to explain the overall health of the company. The software also provides helpful customizations to better pull the desired information. I rated Microsoft Power BI as a 9 overall for recommendation to other companies.

Microsoft Power BI Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
7.3
Pixel Perfect reports
8
Customizable dashboards
7
Report Formatting Templates
7
6.5
Drill-down analysis
7
Formatting capabilities
7
Integration with R or other statistical packages
6
Report sharing and collaboration
6
7.6
Publish to Web
8
Publish to PDF
10
Report Versioning
7
Report Delivery Scheduling
7
Delivery to Remote Servers
6
7.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
7
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
6
Predictive Analytics
9
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
6
5.8
Multi-User Support (named login)
5
Role-Based Security Model
6
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
6
Report-Level Access Control
5
Single Sign-On (SSO)
7
7.3
Responsive Design for Web Access
6
Mobile Application
8
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
8
7.0
REST API
8
Javascript API
6
Java API
6
Themeable User Interface (UI)
8

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